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Staged Architecture: The Work of Mark Fisher (Architectural Monographs, No. 52)
Eric Holding
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This lavishly illustrated monograph features a selection of Fisher's recent projects for such legendary bands as Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones and U2, together with a text derived from a series of in-depth interviews with Fisher and his collaborators. This material has been organised into a series of thematic sections in which Eric Holding weaves a critical analysis of the broader cultural context into the specific circumstances of Fisher's career, producing a rich and illuminating discourse on this popular art form.
The notion of 'staged architecture' is fundamental to an understanding of Fisher's work and the way in which he designs for an audience/performer relationship. This includes the use of powerful visual codes and narrative themes which reinforce the message of the band and, in an age of marketing, ultimately informs their 'brand identity'. Staged architecture also refers to the importance of time in Fisher's work. This not only governs the way in which his dynamic environments transform during performance but also plays a critical role in the logistics of mounting a rock tour, the 'choreography of construction' that is required to ensure the these ephemeral structures are efficiently transported between venues.
In more than sixty full-colour spreads the diversity and power of Fisher's work is captured using hundreds of images, many of them previously unpublished, including sketches, presentation drawings, computer animations, technical drawings, video stills and spectacular photographs that provide a record of the events themselves.
Mark Fisher is a British architect with an international reputation for the design of spectacular rock concerts. Over the past 25 years he has created some of the most memorable rock shows ever staged. His designs include The Wall and Division Bell for Pink Floyd, Steel Wheels and Bridges to Babylon for the Rolling Stones, and Zoo TV and Popmart for U2. Many other distinguished rock artists have performed on his stage, including Elton John. R.E.M., Tina Turner, Phil Collins, Janet Jackson and Cher. He also designed numerous one-off events, including multi-media shows in Japan, spectacles for Jean-Michel Jarre and Aquamatrix, the nightly show at the Lisbon Exp98. He is currently working with Peter Gabriel on a show for the Greenwich Millennium Done in London.
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Inspired Designs of Modern technology.......2000-04-27
An Inspired insight into the relms of modern theatre and music, artistic stage conception and design. A worthwhile insight for any aspiring designers and Music/contemporary art/rosck fans alike. The designs, concepts and credits are an acolade to this this 20th century visionary designer. His resume speaks for itself.
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watercolor fanatic.......2001-11-28
This artists is a master in color and composition, shadow and light. Highly recommendable for transparant watercoloring. Realistic but at the same time expressionist.
Make your best watercolors even better........2000-05-02
While there are many wonderful books available about other aspects of watercolor, this book is unique in its emphasis on the way that shape, line, value and color can be combined to create the desired visual flow to a well-positioned center of interest. The many color illustrations demonstrate how attention to composition makes the difference between a pleasant-enough painting (perhaps with beautifully done elements), versus a painting that really comes together as a cohesive and compelling whole.
The book is well-organized into lessons which build on each other. Becker writes clear instructions and provides beautiful illustrations to demonstrate every point. For example, on just one page he takes us from the original reference photo of a street work crew, through black and white versions, to his finished painting, showing (as well as describing) how he changed the value contrast and colors to improve the overall composition.
Watercolor Composition Made Easy does an excellent job of presenting "rules" for placement of the elements of a painting, and it also does much more. It addresses the familiar watercolor considerations such as blurred versus hard edges, light and dark values, the color wheel, and perspective, but always in terms of how they contribute to the overall composition. This book also provides many miscellaneous tips which Becker has developed in his extensive career. For example, I found the description of (and sample sketches from) his portable sketching setup to be particularly intriguing and helpful.
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Includes inspiration, tips, and tricks from 21 different digital video gurus. With topics as varied as How to edit a political campaign video, Bringing Artistry to Wedding Videos, A behind-the-scenes look indy filmmaking; this book is sure to have something for every digital videographer.
ABOUT THE DVD-ROM
Any book about creating moving pictures and stunning video effects would be incomplete without a DVD-ROM demo of those techniques. A valuable DVD-ROM will include all of the work files for each chapter, all of the source materials, detailed step-by-step tutorials on how to create the effects as seen in the book, demo reels from the featured artists, and trial versions of software used in the book.
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This book is more for inspiration.......2005-01-05
This book is more for inspiration, praises and introduction for the motion graphics works done by 18+ experts in the field.
Most examples are not really explained or guiding you in details. Many folders in the companion DVD do not contain the actual examples for you to follow. (This may be because as the book title said that these are studio secrets).
Read this book for leisure only but do not dwell on it.
Great book!.......2003-10-17
This book won't teach you the basics of Premiere and After Effects. What it does is look into the heads of 21 top artists. Very inspiring! These techniques could help me take my own digital art to a higher level.
A Waste...........2003-02-02
I put the companion CD into one of my CD players and it doesn't work. I put it in another one of my CD players and it works fine...Some of the files on the CD are absolutely worthless...more fluff than substance...I will wait for Creating Motion Graphics with After Efects Volume 2 which is due out in March, 2003...Trish and Chris Meyer whose first book is excellent...continue with their expertise in the subject of After Effects and explain various applications that can be used with this application...Don't waste your time with this book...If there was a 0 star rating I would have given it that...but 1 is the lowest Amazon.com allows...
bad DVD.......2003-01-08
On the DVD accompanies this book in CHAPTERS folder many foldres are
empties
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A must-see for all Get!.......1998-10-26
All Get of Fenris are mighty and proud creatures. As I am. We do respect this book - it shows the truth of our Tribe. Every Garou that calls himself of Norsk origin, should read it. And remember about everything written in it. Hail to the mighty Scandinavian warriors, beloved children of the great Fenris!
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This first book of White Wolf's exciting new Tribe Novel series shows the Garou - the werewolves of the World of Darkness - at their best and at the worst. In Shadow Lords, we see how the fractious Garou struggle for dominance over one another, and in Get of Fenris, at a Concolation - the largest gathering of Garou - we see them standing together in their endless war against the Wyrm. But how long can the Garou continue to fight this war? Their numbers are diminishing, and as this seven-book series will reveal, their past is being taken from them as well.
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Love the Shadow Lords!.......2007-05-31
This book was really good for me as an starter for the Werewolf series, because it begins with one of my fav tribes, the Shadows. The book about them ius simply great and it sits the story in a nice way.
Also, the book about the Gets is really great, too, and I found myself liking this tribe a lot!!! ;)
A must-read for WtA fans.......2005-01-06
This is a great book. It is intelligently written and quite fascinating. This is the first book (novel or game book) that I dabbled in for Werewolf: The Apocalypse, and I must say it was quite confusing at first, but I caught on quickly and was soon absorbed by it. For those unfamiliar with the concepts and terminology of Apocalypse, I recommend downloading a lexicon from a fansite for the most enjoyable reading.
I have read preceding novels for WtA, and I must say this is better. Breathe Deeply is written well, but I didn't like the fact that the Crinos form was merely an unthinking monster capable of solely a 10-word, monosyllabic vocabulary. The Silver Crown fixed the whole "unthinking monster" problem, but the writing was childish and sub-par. The advent of the Trive Novels series is a blessed occurrence for WtA fans, because it is about what WtA has grown into, not exactly what it started as. The Crinos form is literate and speech-capable, and the writing is excellent.
I rate this five stars because it accomplishes its purpose. It is the introduction to the series, and as such, I would not diminish its value as a good book, because it's an introduction that draws you in. I highly recommend this book for anyone who likes WtA or werewolves in general.
Waste of Time.......2003-05-03
I simply cannot accurately say how terrible this book is. I am a big fan of the Werewolf: The Apocalypse/Rage franchise and I have read 4 books previous to this but I am sorry to say this one is bad, bad, bad.
It's like the author knew loads about the World of Darkness and went into crazy, over-description on this to make up for the fact that there is simply no story or decent dialogue. I am surprised I even managed to make this much out as it is so badly written little sense can be made from every single page.
No plot or story really kicked in at all. If you have read the 'When Will You Rage' book you will be able to understand how good short stories with likeable characters work. None of that is present here. It's simply an absolute mess. I was considering reading the rest of the books in this series but now I will really have to reconsider if this is the going to be the typical standard.
If you like this franchise then read 'The Silver Crown' or 'Breathe Deeply' for cool Rage stories.
Finally!.......2001-09-10
At long last! Finally some WtA writing. I have been starving for some decent fiction since Call to Battle, Silver Crown and Breathe Deeply. Although I am not much of a shadow lord fan it was good writing, and I really liked the Get of Fenris. Can't wait to see what the next books will be like.
Mixed Blessing.......2001-07-31
Eric Griffin did a great job on the Get of Fenris. Gherbod Fleming MUST BE STOPPED before he writes again--unfortunately he's scheduled to do Wendigo *and* Uktena. Once again, the American Indians suffer. But the Silver Fangs get him too, so it's not a culture-bias.
I enjoyed GOF tribe novel--it was witty, fast-paced, occasionally thoughtful, and once or twice laugh-out-loud funny. Some of White Wolf's best fiction!
Gherbod Fleming, unfortunately, writes like a high school creative writing student--dull and uninteresting, thick with adjectives and cliche'd phrases, painfully pretentious and charmed with his own style--bleah. What more can I say than "Mountain-like in their midst was Dawntreader, his platinum hair reflecting the red flames, whipping hither and yon as he danced" (p35)?
If anybody can figure out a way to give White Wolf money for Get of Fenris and *not* for Shadow Lords, drop me an e-mail. The pattern persists in Silent Striders/Black Furies.
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Werewolf The Apocalypse: Get Of Fenris
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Werewolf: Get of Belial: A group of young tribesmen of The Get of Fenris are sent to test their power and worth. They find little problem dealing with the threat's presented by the many Black Spiral Dancers that stand before them. It's the past, and the awful truth of an elder's betrayal so many years ago that proves to be the greatest foe they will face. Much blood will flow from the veins of these Garou, enough to drown Gaia! But will justice be delivered against those who have betrayed her.
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Dorothy Gallagher began her literary career fabricating stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine. Nothing she invented, however, could rival the facts surrounding her own family.
In a singular voice–intimate, fierce, hilarious–Gallagher takes you into the heart of her Russian Jewish heritage with stories as elegant and stylish as fiction. From the wrenching last stages of her parents’ lives, Gallagher moves back through time: to her parents’ beginnings, the adventures of her extended family, and the communist ideology to which they cling. Her aunt Lily sells lingerie to prostitutes; a family friend is found murdered in a bathtub; her cousin Meyer returns to the Ukraine to find his village near death from starvation; and a young Gallagher endures sessions in self-criticism at a Workers’ Children’s camp. Together these episodes tell the larger story of a generation living through tumultuous history, and record the acts of loving defiance of a daughter on her path to independence.
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Family snapshots.......2004-12-18
HOW I CAME INTO MY INHERITANCE by Dorothy Gallagher is a story of family, or rather, episodes from a family history. About halfway through, I realized that Dorothy's immediate forebears had a history much similar to mine. Around the time of the Bolshevik Revolution, her maternal grandparents and their youngest children emigrated to the U.S. from the Ukraine, following their three eldest children sent over previously. About the same time, my paternal grandparents emigrated to America from Romania with their youngest offspring, the oldest son having gone on before. In both cases, additional children were born in the States. There was a shared experience there, however nebulous, that made me appreciate this book more than I might have.
Unlike the five-star SLEEPING ARRANGEMENTS by Laura Shaine Cunningham, HOW I CAME INTO MY INHERITANCE is less of a warm and fuzzy celebration of family. The latter is perhaps more interesting than engaging, more poignant than charming. Each exhibits its author's own brand of humor, Gallagher's being a bit drier. Cunningham's pivot is always herself growing up, while Gallagher's stories often focus on her mother, father, and various aunts with only tangential reference to herself. Gallagher's have a discontinuous feel, although there is a broad, overlying time frame.
The politics of Dorothy's parents and aunts is perhaps unusual among written memoirs of the U.S. between the world wars. They were passionately Red. Lenin's photo had a place of honor on the wall; Uncle Joe Stalin and the victories of the Soviet armies against the Nazi invaders were much admired. During the Depression, capitalism in America appeared to be moribund, and the family was prepared to welcome the new socialist world order. Oddly, Gallagher doesn't mention how much of this revolutionary spirit she retained. Apparently, it just failed to take, as the political and religious passions of parents often do in their offspring.
For me, HOW I CAME INTO MY INHERITANCE hit its stride and was at its most interesting when Gallagher recounts her early efforts as a writer, first scribbling dubious stories about celebrities in such scandal mags as "Screen Stars" and "Movie World", forerunners of today's checkstand tabloids. Then, there was the agony of her first book, ALL THE RIGHT ENEMIES: THE LIFE AND MURDER OF CARLO TRESCA. Saddest is the second-to-last chapter, "The Last Indian", about her youngest aunt, Rachile, otherwise mostly ignored up to that point. Rachile outlived all of her siblings, dying convinced that she'd been terribly wronged throughout life by her brothers and sisters.
HOW I CAME INTO MY INHERITANCE suffers greatly from not including a section of visual snapshots. While Dorothy can see with her mind's eye, the reader needs to be shown faces. While it might not have made the narrative more joyful, it would've put flesh on the past and given it a more balanced perspective. (I remember my own maternal grandmother dying as a bitter, unhappy old woman. It's good that I have photos of her cheerfully and vibrantly young. One forgets from where the aged come.)
It appears to me that writing this book was the author's way of seeking closure. In the very last chapter, she recounts visiting Romania - as near as she could get to the Old Country - five years after her parents' deaths, and writes in the last paragraph:
"And now, in this odd and wracked corner of the world, on this hill ... grief slipped away. I felt happy as the day is long."
The Long and the Short of It.......2004-09-11
Dorothy Gallagher's "How I Came into My Inheritance" is a Hoot: rich with the humor of real events derived from real experience and real people. Even though Gallagher seems like she doesn't mean to be funny, she is...and some of these anecdotes are laugh out loud hilarious.
In many ways, we can all relate to this type of family expose in that most of us have had these same types of experiences with our own families. What most of us don't have though, is Gallagher's talent and her facility with the English language, which makes all of this come alive.
Though some of "HICIMI" is sad as befits the subject matter, most of this book is dangerously witty and underhandedly sly. This is the perfect book to give to your Mom, Dad, Aunts and Uncles for Christmas. Then you can all read from it around the Christmas dinner table and laugh till you puke.
Excellent and different.......2003-05-13
I've read any number of books -- memoirs and novels -- about women growing up in the late thirties/early forties in New York City, with immigrant parents involved in Communism. This was among the best -- clever, ironic, touching, laugh-out-loud funny. Only complaint: too short. I wanted to know more and more about Dorothy Gallagher and her family.
acerbic, caustic memoir examines Jewish immigrant culture.......2002-08-31
Dorothy Gallagher's trim memoir, "How I Came into My Inheritance," reminds readers that autobiographical writing can indeed be morbidly funny and acidic in its portrait of family life. Never once stopping to worry about the level of acid in these wonderfully crafted stories about her Russian-Jewish immigrant family, Gallagher at one glorifies and criticizes the conflicts, expectations and ambitions her parents' generation manifest after having arrived in the promised land, the United States.
Gallagher rebels against her family's orthodox ideology, not of being Jewish, but of complete devotion to communism. She notes that "a photograph of Lenin hung on the attic wall (I used to think it was my grandfather)." Perpetually a disappointment to her cantankerous father and her sarcastic and manipulative mother, Gallagher fights to reconcile her "evidently selfish and frivolous nature" with her parents' zealous dedication to "the Struggle for a Better World [emphasis is the author's]." Despite Gallagher's evident creative, discursive personality, nothing she can do measures up to her mother's morally rigid standards. Thus, readers observe Gallagher as a disappointment to her parents and at odds with herself.
Not once does the author lapse into self-pity. Instead, her chaotic, sarcasm-laden life becomes grist for a vocation which at least sounds respectable, that of being a writer. Her account of her evolution as a writer is the highlight of the memoir. She rubs shoulders with such luminaries as Bruce Jay Friedman and Mario Puzo while pounding out bilge for pulp magazines. As she hones her skills, she dismisses her later books with a self-deprecatory wave. Her willingness to mock her own self-presumed failures -- as a daughter, as a wife, as a worker -- makes one wonder how much of her parents' lack of approbation she absorbed during her childhood.
Dorothy Gallagher would dismiss sympathy for her life as misplaced sentiment. Instead, she writes her memoir with enough tartness to make any reader's mouth pucker. Her relatives are rough-and-tumble greenhorns who may or may not make peace with their new land. Foibles, failures and faults flow throughout this slender, wry memoir. As to her inheritance, Dorothy Gallager permits the reader to discern what wealth truly exists in her family.
Hungry for Justice & Life.......2002-04-14
Started it on the bus home at 10:30. Took time out to walk the dog. Didn't put it down until I finished it at nearly 4a.m. E-mailed my friends about it. Loaned it to my neighbor: now there's a waiting list for my copy.
Every one here is fully alive, but their privacy is never betrayed. The swirl of the family life of large, committed characters, pulls the reader in, as if it were one's own. Their stories inform mine, but with tougher wit. The miserable uncle whom life always betrays until, widowed at the end, he gets a whole year of happiness with an ex-lover. The bossy aunt who runs everyone's life but, finally, does not have the courage to dump a featureless husband, chained to him in Art Deco Miami. The aunt & uncle who barely escape their return to a Russian worker's paradise. The author's own betrayal of her principles in order to avoid jail for having an abortion in the bad old days. Terry Southern, Mario Puzo & Bruce Jay Friedman have all written of their peonage at "True," but Ms. Gallagher fills in more of that story of creating reporting with no basis. These stories bring glamour to the lives of people who didn't have much, didn't get much & bothered the hell out of you, but had a large hunger for life & justice.
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How I Came Into My Inheritance
Dorothy Gallagher
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Dorothy Gallagher began her literary career fabricating sensational stories about celebrities for a pulp magazine whose other writers included Mario Puzo and Bruce Jay Friedman. Nothing she made up, though, could rival in color and drama the true story of her own family; Russian-immigrant Jews who lived in Washington Heights, swore allegiance to Marx and Stalin, and tried to ignore the realities of the new world in which their daughter had to make her way. Her mother tells Dorothy that the black girls who beat her up after school are the real victims. Her cousin Meyer returns to the Ukraine during the thirties and finds, to his astonishment, that the whole village is near death from starvation; still he retains his belief in Stalin's leadership. Dorothy moves into a loft on the Bowery, and her father scrounges wood for her stove from nearby vacant lots. She signs a contract for a book with a famous editor and is plunged into despair when he rejects her manuscript. Her Aunt Clara is murdered in her Bronx apartment, and Dorothy is questioned by the police. These stories stand on their own vivid, ironic, darkly funny, and completely original in style. Taken together, they create a unique, brilliantly realized world.
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Gallagher presents the true story of her own family of Russian-immigrant Jews who tried to ignore the realities of the new world in which their daughter had to make her way. This episodic family saga is told in a vivid, ironic, and completely original style, offering a complete world, as singularly American in its way as those of cowboys and Indians, Puritan preachers, and robber barons.
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Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents’ beginnings in the Ukraine to her own childhood in 1940s New York, through the many adventures of her extended family and into her own adult life. Her themes are universal: the fragility of friendship, the power of love, the marital crisis brought on by chronic illness, the role of dumb luck at the heart of life–Gallagher dramatizes her stories with acute insight, strong feeling, and edgy wit.
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The Bucks Begin Here: A Financial Guide
John V. Medeiros
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The Bucks Begin Here
This book will take you step by step and show you how to realize big savings.
The book includes:
• Methods of estimating the value of income producing properties, including actual cases
• How to sell one of your homes every two years without capital gains
• Illustrations of how to evaluate two to four family homes
• How to save thousands of dollars in savings on your mortgage interest
• How to save up to 35% on your home owners insurance
• How to find out if you are overpaying your real estate tax, including an actual case showing an appeal to a state appellate tax board, with request for abatement, along with supporting documentation.
• How to shop around for the best mortgage.
• How to keep score on your credit
• Sample appraisals of single family homes
• Items needed for the loan application
• Information on how unquestioned fees can cost you a “bundle”
• Conventional, FHA, and VA qualification worksheets
• Information on buying a new home
• Information on government assisted loans
• A financial guide to help qualify your real estate goals
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