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PERFECTION

one of the best photography books i've ever bought!

a journey about time and space

A Filmmaker's Travelogue

This book will make you smile

Wim Wenders: Once
Wim Wenders
Manufacturer: D.A.P./Schirmer/Mosel
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1891024256
Release Date: 2001-06-02

Book Description

Wim Wenders ranks among the greatest artistic minds of contemporary film: over the past thirty years his films have displayed such wisdom, creativity, and sensitivity that they have transcended boundaries of language and nationality. Wenders brings to this collection of photographic essays the same literary and cinematic talents, the same command of the art of storytelling that we find in his films. In the tradition of Paris, Texas and Faraway, So Close, the texts and pictures in Once weave ambiguous and moving narratives in fits of rhythmic prose and inventive imagery. Prefaced by Wenders' poetic meditations on the metaphysics of photography and film, Once consists of short, autobiographical sketches relating Wenders' experiencesUboth meaningful and apparently trivialUon his trips across the world scouting locations for his films, as well as photographs taken during these excursions. The resulting book is at once travel diary, photo album, and a series of short films or short storiesUrevealing the views and sentiments of an auteur inspired by the poetry of the eye and the melody of speech. Fascinating and revelatory, Once gives us a unique look at the universe Wenders has created out of the hidden pieces of everyday life.

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PERFECTION.......2005-08-18

Pure poetry! Wim Wenders is so creative it's shocking! The pictures are incredible and the text manages to be even better, sometimes! The best purchase in a long time!

one of the best photography books i've ever bought!.......2002-08-22

this book is great. Wim Wender's opening prose about the art of photography is worth the price alone. delve into the book further, and you are gifted with some really great travel documentary photographs with short prose describing the images. i like this, as a photographer, i am often very interested to hear the story behind the photographs. the art of the slide show presentation is a lost art in america yet this book somehow evokes that type of discovery and storytelling.

featuring both color and black and white photographs, and many of them done as a series, the book's paper texture and image reproduction is top notch.

the physical size of the book is perfect-it's easy to pick up and read or carry with you, and the images are easy to view.

in many ways, this book seems very cinematic. being a film director, Wender's sees each still image as the first frame of a movie and it shows.

a journey about time and space.......2002-01-02

i enjoyed this book a lot. the texts (more like poems)gracefully compliment the images. wim wenders is not only a master in telling stories but also a great photographer . the prelude about the act of taking pictures is very insightful too.

this is a wonderful and profoundly moving little book which will get you interested in starting your own road trip and photo journal!

A Filmmaker's Travelogue.......2001-12-29

This volume will be a delight to cineastes as it features run-ins with mythmakers like Kurosawa, Scorsese, and Coppola. The pictures inside capture scenes of casual beauty. It seems Wenders has been all over the world and never forgets his camera. Wenders' spare prose requires no concentration and is as easy to read as his photos are easy to look at. Fans of Cartier-Bresson and other photophiles who savor "the moment" a photograph is taken will find many examples of just that: an unusual or special moment embalmed by Wenders' lens and preserved forever in this book. Charming.

This book will make you smile.......2001-11-12

I purchased this book recently, and it made me smile reading through it. The snippets of prose coupled with Wim's photos are a great combination. Genius.

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Hi. I'm Libby Gelman-Waxner, and I'm an assistant buyer in juniors' activewear. While I find my work both rewarding and creative, especially with the new knits coming in, I want more. And so I decided to become a film critic....

Move over, Siskel & Ebert. Watch out, Leonard Maltin. And just forget saving that aisle seat, Mr. Medved. Libby Gelman-Waxner has arrived -- in the critic's circle, that is -- and the silver screen may never be the same again. Witty, wicked, and scathingly honest -- If You Ask Me is a hilarious collection of her columns from Premiere magazine. Just listen to Libby on some recent films and film stars:

Prince of Tides -- "Barbra's only spontaneous moment in Prince of Tides comes when Nick tosses her a football and she screams 'My nails!'"

Diane Keaton -- "She's a pioneer; she takes that thing that hangs in the back of your closet, the thing that was too marked down to pass up, Diane takes that thing and she doesn't call Goodwill, she wraps it around her head a few times, pins on a Smurf brooch, and wins an Oscar...."

The Last of the Mohicans -- "Daniel Day-Lewis makes American actors look like giggly junior high school boys playing Nintendo during the prom; at one point, Madeleine asks Daniel what he is looking at, and he says, I'm looking at you, Miss, and let me tell you, the usher had to conk me with his flashlight to make me stop whimpering...."

Daryl Hannah -- "All men in America, my Josh included, they all want a date with Daryl Hannah. A girl like Daryl -- we're not talking about a Ph.D. in comparative literature; I think we're talking about hair in the eyes and not much in the way of lingerie...."

Customer Reviews:

Time for an UPDATE........2007-06-14

With the demise of Premiere magazine, the time has come to update this hysterical tome and bring every last one of Libby's incisive, razor-sharp observations together into one volume. Surely her devoted fanbase deserves that much...

Hysterical, brilliant, and incisive.......2005-07-26

You'll come for the hysterical observations, but you'll stay for the depth of thought. In reviewing Field of Dreams, for example, in between tart and hysterical observations about Kevin Costner's ambit, we get the incredible telling and onpoint observation that James Earl Jones' character seems oblivious to the fact that baseball was segregated in 1919. Whoa, Libby, you snuck that one in on us. Libby's humor is premised in her unabashed shallowness in movie tastes--she doesn't want to see Calcutta, she wants to see a cut up Patrick Swayze (one of the studs of her era)--and in her understanding of the Hollywood culture that movies reflect. In noting that the jobs women have in movies shift from art gallery director to caterers, she observes that these are great things for Hollywood wives of movie executives to do for "fulfillment" for a month or two, but not the way that the average woman in the real world will be pulling in the bread. Well, she makes that observation in a less heavy handed and much more hilarious way. Libby, forgive me, I lack your craft.

The most important thing about this book is that it is always fun and never self-important. Paul Rudnick, the man behind Libby, had fun with it, and so will you. In Libby fashion, I should note that my adorable mother, Mary Christine Motes, recommended this book to me. Thanks, Mum.

if you ask me - Libby's a goddess.......2004-03-14

If you ask me, Libby is the best thing - and sadly often the only thing - worth reading in Premiere. This book is a collection of some of her earlier columns.

I remember picking it up in a bookstore, and reading the part about "Rain Man" and laughing so much I was helplessly bent over and terrified that I would be thrown out or carted away by men in white coats. Luckily, I wasn't.

Hollywood badly needs someone to prick its enormous bubble of egotism, and Libby is always up to the job. Many movie stars are in desperate need of a reality check, a reminder that their hangnails aren't on the same level as say, world peace.

In addition to Libby, we meet her adorable children, Mitchell-Shawn and Jennifer, her friend the terminally single Stacy Schiff, her husband Josh (like Bill Clinton he can balance a budget, then jog over to pick up a bag of donuts), her mother, and her shrink - all of whom contribute columns.

Equally funny if not funnier than Dave Barry at his best, this book is a worthy addition to anyone with a slightly warped sense of humor's shelf.

I'm an assistant buyer in Junior's Activewear..........2002-07-15

I'm not ashamed to say that the number one attraction for me of buying the film magazine 'Premiere' is the Libby Gelman-Waxner film review column "If You Ask Me". By "film review" I should add that her camp and funny articles are really more like little tales of her life and thoughts dressed up as a film review.

They are laugh-out-loud funny and even though Libby is a ficticious creation, frankly I'm in for the ride through her world of therapy, her orthodonist husband and her "tragically single" best friend as well as everyone else that populates the Libby-verse.

If you like your film with a good sense of humour and appreciate excellent comedy writing this is the book for you. If you ask me.

Libby! Libby!! LIBBY!!! You are my spiritual fiancée!.......2001-01-12

At last, a film critic whose take on movies matches that of a real audience. No pseudo-intellectual nonsense, just appreciation of the important things in cinema: popcorn, scantily-clad men and Michelle Pfeiffer's performance in "The Fabulous Baker Boys", to name but a mere three. Libby is a true auteur and the supreme goddess of cutting-straight-to-the-chase. This makes going to the movies oh so easy: you just know that if Libby likes it, you'll love it. Every single review is smack on the money. As an added bonus, you can keep tabs on Libby's fascinating life - because she magically manages to link movie storylines to (her) real life. Can you imagine any other critic doing that? Thought not.... But even goddesses need a break now and then, so Libby's own literary masterpiece is sprinkled with contributions from her mother, her daughter, her husband and her therapist. True, the films reviewed in this book are a bit on the old side now but, hey, now you have an indispensible guide regarding what videos/DVDs to rent! Libby's book is a complete and utter riot - never mind that this is a collection of film reviews, the fantastic quality of the writing and the amazing wit will have you in stitches from the first page to the last! This is probably the most-read book in my collection. I live in hope of two things. One, that Libby will come to her senses, dump Josh and marry me - forget Denis Quaid, Libby, I'm the one you really want (and anyway my mother would be SO pleased). Two, that the next volume of her insightful, razor-sharp analyses of modern cinema will hit the shelves very soon. Libby Gelman-Waxner deserves a Pulitzer, if you ask me.

Book Description

"The book is extremely original and demonstrates the author's deep understanding of many of the theoretical issues related to production design. Tashiro asks all of the hard questions and is not timid about supplying answers. Those answers will certainly stimulate discussion.... To my knowledge, no one covers the subject the way Tashiro does."

—Charles Affron, author of Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film Narrative

Theories of film have traditionally dealt with either narrative or industrial issues, with the consequence that the physical content of the graphic frame has often been ignored or relegated to the sidelines. By contrast, C. S. Tashiro foregrounds the visual aspect of cinema in this book, drawing on his experiences as a designer and filmmaker, as well as on contemporary theory, to show how production design can support or contradict narrative structure, or exist in an entirely parallel realm of meaning.

Tashiro looks at cinematic production design from a broadly interdisciplinary perspective, encompassing art and architecture theory, audience reception, narrative theory, and phenomenology, to arrive at a more encompassing definition of the process. He builds his argument around studies of several prominent history films, since design is central to historical representation, and explores the most pertinent issues raised by the topic, particularly commodity consumption. In his conclusion, he also offers possible solutions to some of the social problems raised by design.

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Le premier livre (Antwerp, c 1556), and Jardin musiqual, contenant plusieurs belles fleurs de chansons a trois parties, Le premier libvre (Antwerp [c. 1555]

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Who is Heraclitus, and what is he whacking, you ask? Heraclitus was an ancient Greek philosopher, widely considered the world's first creativity teacher. The deck has 32 cards, each containing a "whack," or eye-opening exercise based on the epigrams of Heraclitus. They will spur creative thinking and allow you to look at a problem from a fresh perspective. Created by Roger von Oech, author of the best-selling book, A Whack on the Side of the Head and the Creative Whack Pack.

Customer Reviews:

A New Perspective.......2007-09-23

A delightful book that is easy to read. If you are stuck in your current way of thinking or perhaps don't even know you are stuck this book provides practical tools for opening up your mind to new ways of thinking. This book is loaded with 10 key concepts about how we get stuck in our current ways of thinking. With each concept are 2-3 practical solutions to getting unstuck. This allows the reader to explore the infinite potential that exists in the world of imagination, innovation, and creativity. What a treat.

A Nice Complement to Other Creativity Books.......2007-08-10

A Whack on the Side of the Head does just that. If you need something of a jolt to get the creative juices flowing again, this is the perfect book to get you going. It's not going to give you detailed explanations of every brainstorming technique that's ever been devised by humans, but it will give you a lot to think about -- and that's half the battle. Kudos to Mr. Oech for putting out a fun, stimulating book.

Inspiring.......2007-08-06

It's an excellent way to improve your creative thinking capability. Packed with exciting concepts. If you are looking for brainstorming techniques to improve your corporate thinking, Eightstorm: 8-Step Brainstorming, will also be useful.

A Classic........2007-06-30

A great book on creative problem solving. I use it, and refer to it in my classes. If you want one, basic book on creativity or on problem solving, this would be a good choice.

Kickstart your creativity with A Whack on the Side of your Head.......2007-05-14

As I have become more active in online communities, I have admired how big ideas and cutting edge breakthroughs have taken shape. Soon, I craved what is rapidly becoming the official drug of the 21st Century: creativity.

After reading how highly it was recommended by fellow readers, the book I chose to purchase was Roger von Oech's "A Whack on the Side of the Head". In one word: excellent. In more then one word: down to earth, practical, encouraging, inspirational, and a gem.

The author does not bore his audience with psychological theory or rambles. He is to the point. Each chapter deals with a common "mental lock," a dud mental condition brought on by believing such things as: there is only one Right Answer (chpt. 1), Play is Frivolous (chpt. 5), or To Err is Wrong (chpt. 9). You'll find each chapter is packed with mind teasers, quotes, personal applications, and age old/modern examples.

Personally, it was a breath of fresh air that encouraged me to stop worrying what other people will think of an idea and instead start focusing on how to develop it. Along with thinking more clearly, I fell in love with creativity thanks to a Whack on the Side of the Head.

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One of the nations' foremost financial consultants shares 78 proven ways to cut costs dramatically, send productivity through the roof, and, in just six months, double profits.

Customer Reviews:

Profits over people.......2002-12-30

Mr. Fifer does what he says he will do, as noted in some of the other reviews on this site. Basically, he shows us what is wrong with the profit-making system: people get brushed aside. The fact that communism is dead does not mean that capitalism is yet the best system. If we actually follow what Mr. Fifer proposes, we probably will increase profits, but at what cost? Are we only robots to be programmed for the good of the capitalistic ethos, for the good of the corporation? Yes, Mr. Fifer does confess that he reserves his special time for his family by not traveling on weekends. He also decries workaholism. He is capable of drawing the line, but is everyone else in his special position? I doubt it. Many people are going to swallow his philosophy and ruin themselves, "for the good of society," or "for the bottom line." But let's assume that Mr. Fifer's basic philosophy is correct, that is, that maximizing profit is the best goal because it is in accord with the evolution of the human species, etc. In that case, we are really subservient to the economic system, and nothing more than that. If that's the case, then we embark (again?) into a "Big Brother" type of world where "fear and loathing" are the watchwords, because we really don't count for anything more than what we can contribute to the precious bottom line. Gone is any Higher Power, the Bottom Line is the Higher Power. If this is the case, and who's to say it's not (maybe those who believe in a Higher Power other than the Bottom Line?), then all I can say is some of us really are deluded. And maybe that's Mr. Fifer's point after all: sweep out all of this delusion and these deluded people and concentrate on the Bottom Line (but save your weekends for your family, so your kids won't go on drugs, because they also have to play their role as Bottom Line Robots, when their time comes, and drug-users are distinctly disabled in the Bottom Line culture, unless of course they reserve their drinking and drug use for the weekends or after working hours). Diximus.

A must-read, for your company's and your own survival........2001-08-18

This is a real book, an important one, about real cost-cutting, in a real world. It has been used by many corporate leaders as a "bible" for increasing profits by cutting costs...all company costs that do not actually create a direct profit. That means cutting most of middle management, some senior management, and most employees who do not have direct responsibility for adding daily value to the bottom line. It preaches renegotiating or eliminating vendor contracts on a regular basis. It teaches questioning the value of any consultant or outside service. It is a roadmap for rapid, perhaps severe, cost-cutting to achieve immediate profitability.

This is not a book for the timid. It is not a feel-good book, except for those who enjoy counting their money. It will make most readers feel uncomfortable, perhaps insecure. These are among the important reasons to read the book.

This book was required reading by Sanford Weill and Bob Lipp for all the senior managers of The Travelers Insurance Companies when they engineered the takeover of the ailing company in 1993. It created shock among many of the senior management of the old, established Travelers, but the book prescribed an exact remedy for turning the corporation into a highly profitable company, now a thriving part of CITICORP...one of the great financial corporations in America.

If the reader is a CEO or senior officer, this book is a guaranteed prescription for increasing profitability. If the reader is an employee, at almost any level, this book should be required reading for one's survival. If the reader is a vendor, a consultant, or from an association that provides a service to corporate America, the book should be required reading, because it imparts the knowledge of a real business culture that drives decision-making...and possibly will drive their future relationship with the company.

The book lacks concern for human resources, for many of the people who make up a company's workforce. They can quickly become a drain on profits. Loyalty, human compassion, sense of community, and many human skills are too easily forgotten or deemed insignificant to the bottom line. This is one of the great faults of the book, of its philosophy, and of its short-term prescription for profits. It is why it only deserves four stars, instead of five. It would deserve five stars or more if the author had enough insight to find value in loyalty, human skills (other than direct sales), and the importance of communities or governments (of people) in the ability of a corporation to provide valid and profitable services. In this area, it is deficient.

The book is very simple and easily read in one sitting. It should be required reading by anyone with a serious interest in business...or anyone who has an interest in an important modern business culture, for better or worse, but certainly for profit.

Excellent No Non-sense Book.......2000-01-31

This is an outstanding book with specific suggestions for improving profitability. Even more importantly, it illustrates a mentality that focuses on the bottom line. To those who say that such measures as suggested, "can't be done" - - those who read and adapt the attitude of this book will say "I'm so glad you're my 'competition'".

Be careful what you ask for........1999-12-29

You can use this book to cut your costs and expand your profits...for a time. Then the costs will come back with a vengance. Some of these slash and burn methods are merely a mortgage on your future. You and your people will pay a big price when the loan comes due. This stuff looks great until you examine the long-term implications. Others of his suggestions make sense and are things you should do. That's the good news. The bad news is that it can be difficult to sort out the good ideas from the bad. It would be a much more useful (and safer) book if the author told you how to make safe choices.

Short, quick read, filled with hard-hitting, useful ideas.......1998-12-30

Fifer does an outstanding job of providing a brief overview of the general ideas relating to maximizing profit by reducing unnecessary overhead and increasing the income side of things. The bulk of this quick read is aimed at specific suggestions which you can put into effect immediately. I highly recommend this book to any small business owner or corporate type who is responsible for actually making the money that the employees spend.

Double Your Profits in Six Months or Less/Cassettes

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Double Your Profits in Six Months or Less/Cassettes

Manufacturer: HarperAudio
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 9994541536

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