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How can lasting change be made in the way art is taught in America's schools? This was the challenge that faced the six regional professional development consortia sponsored by the Center for Education in the 1980s. The Quiet Evolution documents the remarkable progress that these groups made
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- Gorgeuos
- Wolves, school buses, pregnant women, and flowers
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- These photographs are considered, not contrived.
- It's photographs, but not about photography
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Twilight: Photographs by Gregory Crewdson
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"Crewdson is at the forefront of a movement in contemporary photography that has abandoned realism in pursuit of pure cinematic fantasy." —The New York Times Magazine
Twilight: in that zone between the certainty of day and fear of the dark, Gregory Crewdson sets his eerie, enigmatic photographs. A woman floats in her flooded living room, a cow appears to have fallen from the sky onto a front lawn, a gang of teenagers, seemingly hypnotized, pile up household objects for a bonfire. Created as elaborately staged tableaux, this series of images suggests the bizarre yet beautiful surrealities behind deceptively familiar suburban facades. Scheduled to accompany three simultaneous gallery exhibitions in Spring 2002 and a subsequent retrospective at Mass MoCA, this book chronicles the completion of the Twilight series, which Crewdson began in 1998. Including both production stills and the 40 finished images, all in full color, it also features an essay by Rick Moody, a novelist equally renowned for exposing the underbelly of small-town, middle-class America.
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Gorgeuos.......2006-11-17
I love this book, its so inspiring. The title "twilight" is a time of the day when things seem real but at the same time they dont. The thing I love is that the illustrations look like photographs in a way, which is the piont their trying to make.
Wolves, school buses, pregnant women, and flowers.......2006-10-23
These photos are 'quiet' but intriguing. The lightings in these photos are amazing. Sometimes it is hard to believe that these are photos and not drawings.
I personally like photos/movies shot under low budget -- and these settings were certainly not cheap -- but if you don't mind that, this is good book to have.
inspired work.......2006-08-08
While Gregory Crewdson may be the most overhyped, overpaid photography around today, he is also a master of this type of color, creative, fictive scene. This work is deliberate, deep, and strange, and includes a good essay by Rick Moody. It is a modern masterwork, for sure, and while Crewdson's retrospective book "1985-2005" is average at best, this cohesive body of work is well worth the price.
These photographs are considered, not contrived........2006-05-28
I can't believe another reviewer called this book contrived and insincere. That is absolutely ridiculous. This collection of work is quite sincerely attached to feelings of strangeness and otherness in everyday life. If you think those feelings are shallow and relegated to teenagers (and I find it very insulting that someone spoke of teens that way), then it's a sad, sad world.
It is mysterious and strange and wonderful. Everyone can appreciate that.
It's photographs, but not about photography.......2005-07-05
Anyone who comes to this book looking for a traditional concept of photography WILL be disappointed. 90% of the image is the development - set building, character choice, costuming, decorating. The photograph is almost an afterthought - all of that is done to produce the photo, but the photo is only a record of the event. Painting the images would almost be a more honest approach, because only then would the artist control ever single aspect of image creation.
The art on display here, then, is not the photograph. If you want to see traditional photography, go buy an Eggleston or Iturbide book. It is getting an entire town to participate in the creation of images, the conceptual undertow that tugs you into an image wondering why exactly that pregnant woman is standing that way. These are images that will creep into the edges of your dreams on restless nights. Some are cool, distant, observations from on high. Others are intimate encounters with things that you almost wish had remained in the head of the creator instead of being poured into yours. It is probably one of two or three strongest examples of photographs of scenes within the total control of the photographer.
I've used this book several times to get models to drop their rigidity and concept of self, and to let mystery happen. Whatever the books' faults, it does communicate well, which is what a photograph should be about.
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- The return of the Octopus Man
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The return of the Octopus Man.......2006-02-23
Pantyhose Taro returns!
Rumiko Takahashi's most openly obnoxious character returns to the Ranma 1/2 series, as Ranma and his pals struggle with body armor, hot springs and fishing poles. A couple of the shorter stories are rather weak, but the other three are hilarious offbeat.
Happosai arrives at the Tendo house, beaten to a pulp and covered in ink. It turns out to be Pantyhose Taro, who plans to douse Happosai with the "Spring of Drowned Pious Man" water. Only problem is, he got the wrong cursed water -- the "Spring of Drowned Twins." Now Ranma, Soun and Genma must stop Pantyhose Taro from dousing Happosai with the water. But Pantyhose Taro has a new weapon -- giant tentacles.
In the aftermath, Nodoka Saotome returns to the Tendo house, just as Kasumi falls ill. Not only does Nodoka offer to cook their meals, but she offers to teach Akane. Problem is, Akane's cooking is toxic. So the disguised Ranma takes it on himself to cook as well, and soon he and Akane are sauteeing their way to disaster.
On the goofier front, Ranma ends up playing "Cinderella": A rich guy is trying to identify the pig-tailed girl who once stomped on his head. And school creepoid Gosunkugi discovers a way to defeat Ranma once and for all -- invincible body armor. Now if only the armor didn't explode...
Finally, Ryoga purchases a magic "fishing pole of love" to use on Akane -- except it hits Ranma instead. Much to Ryoga's discomfort, soon Ranma is washing his clothes, making his breakfast and asking if they can at least be "friends." As Ranma's infatuation grows, a confused Akane tries to figure out exactly what is going on.
Rumiko Takahashi has always been great at action stories, or stories that rely on character gags. The two shortest stories don't quite work; one is too goofy, and the other feels squashed into a too-short chapter. The rest of the twenty-first volume is pure gold.
One of the stories is almost non-stop action with a bit of goofiness thrown in, and the ever-arrogant Pantyhose Taro destroying bathhouses and causing mayhem. And then Takahashi switches to character-based comedy, with lots of romantic rivalry and kitchen disasters. Oh, the suspense -- will Akane ever learn how to cook without poisoning people?
But pity poor Ryoga -- Ranma's rival really goes through the wringer, with Ranma pursuing him, and Akane believing that he's so pitiful that he'll take affection from anyone, male or female. Even though he brought it on himself, you can't help but feel sorry for him.
Three solid stories (and two weak short ones) make up "Ranma 1/2's" twenty-first volume, full of action and comic goodness. A pleasant comic read.
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Here's another installment in the gender-bending martial arts series -- the number-one seller in Japanese animation in the United States -- by the world's most popular female comic artist. Pantyhose Taro is gunning for Happosai with a vengeance. His weapon of choice is a special bottle of water from the Spring of the Pious Man at Jusenkyo, a cursed training ground. Unfortunately, there's a problem: the water has gotten its signals crossed. Instead of turning the old lecher into a good man, it creates twins! Can the occupants of the Tendo Dojo stop Pantyhose Taro from doubling his misery, and theirs?
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The Octopus Man returneth.......2006-03-06
Pantyhose Taro returns!
Rumiko Takahashi's most openly obnoxious character returns to the Ranma 1/2 series, as Ranma and his pals struggle with body armor, hot springs and fishing poles. A couple of the shorter stories are rather weak, but the other three are hilarious offbeat.
Happosai arrives at the Tendo house, beaten to a pulp and covered in ink. It turns out to be Pantyhose Taro, who plans to douse Happosai with the "Spring of Drowned Pious Man" water. Only problem is, he got the wrong cursed water -- the "Spring of Drowned Twins." Now Ranma, Soun and Genma must stop Pantyhose Taro from dousing Happosai with the water. But Pantyhose Taro has a new weapon -- giant tentacles.
In the aftermath, Nodoka Saotome returns to the Tendo house, just as Kasumi falls ill. Not only does Nodoka offer to cook their meals, but she offers to teach Akane. Problem is, Akane's cooking is toxic. So the disguised Ranma takes it on himself to cook as well, and soon he and Akane are sauteeing their way to disaster.
On the goofier front, Ranma ends up playing "Cinderella": A rich guy is trying to identify the pig-tailed girl who once stomped on his head. And school creepoid Gosunkugi discovers a way to defeat Ranma once and for all -- invincible body armor. Now if only the armor didn't explode...
Finally, Ryoga purchases a magic "fishing pole of love" to use on Akane -- except it hits Ranma instead. Much to Ryoga's discomfort, soon Ranma is washing his clothes, making his breakfast and asking if they can at least be "friends." As Ranma's infatuation grows, a confused Akane tries to figure out exactly what is going on.
Rumiko Takahashi has always been great at action stories, or stories that rely on character gags. The two shortest stories don't quite work; one is too goofy, and the other feels squashed into a too-short chapter. The rest of the twenty-first volume is pure gold.
One of the stories is almost non-stop action with a bit of goofiness thrown in, and the ever-arrogant Pantyhose Taro destroying bathhouses and causing mayhem. And then Takahashi switches to character-based comedy, with lots of romantic rivalry and kitchen disasters. Oh, the suspense -- will Akane ever learn how to cook without poisoning people?
But pity poor Ryoga -- Ranma's rival really goes through the wringer, with Ranma pursuing him, and Akane believing that he's so pitiful that he'll take affection from anyone, male or female. Even though he brought it on himself, you can't help but feel sorry for him.
Three solid stories (and two weak short ones) make up "Ranma 1/2's" twenty-first volume, full of action and comic goodness. A pleasant comic read.
Ranma's mother returns.......2003-03-16
We get more Pantyhose Taro who plans to douse Happosai with water from the spring of Drowned Pious Man, but actually has Drowned Twins water & no one wants 2 Happosais, except Happosai who envisions greater panty raids. We also get a crimp in Ranma's plan to find the spring of Drowned Man as Pantyhose has added tentacles to his beast by diving into spring of drowned octopus(It would appear the springs don't cancel each other out).
Female Ranma has yet another suitor as she washes up on the private beach of a man searching for the girl of his dreams who stomped on his head, but there's no water on the island to turn Ranma back into a boy.
Just as Kasumi falls ill, Ramna's mom shows up looking for her spouse & her son & offers to help teach Akane to cook, but she also drags Ranka into it. A contest naturally happens as Akane has to prove she's a better cook than Ranka with obvious results.
Ryoga happens upon a magic fishing pole which promises reel in one's lover, only it's not Akane who gets caught & as the mark turns into a fish-shape & grows larger, Ranma's love for Ryoga grows. This one gets squishy--luckily Ranma doesn't remember what s/he was doing when it's all over(kinda felt sorry for him....)
The Gosunkugi chapter at the end is very similar to B-Ko's robo tricks in Project A-Ko.
We see more of Ranma's mature side as he feels sorry for beating Akane at cooking & tries to save the hot springs suitor from learning he's really a guy. InuYasha's still my fav by this author, but I expected a lot less from Ranma having seen a couple early eps from the anime.
More reasons to be glad she didn't design your universe.......2003-02-12
Rumiko Takahashi shows once again that except for a few rules of the series, you never know what will happen next. You know Akanke always blames Ranma for everything. You know Ranma will take advantage of his curse as long as he has to live with it. You know what happens when someone visits Jusenkyo.
Happosai defeated? Ranma-chan caught in tentacles? Water from the wrong acursed spring? Ranma caught on an island with no water? Ranma's mom pops in. Ryoga appears with another plan to get Akane. Even Gosunkugi has a duel with Ranma. This volume tops the current monthlies featuring Prince Herb. Now when does Volume 22 come out?
Ranma ½ manga volume 21.......2003-02-11
I thought this volume was one of the funniest, Im not giving anything away because it hasnt come out yet, but I already own it and it is worth buying!
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In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class system is always outrageously on the mark as Fussell shows us how our status is revealed by everything we do, say, and own. He describes the houses, objects, artifacts, speech, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from the top to the bottom and everybody -- you'll surely recognize yourself -- in between. Class is guaranteed to amuse and infuriate, whether your class is so high it's out of sight (literally) or you are, alas, a sinking victim of prole drift.
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Good stuff!.......2007-09-28
This book is compact and contains very insightful information and observations on what differentiates the upper class from the middle and working classes. The signalling such as golf vs football, type of magazines read, driveways, how they pronounce words, wearing clothing with brand symbols vs wearing subtle clothing. Accurate, funny and very easy to read.
Changes the way you see other people........2007-08-27
A very interesting book that I have read 3 times in the last 5 years.
If you are middle class, this book will make you squirm. The upper and lower classes have an easier time. You will realize some people you know are extremely middle class, and live sad lives trying to quell their constant "status panic". I think this book is very good to read, helps you put things in perspective. It is not about putting one class down or praising another, it is just saying how they are, and having a little laugh at it all.
Just be careful about discussing it with middle class people. Even acknowledging that classes exist in this country can rile them up. Who in their right mind would honestly argue the fact that we have different classes in America? We sense it by instinct, every day. But it is a subject that the middle class does not like to discuss.
A must read. It is like reading the forbidden book in the novel "1984" by George Orwell.
great book.......2007-08-26
Very good read, author is funny, witty and intelligent. I was glued to it till I read it. It is still relevant even though it was written in 1992. Class society is our reality, and it is so truth for other countries besides the USA, even for communist countries too. I am highly recommending it to my friends that are brave enough to face this subject.
A Middlebrow Romp.......2007-07-31
"Class" is Paul Fussell's nearly twenty five year old take on the American class system. At its best, "Class" is filled with funny observations about the many markers and pitfalls of class. At its worst, the book is a pedantic and dated excercise. As expected, if you come from a high status background, this book will make you feel good about your place in the pecking order. If you come from a low status background, the book will make you feel insecure. Nothing surprising here. If you are looking for a serious study of the American class system, look somewhere else. However, if you are looking for a good, mean spirited laugh at the less fortunate, this book is for you.
Funny and enlightening!.......2007-06-16
Very acute yet humorous look into the American Social Class System. Anyone who's lived in the US (whether American or not) will definitely recognize friends and family in the various fortunate (and unfortunate) categories propossed by Fussel.
I read this book as an introduction to another book "Bobos in Paradise" which, being an amusing description of the value system and ethos of the new American middle-upper class, lacks the soberness-and wholistic view- of this shorter book.
What's really interesting about the American Social Class System is that most people in the US seem not to be aware that their's is a very complex one! I even have a very good American friend who lives in China who once told me "we have no such thing as an "Aristocracy" in the US" to which I responded "Maybe it's just that you don't call it that". And this is what this book helps you understand.Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
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Early on a windy morning in April 1953, the body of a young woman washed up on a beach outside of Rome. Her name was Wilma Montesi, and, as the papers reported, she had left her home in the city center a day earlier, alone. The police called her death an accidental drowning. But the public was not convinced. In the cafés around the Via Veneto, people began to speak-of the son of a powerful politician, lavish parties, movie stars, orgies, drugs.
How this news item of everyday life exploded into one of the greatest scandals of a modern democracy is the story Karen Pinkus tells in The Montesi Scandal. Wilma's death brought to the surface every simmering element of Italian culture: bitter aspiring actresses, corrupt politicians, nervous Jesuits in sunglasses, jaded princes. Italians of all types lined up to testify-in court or to journalists of varying legitimacy-about the death of the middle-class carpenter's daughter, in the process creating a media frenzy and the modern culture of celebrity. Witnesses sold their stories to the tabloids, only to retract them. They posed for pictures, pretending to shun the spotlight. And they in turn became celebrities in their own right.
Pinkus takes us through the alleys and entryways of Rome in the 1950s, linking Wilma's death to the beginnings of the dolce vita, now synonymous with modern Roman life. Pinkus follows the first paparazzi on their scooters as they shoot the protagonists and gives us an insider's view of the stories and trials that came to surround this lonely figure that washed up on the shores of Ostia. Full of the magnificent paparazzi photos of the protagonists in the drama and film stills from the era's landmark movies, The Montesi Scandal joins true crime with "high" culture in an original form, one true to both the period and the cinematic conception of life it created. More than a meditation of the intricate ties among movies, paparazzo photography, and Italian culture, The Montesi Scandal narrates Wilma's story and its characters as the notes for an unrealized film, but one that, as the reader discovers, seems impossible to produce.
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Delicious original.......2003-07-07
With this publication of "The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Papparazzi in Fellini's Rome"
(What a title! What a conception!), Karen Pinkus has created a remarkable original----a new genre combining the best elements of the traditional screenplay/mystery/political analysis/ and cultural anthropology treatise. I saved this book for my vacation and it proved to be the savory read I'd hoped for. Like Wilma's family, I found it difficult to move beyond the footbath theory.
A clever take on crime and celebrity.......2003-06-04
I found this book fascinating and recommend it highly to anyone interested in Fellini's "Roma" of the 1950s, in the cocktail generation, or in how a minor news item gets taken up by the popular press and expanded into an enormous scandal. It's a book about what's true about so-called "true crime." Pinkus writes well, and uses the format of a film treatment (not a screenplay) to tell the story of a Rome fascinated with film, celebrities, and stardom--whose Post-war denizens think of their own lives in terms of the movies they go to see. There are some great photographs in this book, and it is in part about the birth of the paparazzi, which occurred in relation to this murder case. Features a great cast of characters. Apparently dozens of filmmakers have, over the years, tried to figure out how to make a movie about this mystery. Maybe now Pinkus has provided just the right "map" for telling this great, complex story via celluloid.
"La Dolce Vita" comes to life........2003-06-02
Life is messy. Death is messier, particularly when it involves powerful politicians, sex, drugs and, in this case, a victim who is either a) a total innocent; or b) a drug-ridden sex toy. Pinkus has taken an Italian scandal from the 1950s and re-created it as a brand-new screenplay, drawing liberally on the approach taken by the great Italian filmmakers of the time, who themselves raided the story for their own movies.
A fascinating and original treatment of the quintessential tabloid scandal story.
an oddity.......2003-05-24
Readers, like myself, expecting a book along the lines of "White Mischief" will be disappointed by "The Montessi Scandal." It is neither a true crime book, nor an academic study putting the scandal in the context of 1950s Italy.
Rather, it is a hybrid--of history, linguistics, film theory, Marxism, Feminism, psychology--that anybody who has ever sat through a semiotics class will recognize. Karen Pinkus describes her book as a "screenplay" (it isn't) "concerning primarily the intersections of cinema, paparazzo photography, tabloids, feminity, and politics."
Professor Pinkus is clearly very knowledgeable about Italian history and language: the book contains a solid description of the facts and characters of the case and any consideration of the Montesi scandal would be deficient without the secondary issues Professor Pinkus raises. But the book is an oddity outside the university.
A well-researched history of the Montesi scandal is long-overdue.
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Title: Karen Pinkus. The Montesi Scandal: The Death of Wilma Montesi and the Birth of the Paparazzi in Fellini's Rome.(Book Review)
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Jump Around Rag
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This engaging piano solo in ragtime style features cross-hand passages and a carefree melody full of catchy syncopation. Students will enjoy the lively tempo, elegant phrasing, and easy to read leveling. Hal Leonard Student Piano Library Level 4 (Early Intermediate); 4/4; moderately fast tempo; cross-hand passages; syncopation; some double notes in R.H. melody; ABA form; C Major.
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Wildcraft, written and designed by Mike Mearls, the author of FFG's Dungeoncraft and Cityworks sourcebooks, gives players and DMs all the information they need to run exciting d20 System adventures in wilderness environments. From rugged mountains to vast forests, from burning deserts to the frozen wastes of the north, Wildcraft tells you how to create and survive wilderness adventures and campaigns
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In today's fast-changing work world, employees constantly need to learn new skills. At the same time, training budgets are shrinking. Who's left to do the training? Whether it's a quick software demonstration or a two-day seminar, it's often managers, supervisors, and team leaders who must provide this "training-to-go."
This concise guide focuses solely on the critical elements of training, so readers can become "overnight" trainers. Filled with many real-world examples, the book presents dozens of field-tested tools for immediate use, including:
** 8 key steps to effective training
** 16 learning principles
** how to select media and delivery methods
** formats for training materials
** how to develop experiential exercises
** a training program checklist
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** 13 facts about how to ask questions
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** how learners can keep learning after the training
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Excellent Guide!.......2006-06-15
I'm an independent trainer and often look for resources that can keep me on top of my game. I have a library of training books -- some very comprehensive; some with only a few chapters of information that I can use. This book concisely covers mostly everything that I need to know as an experienced trainer. It's also a useful guide for new trainers or those who facilitate learning. Every bit of it was useful. If you need a good book to add to your own reference library, I would highly recommend it.
Not bad for novices.......2002-02-10
A good resource that covers everything from Facilitation to Techniques passing through evaluation and personal development. If you are a beginner or you are asked frequently to help other beginner-level trainers, then you would probably benefit from this book.
The Book is written in an easy and simple style that takes the reader through the different aspects of training logically and smoothly.
Solid, If Dry, Guide for the First Time Trainer.......2000-10-29
This is a reasonable summary of current techniques and strategies for training. The writing is a bit dry, and I got the feeling that this book was oriented towards human resources professionals. There is nothing wrong with that, but my preference is for a less academic style of writing. Still, it's not a bad choice, just not one of my favorites.
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