Art and fear by david bayles7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() First published in 1994, Art & Fear quickly became an underground classic. This is a book written by artists, for artists - it's about what it feels like when artists sit down at their easel or keyboard, in their studio or performance space, trying to do the work they need to do. Their insights and observations, drawn from personal experience, provide an incisive view into the world of art as it is expeienced by artmakers themselves. The book's co-authors, David Bayles and Ted Orland, are themselves both working artists, grappling daily with the problems of making art in the real world. For all practical purposes making art can be examined in great detail without ever getting entangled in the very remote problems of genius."Īrt & Fear explores the way art gets made, the reasons it often doesn't get made, and the nature of the difficulties that cause so many artists to give up along the way. ![]() Geniuses get made once-a-century or so, yet good art gets made all the time, so to equate the making of art with the workings of genius removes this intimately human activity to a strangely unreachable and unknowable place. ![]() After all, art is rarely made by Mozart-like people essentially-statistically speaking-there aren't any people like that. Ordinary art means something like: all art not made by Mozart. ![]()
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John godey the snake7/5/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Godey spends chapter after chapter drawing city stereotypes, from cops to deadbeats to Puries (read Moonies), and all are deeply unconvincing and speak in banalities that confirm Godey's tin ear. The novel's more-or-less main character is Mark Converse, a herpetologist (and a seducer of considerable powers), who ultimately fails in his mission to recapture the snake and give it to the zoo. ![]() The mayor sends 500 police into the park to beat the snake out, but the wily reptile is snoozing in a burrow or wrapped around the high limbs of a tree. The mamba is the biggest, fastest, deadliest snake in Africa, can move al about ten miles an hour, and as the bodies start dropping East Side and West Side and all around Delacorte Theatre, panic strikes the front pages. The mamba is brought to the park by a drunken sailor on a bender who gets mugged and killed by a Hispanic who in turn is bitten by the snake. This time Godey unleashes a giant black mamba on Central Park. More nail gnawings about urban dangers from the author of The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, the novel that justified subway paranoia. ![]() The people could fly picture book7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I am not sure whether it was implied that some of them were dying as they were called up to fly, but it was definitely that intense. There are a lot of mentions of whipping slaves, and pictures of the whip, and of people who can barely stand up due to the hardships of slavery. I didn't realize it beforehand, but the content is a bit much for a 5 year old - I'm thinking maybe 8 would be the youngest I would have wanted to read it. The story manages to convey hope, resourcefulness, and pride - possibly the only things allowing enslaved people to survive - while at the same time acknowledging the unforgivable losses, and the heartbreak experienced even in the midst of victory. The beauty of this story is that flying is being used as an analogy for many things: of escape from slavery, of hope, of the lost African traditions and culture, of second chances. The references to eye-witnesses and how the story may or may not be true made it quite magical as a story/mythos. It is beautifully told and illustrated in this edition. This is an amazing tale that by some act of neglect I had never heard before. Inspiring, heartbreaking, poetic, and intense. ![]() Fear me by bb reid read online free7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() The only thing I wish the editing would have done is made the flashbacks a little easier to decipher. ![]() ![]() The perfect mix of innocent and coming of age then throw in her ability to narrate the male voice and you can easily stay inside the book and not be pulled out by the narration at all. Ava Erickson is of course a brilliant narrator for the job. The book starts out just this simple but morphs into a book about so much more depravity that you will stunned as the hours tick by. Lake is the good girl who makes the right and good decisions and Kieran is the bad boy who has come to ruin her. Fear Me is where we meet all the characters in this series but is focused on Kieran and Lake. Reid to come to Audible is very exciting. I love dark books and there aren’t nearly enough on audio, so for B.B. I’ve read this series, so the start line is no surprise to me. ![]() The Authentics by Abdi Nazemian7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I suppose I’m most superficially similar to Reza. This is a tough question because I relate to all the characters. What character do you most relate to and why? I hope the love I feel for all these people comes through in the book. And the sense of belonging the queer community gave me inspired me. All the friends and teachers who accepted me as a teen inspired me. I was inspired to write this in honor of so many artists, activists and friends who have allowed me to have the life I have now. And it’s also the story of the way I was able to overcome that fear and shame thanks to people who allowed me to see and accept myself for the first time. ![]() at the height of this country’s AIDS epidemic. It’s about the fear and shame I felt as a queer immigrant kid who moved to the U.S. ![]() Aurora: What was your inspiration behind your most recent novel?Ībdi: This is the story I’ve been wanting to tell since I started writing because it’s the most personal story I can think of, and one I don’t feel has ever been told. ![]() ![]() ![]() Add to its haunting strains Liszt’s inspiration for that music - Goethe’s groundbreaking 19th-century novel about disillusionment, “ Wilhelm Meister’s Apprenticeship” - and “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki” becomes a virtual symphony of literary and musical referents. ![]() Soon it is clear that Tsukuru’s “years of pilgrimage” are an echo of Franz Liszt’s masterwork for the piano, “Années de pèlerinage,” especially its elegiac solo “Le mal du pays” (or “homesickness”), a melody that worms its way into the heart of our hero and suffuses his story with an exquisite sadness. ![]() But as we peel the onion of this remarkable novel - as it takes us on a spellbinding descent through the rings of hell in Tsukuru Tazaki’s young life - that spectral phrase takes on new meaning. Nestled into the title of Haruki Murakami’s new novel are the words “Years of Pilgrimage.” It’s a common enough catchphrase for a coming-of-age story, and easy enough to dismiss as mere packaging. ![]() Tokio blues norwegian wood7/3/2023 ![]() ![]() Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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They were joined by the film’s director, who had previously made an exposé contending that the real perpetrators of 9/11 were space aliens.īut the event, for all its absurdities, had a dark surprise: “The Deep Rig” repeatedly quotes Doug Logan, the C.E.O. ![]() The evening’s program featured live appearances by Byrne and a local QAnon conspiracist, BabyQ, who claimed to be receiving messages from his future self. Styled as a documentary, the movie asserts that the 2020 Presidential election was stolen by supporters of Joe Biden, including by Antifa members who chatted about their sinister plot on a conference call. One night in June, a few hundred people gathered for the première of “The Deep Rig,” a film financed by the multimillionaire founder of, Patrick Byrne, who is a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump. It was tempting to dismiss the show unfolding inside the Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, as an unintended comedy. ![]() Grace by Grace Coddington7/2/2023 ![]() The large-format book, originally published in 2002, is part aesthetic lexicon, part solid retrospective of her far-reaching body of work. Phaidon's reissue of Grace: Thirty Years of Fashion at Vogue is evidence of the upsurge in demand for Coddington's work. Their close, slightly spiky relationship is the hook on which The September Issue hangs. Wintour is hyper-aware of Coddington's singular abilities as an editor and stylist: her eye for sumptuous detail, her ability to weave narrative richness into otherwise sparse fashion shoots and the ingrained love she has for her job through several decades of working in the industry. At Vogue, she is the only person who stands up to Wintour, and the person who is most visibly disappointed when her ideas are squashed. She is an able foil to formidable editor Anna Wintour. ![]() Coddington is the beating heart of the documentary. ![]() The current American Vogue creative director was reluctantly dragged into the public's eyeline by the success of the 2009 documentary The September Issue, which delved deep into the inner workings of the magazine. Despite several decades spent at the forefront of the fashion industry and countless column inches devoted to her life and work, Grace Coddington remains something of an enigma. ![]() ![]() ![]() A man driven by a malicious evil has set a depraved plan into motion. Woody’s fearful suspicions are taking shape. When he hears the boy who communicates like he does, without speaking, Kipp knows he needs to find him before it’s too late. An ally unknown to him is listening.Ī uniquely gifted dog with a heart as golden as his breed, Kipp is devoted beyond reason to people. But Woody believes a monstrous evil was behind his father’s death and now threatens him and his mother. ![]() ![]() For Megan, keeping her boy safe and happy is what matters. Not when his mother, Megan, tells him she loves him. Not when his father died in a freak accident. Woody Bookman hasn’t spoken a word in his eleven years of life. From Dean Koontz, the international bestselling master of suspense, comes an epic thriller about a terrifying killer and the singular compassion it will take to defeat him. ![]() |