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Clueless.......2007-09-01
A friend of mine and I both recently read this book, and were dismayed at the places it did not include. I live near Kingston, NY, recently named one of the ten best places (of any size) in the US for artists to live, and near Woodstock, NY. Neither was mentioned by Villani. Kingston has become a great town for artists only recently, so the book is merely out of date with respect to Kingston, but Woodstock has been an artists' colony for a century. The air is great in Woodstock; though there is only a little affordable housing there, there is plenty in nearby villages.
Hot Springs, Ark., Definitely HOT for Art Lovers!.......2006-04-10
The key word in Villani's title is ART, and we've got plenty of it in Hot Springs. With over 27 non-profits directly related to the visual and performing arts, the author hits right on the money to concentrate on the Hot Springs Music Festival, held first two weeks of June every year; the Hot Springs Documentary Film Festival in October, one of four preliminary sites for the Academy Awards; and 200 consecutive monthly Gallery Walks in Historic Downtown. Affordable? We think so. Refreshing? Absolutely. For more information, see www.nativecuriosity.blogspot.com.
completely out of date, dont bother.......2005-07-20
I bought this book last year, and while it may have some good ideas about which towns to go to, the prices of the housing is completely out of date. You cannot buy a house in any of these places for the prices he quotes. Obviously the real estate boom has made this resource obsolete. I wish he would write another book like this, but with up -to -date home prices.
Short-sighted research.......2005-02-25
The city of Fort Myers, FL is disparraged in this book as a menagerie of NASCAR fans and strip clubs. Anyone who's spent time in Fort Myers knows that there aren't many strip clubs and the ones that are here aren't a big part of the local scene (what to do on a random Saturday night) like they are in other parts of Florida, like Tampa, Clearwater, or Miami.
thanks for the rent increase.......2005-02-06
since this book was published, the rents for towns mentioned have increased by an average of 10 percent. could it be that the author owns properties in the towns he citess?
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Atelier Degas - 2me Vente - Catalogue Des Tableaux, Pastels et Dessins Par Edgar Degas & Provenant De Son Atelier - Galerie Georges Petit, Paris - 13 December 1918 / Degas Studio Sale - Part 2 - Paintings, Pastels, Drawings
Delvigne, Petit, Commissaires-Priseurs (Commissaires Priseurs) / Galerie Georges Petit, Paris; Degas, Hilaire Germain Edgar Mes. Lair-Dubreuil
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Opening a set of pastels is like finding a rainbow in a box! Written and illustrated by a professional art instructor, Fine Art Studio Pastels comes with a colorful, fully illustrated 40-page book filled with famous artworks, how-to diagrams, art history, technique instruction, and step-by-step projects designed to inspire children to learn about art by creating their own. The kit also features professional-quality equipment, including 22 soft pastels in vibrant colors, a pastel tray, charcoal pencil, blending tools, a view-finder, and specialty paper.
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Painting in Pastels (Studio Vista Beginner's Guides)
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Pastel Studio
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You Can Sketch & Draw in Color (North Light Studio Series, 1)
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This digital document is an article from Photo Trade News, published by Thomson Gale on August 1, 2006. The length of the article is 1862 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: I am Jennifer, hear me roar and get me into your store: put away your pastels, break out the battery grips, and prepare for an estrogen invasion!
Author: Jennifer Gidman
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Frauenobjektiv: Fotografinnen 1940 Bis 1950
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The patrons of the Ten-Tailed Cat in Talabheim have many tales to tell, some to chill the bone, some to warm the heart but all guaranteed to entertain.
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Unique among directing books, Film Directing Fundamentals provides a clear-cut methodology for translating a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, Proferes leads the reader through specific techniques to analyze and translate its components into a visual story. A sample screenplay is included that explicates the techniques. The book assumes no knowledge and thus introduces basic concepts and terminology.
* Unique, focused approach to film directing that shows how to use the screenplay as a blueprint
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Unique among directing books, Film Directing Fundamentals provides a clear-cut methodology for translating a script to the screen. Using the script as a blueprint, Proferes leads the reader through specific techniques to analyze and translate its components into a visual story. A sample screenplay is included that explicates the techniques. The book assumes no knowledge and thus introduces basic concepts and terminology.
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a rarified gem.......2007-06-07
....the first book to make sense of it all...where to put the camera...how to stage the scene...how to help actors find the performance...it teaches these things as much as any book can, and will save you the cost of one third of film school
An excellent book.......2007-03-27
This book is filled with valuable and helpful information for budding directors. I'm currently in the process of putting everything in this book to good use. The thing I like about this book is that it's not just one of those books that says you need to storyboard everything, because unless you have good drawing skills that really isn't feasible. The book gives an in depth look on how to pre-plan your film shot by shot and the use of floor plans to illustrate camera set-up's. It's so simple, but this is the type of thing that will make you prepared when you come to shoot, instead of just winging it.
practical approach to dramatic direction.......2007-02-06
For an aspiring film or video director interested in analyzing scripts for dramatic elements and then planning the staging for the camera, this book is an outstanding introduction. It gives both a general overview of the process and then analyzes several scenes from famous films. its emphasis is on the dramatic content first, then the visual. It is not strong in the area of shot planning, storyboarding, or complex shot design sometimes seen in modern films. And it does not deal with subtle editing effects. But it is a good introduction to classic film direction and presented in a classroom style. Someone with a strong interest in film drama, from a viewer's point of view, might also find this book interesting.
A closer look.......2006-11-10
This book pulls no punches on the minute technical details that go unnoticed but not unexperienced in the director's craft. It's like taking a great class in the technical structure of directing. I haven't had this much fun reading a film book in a long time.
Can't put it down!.......2002-03-08
The author intelligently and thoroughly guides you step-by-step through the directing process. I learned a lot by his scene analyses of a few popular films. Great book, very much worth it!
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A tour-de-force history of Jews, blues, and the birth of a new industry.
On the south side of Chicago in the late 1940s, two immigrants—one a Jew born in Russia, the other a black blues singer from Mississippi—met and changed the course of musical history. Muddy Waters electrified the blues, and Leonard Chess recorded it. Soon Bo Diddly and Chuck Berry added a dose of pulsating rhythm, and Chess Records captured that, too. Rock & roll had arrived, and an industry was born.
In a book as vibrantly and exuberantly written as the music and people it portrays, Rich Cohen tells the engrossing story of how Leonard Chess, with the other record men, made this new sound into a multi-billion-dollar business—aggressively acquiring artists, hard-selling distributors, riding the crest of a wave that would crash over a whole generation. Full of absorbing lore and animated by a deep love for popular music, Machers and Rockers is a smash hit. 12 illustrations.
About the series: W. W. Norton and Atlas Books announce the launch of a dynamic new series:
ENTERPRISE pairs distinguished writers with stories of the economic forces that have shaped the modern world—the institutions, the entrepreneurs, the ideas.
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Tries to write poetry, succeeds in slobbering.......2007-01-04
What looks like a history of Chess records is a bloated, unwieldy tome that deeply disappoints. While you hope to hear about Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley and other Chess greats, you get Cohen's slobbering rambling.
Here's a typical sentence (speaking of a piece of art in the Metropolitan Museum, surely a necessary comparison for a book about a roots-oriented blues-and-rock record label in Chicago): "This man, as Avedon portrays him, is rough and angry, unsociable, clear-eyed, ancient and folkloric, a relic from another age, genetically no different than those who came later, yet touched by the residue of a great evil." HUH?
Fully half of the book is history of Chicago going as far back as the Civil War. This is a startlingly bad history that pretends to be about records and instead is a palette for palaver.
Author a fan, but not too accurate.......2006-03-24
Rich Cohen's heart is in the right place here, but he needs to get some facts straight, e.g., the band is J. Geils, not Jay Geils. I liked his previous effort, "Cooler by the Lake", but this needs some serious editing.
How Leonard Chess built one of America's truly great indie labels.......2005-07-13
These "record men" were a special breed. Men like Herman Lubsinky at Savoy in New Jersey, Sam Phillips at Sun in Memphis, Syd Nathan of King Records in Cincinnati and one Leonard Chess were the driving force in the evolution of the music we now call rock and roll. "Machers and Rockers" concentrates on Leonard Chess and tells the remarkable story of Chess Records. In the span of 20 years beginning in 1948, the Chess brothers, Leonard and Phil, would build Chess records into the second largest independent record company in America. No small achievement! More importantly, it was Leonard Chess who played a pivotal role in bringing the blues out of the fields and into America's cities. It was this development, perhaps more than any other, that would ultimately result in the emergence of what we now call rock & roll in the mid 1950's.
How did these guys do it? Why did these men succeed when so many others tried and failed? As author Rich Cohen points out there was really nothing terribly mysterious about it.
Leonard Chess was a savvy businessman who was determined to succeed in the record business. And God knows, he was not afraid of hard work. Successful "record men" would do whatever it took. Leonard Chess was actively involved in nearly every aspect of his business. He beat the bushes in search of talent. He signed the artists and produced the records. Then he would stuff thousands of records into the trunk of his car and hustle them all over the Midwest. For the indies like Chess there was little margin for error. A major miscalculation could doom a small record company.
"Machers and Rockers" is a revealing look into the underbelly of the recording industry in 1950's America. However, as other reviewers have pointed out there are several glaring errors in this book. Some pretty sloppy research if you ask me. The best I can muster is a lukewarm recommendation. Since there are a number of books devoted to the subject of Chess records you might want to check out one of those.
What A Mess.......2005-03-26
I've read a couple of Cohen's books and enjoyed his tough prose style...
In "Machers and Rockers", he lets the style get away from him. Reading like an out of control Nick Tosches or a less violent James Elroy, Cohen uses his tough guy style loose on a number of unrelated tangents that immediately doom this book.
Even worse for a book about Chess Records, Cohen commits a number of horrific blunders about the artists and their music. This suggests either a lack of familiarity with his subject matter, a lack of editing and/or fact checking at the publishers, or a lack of caring.
When the lyrics to Muddy Waters' seminal "Hoochie Coochie Man" are badly mangled near the start of the book, it sets a dagerous precedent. (Note - Cohen badly messes up the third line of the song) If he can't even get a simple lyric right, why should we believe anything else that he wants to tell us?
To use a yiddishism to describe this book - "feh"...
An excellent survey .......2005-01-04
Avid followers of popular music will readily understand the importance of Chess Records in the early to modern business of rock and roll production, and won't want to miss Rich Cohen's Machers And Rockers: Chess Records And The Business Of Rock & Roll, an excellent survey of the two immigrants who changed the course of musical history by recording such artists as Muddy Waters and Chuck Berry. Cohen's lively coverage tells how Chess rose to become a multi-billion-dollar business, aggressively marketing artists and riding the rock and roll wave.
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Power of Film Propaganda
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The Power of Film Propaganda: Myth or Reality?
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Coronation st at War
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Coronation Street: The War Years (Coronation St.)
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It is September 1939, and sixteen-year-old Elsie Tanner walks into Coronation Street. Newly married, pregnant, and optimistic, she has little idea of the difficult times that lie ahead. But, within days, her husband has enlisted, leaving Elsie to face the neighbors alone. From the beginning to the end of World War II, this enthralling compendium takes readers back to a world of rationing, hardship, and absent sweethearts. Coronation Street: The War Years embraces all that the show's 20 million fans love about Coronation Street, beautifully packaged as a hardback gift edition.
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