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With a text by the artist's grandnephew, Bonnard brings a special intimacy to the exuberant, beautiful domestic interiors, pastoral landscapes, still lifes, and portraits of the French artist Pierre Bonnard (1867-1947), whose vibrant, colorful palette drew streams of art lovers to a recent retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
173 illustrations, 112 in full color
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Only a peek at Bonnard.......2006-12-22
This is a small book, limited in the scope of its scholarship and illustrations. The paintings chosen for the latter are pretty much standard to all books on the painter. In my opinion, there are much better works on Bonnard for those seriously interested in his work and life.
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Drawing Ponds, Streams, & Riverbanks (Understand How to Draw)
Benjamin Perkins
Manufacturer: Search Press
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
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Maxine was born crabby!.......1996-07-04
This middle-aged plus cartoon lady's brow is eternally furrowed. Her mouth
snears with disdain. Maxine is rarely without her tote bag, her
cigarette, or her coffee mug. She taunts her pets, annoys her
neighbors, and comments sarcastically on every subject imaginable.
If we don't personally know a Maxine, we recognize the cynicism
we all feel at one time or another. Maxine tells it like it
is. The few dollars spent on this humorous little cartoon book
is money well spent. Any book that makes me laugh out loud
every time I open it, is priceless. Long live Maxine!
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Thinking about going to film school? Don't send in that application just yet--first read this book, the definitive guide to film schools around the country. The 26 institutions reviewed are rated according to the quality and accessibility of their equipment, the kind of films their faculty encourage students to make ("industry," "independent," "experimental"), and cost. The authors discuss the schools' programs in detail, advise readers about whether film school is the right choice for them, provide tips about getting into the programs, and describe what to expect once film school begins. Karin Kelly and Tom Edgar's prose is spirited and their entertaining introductory portrait of the state of American filmmaking will interest anyone who cares about contemporary movies. An informative and amusing glossary closes the volume, which explains why no one should try to lift an ARRI kit by the handle, why "experimental film" is just another word for "cinematic masturbation," and why no good movie script ever contained the line, "you just don't get it, do you?"
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Now completely revised-all there is to know on getting into the right schools and making the experience count.
This completely revised edition of Film School Confidential continues to offer the inside scoop on every major film school program in the country. A must-have guide for students who are considering applying to film school, this book provides more than 20 profiles of the best film school programs across the country. Covering such key areas as curriculum, student body, reputation, and employment options for film school grads, the authors provide solid, objective information on each program as well as snippets from interviews with students and faculty members.
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Book worth it, film school...?.......2007-09-25
Excellent- great discussion of the value proposition of film school. One thing I found odd though- they estimated one year rent and living expenses in New York at $20k. Living where, in a cardboard box, eating ramen noodles? Anyway, I highly recommend the TV reality show series "Film School," on DVD. As for the question of whether to go, I think it says a lot that the #1 reason to go is the contacts you'll make. Do you need to spend three years and god only knows how much money to make some friends/contacts? Anytime that's used as a justification for the cost of grad school, watch out! They say the same thing about business school, and I don't know a single person who wouldn't be where they are today if it weren't for b-school.
i'm glad i bought this.......2007-08-12
I am actually looking for undergraduate programs and this book seems to focus more on graduate degrees but it was useful anyway.
Can a book be encouraging by being discouraging?.......2007-06-27
I plan to go to film school to get a Master's in screenwriting. After reading this book, I almost changed my mind. The book is a blunt dose of reality and gives you straight talk on what you get for your money. It also tells you how much money you'll need to beg, borrow, or steal in order to pay for film school. I appreciated the honesty once I got past the shock of it all. The book helped me narrow down the schools that I feel would be a best fit for me-some were a surprise. For example, did you know that at FSU, they will pay for your film to be made? Did you know that Chapman University in pleasant Orange, California, has practically brand new facilities? If you want to make animal or insect documentaries (don't laugh, they pay!) then Montana is the right school. For me personally, I know that New York, while being a great city, is not going to work for me due to expense and the hyper-competitive nature of the schools. You'll find what you need to know. The book is primarily for film makers, not writers, but there is an attempt to give a good review of the writing programs. Do not apply to film school until you read this book and the sooner the better.
Film School Confidential.......2007-05-15
This updated edition gives you a very good insight of some of the biggest names of film schools. It also gives you an idea what you should look for when you get out of a film school. As film making is only centered in NYC and LA, graduates will have hard time finding work if the schools do not have good internship and connections. Even though this book only covers grad schools, general information should apply to undegrades as well. Unfortunately, the book did not cover more quality films schools such as SVA, RIT or Emmerson. Nontheless, this is the only book on this subject. It is a must for students and parents. Bottom line: If you would want a career in films, stay away from schools that emphasize on experimental films such as Ohio University, UW Milwaukee or some of remotely located state universities regardless how they are ranked by US News & World Report or Entertainment Weekly. The other tip is to look for their famous alumni. If most of them end up doing underground experimental films in the film festivals only, you probably will be one of these starving artists upon graduation. In general, this book teaches a lot beyond rating film schools. It gives you a perspective of how tough this business is and how you can prepare for it. My son is planning to apply to a film school next year. I went through the web sites of almost 100 film schools in the nation and reach the same conclusion of the author of this book. But not anyone can go to NYU & USc. With that being said there is still good hope going other solid schools as long as you don't end up doing experimental films which are mostly incomprehensible. But once again, if you enjoy taching or being a starving artist without thinking about earning a decent living, then it is perfectly fine going to schools like UW Milwaukee. In addition, if you want to be a film critic, you probably can go anywhere. Roger Ebert was majored in literature at Urbana-Champagne. This book is for students who want to take a shot at careers such as directors, producers, editors, etc.,
The Inside Scoop.......2005-09-16
This book was amazing. It helps you plan and think more seriously about how you plan what school you go to. It gives you information on how many students really get excepted and how much your going to be in the whole financially when your actually graduate. The only criticism I have is that it was published in 1997 but still it a great book to have for someone who is serious about grad school in film.
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Great and terrible, indeed.......2002-05-29
Nice arrangements, but the book itself self-destructed in less than a week. Very poor binding quality.
If you buy it, do not open the book fully or flex the spine to keep it open, use books to hold the pages back and let the center sort of bow. Otherwise, you'll quickly need a large manila folder to store this book in between uses.
The music is beautiful, the arrangements fairly true to the movie score. Nice to have, could have been a better experience if assembled properly.
Great and terrible.......1998-07-01
Great, because the music from the show is incredible, and the songbook is beautiful to look at - nice pictures from the film. Terrible because, like way too many pop songbooks, it falls apart almost immediately. Spiral binding is ugly, but I wish they would use it - then these books would last longer. And isn't that what you want them to do?
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Semyon Dukach couldn't believe how easy the money was. In one weekend, the MIT math genius and his team of geeks had made $200,000 playing the blackjack tables in Las Vegas. They hadn't cheated. Instead, they had discovered one of humanity's greatest holy grails: a system to beat the casino. They had rendered obsolete the old saying that the house always wins. Dukach and his friends made millions during the 1990s playing blackjack in the world's top casinos, right under the noses of pit bosses and security consultants who thought they had seen it all. Dukach's story is told in author Ben Mezrich's vividly narrated book Busting Vegas.
Mezrich, the author of previous bestsellers about MIT gamblers and a colorful Ivy League trader in Japan, tells how Dukach's crew used a system that Vegas had never seen before. Dukach, the son of Russian immigrants who grew up in the poorest neighborhoods of New Jersey and Houston, was determined to climb out of poverty and help his family. His system didn't involve the commonly used techniques of card counting. Posing as an arms dealer or dentist, Dukach deliberately sought out blackjack dealers with small hands or thin fingers who frequently didn't conceal the bottom card when they shuffled the cards. Dukach would often manage to get a glimpse at the bottom card. This was highly significant because it was the card the dealer would hand the player to cut the deck. Dukach had practiced a technique to insert the card in a precise spot in the deck and then make big bets when the card was dealt. Dukach and his team ended up barred from casinos, threatened at gunpoint, and beaten in Vegas's notorious back rooms. This is a riveting yarn. —Alex Roslin
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Semyon Dukach was known as the darling of Las Vegas. A legend at twenty-one, this cocky hotshot was the biggest high roller to appear in Sin City in decades, a mathematical genius with a system the casinos had never seen before and couldn't stop -- a system that had nothing to do with card counting, wasn't illegal, and was more powerful than anything that had been tried before.
Las Vegas. Atlantic City. Aruba. Barcelona. London. And the jewel of the gambling crown -- Monte Carlo.
Dukach and his fellow MIT students hit them all and made millions. They came in hard, with stacks of cash; big, seemingly insane bets; women hanging on their arms; and fake identities. While they were taking classes and studying for exams during the week, over the weekends they stormed the blackjack tables, only to be banned from casinos, harassed, on the wrong end of guns, and beaten in the notorious back rooms of casinos.
The stakes were high, the dangers very real, but the players were up to the challenges, the consequences be damned. In the classroom, they were geeks. On the casino floor, they were unstoppable. Busting Vega$ is Dukach's unbelievably true story; a riveting account of monumental greed, excess, hubris, sex, love, violence, fear, and statistics that is high-stakes entertainment at its best.
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A fun quick easy read........2007-08-23
Busting Vegas is a fun thrilling read which can be done very quickly. This is an alluring story about students from MIT who decide to set up a club for Blackjack for the sole purpose of taking down the casinos. Using specific techniques the students developed and honed within the halls of the Cambridge, MA university, they set out for the ride of their life with big money, false identities and incredible bravado. While I will not give away the ending, I will say that the book reads like any "popcorn novel", fast paced and thrilling. For a great end of the summer read check it out, you will not be disappointed.
Flawed, But Ferociously Readable.......2007-07-23
I'm still not sure if this is non-fiction. The events evidently happened a long time ago. It leaves a lot of unanswered questions, such as whether the 'system' these MIT students devised is still in use by others, where these kids are now and what they ever did with their 'earnings.' Despite some shortcomings, the author's writing style is fast and compelling, so that you want to know what happens next. One of the better beating-Las-Vegas tales out there.
Clever, but terribly written.......2007-06-25
This is a fun little summer read. Smarty-pants MIT geeks figure out some ways to count cards in blackjack, and win it all! Then, of course, it all comes crashing down! The clever methods turn out to be more or less brute force: count and commit stuff to memory, then time your bets just right. I guess I was hoping for something more MIT-worthy.
Unfortunately, this book is so badly-written it's almost unbearable to read. I wasn't expecting great non-fiction, but this is *bad*. Here's an example: describing a "grueling" month of training the team goes through before hitting Vegas, we're told that the students made "biweekly" trips to a local casino. Really? Two whole trips isn't exactly "grueling" training. (Maybe the author meant "twice weekly"?) This is followed by "every ten days, the team endured 'checkouts'"--basically pop quizzes. Every *ten* days? So...that makes three times during this so-called intense month? This doesn't exactly paint a picture of the team grinding away in Boston in preparation for the big score, it sounds kinda like some kids playing cards every once in a while.
The whole book can't seem to strike the right tone of reality. This *is* a true story, but it isn't told straight. Details are needlessly specific (how many books on a bookcase, the color of a pair of shoes, how good a cup of tea is, and so on). But these are details that aren't just irrelevant to the story, but impossible to recall. It's clear that the author is simply filling in information here in hopes that it all seems more "real". Problem is, it's not possible to tell when these details *are* real, and so everything seems equally fake, and you end up wondering: when Owen was in that secret back room at the casino, did he really get beat up and handcuffed? Did the security team really threaten him like that? Or are those details just imagined, too? If this was pure fiction, it'd be ok, but in a supposedly non-fiction book, it feels mostly made-up.
Exciting Read.......2007-06-19
Mezrich puts together another great story about a group of students from MIT who take on Vegas. Other than the techniques used however, I didn't see much of a difference between this book and "Bringing Down the House." If you had to pick one, read "Busting Vegas." Exciting book, but nothing new from Mezrich.
A Test For the Shuffler Tracker As Well As For the Casino.......2007-03-12
Until very recently there was no more powerful method of blackjack play than team card counting. Now in BUSTING VEGAS, Ben Mezrich presents the ultimate method, one that has already won millions in just one day for one team in one casino. This is not a novel, although it reads like one. The theory itself is easy to grasp although a careful reading of both story plus afterward reveals the incredibly complicated level of visual accuracy required. Shuffle trackers operate in teams, but unlike their card counter predecessors, the card count is of secondary importance. Mezrich tells the true tale of some MIT whiz kids who were brutally trained to occupy every seat at a table with the shuffle tracker focusing his eyes on the first Ace that lies adjacent to a ten. As the dealer scoops up the cards and places them in the discard rack, he counts accurately how many cards from the bottom lie this Ace-ten pair. Later when the dealer shuffles up, the shuffle tracker can record their exact position in the dealer's shoe even through the many riffles and shuffles. Mezrich admits that this is a trying skill that only the sharp eyes elite can master. I had two problems with this book. First, the writing was choppy in many areas. Mezrich would shift back and forth in time in a manner that made it difficult for me to keep up. His characters were paper thin flat creations, all of whom were as clearly labeled by their words and actions as any created by Dickens. Especially annoying was the female lead Allie, who seemed to have no purpose but to look good in a mini skirt. Second, despite the supposed high IQs of the team, it occurred to none of them that shuffle tracking has within it the seed of its own destruction in that with great power comes the temptation to use it at every opportunity and to maximum effect. The team won obscene sums in one night in one casino by going for the jugular at every chance. It was no surprise to the reader--although it was for the team--that they were harassed, threatened, and quickly banned from every casino in which they played. BUSTING VEGAS, then, emerges as a fuzzily written cautionary morality tale that suggests that the greatest obstacle to ill-gotten gains lies more in the player than in the victim.
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Songs of Praise: A Christmas Companion
Andrew Barr
Manufacturer: Lion
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Binding: Hardcover
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Songs of Praise is regularly watched by over 5 million viewers worldwide on the BBC. Following in the footsteps of Songs of Praise: The Nation's Favourite and The Nation's Favourite Hymns, this new book is a beautiful companion for the Christmas season. Andrew Barr, producer of the program for many years, draws on bible passages, poems, prayers, hymns, and the best inspirational stories from Songs of Praise. Accompanied by full color photography, the text follows the journey from Advent through Christmas and on to Epiphany.
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- Botticelli's Bed & Breakfast
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- Childproof: Cartoons About Parents and Children
- Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
- Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
- Drawing in 3-D Wacky Workbook
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- Emily's Secret Book of Strange: Emily the Strange
- Essential Fashion Illustration
- Exploring The Elements of Design (Design Exploration Series)
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