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Book Paul Sharpe  Skatebook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Ballard
  • Publisher : Skatebook TV
  • Release : 2008-08
  • ISBN : 9780982111611
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Paul Sharpe Skatebook written by Mike Ballard and published by Skatebook TV. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Skatebook2 The Paul Sharpe volume is a hard cover coffee table book featuring iconic skateboarding images from the past and present. The book is broken up into 13 separate chapters. 1. Stevie Williams (from the ghetto to top professional) 2. A a camera from Marc photographer Jai Tanju (features images from Jai Tanju's book. The pictures were taken with a camera given to Jai, by 2007 Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year Marc Johnson) 3. Simon Woodstock (Focuses on the skater single handedly responsible for the dawn of the jackass era) 4. Supply and demand The art of Shepard Fairey (Journey through highlighted pages of Supply and Demand that tie Shepard back to skateboarding culture and art.) 5. Wassup rockers (features the skaters featured in Larry Clark's film WASSUP ROCKERS. An inspirational piece about kids who shunned gang banging to ride skateboards instead.) 6. Lennie Kirk (A true enigma and charismatic icon in skateboarding this chapter focuses on ground breaking and never seen before images of Lennie Kirk) 7. Steve Caballero (undoubtedly one of skateboarding's royalty this chapter juxtaposes images from a career that spans over 3 decades) 8. James Kelch ( a sometimes overlooked and over shadowed icon James Kelch ruled the tough street of San Francisco during the early 90's and was the official mayor of Justin Herman Plaza otherwise known as EMB. A trip down memory lane) 9. Ben Schroeder (known for annihilating any terrain, this chapter features one of skateboarding biggest skaters literally. Ben is 6'8 and a force to be reckoned with 10. Jim Greco Death wish (chronicles the life and times of a contemporary Jim Greco. This chapter features the icon of flair and hyjink) 11. Polyurethane Monthly (this chapter features notorious editor at large Tom Schmidt zine that he started back in Nebraska before his rise at Big Brother magazine) 12. Jon Humphries (Burnside in Portland, Oregon is a true testament of the DIY attitude that permeates throughout skateboarding. Jon Humphries show us some fine examples of candid happenings around the park. 13. John Cardiel (one of the greatest of all times John Cardiel is the true embodiment of the rawness of skateboarding and of being able to adapt and destroy any terrain in his path. Also a Thrasher Magazine Skater of the Year this chapter salutes one of the most raw and purest skaters of all time.

Book Sight and Sound

Download or read book Sight and Sound written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Skatebook5

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Ballard
  • Publisher : Skatebook TV
  • Release : 2009-08
  • ISBN : 9780982111642
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Skatebook5 written by Mike Ballard and published by Skatebook TV. This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special edition of skatebook take's an indepth look at making it in the game as a skateboarder. Every interview (over 40) ask the questions that any skateboarder that is hellbent on making in the game needs to know. How to get sponsored, how to stay sponsored and what team managers are looking for as well as featuring the most prominent skaters of 2009. While the skatebook series presents a overview of the most epic and iconic people brands and events in skateboarding both past and present Book5 the Hellmag takeover cover skaters of the present that are sure to become the stars of tomorrow. The skatebook staff went on a painful journey to discover skaters that have not been recognized thus far and are utterly amazing. A must have and a collectors book. Interviews from unknowns To The most powerful people in skateboarding about one topic. Featuring Slash, Jonathan Pierce, Robbie Russo, Jordan Hoffart, Peter Raffin, Boo and Isaiah Johnson, Collin Provost, Jon Dixon, Ryan Decenzo, Jose Rojo, Jaws, Jamie Thomas, David Loy, Colin McKay, Paul Sharpe, Don Nguyen, Kris Markovich, Churro, Daniel Castillo, Steve Berra, Steve Caballero, Benny Fairfax, Danny Way, Felix, Uno, D Streets, Andrew Pott, Jereme Rogers, Aquil Brathwaite, Manny Santiago, Kertis Calamonico, and Luis Tolentino

Book A Day with Picasso

    Book Details:
  • Author : Billy Kluver
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 1999-02-18
  • ISBN : 9780262611473
  • Pages : 120 pages

Download or read book A Day with Picasso written by Billy Kluver and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1999-02-18 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, while collecting documentary photographs of the artists' community in Montparnasse from the first decades of the century, Billy Klüver discovered that some previously unassociated photographs fell into significant groupings. One group in particular, showing Picasso, Max Jacob, Moïse Kisling, Modigliani, and others at the Café de la Rotonde and on Boulevard du Montparnasse, all seemed to have been taken on the same day. The people were wearing the same clothes in each shot and had the same accessories. Their ties were knotted the same way and their collars had the same wrinkles. A total of twenty-four photographs—four rolls of film with six photographs each—were eventually found. With the challenge of identifying the date, photographer, and circumstances, Klüver embarked on an inquiry that would illuminate the minute texture of that time and place. Biographical research into the subjects' lives led Klüver to focus on the summer of 1916 as the likely time the photos were taken. He then measured buildings and plotted angles and lengths of shadows in the photographs to narrow the time frame to a spread of three weeks. Further investigation eventually allowed Klüver to identify the photographer as Jean Cocteau and to determine the day that Cocteau had taken the photographs: August 12, 1916. A computer printout of the sun's positions on that date, obtained from the Bureau des Longitudes, together with the length of the shadows, enabled Klver to calculate the time of day of each photograph, and thus to put them in proper sequence. In a tour de force of art historical research, Klüver then reconstructed a scenario of the events of the four hours depicted in the photographs. With evocative attention to detail—noting when Picasso is no longer carrying an envelope or Max Jacob has acquired a decoration in his lapel—Klüver recreates a single afternoon in the lives of Picasso and friends, a group of remarkable people in early twentieth-century Paris. Besides the central "portfolio" of photographs by Cocteau, the book contains additional photographs and drawings, short biographies of all the subjects, and a historical section on the events and activities in the Paris art world at the time.

Book Cord Cutting For Dummies

Download or read book Cord Cutting For Dummies written by Paul McFedries and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2021-06-02 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cut the cable television cord and cut your monthly bills Are you one of those people who have 500 television channels to choose from and you can never find anything to watch? Maybe it’s time to cut the cable cord and take full control of what’s on your television. All you need to get started with this popular money saving strategy is an Internet connection, a device to stream to, and the advice in this book. With Cord Cutting For Dummies, you go from evaluating if cord cutting is the right choice for your budget to acquiring the technology to get the programming you actually want. You’ll discover the technology you need for streaming, select the service or services that fit your needs, and make the components of your setup work together—all within your budget. Cord Cutting For Dummies offers the steps to going from wired to wireless, including: Deciding if you need to upgrade your Wi-Fi equipment and service. Evaluating your current devices. Adding a smart TV to the mix. Choosing the best streaming services for you—including some free options When you’re ready to untether yourself from the cable or satellite, Cord Cutting For Dummies shows you, step by step, how to break free. Pick up a copy and you’ll be watching your favorite movie or TV show in no time!

Book Joy Has a Sound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Anastacia-Reneé Tolbert
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2021-11-16
  • ISBN : 9781737925804
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Joy Has a Sound written by Anastacia-Reneé Tolbert and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology is a poly-vocal, visually stunning answer to the question, What are the sounds of community and how they are handed down? A home for Black art and culture in Seattle's Central District, with this anthology Wa Na Wari makes a home for the essays, poetry, scores, scripts and silences of the Black poets, musicians, artists and scholars assembled by editors Rachel Kessler and Elisheba Johnson to wonder about the time-traveling, place-making power of sound. Contributors: Anastacia-Reneé, Kamari Bright, Thione Diop, Mary Edwards, Rachael F., Aricka Foreman, Rell Be Free, Amir George, Chantal Gibson, Walis Johnson, JusMoni, Anaïs Maviel, Larry Mizell Jr., Okanomodé, Christina Sharpe

Book Born to Run

    Book Details:
  • Author : Christopher McDougall
  • Publisher : Profile Books
  • Release : 2010-12-09
  • ISBN : 184765228X
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book Born to Run written by Christopher McDougall and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2010-12-09 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller 'A sensation ... a rollicking tale well told' - The Times At the heart of Born to Run lies a mysterious tribe of Mexican Indians, the Tarahumara, who live quietly in canyons and are reputed to be the best distance runners in the world; in 1993, one of them, aged 57, came first in a prestigious 100-mile race wearing a toga and sandals. A small group of the world's top ultra-runners (and the awe-inspiring author) make the treacherous journey into the canyons to try to learn the tribe's secrets and then take them on over a course 50 miles long. With incredible energy and smart observation, McDougall tells this story while asking what the secrets are to being an incredible runner. Travelling to labs at Harvard, Nike, and elsewhere, he comes across an incredible cast of characters, including the woman who recently broke the world record for 100 miles and for her encore ran a 2:50 marathon in a bikini, pausing to down a beer at the 20 mile mark.

Book The Georgian London Town House

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kate Retford
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2019-03-07
  • ISBN : 1501337319
  • Pages : 365 pages

Download or read book The Georgian London Town House written by Kate Retford and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-03-07 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For every great country house of the Georgian period, there was usually also a town house. Chatsworth, for example, the home of the Devonshires, has officially been recognised as one of the country's favourite national treasures - but most of its visitors know little of Devonshire House, which the family once owned in the capital. In part, this is because town houses were often leased, rather than being passed down through generations as country estates were. But, most crucially, many London town houses, including Devonshire House, no longer exist, having been demolished in the early twentieth century. This book seeks to place centre-stage the hugely important yet hitherto overlooked town houses of the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, exploring the prime position they once occupied in the lives of families and the nation as a whole. It explores the owners, how they furnished and used these properties, and how their houses were judged by the various types of visitor who gained access.

Book Elizabeth Gaskell

Download or read book Elizabeth Gaskell written by John Chapple and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-15 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This absorbing study of Elizabeth Gaskell's early life up to her marriage in 1832 is based almost entirely on new evidence. Also, using parish records, marriage settlements, property transfers, wills, record office documents, letters, journals and private papers, John Chapple has recreated the background of one of the nineteenth century's greatest novelists.

Book The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England

Download or read book The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England written by Michael Gaudio and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length study of the fifteen surviving Little Gidding bible concordances, this book examines the visual culture of print in seventeenth-century England through the lens of one extraordinary family and their hand-made biblical manuscripts. The volumes were created by the women of the Ferrar-Collet family of Little Gidding, who selected works from the family's collection of Catholic religious prints, and then cut and pasted prints and print fragments, along with verses excised from the bible, and composed them in artful arrangements on the page in the manner of collage. Gaudio shows that by cutting, recombining, and pasting multi-scaled print fragments, the Ferrar-Collet family put into practice a remarkably flexible pictorial language. The Little Gidding concordances provide an occasion to explore how the manipulation of print could be a means of thinking through some of the most pressing religious and political questions of the pre-civil war period: the coherence of printed scripture, the nature of sovereignty, the relevance of the Mosaic law, and the protestant reform of images. By foregrounding the Ferrar-Collets' engagement with the print fragment, this book extends the scope of early modern print history beyond the printmaker's studio and expands our understanding of the ways an early modern Protestant community could productively engage with the religious image. Contrary to the long-held view that the English Reformation led to a decline in the importance of the religious image, this study demonstrates the ongoing vitality of religious prints in early modern England as instruments for thinking.

Book Catalogues of Sales

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sotheby's (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1989
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1010 pages

Download or read book Catalogues of Sales written by Sotheby's (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1010 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Copyright Entries  Third Series

Download or read book Catalog of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones

Download or read book The Stage Designs of Inigo Jones written by John Peacock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-length study of Inigo Jones as a stage-designer.

Book Continental Crosscurrents

Download or read book Continental Crosscurrents written by J. B. Bullen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2005-08-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continental Crosscurrents is a series of case studies reflecting British attitudes to continental art during the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries. It stresses the way in which the British went to the continent in their search for origins or their pursuit of sources of purity and originality. This cult of the primitive took many forms; it involved a reassessment of medieval German and Italian art and offered new ways of interpreting Venetian painting; it opened up new readings of architectural history and the 'discovery' of the Romanesque; it generated a debate about the value of returning to religious subjects in art and it raised the question of the relationship between modern art and Byzantine art in the early twentieth century. J. B. Bullen's original study presents some exciting findings. Few critics have noticed how much in advance of his time was Coleridge's passion for medieval art; Ruskin's debt in the Stones of Venice to Victor Hugo's Notre Dame de Paris has hardly been noted, and Browning's involvement with the debate on the morality of Christian art is explored more extensively than previously. Three chapters are devoted to the role of British criticism in identifying the Romanesque style in architecture and differentiating it from the Gothic. They trace the concept as it arose in criticism at the beginning of the nineteenth century; its employment in the remarkable buildings of Edmund Sharpe and Sara Losh and the way in which it reached a climax in Waterhouse's enigmatic choice of Romanesque for the Natural History Museum in London. The collection concludes with two continental episodes from the history of modernism. One is the explosive British reaction to the primitivism of Gauguin; the other involves the identifying of one of the characters in D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love. Curious evidence suggests that the malevolent figure of Loerke was based on a German sculptor whom Lawrence met in Italy before the First World War.

Book You Were Wrong

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew Sharpe
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-08-31
  • ISBN : 1608191877
  • Pages : 190 pages

Download or read book You Were Wrong written by Matthew Sharpe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A melancholy high school math teacher falls in love with the beautiful stranger who robbed his house and is drawn into her mysterious world and vows to protect her, although he is unsure exactly from whom, or from what. Original.

Book Transcultural Japan

Download or read book Transcultural Japan written by David Blake Willis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transcultural Japan provides a critical examination of being Other in Japan. Portraying the multiple intersections of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, the book suggests ways in which the transcultural borderlands of Japan reflect globalization in this island nation. The authors show the diversity of Japan from the inside, revealing an extraordinarily complex new society in sharp contrast to the persistent stereotypical images held of a regimented, homogeneous Japan. Unsettling as it may be, there are powerful arguments here for looking at the meanings of globalization in Japan through these diverse communities and individuals. These are not harmonious, utopian communities by any means, as they are formed in contexts, both global and local, of unequal power relations. Yet it is also clear that the multiple processes associated with globalization lead to larger hybridizations, a global mélange of socio-cultural, political, and economic forces and the emergence of what could be called trans-local Creolized cultures. Transcultural Japan reports regional, national, and cosmopolitan movements. Characterized by global flows, hybridity, and networks, this book documents Japan’s new lived experiences and rapid metamorphosis. Accessible and engaging, this broad-based volume is an attractive and useful resource for students of Japanese culture and society, as well as being a timely and revealing contribution to research scholars and for those interested in race, ethnicity, cultural identities and transformations.