Электронная литература: The arts

For anyone who loves to build long-lasting country furniture comes a thoroughly illustrated handbook from the master craftsmen at The Workshops, a well-known Ohio provider of Early American reproductions. David T. Smith, and the folks who work with him have emerged as outstanding historians, designers and artisans. American Country Furniture is a collection of their combined experienced, and reveals their outstanding woodworkin ...

The Stand-Up while Sitting Down Years...Jo Brand is one of our best-loved comedians, according to a quote she made up. This memoir is full of hard-won wisdom, hilarity and her views on life, laughs, friendships and all the good and bad things in the world. If she was Prime Minister, the country would be in even more of a mess than it is.

Don't waste your money buying the wrong camera equipment for macro photography. This detailed guide will give you a general introduction to the tools available and how they can be used in your pursuit of perfect pictures. Do you need a ring light or a twin macro light? What focal length lens will be best for you? Should you settle for a close-focusing lens instead of a true macro lens? Let R. Dodge Woodson, a master photographe ...

Don't waste your money buying the wrong camera equipment for macro photography. This detailed guide will give you a general introduction to the tools available and how they can be used in your pursuit of perfect pictures. Do you need a ring light or a twin macro light? What focal length lens will be best for you? Should you settle for a close-focusing lens instead of a true macro lens? Let R. Dodge Woodson, a master photographe ...

This book tells you how to prepare all kinds of budgets, gives actual samples with detailed explanations and has extra sections on Setting Up a Company, Pre-Production and Money-Saving Ideas.

The book uses extensive illustrations to explain how to create extended sequence shots, elaborate moving camera choreography, and tracking shots with multiple story points.

This new edition has undergone a comprehensive update to address the shifting balance between digital and film technologies. The book includes everything a filmmaker needs to know, from budgeting to managing the production office, and comes with downloadable forms.

This updated edition to this classic manual for young filmmakers includes numerous additions reflecting the enormous changes impacting the world of digital video

Updated edition of best selling book on storyboarding

This new updated edition provides a wide range of interviews with filmmakers, distributors, festival programmers, marketing experts, and critics. "e;Independent Film Distribution"e; takes the reader deep into the process of positioning a film for distribution. Unique case studies and exclusive commentary from the top names in independent cinema - including Mark Cuban, Hal Hartley, Bill Plympton, Liz Garbus, and Arthur D ...

Michael Bubl is an international singing sensation. Since his debut in 2003, he has sold 18 million albums, won numerous awards (including a Grammy), reached the top 10 in the UK charts with his first album, Michael Bubl , and the top 50 of the Billboard 200 album charts for the same CD. His second album, It s Time , was more successful still, debuting at number 4 in the UK charts, and his song 'Home' was a UK number one. H ...

How to get best use of ceramic paperclay for modeling hand-building, pottery wheel, mixing, recycling paper, firing or non-firing, sculpture, bas relief, murals. Beginner to professional artist, sculptor, teacher, parent, classroom, K-12, college, community center. Porcelain, stoneware, earthenware, terracotta, raku, woodfire, etc Index.144 pp. 250 ill. BW in print since 1993. Updated new edition in 2010.

How to get best use of ceramic paperclay for modeling hand-building, pottery wheel, mixing, recycling paper, firing or non-firing, sculpture, bas relief, murals. Beginner to professional artist, sculptor, teacher, parent, classroom, K-12, college, community center. Porcelain, stoneware, earthenware, terracotta, raku, woodfire, etc Index.144 pp. 250 ill. BW in print since 1993. Updated new edition in 2010.

This is your go-to guide for becoming a professional photographer. Do it full time, part time, or any time at all. R. Dodge Woodson can explain how it is possible to start working nights and weekends as a pro photographer and grow your efforts into a full-time business. Even if you don't want to leave your present job you can still make hundreds of dollars on some weekends with your camera and your skills. It is unlikely that y ...

This is your go-to guide for becoming a professional photographer. Do it full time, part time, or any time at all. R. Dodge Woodson can explain how it is possible to start working nights and weekends as a pro photographer and grow your efforts into a full-time business. Even if you don't want to leave your present job you can still make hundreds of dollars on some weekends with your camera and your skills. It is unlikely that y ...

In this guide to sound reinforcement alignment and design, Bob McCarthy shares his expert knowledge and effective methodology from years of teaching audio professionals. Written in a clear and easy-to-read style and illustrated with color diagrams and screenshots throughout, McCarthy's unique guide gives you all the newest techniques to ensure perfect sound reinforcement and fulfill design needs. Outlining how sound is spread o ...

The little black-and-white cartoon figure of Tintin first appeared in Belgium in 1929 in a Catholic newspaper where his creator, Herg? , worked. Harry Thompson looks at the story of Herg? , of Tintin and his origins, and beyond to when President de Gaulle could call Tintin 'his only rival'.

Beverley Callard has been loved by millions of viewers for the last twenty years in her role as feisty Rovers Return landlady Liz McDonald on Coronation Street. But behind the scenes her rollercoaster life has been even more colourful than her character s. She has suffered from crippling depression, been divorced three times, and has had to start from scratch following infidelity and bankruptcy. But every time she s been kno ...

This is possibly the most entertaining, surprising and enjoyable film book ever written. Thomson set himself the near-foolhardy task of writing one page each on 1000 of the films that he has particularly liked or in some cases, abhorred. Some half-million words of funny, vigorous, wayward prose later, we are all the happy beneficiaries of his deranged labour. Always unexpected, never repetitive, Have You Seen? can be read co ...

Originally published in 1988, The 'I' of the Camera has become a classic in the literature of film. Offering alternatives to the viewing and criticism of film, William Rothman challenges readers to think about film in adventurous ways that are more open to movies and our experience of them. In a series of eloquent essays examining particular films, filmmakers, genres and movements, and the 'Americanness' of American film, Rothm ...

Set in Ancient Egypt and the war with Ethiopia, this opera tells the story of the love between Rhadames, the Egyptian general and Aida, an Ethiopian slave and the jealousy of Amneris, daughter of the King of Egypt.

Includes memorable extracts of Die Fledermaus.

Verdi's Falstaff repays careful study with real pleasure. It is opera's happiest irony that the great Italian master should cap a career - distinguished for its blood-and-thunder tragic masterpieces - with the greatest comic opera in the Italian repertory. The genius of Shakespeare is harnessed (in a miracle of compression) by masterlibrettist Boito to give the eighty-year-old Verdi a wonderful libretto, on which he lavished mo ...

Describes about the joy of married love - by a man who never knew that pleasure.