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Well,.... it's an ok book.......2006-11-28
It's ok for learning how to draw the folds in characters clothes, but you will only benefit from drawing girl characters. This book is 99% based on women characters, which is ok, but, I think one would benefit more if they had more men in it. I'm not to crazy about the character designs, but I do like that you get to see how the clothing would fit if you were sitting or standing a specific way. The book consists mainly of underwear and sleep wear, which is fine if you want to draw something like that in your manga. All in all, If you are looking for a book that gives you a run down of both sex's in their clothes, then I do not recommend this book. If you are ok with the book being mainly women, then this is a good book for practicing on your folds in clothing.
Depends on the person........2006-01-22
First let me state that this book is primarily for intermediates and up. This book is definately not for those of you looking to be pulled by the hand (nor for that matter are most of the How To Draw Manga books). They expect you to be observant and learn from the visuals given so even beginners can pick up this book and learn the basic THEORIES of folds as it only briefly touches on drawing the folds.
If you're looking for a wide variety of clothes, this also isn't for you; however, it does explain the different lengths and shapes that clothes can take and you can merely crop the pants to make shorts and the same for skirts.
If you can draw clothes (or you plan on getting the HTDM: Costume Encyclopedia set) and can apply the theories of this book to them, then this is definately for you. With all poses and clothes you can expect to see multiple views to show the differences in folds between different perspectives.
Be warned though, if you aren't looking to see underwear, with the majority being females', don't complain when you buy this book.
All in all this is a great book that will definately aid in your progression as a manga artist.
I like it........2005-10-08
Most people are complaining that the book is about drawing girls in underwear. (Granted, what book isn't?) But it's also good for seeing how a movement changes the entire model. There are many good angles that most people don't think to draw. Like all tools, it's in how you use it.
good for folds.......2005-08-07
this book would defidently help with poses if you want to know what people look like in different poses i suggest you get this book. it also has alot of undergarments and underwear. but this book is very helpfull
Referential pose book.......2004-11-23
The whole book covers clothing on males and females which is great considering most How to Books tend use female characters in their tutorials. Bad point: it briefly covers how to draw wrinkles but good point: the book has a lot of examples with many points of view.
To really learn about wrinkles from this book, you have to study the models which can be time consuming. Aside from the introduction to wrinkles in the beginning, the rest of the book is covers underwear and t-shirts, tops and skirts, and jackets and jeans. Also, the drawing style is is on the realistic end of manga and it has no nudity even though it covers undergarments.
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How To Draw Manga Volume 4: Dressing Your Characters In Casual Wear (How to Draw Manga)
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This volume shows the shape of pants, T-shirts, sweatshirts, and skirts of plain clothes and undergarments in a series of different movements and angles. The drape and change in shape is diagramed with photograph-like illustrations.
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Tasmanian photographer: From the John Watt Beattie collection
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- Start your millenium off right
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Partying Through the Ages Garfield Calendar 2000
Jim Davis
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Start your millenium off right.......2000-02-01
This calendar is filled with maximum over-the-top cuteness. Garfield never fails to make me smile. The pictures are lush and beautiful. Highly recommended.
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The screenplay to the latest film from the Oscar-winning writer/ director of Jerry Maguire and
Almost Famous
Drew Baylor (Orlando Bloom) was the wunderkind of Mercury Shoes: the hot industrial designer who'd dreamed up the powerhouse athletic-wear company's next revolutionary shoe concept-the Spasmotica-upon which Mercury's hopes of global domination were pinned. That is until eight years of development--including a research and promotion outlay equal to the operating costs of a small nation--went up in smoke as the extensively hyped and highly anticipated Spasmotica premiered to colossal failure. Suddenly the laughingstock of the industry, dumped by his boss and his girl, things can't seem to get worse--until Drew gets word of his father's death. With his mother grief-stricken and his sister needed by her side, Drew must travel to his father's provincial hometown of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, to attend the memorial on his family's behalf. On the flight, Drew meets Claire (Kirsten Dunst), a witty and charming flight attendant, who helps him navigate the rough waters ahead and proves that even in our darkest hour love and redemption are never out of reach.
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A good screenplay.......2007-05-21
Although i realized i've had purchased a screenplay when i recieved it i thought is was good and it is nice to see pictures and read the director's notes about making the movie, really interesting
Reading this makes the movie better........2007-05-04
"sadness and dissapointment are really a personal victory in disguise."
Those lines in the foreward by Crowe made me buy the book. That and just how much the movie striked my curiousity. Even though the movie had a lukewarm affect on me, its intent resonated with me. Especially after I had a chance to read some of Crowe's interviews online. He's a brave man who refuses to shade his stubborn optimism in a world where cynicism is strangely fashionable. Crowe is smart enough to know that cynicism is really just a defense mechanism for souls as vulnerable as the characters he creates. Of all his movies, Elizabethtown has the most vulnerable souls bumping into each other. They are all guarded, but their defense is more transparent.
This comes through more when you read the screenplay than seeing the actual movie. While most Hollywood movies move at the speed of light, The movie for E-Town moves at the speed of life. It takes it time to work things out, just as life really does. Appropriately, the movie tests the patience of a person who is accostomed to fast moving, quick-cut dialouge and action. In the screenplay, you are invited to peel back the layers of the characters -- especially Claire -- by disceting their dialouge and looking between and behind words. For this reason, reading this movie is actually more enjoyable than watching it.
I've met "a Claire" before, and Crowe captures her perfectly in the script. She's good at playing the hot-potato with one-liners, and you realize it's a slight of hand to throw your attention off from the "real her." In the screenplay you're perfectly cued to recognize her real self breaking through when her and Drew have their TRUE breakthrough after their romantic breakthrough, and she says "You're an artist, man. Your job is to break barriers." Suddenly the fatigue of her sometimes overwhelming energy pays off.
I actually found myself getting emotional while reading the speech made by Hollie at the funeral. The best parts are, unfortunately, edited out of the movie. One in particular is when Hollie advises her once skeptic audience to "Give your gifts to the living," even if it means being embarrassing. This scene works so much better on the page than it did on the screen. In the screenplay, it reaches beyond a self-indulgence and into her audience. You get the message: She waited until her partner died before she discovered and shared her gifts.
Crowe definitely has a writers-wisdom about life and people. Most good writers do, but they don't often make it to the big screen. I look forward to his movies because I know he's willing to share that wisdom with his audience. Apparently there is even more of it to be found in his screenplays.
One of my Best Movie.......2007-02-02
The story and the music is a perfect mixing and Cameron Crowe is a great director!
Beautiful places and nostalgic..
What a great movie.......2006-11-20
I'm sorry but this movie was absolutely awesome. What I loved most was that there wasnt a picture perfect romance it had all the insecurity and realness that can happen between two people. I really loved it and Im a guy that istens to gangster rap. If anyone knows who sings the song "I can turn a green sky blue" like he had on his ringtone please email me at [...] I came here looking for that but decided to post a review great great movie.
(3.5) "A fiasco is a disaster of epic proportions.".......2005-11-19
Drew Baylor learns the hard way that success is the only measure of a man, at least in the corporate world. And he has just proved himself a colossal failure, his athletic shoe design, touted as revolutionary, the embarrassment of The Mercury Shoe Corporation. After eight years spent working on the design, all of the orders have been returned, the company humiliated. Drew bravely falls on his sword to protect the company from further financial distress. Leaving his job, his whole world has changed from a dream to a nightmare. Even his girlfriend, another Mercury employee, turns her back on him, opting for greener pastures and a new employee hire with more potential. Drew is devastated but resigned.
Just when he thinks things couldn't get any worse, Drew receives a phone call that his father has died and he must go to Elizabethtown, Kentucky, and bring his father home to Oregon. Befriended on the airplane by an enthusiastic stewardess, Claire Colburn, the befuddled Drew revisits a past he can barely remember. Caught up in the family melodrama, Drew has no idea that Claire offers the means of his salvation, her insouciant manner a balm to his increasingly troubled spirit. This combination of unsettling road trip into the past and Drew's damaged sense of self offer him a new perspective, a journey that will alter his direction through life.
Subtleties are apparent in the play, as Crowe gives explicit stage directions, the rhythm of the story building, a contrast between the tensions of the funeral and Drew's need for a time out from family pressures. Not yet translated into specific personalities on screen, the manuscript lends itself to the imagination. The problem is that the story doesn't have resonance, the scattered scenes of family discussions over the disposition of the body, Drew's too-intense-too-soon relationship with Claire, his lack of connection to his father or the Kentucky relatives, all are as disconnected as overheard conversations, without inciting sufficient interest to care about these people or this young man. What may have been an intensely personal experience to the author just doesn't translate into a meaningful story. One man's awakening fails to speak a universal language. Crowe includes a few pages of an on-site diary from shooting the film. How ever admirable Crowe's intentions, Elizabethtown fails to inspire. Luan Gaines/ 2005.
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As we were: The story of old Elizabethtown (The Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society)
Theodore Thayer
Manufacturer: Published for the New Jersey Historical Society by the Grassmann Pub. Co
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A wonderful piece of black history in Elizabethtown Kentucky at the First Baptist Church. Filled with lots of information and pictures of those individuals who made the mortgage burning ceremony possible.
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- A Pulitzer Prize For Texana!
- An enjoyable, fact-filled, recommended blend
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The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music (Evelyn Oppenheimer Series, 2)
John Mark Dempsey
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A Pulitzer Prize For Texana!.......2002-11-18
Finally---the definitive history of The Light Crust Doughboys, one of the "big three" in the history of western swing and Texas-style country music (the other being Bob Wills & His Texas Playboys and Milton Brown's Musical Brownies). But this must-have book is so much more than a book: history "comes alive" with the included music CD which features a classic Doughboys' decade, the 1940s, alongside their contemporary Grammy-recognized work. And it's in this newer work that fans can really see the legacy and enduring power of a band that's been called country music's greatest historical band. In songs like "Texas Women", "Sending Me You", "Looking Through A Stained Glass Darkly", and "Amarillo, Where The Wind Blows Free, the reader can see how The Light Crust Doughboys keep evolving as artists while always keeping a foot in the best of their Texan and American past.The Light Crust Doughboys are one of the select bands in country music history equally renowned for their instrumental as well as their vocal prowess. Long known for their eclectic approach to music, combining elements of the blues, cowboy music, old-time, gospel, and dixieland, The Light Crust Doughboys are true American ambassadors and modern troubadours of American music. You'll read here of The Doughboys' pioneering use of electric guitar and electric bass in American music. You'll read that they pioneered being a western band in Hollywood's golden age (they pre-dated Bob Wills' film debut by four years). You'll read and hear how they combined gospel music and western swing (with gospel legend James Blackwood) to develop gospel western swing. You'll read how they came up with the idea of blending Pacific/California surf and Texas western swing with Ventures' guitar great, Nokie Edwards, resulting in critically-acclaimed roots music including an Americana Christmas album! Let's all hope that this book paves the way for long-overdue recognition in the NashVegas-dominated Country Music Hall of Fame as well as "early influences" recognition in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Is there a Pulitzer Prize for music history or Texana? This book and CD has earned it! And, do your heart and ears a big favor by searching for other Light Crust Doughboys' music and videos at Amazon.
An enjoyable, fact-filled, recommended blend.......2002-11-08
The Light Crust Doughboys Are On The Air: Celebrating Seventy Years Of Texas Music by John Mark Dempsey (a native Texan and Assistant Professor of Broadcast Journalism, University of North Texas) is an enjoyable and informative study of The Light Crust Doughboys band and their Texas music, which was broadcast in the "golden era" of radio. Their long-lived radio show lasted from 1930 to 1952, and their particular brand of gospel music was nominated for the Grammys in 1998, 1999, 2001, and 2002. An enjoyable, fact-filled, enthusiastically recommended blend of biographical background and cogent musical assessment of this evolving group, The Light Crust Doughboys Are On The Air is enhanced with a music CD featuring 30 of the band's most popular and beloved songs.
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Southern History, published by Southern Historical Association on November 1, 2004. The length of the article is 539 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: The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music.(Book Review)
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Date: November 1, 2004
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Volume: 70
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Racism and Anti-Racism in Football
Jon Garland , and
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This book explores the key issues of racism, anti-racism and identity in British football. It relates the history of black players in the game, analyzes the racism they have experienced, and evaluates the efficacy of anti-racist campaigns. The efficacy of the policing of racism is also assessed. The nationalism and xenophobia evident in much of the media's coverage of major tournaments is highlighted in the context of the way that English, Scottish, and Welsh identities are constructed within British football.
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Tim Wonnacott's Moneymaking Antiques For The Future: Collect Today, Profit Tomorrow
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Compiled by a team of leading authorities - many of whom have appeared on the BBC's Antiques Roadshow - to open up the world of antique collecting for everyone. With experts writing on their specialty subjects such as toys and dolls, books, sports collectables, rock and pop memorabilia, fashion, ceramics, silver, art and much more, this book will open your eyes to a new world of antiques.
A two-time Emmy Award nominee, Antiques Roadshow is PBS' most-watched primetime series.
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