Reinventing the Museum, Historical and Contemporary Perspectives on the Paradigm Shift

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Reinventing the Museum gathers 35 seminal articles reflecting over 100 years of dialogue within the musem community about what it means to be a high-quality, relevant institution. Important reading for museum professionals, students, and anyone interested in museums and their development.

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Making Pictures (Collins Artist's Guides)

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ASIN: 0004133110

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Collins Artist's Guide: Making Pictures (Collins Artist's Guides)
Angela Gair
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishers
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000O8QHB4

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This fascinating, unique book spans nearly a century of pacific northwest maritime history. Stunning never before published photos cover Puget Sound and the Pacific Coast from Oregon to Alaska, made from 1910 to the present by Jeremy Snapp and his grandfather John Snapp.Here are views of working ships-the last of commercial sail, the passenger steamers of the Mosquito Fleet, and the inland freighters, tugs, barges, and lightships that were all a part of the Northwest Legacy.

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Memories to remember.......2000-05-24

Jeremey Snapps new book "Northwest Legacy" is a historical documentary for the avid maritimer. Its indepth photos suspend our imaginations in a time that should be held for future generations to reflect upon the time when steam and sail was very real to life. I have found myself intrigued over and over with individual shots of daily working life on the water and dockside, bringing fantacies of what life and work in these situations were really like in the Northwest. Three cheers! I look forward to the next books in the series.

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The Yellow Kid-Hully Gee!.......2005-11-24

I have had a long fascination for Richard F.Outcault's seriously strange creation "Mickey Dugan",alias the "Yellow Kid",but only with the publication of this book did I finally see the entire original run of Outcault's cartoons from the New York newspapers.Cited as the first real "comic strip" character,the Kid's initial appearances were in full page color drawings-huge single panels featuring Mickey and his urchin set,denizens of the New York tenements,always engaged in some kind of lively(sometimes illegal)activity-a parody of political meetings,sports,the theater,the doings of freemasons etc.Later Outcault also drew the Kid in the now familiar "strip cartoon" format.The Yellow Kid originally appeared in the sunday comic supplement to Joseph Pulitzer's "New York World" in panels titled "Hogan's Alley".The character soon became a major player in the circulation war between Pulitzer and his brash rival (fresh from California),W.R.Hearst,owner/editor of the "New York Journal",who nabbed Outcault from the "World" just as the Kid was becoming a seriously major craze in 1896(the "World" continued the character by another artist,George Luks).The "Journal" drawings were themselves accompanied by a text story expanding on the cartoon,but often only marginally related to it,and usually rather flatly written-not by Outcault,but most frequently by Edward W.Townsend,creator of the popular tales about Bowery boy man-servant "Chimmie Fadden".
This book under review,was issued originally in 1995,to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Kid's first appearance.It is an invaluable collection,reproducing-for the first time since the 1890s-not only all of Oucault's Kid pages and strips from the "World" and the "Journal",but also a wide selection of his appearances in other parts of the papers in black and white drawings with texts accompanying them(the Kid's diary,adventures abroad,his involvement in the 1898 war with Spain etc).Bill Blackbeard provides an exhaustive detailed commentary on the background to the character,examining his various newspaper appearances and providing a lot of information about the Yellow Kid as an 1890s "celebrity",an advertizing bonanza(Mickey sold everything-he even had his own brand of cigarettes!),stage star,and general all round popular culture phenomenon.The Kid's huge popularity becomes more remarkable when one considers that he only survived as a newspaper cartoon character for about 3 years!My only gripes about Blackbeard's commentaries are that he can sometimes be a little sniffily "pc" in looking back on a very different era,and I would have liked to know more about Outcault the man(but is much known anyway?)-that aside they are excellent,and the book includes a superb bibliography too.The material reproduced so well here is fascinating,especially to anyone who loves the 1890s.In the teeming,chaotic full page cartoons,we dive back into a distant,violent anarchic world-that of the tenement Irish in New York during the "mauve" decade-a place Jacob Riis chronicled in photographs,but here the grimness of that existence is given its own wild,disreputable,but undeniably appealing humor-the slums leering out at us and saying(in their own unique way)-"Say!Life is real-and ain't we somethin'!".
The quality of Outcault's drawing is very high,especially in the "classic" period of 1896/7.Comments from the characters appear everywhere,surrealistically placed on hoardings,on walls and fences and most famously on Mickey Dugan's ochre nightshirt-mostly written in the archaic "hully gee-dis is de main guy" slanguage of 1890's New York icons like Chuck Connors,Steve Brodie and Chimmie Fadden-but Outcault's words transcend their origins-he is a master of clever phrasing when creating the nose thumbing patois of the Yellow Kid's Hogan's Alley and McFadden's Flats.
When he started out,Mickey really was a baby,just a toddler,lurking in some part of the picture-one among many in a recurring cast of tenement dwellers.But gradually he turned into the star,and in the process transformed into a bald,jug eared adolescent,strangely still wearing a baby's nightshirt-grinning knowingly out at the world-the wiseguy who was not only lord in his own slum,at one with its anarchic values and sensibilities,but a sharpee who could transpose them into whichever arena he and his accompanying tenement crowd moved-even when mixing with all manner of foreigners while touring the globe(in the series from 1897 "Round the World with the Yellow Kid").
Richard Outcault soon turned to other comic creations-perhaps the Kid and his pals were basically too disreputable and nihilistic for a man coming to want greater "respectability".Even the Kid's adventures in the "Journal" became tamer,the humor gradually abandoning that savage edge found in cartoons like the violent 1896 "World" panel "What they did to the dog-catcher in Hogan's Alley"-the Kid and his pals became cuter,less dangerous.Outcault's later strip character,the thoroughly middle class "Buster Brown" even eclipsed Mickey Dugan in popularity,and the cartoon lasted far longer than the one about the kid in the yellow nightshirt.Buster's world,his mischief accompanied by little homilies to set everything right,was a far cry from the madcap slum tenements Mickey Dugan and his cohorts sprang from-though the Kid himself did wander inexplicably into "Buster Brown" a few times(reproduced here)-a half remembered phantom from the seemy side of "Boss" Croker's New York.

Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics

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Yellow Kid: A Centennial Celebration of the Kid Who Started the Comics

Manufacturer: Diane Pub Co
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ASIN: 0756766834

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The Yellow Kid is the mischievous street urchin who took NY & the whole country by storm at the end of the 19th cent. He's the popular comic character created by Richard Felton Outcault who was the prize in a battle between the greatest newspaper titans of the Gilded Age, Joseph Pulitzer of the "NY World" & William Randolph Hearst of the "NY Journal." The Yellow Kid's smiling face & yellow nightshirt appeared on thousands of books, toys, magazines, cookie tins, bars of soap, & myriad other products in Victorian homes. He was the star of the first comic strip. This volume reprints the entire comic strip for the first time since its original appearance in 1895-1898. A lengthy intro., illustrated with photos & drawings, discusses the Yellow Kid comic & its era.

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A classic in its field since its original publication, The Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist is now revised, updated and paperback for a new generation of professionals. This encyclopedic resource covers all of the current studio make-up methods and lab techniques, with text and art contributions from some of the leading experts in the industry.

The author explains clearly and precisely the differing approaches to stage-lit, audience-attended television taping; studio-lit, no-audience taping; live television with natural outdoor lighting; live stage make-up ; and the innumerable techniques and methods of film make-up. In addition to detailing the basic, day-to-day 'paint and powder' procedures that are the bulk of any professional make-up artist's work. He also describes exciting new visual effects that can be achieved using puppetry, digital computing, and electronic coloration. Included in this paperback edition are:
* Revised make-up charts for men and women
* New special effects make-up photographs
* New information on contact lenses and dental work
* Updated information on film types
* Revised appendices.

Vincent J R Kehoe has been working in the professional make-up field since 1940. He has been in charge of make-up for more than 3000 major television, film, and stage productions, and was head of the make-up departments for CBS-TV in New York and the NBC Hallmark Hall of Fame series. His previous books include Special Make-Up Effects (Focal Press), The Technique of Film and Television Make-Up, and Photographic Make-Up for Stills and Movies, and he has written several articles on advanced make-up research for the Journal of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). As president and director of the Research Council of Make-Up Artists since 1963, Mr Kehoe designed and produced the entire Color Process line of RMCA Professional Products. He lives in Somis, CA.

A classic text updated for the next generation of make-up artists.
Covers all studio methods and lab techniques.
Contains information on many types of exciting new visual effects.

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Geared towards professionals .......2007-08-20

This book is definately geared towards the professional makeup artist. I'm an avid Halloween costumer and wanted to try special effects makeup but this book was over my head. The author assumes that you have some basic knowledge of makeup technique and the lack of color photos makes it impossible for the novice to figure out what he's talking about. I'm thinking of purchasing Laura Thudium's makeup book to learn the basics and then hopefully this book will be more useful.

Not very current..........2007-07-18

This was a good book and gave a lot of technical advice and illustration but it didn't help me as much as I was hoping. It's dated-- now we're having to deal with changes in makeup due to Hi-Def, etc. These are not addressed... nor are many other things that I think are relevant to doing makeup for film/tv in 2007.

Only relevant to FX artists.......2007-05-07

Why didn't I listen to the other reviewers? The tiny section on "beauty" makeup is dated and unhelpful.

The Technique .......2006-06-23

The book makes doing eyebrow shaping look easy...and it not only looks easy- by following a few steps it turns out it IS easy. If you want to learn the basics- buy this book. If you want to do a home makeover- go glamorous, sensual, then fun later on - buy this book. If you want to tune your look a bit- get it! I guess I don't have to go on, but if you are like me and need a bit of instruction and cant afford a makeup artist to be at your beckon call- buy this book.

Mostly Black & White Photos!.......2006-02-03

You would think that a book on makeup -- especially at this price -- would contain many more color photographs. After all, successful makeup is dependent upon illusions of color as well as light and shadow.

That said, I did learn a great deal from the book, particularly the chapter on human aging. This is a good book if you are as interested in makeup theory as you are technique.

The Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist

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The Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist
Kehoe Vincent J-R Kehoe
Manufacturer: Focal Press
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OPJ4OE

Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist (Library of Communication Techniques Ser.)

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Technique of the Professional Make-Up Artist (Library of Communication Techniques Ser.)
Vincent J. Kehoe
Manufacturer: Focal Press
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ASIN: B000OPZM18

The Technique of the Professional Make-up Artist for Film, Television, and Stage

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The Technique of the Professional Make-up Artist for Film, Television, and Stage
Vincent J-R Kehoe
Manufacturer: Focal Press
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ASIN: B000OLWUQ2

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Carnival, charivari, mumming plays, peasant festivals, and even early versions of the Santa Claus myth--all of these forms of entertainment influenced and shaped blackface minstrelsy in the first half of the nineteenth century. In his fascinating study Demons of Disorder, musicologist Dale Cockrell studies issues of race and class by analyzing their cultural expressions, and investigates the roots of still-remembered songs such as "Jim Crow," "Zip Coon," and "Dan Tucker." The first book on the blackface tradition written by a leading musicologist, Demons of Disorder is an important achievement in music history and culture.

Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World.(Review): An article from: Notes

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Demons of Disorder: Early Blackface Minstrels and Their World.(Review): An article from: Notes
Brian Thompson
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This digital document is an article from Notes, published by Music Library Association, Inc. on June 1, 1999. The length of the article is 1716 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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Things you don't get to learn elsewhere

An engaging story

KELLY'S METHOD OF INVESTEMENT ALLOCATION

Fun and Informative

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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
William Poundstone
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Fortune's Formula is a fascinating study of the connections between such seemingly unrelated topics as gambling, information theory, stock investing, and applied mathematics. The story involves the stunning brainpower of men such as MIT professor Claude Shannon, who single-handedly invented information theory, the science behind the Internet and all digital media; Ed Thorpe; and John Kelly of Bell Laboratories, who developed the "Kelly criterion," a now-legendary investment strategy for maximizing growth while controlling risk. Initially, Shannon and Thorpe took Kelly's theory to Las Vegas and applied it to roulette and blackjack. Later, they took it to Wall Street and cleaned up--Shannon made a personal fortune while Thorpe created the highly successful hedge firm Princeton-Newport Partners. They both discovered that Kelly's system was particularly effective when applied to arbitrage (minute price differences that result from market inefficiencies). As Poundstone ably demonstrates, the merits of Kelly's criterion are still hotly debated today.

Poundstone has a tendency to meander in his writing, but his asides are so revealing and interesting that they add, rather than detract, from the narrative. The book also includes a cast of fascinating and colorful characters as varied as Ivan Boesky, Warren Buffet, Rudolph Giuliani, and notorious mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel and Meyer Lansky. In explaining the lasting impact of the work done by Shannon, Thorpe, and Kelly, Poundstone even explains Kelly's system for those wishing to follow his formula, offering readers both theoretical and practical lessons. Whether viewed as a how-to guide or straight scientific and financial history, Fortune's Formula proves an entertaining and illuminating analysis of "the most successful gambling system of all time." --Shawn Carkonen

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In 1956 two Bell Labs scientists discovered the scientific formula for getting rich. One was mathematician Claude Shannon, neurotic father of our digital age, whose genius is ranked with Einstein’s. The other was John L. Kelly Jr., a Texas-born, gun-toting physicist. Together they applied the science of information theory—the basis of computers and the Internet—to the problem of making as much money as possible, as fast as possible.

Shannon and MIT mathematician Edward O. Thorp took the “Kelly formula” to Las Vegas. It worked. They realized that there was even more money to be made in the stock market. Thorp used the Kelly system with his phenomenonally successful hedge fund, Princeton-Newport Partners. Shannon became a successful investor, too, topping even Warren Buffett’s rate of return. Fortune’s Formula traces how the Kelly formula sparked controversy even as it made fortunes at racetracks, casinos, and trading desks. It reveals the dark side of this alluring scheme, which is founded on exploiting an insider’s edge.

Shannon believed it was possible for a smart investor to beat the market—and Fortune’s Formula will convince you that he was right.

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Things you don't get to learn elsewhere.......2007-09-02

Someone recommended this book to me as an investment book. At the time I was not sure how gambling and quantitative approach to investment are related. But this book, through its illustration of Kelly's criteria provides a new way to think about investment strategy. I learned all the moot theories in school - Mean portfolio optimization, diversification, efficient market theory, etc. But thinking of information theory, Kelly's criteria and ever present arbitrage can give one quite an edge.
The book interweaves mathematics, history and stories quite well and is a very good read. Imagine an investment book that reads almost like a fiction novel :)
The material is very well researched and it contains history of gambling, and investment and how information theory evolved. The book also gives a view into how a powerful school of thought can eclipse other schools of thought. in this case, Samuelson, et all from MIT refute geometric returns from Kelly's criteria even though working proof is present and the alpha factor in returns is not a myth.
I am glad the person recommended this book to me.

An engaging story.......2007-09-01

Wow, I loved this book. A well written and easy to read history of the evolution of investment theory. Starting with off track betting at the beginning of the century and ending with the collapse of Long Term Capital Management, this is an engaging story.

I was particularly interested in the application of betting theory to investing. The fact that some investment strategies actually include a point of zero value was very informative.

A great read.

KELLY'S METHOD OF INVESTEMENT ALLOCATION.......2007-07-21

KELLY, a Texan mathematician died at 41 but left behind a wonderful method/conceptual framework applicable to investments as well as casino gambling. It is a fascinating book and the mathematics professors provide a wonderful drama. The author has made complicated math/statistics concepts real simple even for those who don't like maths.

Fun and Informative.......2007-07-19

Yes, perhaps the book's title is a bit misleading. Those who gave bad reviews to the book may have been looking for a get rich quick formula to beat the market or the casinos. The book focuses on the Kelly criterion and also gives quite a bit of attention to the efficient market hypothesis. The strength of the book is in its portrayals of the characters involved in the stories behind the Kelly Criterion and Efficient Market Theory.

Admittedly, at times it was a stretch to connect some of the players in this drama to the Kelly Criterion or the Efficient Market Hypothesis. Rudy Guiliani is one of several people in the book who are quite tangential to the main story line. However, I found this not to be a weakness of the book. Indeed, it enhanced my enjoyment of the story.

Those who are looking for a hard core mathematical examination of some of the topics of the book will be disappointed. As will those who are looking for a quick how-to in applying some of the theories. However, the vast majority of people will enjoy getting an inside look at some of the personalities involved in the development of these concepts and will love seeing how some of the theories held up in the "real world".

Against James Pragma's review.......2007-06-11

James pragma's review below is so bad that i felt the need to write my own review. let me clarify some of what James gets wrong, and also clarify what the book is actually about.

James obviously misunderstood the book (and that is not the writer's fault in this case). Poundstone clarifies the Kelly betting system which was originally applied to card-counting but has uses beyond it. the central example and climax of the book is how the kelly betting system and the controversy surrounding it in light of efficient markets theory can help us explain the tragic blow up of a powerhouse hedge fund. the book is about risk, how to manage risk and avoid ruin. that has nothing to do with card counting as a system to get an advantage over the house (Which everybody knows about), the point is that Kelly invented a way to maximize long-term reward and minimize risk. but did he? that's the question.

James Pragma's review is nonsense. he failed to understand the book. in addition to what i say about, Poundstone gives us the history of math, information theory and gambling as it relates to the core story i mention above. it was a fun, informative book.

Bettor math.(Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist

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Bettor math.(Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone)(Book Review) : An article from: American Scientist
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