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Love that Sponge Bob? Always lurking in Dexter's lab? Wishing for Fairly Odd Parents? Millions of fans watch these shows avidly, often solely for their zingy, stylized look and hip visual jokes. Now there's a drawing book just right for everyone who admires that quirky style: Cartoon Cool. Top-selling author Christopher Hart shows beginning cartoonists, retro fans, and all other hipsters how to get that almost-1950s look in their drawings. His trademark step-by-step drawings and crystal-clear text are sure to make Saturday mornings more creative!
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A must have book.......2007-07-06
You can't go wrong with this book. It really covers the subject matter completely.
Christoper Hart you did good!
Terrible book. Leave it be........2007-06-28
Like all of Chris Hart's books, Cartoon Cool is filled with hack drawings and bad drawing advice.
If you really want to draw in the Retro style, here's a tip: Go look at the cartoons and the artists that inspired the retro style in the first place. Ed Benedict, Mary Blair, M. Sasek, 50's era Hank Ketcham, Gene Dietch.
These are the people that Craig McKracken and Genndy Tartokovsky and Lynne Naylor are inspired by.
Google the names. You'll have a wealth of material at your finger tips.
Here's another tip: REALLY learn how to draw things the way they really look.
You can't abstract something unless you know what it looks like.
Great for young budding artists.......2007-04-06
Great for 8-15 age range. Artwork is fun and isn't intimidating to novice drawers. I'm a little out of the target age range and target skill set in my opinion, but even still I did pick up some clear, concise, and insightful tidbits on the style. If anyone is looking for drawing books for their kids, I'd keep Christopher Hart's name in mind.
A great guide for students and working animators.......2006-12-31
Hart breaks down the basics of modern character design in ways anyone could easily assimilate and recreate. This book came in handy when I taught animation to college students: being able to draw is only the first step to creating characters one can move about with ease and appeal. Hart's approach, and the examples he uses, are perfectly suited to the more modern techniques of Flash, but are also adaptable to classical animation. This book is a great find, offering practical, useful advice to those who intend to take animation seriously. I'd advise serious animation students to have it as part of their library, along with "The Illusion of Life", "Your career in Animation" by David Levy, and "The animator's Survival Kit" by Richard Williams.
A great book!.......2006-11-10
With a funny and practical language, Christopher Hart guides you how to draw this stylish cartoon type: the retro-style!
With some examples of normal cartoons and retro side by side it's really easy to understand.
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This seventh volume in Verlindens popular SHOWCASE series features seven all new dioramas by very skilled and masterful artists, in this case Greg Cihlar, Lewis Pruneau, Bob Letterman, Andrew Meyers, and Bill Konn. The dioramas presented in this book range in scale from 1:35, to 1:25, to 120mm. In the120mm category is Napoleonic scene, a 120mm WWI trench scene, a Navy SEAL mission in Vietnam, and a knocked-out German Tiger Tank. In 1:35 scale there is a winter scene on the eastern front in WWII, and a torpedoed ship sinking in the Atlantic. The sole 1:25 piece is of a captured Israeli Centurion tank being transported by a Jordanian tractor trailer. In all, this is another beautiful book full of inspiring work of masters.It certainly belongs in the collections of every serious scale modeler, military enthusiast, and artist.
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Soft cover 36 pages 53+ full color photographs
This fourth edition of Verlindens popular SHOWCASE series features not only eight gorgeous pieces of miniature art work by master modeler Francois Verlinden, but also an additional pair from the experienced hands of modeler Mark Engler. This book has been noted for its inclusion of no less than eight pieces dedicated to the Vietnam war, all of which enjoy added realism thanks to the inclusion of detailed resin and photo etched metal accessories from the impressive product line of Verlinden Productions. Each of the pieces gracing these pages is brought to life through the masterful techniques developed by Francois himself in order to achieve the highest standards of realism possible in such a small scale. His work must be seen to be believed, and this is possible only through such books as these. Whether you are a scale modeler yourself, or a military enthusiast, a veteran, or just interested in arts & crafts, this book is certainly destined to become dog-eared.
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This fifth volume in Verlindens popular SHOWCASE series is a special edition featuring the unsettling realism of the dioramas of German artist Andreas Nossmann. This modeler, who plies his trade as a self-employed artist, has developed an uncanny ability to bring his models to life in his dioramas. Six fully executed dioramas and one chilling vignette featuring a 200mm figure conversion grace the pages of this book with stunning detail and realism. Nomann is an inspiring artist that has been granted the acknowledgement he deserves through this fine book, which belongs in the collection of every scale modeler and artist.
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Simply Stunning.......2006-06-21
Wow.
I've not done any plastic modeling in years, yet I still couldn't wait to crack open this incredible book. Like all the Verlinden books, the only problem is that they're too short! (And if they were a 1000 pages they'd still be too short!)
Mind blowing realism.......2001-10-26
The six dioramas in this book are stunning in their depiction of scenes from World War II. The level of detail and weathering are superb, and the effort Mr Nossmann put in his work is evident throughout. I am an avid modeller and am always looking for inspiration in my projects, and the dioramas pictured in this book are very inspiring indeed. The armor and figure modelling are both first class, with incredible realism in the foliage, equipment, and individuals. Truly a must have for modellers who enjoy looking at well-built models, but be forewarned this book does not show the techniques, only pictures of the finished project. Nevertheless, I consider this an excellent addition to any WW II buff's or modeller's library.
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62 FULL COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS The first in a series of books about the works of master modelers, this is a fascinating insight into the amazing world of military models and dioramas by such noted modelers as Lewis Pruneau, and of course the master himself, Francois Verlinden. Six dioramas are featured in breathtaking 1:35 scale detail. Many of the models are shown before painting and completion, displaying the ingenuity required to create such works of art. A fine publication for both the novice and the expert, as well the military enthusiast, historian, or art aficionado.
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Soft cover 36 pages 56 full color photographs
Number three in Verlindens SHOWCASE series, this volume glorifies no less than thirteen works by the undisputed model master himself, Francois Verlinden! Youll have to be pried off of the ceiling after viewing these breathtaking works of art, each of which is brought to unprecedented levels of realism through masterful painting and weathering techniques. Featured are military dioramas from the second world war, to the Vietnam war, through to the modern era of carrier based combat jets and helicopters. Most of these amazing dioramas are enhanced by the highly detailed resin and photo-etched metal accessory parts offered by Verlinden Productions. This book offers a fascinating look into the world of scale modeling, and is a welcome addition to any library, whether you are a scale modeler yourself, an aviation or military enthusiast, or someone who enjoys fine arts & crafts.
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Soft cover 36 pages 55 full color photographs 2 sets of scale drawings
Following on the heals of Verlindens gorgeous SHOWCASE No.1, no.2 continues the series by presenting us with seven spectacular works of art by masters of the (miniature) universe like Francois Verlinden, Eddy Janssens, Lewis Pruneau, and Jef Verswijvel. Stunning color photography captures up-close the amazing levels of detail heaped upon these scale models, all of which are presented in very attractive and realistic diorama settings. From a M*A*S*H* field diorama complete with a potato-pealing Private, to a fully decked-out Opel Blitz on holiday. Another noteworthy feature is an insanely ambitious Vietnam era 1:35 scale diorama featuring a scratch-built U.S. command & communication gunboat inspecting a Vietnamese sampan on the Mekong Delta, overshadowed by rain-forest riverbanks. For those who admire the sleak lines of supersonic military jets, a prizewinning diorama depicting a super-detailed 1:32 scale TF-104G Starfighter conversion is featured, complemented by scratch-b! uilt ground service equipment. All of this and more to please anyone who is fascinated with military miniatures, art, or military history.
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This sixth volume in Verlindens SHOWCASE collection features incredible models and dioramas from masters like Young Jin Won, Mike McFadden, Lewis Pruneau, Bob Letterman, VPs own Gordon Stronach, and of course, Francois Verlinden himself. Stunning color photography captures all of the finest details and subtlest of weathering techniques in seven beautiful works of art. The 120mm Gulashkanone, and 1:35 BREAKDOWN Northeastern France- 1944 feature the masterful techniques of Francois Verlinden, while Lewis Pruneau chills us with his 120mm Salvage. Bob Letterman outdoes himself again with the fabulous 120mmQuota, and Gordon Stronach impresses us by building VPs 120mm Jeep in READY LINE. Mike McFadden presents his gorgeous 120mm conversion of a Bergepanther, and last-but-not-least, Young jin Won steps up to the plate with his 1:35 HOLY GROUND-France, 1944, a diorama featuring some 30 individual figures! This attractive and inspiring book belongs in the collection of every scale modeler, as well as artists.
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Military Model Showcase (Europa Militaria, No 12)
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Homosexual Men in Action, 1890-1930 (Erotic Art Photography, Vol. 8)
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- The Official Underground & Newave Comix Price Guide
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The Official Underground and Newave Comix Price Guide
Jay Kennedy
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Loaded.......2007-04-05
The book begins with the statement that it is reference book not a price guide. True! Tons of information is in here: short articles on 1st amendment issues, Kitchen Sink, conservation, and comix history in general. Pictures of authors and publishers. And a ton of covers reproduced, including over 75 in color.
The Official Underground & Newave Comix Price Guide.......2005-05-16
This book is the best one for underground comix collectors
although over 20 years old and prices not current
it's a very valuable reference for determining the printings
how many printed etc
hard to find a copy at a fair price
but if you get hold of one you will be glad
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- I wish I had written this book!
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Overheard at the Museum
Judith Henry
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Amusing and quirky, the Overheard series is a uniquely designed record of conversational snippets heard in public settings. Overheard at the Museum, the first in the series, captures the spectrum of humor, the irreverence, and the appreciation for Fine Art that museum-goers display. Revealing quotes are paired with compelling black-and-white photographs that show onlokers engaged in their individual and universal museum experiences.
Soul-baring, intimate, sordid, chock full of wit and wisdom, it's ear candy for the eavesdropper. These books are sure to become icons of popular culture.
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Funny...but.......2004-09-09
The book IS hilarious, but as mentioned above, it can be read in less than 5 minutes. I guess it depends on one's sense of humour - i open that book once ever couple of months just to laugh at the quirky quotes, but i don't know if i would buy it to take up extra shelf space in my library.
I wish I had written this book!.......2003-06-24
I had often thought that it would be fun to write a book like this, filled with overheard comments. Then I spotted this little gem in a Cincinnati museum.
The first thing to say about this book is that it's a quick and easy read. I could have read the whole thing in a matter of minutes while I stood in the museum's gift shop. I stopped myself because I knew that I'd buy it from Amazon.com (better price), and I figured that it would be more fun to read most of it when I received my own copy. At the same time, Judith Henry is not content to reach the so-called "lowest common denominator." The content demonstrates that she does indeed credit her readers with intelligence.
The book's content is also its most fun attribute. Obviously, because the comments in it were overheard inside an art museum, most of the remarks are reactions to art, and some of those are quite hilarious. From time to time, though, you will find a comment that someone has made to his/her friend that might have been provoked by the artwork, but which has little or nothing to do with its artistic merit (imagine something like, "The lines and colors here remind me of Aunt Mary's pasta salads," although that specific observation is merely an example that I just made up). In short, as one who is very fond of visiting museums, I can certainly see myself overhearing the types of statements that are in this small volume.
I have since gone on to purchase two other titles in the same series, OVERHEARD AT THE BOOKSTORE and OVERHEARD WHILE SHOPPING, both by the same author. It is my considered opinion that this book, OVERHEARD AT THE MUSEUM, is the best of the bunch. If you enjoy museum-going, or if you enjoy the occasional opportunity to overhear strange, unexpected, and amusing bits of conversation as you go about your daily routine, you will love this book.
better as a coster.......2001-04-20
working on something similar, i found this book very helpful; for what not to do. yes the quotes are funny, but they're set in these color boxes with wacky colored text, like a failed color study. true, Judith Henry wants to keep the book interesting, and for that all she needs are good pictures. Judith Henry, should read "Inside the White Cube" again to remind her of the class strugle that "high art" perpetuates. sorry. la lucha continua.
it's better as a coster.......2001-04-20
working on something similar, i found this book very helpful; for what not to do. yes the quotes are funny, but they're set in these color boxes with wacky colored text, like a failed color study. true, Judith Henry wants to keep the book interesting, and for that all she needs are good pictures. Judith Henry, should read "Inside the White Cube" again to remind her of the class strugle that "high art" perpetuates. sorry. la lucha continua
Interesting Idea.......2000-10-25
but not very funny. I was somewhat dissapointed with the "book", but nevertheless might be for some people but not for me.
Book Description
This book examines the significance of music in the construction of identities and ethnicities, and suggests ways to understand music as social practice. The authors focus on the role of music in the construction of national and regional identities; the media and 'postmodern identity'; concepts of authenticity; aesthetics; meaning; performance; 'world music'; and the use of music as a focus for discursive evocations of 'place'. The chapters tackle a wide range of subjects including 16th century etiquette, Celtic music and Chopin. The volume will be of interest to social anthropologists, and those working in the fields of cultural studies, politics, gender studies, musicology and folklore.
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Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place.: An article from: Notes
Donna A. Buchanan
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on December 1, 1995. The length of the article is 1947 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Ethnicity, Identity and Music: The Musical Construction of Place.
Author: Donna A. Buchanan
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Date: December 1, 1995
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- The Strengths and Weaknesses of Technology - Nicely done
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The God That Limps: Science and Technology in the Eighties (A Worldwatch Institute Book)
Colin Norman
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The Strengths and Weaknesses of Technology - Nicely done.......1999-06-04
I first read this book 17 years ago. It's influence on me was so profound that I still think back to it and have ultimately decided that it is a "must read" book for anyone trying to understand technology.
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Modern Slavery and the Global Economy
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Hard Hitting!!! The truth is out there..........1999-03-02
I really enjoyed this book. I recommend it highly. I spent 1984-85 in South Africa when the policy of "Apartheid" was the law. Races were heavily discriminated against, and some ended up as human slaves. Later, in 1998, I witnessed this again, but this time in a United States Commonwealth. The book, Modern Slavery and the Global Economy, identifies the horrific realities of Modern Slavery through first-person accounts. It also gives insight to the growing global economy and a possible connection. Well worth reading.
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Most Americans would be shocked to discover that slavery still exists in the United States. Yet most of us buy goods made by people who aren’t paid for their labor–people who are trapped financially, and often physically. In Nobodies, award-winning journalist John Bowe exposes the outsourcing, corporate chicanery, immigration fraud, and sleights of hand that allow forced labor to continue in the United States while the rest of us notice nothing but the everyday low price at the checkout counter.
Based on thorough and often dangerous research, exclusive interviews, and eyewitness accounts, Nobodies takes you inside three illegal workplaces where employees are virtually or literally enslaved.
In the fields of Immokalee, Florida, underpaid (and often unpaid) illegal immigrants pick the produce all of us consume, connected by a chain of subcontractors and divisions to such companies as PepsiCo and Tropicana. At the top of the chain are stockholders and politicians; at the bottom is a father of six, one of whose children suffers from leukemia, who entered America only to become the unpaid employee of a labor contractor nicknamed “El Diablo” for his cruelty.
In Tulsa, Oklahoma, the John Pickle Company reaped profits for years making pressure tanks used by oil refineries and power plants. Feeling squeezed by foreign competition and government regulations, JPC partnered with an Indian and Kuwaiti firm to import workers from India. Under the guise of a “training program,” fifty-three workers, including college-educated Uday Ludbe, came to the United States, only to have their documents confiscated and to find themselves confined to a factory building. Pickle laid off Americans and paid the Indians three dollars an hour.
Saipan, a U.S. commonwealth in the Western Pacific where the author lived for three years, has long been exempted from American immigration controls, tariffs, and federal income tax–a status quo assiduously protected by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and Congressman Tom DeLay. There, garment magnates–selling to clothing giants like the Gap and Target–live in luxury while thousands of foreign factory workers, 90 percent of them female, work sixty-hour weeks for $3.05 an hour and spend weekends trying to trade sex for green cards. The garments they make are allowed to be labeled MADE IN AMERICA.
Nobodies is a vivid and powerful work of investigative reporting, but it is also a lively examination of the eternal struggle for power between free people and unfree people. Against the American landscape of shopping mall, outlet stores, and Happy Meals, Bowe reveals how humankind’s darker urges remain alive and well, lingering in the background of every transaction and how understanding them may lead to overcoming them.
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A Genuine Reporter at Work.......2007-10-05
John Bowe's "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy" shines a cold bright light on labor abuses on American soil, from Florida to Tulsa to a U.S. territory in the Western Pacific Ocean. The author speaks with a moral voice that is never moralistic. Rather he looks at all sides of horrendous situations that might more conveniently, and easily, be seen starkly in black and white. This unique perspective adds immeasurably to the power of the stories he tells, all well-documented. Bowe analyzes the psychological attraction of power and the easy justifications that make abuses of other human beings a common, if not normal, part of the human experience. The book's focus is on farm workers in Florida, East Indian labor abuses in Tulsa, and Saipan and all it stands for. The book demonstrates how "globalization" and the actual slavery that results have had the effect of degrading not only foreign workers who are abused in the U.S. but also the character of our society as a whole. Although it reads like a novel and is as funny at times as its all-too-human subjects, "Nobodies" is an uncompromising indictment of labor and immigration abuse and should go a long way to putting the brakes on the proposed "guest worker" program so dear to Bush's heart. It's an invaluable resource for anyone who cares about human dignity.
Nobodies by John Bowe.......2007-10-04
I saw John Bowe on the Daily Show talking about his new book and ordered it the next morning. It got here early the next week, and I read it in 2 days. Devoured it.
The book is a series of 3, for lack of a better word, essays. The first two narrate the circumstances of prosecuted cases of foreign workers held captive and forced to work for little or no pay, in deplorable conditions. Their bosses threatened them with everything from being turned over to the authorities to physical violence against themselves or their families. These essays made me feel both guilty and a little paranoid - who exactly is harvesting my food? Are they fairly compensated? (You can bet the answer to that one is `no.') What businesses do I use that profit from slave labor? In each case, a desire for power combined with willful ignorance or collusion led to incredible suffering for many people.
The third essay deals with another situation entirely - that of Saipan, a US Commonwealth in the south Pacific and the source of a large number of labor complaints and allegations of forced labor. I'm not positive I'd even heard of Saipan before reading this book. The story of interaction between locals, migrant workers, a few power players, and the federal government is described in detail. Garment workers, sex workers, local officials, mainlanders, and others are interviewed and help to paint a complicated, and sad, picture of a paradise gone horribly wrong.
The conclusion ties all three stories into a single premise, but in particular, the story of Saipan is used to illustrate a disturbing vision of the future. There's no reason to believe the rest of us are any more high-minded than the natives of Saipan. If that's the case, the current trend of globalization is leading us pell-mell down the path to the lowest common denominator. When humans value other humans less because they are poor, or foreign, or less educated, or brown, or whatever, we all suffer consequences - lower wages, jobs lost to cheaper competition, environmental degradation, loss of ambition and loss of dignity among them.
John Bowe wraps all this up much more eloquently and sensibly than I can. The book is very readable and at times suspenseful. The subject matter was eye-opening for me, and I find myself thinking about it as I go through my daily life. Whether you support globalization or not, or especially if you never really thought that much about it, this book will provide a valuable insight into the very lowest ranks of the workforce in the US today.
EXCELLENTE READ.......2007-09-25
John Bowe does it again! In his former book GIG, he discussed various jobs, ranging from detective to technician to writer. In NOBODIES, he addresses the foreign workers at the bottom of the heap. The workers come from far-away countries such as India, China, the Philippines, etc., hoping for a better life. What they find is often quite different, starting with the illicit recruiters in their home countries, and then arriving on American soil to find that were lied to, and then being subjected to subhuman conditions, and for the females, some forced into prostitution. He discusses the Tom DeLay-Jack Abramoff scandals, and how their greed affected the lowly workers who came to the US with high expectations as did the immigrants in the past. What the workers found in Florida, Oklahoma and Saipan, were employers that paid them less than a minimum wage, had shadowy contracts and took money from them for substandard housing and lousy food, and the list goes on. John also notes that certain employers are living high just down the road from the shops, playing golf and taking expensive vacations, while their workers are suffering and need the basics such as health care and housing. What the American consumer needs to know that when s/he reaches for an orange juice or buys a high-end shirt, that some soul was working in un-American conditions on American soil to provide that product. In addition to the information about modern slave labor, the book is a smooth, thoroughly researched, and well written. As John indicates, there a "a dark side to the new global economy." Excellente, and a must read!
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Towards a Fair Global Labour Market: Avoiding the New Slavery (Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy)
Ozay Mehmet
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This interdisciplinary study presents the case for a rule-based multilateral management of the emerging global market, where issues such as child labor, worker rights and women's rights are increasingly debated.
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