Obsessed With Me - When she rejected his Advances, he set out to destroy her. (book 1 ) (Kindle Edition)
Breeders (Kindle Edition)
Fighting Destiny (The Fae Chronicles) (Kindle Edition)
One Shot (Reluctant Groupie) (Kindle Edition)
The Santinis: Gianni, Book 3 (Kindle Edition)
Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing (Kindle Edition)
Remembering Jake (Expanded Edition) (Kindle Edition)
The Zion Encounter (Kindle Edition)
Gents 4 Ladies (Kindle Edition)
Reno's Gift (Mob Boss Series) (Kindle Edition)
Trapped Into Marriage (Kindle Edition)
Mechanics of Lust (Kindle Edition)
BirthControl (Kindle Edition)
An Escape to Love (BWWM Interracial Romance) (Kindle Edition)
Her Midnight Ride Omnibus (BWWM erotic romance novel) (Kindle Edition)
Fatal Deception (Kindle Edition)
Obsessed with Me (book 2) (Kindle Edition)
Scented Lust (A Dogon-Hunters Series Novel) (Kindle Edition)
To Hold and to Heal (BWWM Interracial Romance) (Kindle Edition)
Come Share My Love (Kindle Edition)
In this book is a collection of poems by Luna Nightwyn, some had been written as early as the age of 13. They have for the most part been left original with minor editing, in hopes to retain the authenticity of the moment she was trying to capture at the time. Luna had many dark periods in her life and struggles she had to overcome.
For many listeners Bartok `s String Quartets is an enormous wasteland. Like Shstakovich, Bartok opens his soul in this genre because there is major creative liberty and universes to explore.
This 1954cycle was released on commercially under Angel label in the U.S. and the French Columbia on three LPs But thanks to Music& Arts efforts the rescue of this important historical document has been possible.
It is always worthy to remark the presence of the exhaustive energy of Sandor Vegh, an exceptional music who surmounted the conventional barriers of the musical interpretation to get into in the great luminaries and established several landmark recordings as member of the Hungarian, Vegh quartet and finally as conductor of the Salzburg Mozarteum's Camerata Academica (from 1978 to 1997).
To classify the artistic quality and the performance level of these recordings would be simply unsurpassable, not only by the performances by themselves but the idiomatic expression, the ethos and gestalt which were played.
Since I got this double album, it's my favorite choice at the moment to enjoy and travel by this universe.
The artist, who also wrote the accompanying book, feels that fae energies are real entities, and has created this deck to access these beings through the structure and magic of tarot. My feeling is that she was quite successful at this. These card fairly thrum with energy, and read quite easily. I feel that people who connect to faery would enjoy this deck, and with very little violence and no nudity, as well as the fantastical theme of the deck, most children and adults could use the deck. People who like the art style, which very much reminds me of black velvet paintings, should be easily to connect to the meanings of the cards, which while in the tradition of Waite Smith, have their own spin on the meanings. The Court Cards are possibly the least evocative in the deck, and people who need a lot of visual cues to read these cards may be somewhat disappointed with them.
The deck is divided into 22 Major Arcana, that feature Strength as Trump VIII and Justice as Trump XI, and four suits of the Minor Arcana: Wands, Cups, Swords, and Rings replacing Pentacles. The Court Cards are Page, Prince or Princess according to the polarity of the suit, Queen, and King. The cards measure in at 3.5 inches by 5 inches, quite a handful, and on glossy stock that could prove trying to shuffle. The backs are fully reversible, and the author includes meanings for the upside down cards, should you choose to read that way. The deck comes in a rectangular box with a space to snugly hold the deck, and a book featuring the artists' take on the meanings, which is beautifully imagined, and some basic tarot instructions, with a magnetic closure to keep the whole enterprise secure.
The modern and eco-friendly stitched card stock sleeve is handmade in the USA.
Cloudscape filming was selected against a backdrop of foothills and mountains in many areas of southern California, including Pasadena, Valencia, Santa Barbara, Stevenson Ranch, Santa Clarita, La Canada, Eagle Rock, Castaic, Canyon Country, Altadena, and Mammoth Lakes.
Relax in the clouds. Leave your tension on terra firma.
"A rich, opinionated melange . . . full of notes, asides, and second thoughts." --Roger Kimball, Managing Editor, The New Criterion -- The Public Interest
"At last I have found enough uninterrupted time to read What Art Is from end to end, and I report my enthusiastic appreciation and enjoyment. You have done a splendid piece of work--research, reflection, and writing are worthy of all praise. . . . Your scholarly treatment of modern art, your Appendices, your Notes are full of facts, comparisons and judgments that come to grips suggestively with the elusive double topic, Art and the arts. . . . My hearty congratulations on an admirable book." -- Jacques Barzun, Cultural Historian, author of From Dawn to Decadence
"I am not sure that I have ever reviewed a book from which I have learned so much." --Lester Hunt, Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison -- Journal of Ayn Rand Studies
"Well-documented, a major addition to Rand scholarship, and a humorous debunking of twentieth-century art . . . and art theory." --Richard E. Palmer, Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, MacMurray College -- Choice (Current Reviews for Academic Libraries)
As independent scholars and critics, we bring to our work a deep love of the arts, cultivated over more than four decades. During that time we have witnessed increasingly disturbing trends in contemporary culture. With a never-ending stream of bogus inventions concocted in the name of art, real art--especially traditionally based painting and sculpture--has been relegated to a marginal status by the cultural establishment. In the process, the very concept of art has been debased, even among philosophers.It is our hope that What Art Is will help to reverse these lamentable trends. We wrote the book over a period of more than five years, based on a series of articles we had published on the subject in the early 1990s. From the start, we had two audiences in mind: general readers who are puzzled by or skeptical about modernist and postmodernist work, and who seek to deepen their understanding of what is and is not art; and scholars and critics willing to consider a well-reasoned alternative to the artworld's assumption that anything can be art.
His fiction, articles and essays have appeared in Bewildering Stories,
Halfway Down the Stairs, The Absent Willow Review, Morpheus Tales, Litsnack,
Touchstone Magazine and other publications. Gary is a member of The
Historical Novel Society. He is also a member of the Bewildering Stories
Editorial Review Board. The Flower to the Painter (Fireship Press, 2011) is
his second published novel. Mary Shelley's Frankenstein and European art,
music, literature, politics and philosophy of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries provided background for his first novel, Confessions of the Creature, originally published by Drollerie Press(2008),and now available in a new edition (2012) from Fireship Press.
A life long artist, Arturo, now a senior, paces himself through a long day in preparation for his first solo art show that night. His thoughts pass through the events in his life that have led him where he is. And he waits for his wife's return from a long overseas trip, hopefully to arrive in time for the art show.
The Children characters are highlighted in a prequel-series of four short stories, "The Children (Shorts)" : "The Concert" - "Art Day" - "At the Beach" - and "Slumber Party."
Below is a little more about "The Old American Artist."
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A romance and an artist's story, how could it not be a love story?
We all love a story that shows how a loving pair, meeting obstacles in life, overcome that challenge, and resolve to love each other. But what happens during the "lived happily ever after" part? What are the details, what might the process be, achieving and living that post-crisis life?
This arc, from boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy regains girl, morphs, in this first of three books, in the trilogy Triptych, into that fuller story of life, and love.
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Details
This is the first of several books centered around Arturo the artist, his wife Rosetta, and their family. That is of course, the simple layout. Complexities of relationships, living many years, and addressing meaning in life, are the more complex issues.
My own working preference, and manner of doing best it seems, is to concentrate a point of view from one character, with input from other surrounding important characters. So I do better, as a writer, creating three novellas, than trying to mesh together stories about the artist Arturo, his wife Rosetta, and all the children and grandchildren and the main characters' childhoods involved.
Thus, the first three books are, "The Old American Artist, a Love Story," "Rosetta," and "The Children."
Though the differing books' stories are not entirely concurrent, there is some overlap, producing, I believe, some interesting effects.
Also, in terms of scenic technique and narrative, the form I follow here is less linear, and more cinematic.
In the first book, and it appears in the second and third books as well, two timelines are used.
One is set all in one part of a day, Arturo's movement from the morning of his big anticipated art show that evening to that event.
This timeline is interspersed in scenes with the second time frame, which begins over thirty years earlier, and provides an interacting backstory to the events of that one day.
Almost all issues are resolved by the end of this first book, with hints of issues that are picked up and elaborated in the second book, "Rosetta."
I chose to call this a "love story" rather than a romance, even though, as per the Romance Writers of America, this book qualifies as a story about "a central love story and an emotionally-satisfying and optimistic ending."
The reason for that is because of the equally important story of being an artist, which makes this book a cross genre offering.
Romance and art. It had to be a love story. ;-)
Adan Lerma
July 01, 2012
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Although The Big Pink released a mix CD entitled "Tapes" in 2010, "Future This" is the duo's second full album of original material. Like their debut, "Future This" is produced by Paul Epworth who has recently worked with the likes of Adele and Florence & the Machine among many other reputable artists.
His contribution to the record is once again unmistakable, but the album is clearly designed to build off of the band's past successes.
On "A Brief History of Love," "Dominos" was a clear stand-out single. Tracks like "Velvet" and "Too Young To Love" were still extremely enjoyable, but nothing compared to the soaring vocals of the chorus repeated on "Dominos." "Future This" utilizes the massive success of "Dominos" by applying aspects of its memorable formula throughout the album's 10 tracks.
"Future This" opens with "Stay Gold," a track that seems to pull equally from "Dominos" and MGMT's breakout single "Time to Pretend."
This time, the soaring vocals from the chorus of "Dominos" are present for the entire song and it works like a charm. "Stay Gold" is an almost guaranteed hit single around the world.
"Stay Gold" is followed by "Hit the Ground (Superman)" which uses an almost identical vocal, complete with a memorable sing-along chorus.
Combined, The Big Pink offers up one of the most powerful one-two punch album openings in many years. However, the drive for hit singles eventually begins to remove much of the variety that made "A Brief History of Love" a unique listening experience.
Although they may oversaturate the ears with indie anthem melodies, The Big Pink's strongest quality on their debut album was their beat making ability and on "Future This," they get even better.
"Give It Up" has a west coast hip hop quality to it that will likely turn the heads of many rappers looking for a high-quality sample. There are even a few faster-paced numbers like "Jump Music" and "Lose Your Mind" that could make their way into the club scene without the need for a remix.
With "Future This," The Big Pink has proven they are much more than a one-hit wonder and have released their most enjoyable record to date. However, the question of where they can go from here begs to be asked.
They have found their winning sound, but bands eventually need to evolve to survive.
In the meantime, don't be surprised if The Big Pink begins showing up in commercials throughout the year at a rate similar to what The Black Keys or Foster the People did in 2011.
Track Suggestion: "Stay Gold"
An exclusive 30-minute documentary on the making of the film, Exploring The Tree of Life, allows fans to dig even deeper into Malick’s visionary work and his cinematic legacy through interviews with his collaborators and cast members as well as with directors Christopher Nolan and David Fincher who share an appreciation for his work.
Disc 2: DVD
Disc 3: Digital Copy
Weber initially pursued theater at Denison University in Ohio, then turned to filmmaking at New York University. Thanks to Diane Arbus, he was introduced and studied with Lisette Model at The New School for Social Research in the 1960s. He participated in his first group show at The Floating Foundation of Photography in 1973 and had his first solo exhibition at Razor Gallery in New York City a year later.
In the late 1970s, Weber began photographing ads and commercials for Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein. His photographs have since appeared in Vanity Fair, American Vogue, Interview, Italian Vogue, French Vogue, and GQ, among others.
He has also earned acclaim for his filmmaking, including BROKEN NOSES (1987), a documentary about boxer and Olympic hopeful Andy Minsker; LET'S GET LOST (1989), a documentary on jazz trumpeter Chet Baker, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary; and CHOP SUEY CLUB (2001), a feature on wrestler Peter Johnson that is equally about the filmmaker's own career and inspirations. Among numerous TV commercials and music videos, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art presented a retrospective of his short films and documentaries in 1998. His most recent documentary, A LETTER TO TRUE, an anti-war film, opened at the Berlin Film Festival and showed as an official selection at the Tribeca, Toronto, and Edinburgh film festivals in 2004.
More than 15 books of Weber's work have been published. His photographs are in the permanent collections of London's Victoria and Albert Museum and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris. Weber has exhibited at venues including the 1987 Whitney Biennial in New York City, Musee de l'Elysee in Lausanne, Switzerland, Palazzo Fortuny in Venice, the Florence Biennale, the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Parco Exposure Gallery in Tokyo, Fahey/Klein in Los Angeles, Galeria Corso Como in Milan, and the Russell Senate Building in Washington, DC.
I do my readings with a traditional Rider deck, but when I saw this deck I was immediately drawn in. Emily's adaptations are beautiful, and profound; but I honestly felt that the Fae were calling me to work with them! and I don't say that lightly. The imagery and the colors are strong and compelling.
Yes, you could do traditional readings with these cards, but I felt a meditative, almost sacredness coming off these cards. I have never said that about any other deck before! My college age daughter sat thoughtfully, going through each card carefully, totally mesmerized by what was presented. She doesn't read tarot, but knew that these cards were special as well.
They will be my 'private' deck - to work with in a meditative way. I intuitively felt that I was given an invitation to come and learn.
If any reader here, has read Karen Marie Moning's "Fever" trilogy about the Fae, you will definitely connect to these cards.
They are big, which is needed to fully appreciate the artwork, and they are sturdy.
What more can I say? Emily has given the world a very unique and magical deck!
Tiffany began publishing in June 2011 after her daughter said that she really wanted to hold the stories Tiffany would write in her hands. If it weren't for her daughter's nagging, Tiffany's stories would still be hidden in the depths of her computer.
When she isn't writing YA fiction, you can find her author interviews and book reviews on her blog http://tiffanysuelovering.blogspot.com
Young singers at an opera school learn drama, music, movement and languages. Their passion for opera unites them. Their love affairs, ambition and political views divide them.
Nicholas arrives in Melbourne from swinging London in 1968. Baffled by the cultural differences he struggles to adjust. He and his aunt, Harriet, quarrel when she refuses to allow him to update operas and the critics scorn the productions she forces on him.
The novel follows the progress of five young singers from their auditions to the start of their professional careers.
The lives of the characters entwine. Love affairs begin and end. Friends and enemies are made. Arguments about Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War erupt. Convention competes with change. Harriet has a dark secret which is in danger of being made public. Past and present collide as the forces from the past wreak their destruction.
Vissi d’arte is about opera, a mystery, ambition, love, betrayal, success and failure.
Sukarno is practically a genius. He knows all there is to know about each flower he visits and is very happy telling you about each one along with many other related facts. I think he also pays a visit to some of his other insect friends and tells us a bit about them too. I won`t ruin the story but I do know that children everywhere will enjoy reading it and having it read to them.
Judith Dompierre has come up with a great concept. All children love fact-filled, large print,oversized books.Judith is also a very talented artist. Publish America has done a wonderful job with the format. The covers are generously laminated to promote book cleanliness.Alas, the only flaw I find is the editing. Judith do keep on writing;your artistry is super in more ways than one.
