Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
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    Design Noir: The Secret Life of Electronic Objects
    Anthony Dunne , and Fiona Raby
    Manufacturer: Birkhäuser Basel
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    Binding: Hardcover

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    ASIN: 3764365668

    Book Description

    Dunne and Raby investigate the real physical and cultural effects of the digital domain, demonstrating that mobile phones, computers and other electronic objects such as televisions profoundly influence people's experience of their environment. Their ideas have important implications for architecture and design. In this, their first major book, they introduce their extraordinary new way of thinking about objects, space and behaviour to a broad audience. The book is divided into three sections: 1. Manifesto, introducing the authors' ideas about electromagnetic space. 2. Conversations, in which Dunne and Raby talk to a variety of designers, architects and artists about the impact electronic technology has on their practice. 3. Placebo, presenting the intriguing results of a project involving Dunne and Raby's working furniture prototypes, including a chair that lets the sitter know when radiation is passing through his body.

    Kerry Gammill's Drawing Monsters & Heroes for Film & Comics
    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • EXPERT ADVICE AND FANTASTIC ART
    • What An Artist! What A Helpful Guide To The Industry!
    • THE BEST WAY TO DRAW MONSTERS AND SUPER HEROES
    • A portfolio to charm any fanboy
    Kerry Gammill's Drawing Monsters & Heroes for Film & Comics
    Kerry Gammill , and J. David Spurlock
    Manufacturer: Vanguard Productions (dist by Watson-Guptill)
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    Binding: Paperback

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    ASIN: 1887591168

    Book Description

    6 5/8 x 10 1/8 160 black-and-white illustrations North American Distribution ART TECHNIQUE Artist Kerry Gammill won acclaim for his masterful creations of such classic comics characters as Superman, Spider-Man, Captain America, and The X-Men. More recently, his career has taken him to Hollywood as a conceptual artist for several film and TV series, including Virus, Species 2, Stephen King's Storm of the Century, The Outer Limits, and Stargate SG-1. In Drawing Monsters & Heroes for Film & Comics, Gammill takes readers behind the scenes on the little-known world of film conceptual art and offers scores of proven success tips on designing creatures for action films. Filled with personal anecdotes, career retrospectives and classic and unpublished art, the book gives readers expert guidance and insider techniques for . . . drawing comic book heroes . . . breaking into film . . . drawing monsters for film makeup . . . creating storyboards for film and TV . . . drawing animatronics for film effects . . . and much more. Features Introduction by Harry Knowles, legendary webmaster of ain't-it-cool-news.com, and Foreword by makeup and special effects master Steve Johnson of XFX, Inc.

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars EXPERT ADVICE AND FANTASTIC ART.......2005-08-09

    Kerry Gammill has always been one of those artists who I thought was underappreciated. His art was always consistently good without trying to be overpowering the way so many artists are today. "Drawing Monsters and Heroes for Film & Comics" presents a wonderful cross-section of Gamill's work throughout his career, both pre and post-comic book days. Gammill's early life was not unlike my own...except for the being a talented artist part. He was a big fan of classic monsters, horror movie hosts, silver age art, and those great old monster model kits by Aurora.

    Gammill discusses how he eventually broke into comics with Marvel and gives aspiring artists some great advice on how to do the same. As he points out, back when he broke in there weren't many publishers like there are today and if you wanted to draw superheroes you had to work for Marvel or DC. The playing field has changed and there are many more outlets available to artists today but Gammill still recommends that putting together a great portfolio not only of pinup type pages, but also examples showing how to flow a story and action. He also recommends getting to know the human anatomy. As a long time comic fan I could not agree more. There are many talented artists in comics today but the best are those that can tell a story, not just draw splash pages. Dozens of examples of Kerry's work from his comic days are on display including many pieces that were never used. Gammill again emphasizes the need for artists to study anatomy and facial expressions which are especially critical when drawing characters from a particular perspective.

    Gammill abruptly left comics and began doing conceptual work in a number of different areas. He provided concept drawings to a toy company who made premium items for fast food meals. A number of these drawings are included in the book and feature things like R2D2 band-aid dispensers, and Darth Maul mouse pads. Lunch boxes, tooth brushes, model kits...Gammill provided the concept art for dozens of different products. And you never would have known that one of our favorite comic book artists was partly responsible for the design of Taco Bell kids meal toy!

    Gammill would go on to do concept drawings for film and TV and work on projects such as "Virus" starring Jamie Lee Curtis and the new Outer Limits television show. We get to see drawings he did for the shelved "I am Legend" film that was to star Arnold Schwarzenegger was and based on the story by Richard Matheson. Another project that Gammill worked on that has since been scrapped was the "Superman Lives" film that has since been replaced by "Superman Returns". These drawings show off his vision of Superman's adversary `Doomsday' who has a very different look than the comic book version.

    Gammill's very diversified career is given a bright spotlight by Vanguard Productions and his advice to aspiring artists is invaluable.

    5 out of 5 stars What An Artist! What A Helpful Guide To The Industry!.......2001-08-17

    Kerry Gammill is a one superhero of an artist! Boy, I've read his comic book work over the years (SPIDER-MAN to SUPERMAN to POWERMAN/IRON FIST) but never knew the extent of his talent until I read this wonderful book. Gammill not only can draw, he can tell a crackerjack STORY! Please, Hollywood. Use this guy more often! (Your current crop of films are so lame). Looking over the beautiful illustrations it's no small wonder that he was picked to design make-ups for horror movies and TV shows. I learned volumes of helpful tips from the background information concerning his influences. Every kid should use this for their own references on who and what to study if they want to be the best. And Gammill's youthful experiences doing homemade make-ups for his little backyard "movies" got him friendly with STAR WARS make-up artist Rick Baker! Baker who has won six Oscars and probably will again for the new PLANET OF THE APES! How can you beat that for an inkling of how good Kerry's make-up designs are? If you want to learn what it takes to become a professional artist AND how much fun it can all be in the process (with lots of drawing to get there), get this book! Buy it for yourself but you'll probably have to get one for a kindred soul/best buddy that loves comics and movies. This will become a special book among those up and coming "new" comic book artists and special effects make-up designers of tomorrow. Someday, I'm sure one of them will list it as one of THE books of their formulative years.

    5 out of 5 stars THE BEST WAY TO DRAW MONSTERS AND SUPER HEROES.......2001-08-09

    Kerry Gammilýs drawing Monsters and Heroes For Film and comics is a great book for beginning drawers and advanced drawers . It is great for learning muscles and for animation . It goes from basic figures to story boards for film and T.V. Learn to make comics and Body suits . I learned a lot from this book ,you will too. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to draw comics .

    4 out of 5 stars A portfolio to charm any fanboy.......2001-07-27

    I know Kerry Gammill slightly, so you're free to dismiss this as a Buddy's Puff Piece if you wish. The title of the book is a misnomer; it sounds like a how-to book, when in fact this is a guided tour through the portfolio of a very gifted, very flexible artist. Useful for any adolescent with an interest in monsters or superheroes (or for anyone with an adolescent heart), Kerry's book strongly illustrates the changes in horror/hero art stylistics over the decades. Starting in the Sixties (when Kerry was a schoolboy), we see him recreate the stark imagery of the Universal horror heroes, followed by the "so busy I think my eyes will pop" style of Jack Kirby's Marvel comics, and we close with a detailed view of Special Effects artistry, and see the heavy hand of H.R. Giger (Icky ooky organs! Spooky spiky spines!), which seems to predominate in this unheralded branch of the art world. No, Kerry's not Vermeer (I like to imagine the Dutch minimalist leafing through a copy of X-Men), but he is a very talented artist working in a strange but awfully fun corner of the imaginative world. If you (or your children) love monsters or superheroes, or you're interested in an insider's view of the Special Effects world, this book is an excellent addition to your library. Note: general intensity of imagery and a few nudes and kinda-nudes make this book inappropriate for very young fans.

    How to repair movie & slide projectors
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      How to repair movie & slide projectors
      Robert Villastrigo
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      Monsters and Magical Sticks: Or, There's No Such Thing As Hypnosis
      Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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      • Fascinating but uneven book
      Monsters and Magical Sticks: Or, There's No Such Thing As Hypnosis
      Steven Heller
      Manufacturer: New Falcon Publications
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      ASIN: 1561840262

      Book Description

      If you want to know how hypnosis really works (and, no, it has nothing to do with waving of hands or other similar nonsense), you will want to read this book. If you want to know the "magic" behind Ericksonian techniques and Neuro-Linguistic Programming, you have to read this book. From one of the true masters of hypnotherapy, this is one book that can really change your life!!

      Customer Reviews:

      5 out of 5 stars A study book.......2007-07-03

      For me this needs reading more than once. It is a mine of information and very instructive. It provides a good fraame work that can be adapted to different situations.
      Des Collett

      5 out of 5 stars Superb!.......2007-05-14

      I rarely re-read books, I have read this one several times and it has been worth my time each and every time.

      5 out of 5 stars The Holy Grail of Old School NLP.......2007-03-07

      This book is to modern NLP what the discovery of Jesus' tomb with him, his wife, and his son still in it would be to modern Christianity!

      I am not a newcomer to hypnosis or Neuro-linguistic Programming by any stretch of the imagination. I have taken NLP Practitioner, Master Prac, and Trainers Training and have done various other NLP and hypnosis trainings over the past decade. But more than that, I *USE* NLP on a daily basis, with myself, with those close to me, and with everyone I meet. NLP trainings, for some practical reason, are never complete; they tend to leave "holes" in the big picture for those attending the trainings (if they don't render you utterly psychotic in the process--some people just can't tolerate NLP-style training. By the time they find out they're one of those people, it's already too late and irreparable damage can be done. Trainings by the Society of NLP are the worst, by far). You are expected to go out into the "real world" and fill in those holes with actual experience. I still had a lot of holes that I hadn't been able to fill in. Until this book...

      Heller studied NLP when it was still new, back in the 1970s. He got the *real skills* back when they were still readily available from the originators. Nowadays, it seems most of the best-known NLP trainers and experts are only interested in selling you on their next seminar rather than actually teaching you something you can use. God forbid you should actually learn something and no longer need them, you know.

      I got more practical NLP knowledge from this book than I did from all of the NLP trainings I've attended *put together*. Heller doesn't have a "New Code of NLP" to sell, he's not trying to avoid having the uninitiated learn his "secret recipe," he's sincerely sharing what he has learned in a very entertaining, highly memorable style.

      The lack of theory that another reviewer complained so bitterly about is typical of NLP and Erickson-style teaching. He teaches you without overtly teaching you. Instead of dry, boring examples of theoretical dogma, Heller tells you stories about real people with real experiences that make the concepts very easy to understand and apply. Instead of pontificating over the technical and theoretical underpinnings of the etiology of the symptomatic complex, Heller simply says "this works, use this." And he's right. I would rather be able to do a particular skill without knowing exactly why it works than to know intimately why and how it works and not be able to do it at all. Wouldn't you?

      If you're looking in other "scientific" tomes for verification of his concepts, you're wasting your time. Hypnosis and NLP in particular are about the qualitative, subjective experience as the individual perceives it. Quite of a necessity, when you generalize those things to a level where they are readily testable and verifiable in a cross section of the population, you lose something vital to the concept. Human beings are all unique. Therapeutic techniques, therefore, must be tailored to the uniqueness of the individual. This book operates from that basis.

      Not exactly a book meant for beginners, Monsters and Magical Sticks will give the greatest benefit to those who already have some NLP training and knowledge. Traditional hypnotists or those doing only direct suggestion approaches may not find this book as useful as those doing more creative and naturalistic hypnotic interventions. NLP'ers will find a veritable treasure trove of practical knowledge in this amazing book.

      Specifically, Heller talks about cerebral hemispheric specialization and its role in the way people think. He describes hypnotic trance as the naturally-occurring, everyday emotional state that it is. He gives real examples of how and when you go into trance and how to induce them conversationally in others. He talks about the species of conditioned response known as "anchoring" and how to use it. There is so much great material in this book, no simple review could cover it all. At its simplest, Heller has condensed down a vast body of knowledge into an easily-digestible whole that is unparalleled in any other book on NLP and hypnosis. Buy this book only if you want to learn to use effective hypnotic communication naturally in everyday situations.

      I wish I had read this book a long time ago! It might have saved me spending the countless thousands of dollars (not to mention the debt I've accumulated) pursuing NLP training. With the average cost of just one NLP training easily reaching the $2,000 mark, the cost of this book is utterly inconsequential compared to the knowledge contained in it. When you learn the skills in this book, nothing will ever be difficult again!

      4 out of 5 stars If you're curious about Hypnosis - here's your intro.......2007-01-16

      I was a hypnosis rookie before reading this but Steven Heller lays it out honestly and without hocus pocus. The title is actually a little misleading because Heller explains hypnosis in practical, almost clinical terms. After reading this book I bought a bigger more thorough text on hypnosis because my interest was piqued.

      4 out of 5 stars Fascinating but uneven book.......2007-01-10

      I loved this book. Heller, who I understand is deceased, appears to have been one of those natural, intuitive hypnotists like Milton Erickson with the innate ability to tailor an intervention to the particular requirements of any client. I have not found that all of his conclusions or principles work as well for others as they appear to have for him. I have tried to corroborate some of his findings (such as eye movement indicators) with research in the psychological literature an not been able to do so. I don't think this necessarily invalidates his work or conclusions. It merely suggests his conclusions are derived from his personal experience rather than from more traditional academic sources which may not have caught up with him.
      The content and case histories are terrific. The book is best when he talks about how he worked with clients. It is here that he shows remarkable insight and skill to responding to the often not obvious needs of his clients. Heller's writing is serviceable but sometimes repetitive and a little too conversational for a book that has some potentially important theoretical things to say. Heller's strength is not theory but practice. His attempts to make the writing more interesting often just confuses his message and leaves the reader unsure of just exactly what he meant. I suspect that in person he could use an ironic style more successfully than in print which lacks the nonverbal cues to clarify the speaker's true intent. The excessive reliance on more conversational speech also dates this book as a product of the 1970s. Nevertheless, if you are interested in the practice of hypnosis and want some inspiring and potentially powerful techniques for your use then this book will be intriguing and more than a little useful.
      Buck Meets the Monster Stick
      Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
      • Hold up your watch
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      Bil Lepp
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      ASIN: 0874836654

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      Remember the Monster Stick? The greatest-and most dangerous-fishing rod ever? What about Buck, who simply ain't no ordinary dog? Anyone who has seen the Lepp boys perform or read their book, The Monster Stick will never forget them. In this recording, we revisit West Virginia with Bil Lepp as he tells some of the stories that made his brother Paul and himself repeat winners of the West Virginia State Liars Contest.

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      5 out of 5 stars Hold up your watch.......2005-02-07

      Bill can spin a story and there is no doubt he could sell ice in Alaska. Have heard him at a story telling and this is just a sample of the tales he can tell. Whether he is fishing with the Monster Stick or training a gun-shy dog,(Buck) Bill is pure entertainment. ROFLMAO...
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      • Tall tales and humor. A wonderful book!
      • Tall tales and humor. A wonderful book!
      Monster Stick
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      What's the Monster Stick? It's Paul's nine-foot, surf casting rod full of six miles of brand new 50-pound test Stren Carp cord with 20 pound, custom made, stainless steel, slip-sliding sinkers. The adventures Paul finds himself in from the day the Monster Stick comes into his life rival those of Paul Bunyan but add a modern twist, as when he somehow sets the hook in a DC-10 flown by drug smugglers. Then there's Buck-dog, Bil's extraordinary hunting dog, whose mama was a German shepherd but whose ....

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      5 out of 5 stars A "Gold Star" on the Forehead of West Virginia.......2000-04-11

      Bil Lepp and his brother have put together a collection of new "Tall Tales" that is not to be missed. Not buying this book is akin to bypassing Twain in his day. (O.k.-Maybe that's a little much, but you get the point.) The storytelling is superb, always compelling and surprising, twisting around hysterical subjects and impossible(?) settings. In this day and age you don't get many chances to read a new author with as much talent as Bil has for spewing forth untruths that sound so believable! Take my word for it, this one is a keeper! You won't be disappointed!

      5 out of 5 stars I hope Bil and Pauls folks have produced more Lepps.......2000-02-28

      If Mark Twain, John Steinbeck or Ernest Hemingway had been twins we'd be alot better off, but since that didn't happen we need as many W.V. Lepps as they had Waltons.

      The Lepps have pieced together a hilarious array of short stories and tall tales that you'll want to share with everyone from your preacher to your parole officer. These stories capture a vanishing part of Americana in a way the old Andy Griffith show did, except that the Lepps lie alot.

      Can't wait for them to get a book on tape, but until they do I'm sure glad they wrote this book.

      5 out of 5 stars The Monster Stick etc..........1999-12-05

      This is really a fantastic book. I read a friend's Rev. Regina Spring's that she bought it directly from Rev. Bil ar her course of studies. I am purchasing this book for a Christmas present. I would recommend it to anyone! Funny! I would recommend it to all preachers!

      5 out of 5 stars Tall tales and humor. A wonderful book!.......1999-10-27

      If you like tall tales and humor, you'll like this book. Stories range from the wonderous fishing exploits of the "Monster Stick" to the Herculean feats of Buck The Wonder Dog. I especially liked the story about how wild turkeys learned to disappear from the hunters. Another favorite is a tall tale of how the author won $1000 in the lottery, only to lose it to a Wildlife Officer in fines. I hope the author will write many more!

      5 out of 5 stars Tall tales and humor. A wonderful book!.......1999-10-27

      If you like tall tales and humor, you'll like this book. Stories range from the wonderous fishing exploits of the "Monster Stick" to the Herculean feats of Buck The Wonder Dog. I especially liked the story about how wild turkeys learned to disappear from the hunters. Another favorite is a tall tale of how the author won $1000 in the lottery, only to lose it to a Wildlife Officer in fines. I hope the author will write many more!
      Cartoon Monsters (Stick Out Your Neck Series)
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        Jerry King
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        Assignment in Utopia
        Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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        Eugene Lyons
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        5 out of 5 stars Stalin's USSR the Way It Was.......2002-09-29

        Eugene Lyons was a clever and amusing fellow. Assigned to be a reporter in Moscow during Stalin's rule he broke the mold: he, unlike Walter Duranty of the Times, would tell the truth. Initially attracted to the Great Experiment, Lyons soon learned the misery and death suffered by the eggs broken in Lenin's omelet: the NEP men slaughtered when the New Economic Policy fell from favor, the kulaks liquidated as a class, the Ukraine nearly exterminated. Though tragic, Lyons recounts the times with wit and pathos, and with a grasp of English not unlike a cross between Conrad and Nabakov.
        Assignment in Utopia: Anniversary Edition
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          ASSIGNMENT IN UTOPIA
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                          Manufacturer: University Of Iowa Press
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                          Binding: Hardcover

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                          ASIN: 0877457948

                          Book Description

                          Because prior studies of American women's travel writing have focused exclusively on middle-class and wealthy travelers, it has been difficult to assess the genre and its participants in a holistic fashion. One of the very few surviving working-class travel diaries, Lorenza Stevens Berbineau's account provides readers with a unique perspective of a domestic servant in the wealthy Lowell family in Boston. Staying in luxurious hotels and caring for her young charge Eddie during her six-month grand tour, Berbineau wrote detailed and insightful entries about the people and places she saw.

                          Contributing to the traditions of women's, diary, and travel literature from the perspective of a domestic servant, Berbineau's narrative reveals an arresting and intimate outlook on both her own life and the activities, places, and people she encounters. For example, she carefully records Europeans' religious practices, working people and their behavior, and each region's aesthetic qualities. Clearly writing in haste and with a pleasing freedom from the constraints of orthographic and stylistic convention, Berbineau offers a distinctive voice and a discerning perspective. Alert to nuances of social class, her narrative is as appealing and informative to today's readers as it no doubt was to her fellow domestics in the Lowell household.

                          Unobtrusively edited to retain as much as possible the individuality and texture of the author's original manuscript, From Beacon Hill to the Crystal Palace offers readers brief framing summaries, informative endnotes, and a valuable introduction that analyzes Berbineau's narrative in relation to gender and class issues and compares it to the published travel writing of her famous contemporary, Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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