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Outdoor Photographer contains practical information and tips regarding photographing nature, wildlife, sports, and landscape. Regular columns cover developments in 35mm and digital photography, camera accessories, film, lenses, outdoor gear and apparel, travel, ecological concerns, and workshops. Much of the information is highly technical, with discussions of lighting, exposure, filters, setup, and the right gear to take on location. Every issue also contains travel articles and a “Favorite Places” column that details great spots for outdoor photography, including how to get there, what to take, and the best times to visit.

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Cellini Art Of Street Performing Volume ...

Cellini Art Of Street Performing Volume 2 At last, the long awaited release of volume two in the Cellini Presents series, The Art of Street Performing has arrived. This volume deals exclusively with magic and magicians. You will find my complete routine performed live in front of audiences on the streets of New Orleans. We then take it to the studio for an in-depth look and breakdown of that very routine and the effects I use. You will also be shown how to create a stage on the open streets and in other public spaces. This video expands on and reinforces the building blocks you learned from the first volume, The Art of Street Performing. It is my hope that, with this video, you will further your education and become a better performer, as well as a bonafide street magician. Running Time Approximately 1hr 40mi

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The Other Way: An Alternative Approach ...

Marowitz examines every aspect of contemporary theatre practice including auditions, first-readings, the rehearsal process, classical techniques and performance art. He delves beyond sub-text, probing the labyrinth that exists beneath conventional psychology. Marowitz comes up with a tantalizing new brew of ideas with which actors and directors can ply their craft into the new millennium.

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Sarah Bernhardt’s First American ...

On October 15, 1880, with great excitement and fanfare, two Sarah Bernhardts set sail for New York from Le Havre for a theatrical tour of the United States. One wanted to introduce French culture to a backward country, and the other wanted to make money. As an actress, she behaved in a fashion that amused and scandalized her audiences, and as a woman, she was an unwed mother and a shrewd businessperson. Bernhardt’s multiple personas and “otherness” were what fascinated the American public; her name, her eccentricities, and her genius had already made her world famous.

Sarah Bernhardt’s first American theatrical tour, from her arrival in 1880 to her return to Europe in May 1881, is chronicled here. She traveled as far west as Kansas City and as far south as New Orleans, all the while sparking cultural commentary about her performances, her artwork, and her lifestyle. This book provides an overview of the contemporary reviews, caricatures and satires, considers Bernhardt’s reception by the American press and American audiences, and discusses the way in which the Bernhardt iconography was created and the assumptions that underlie it.

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The Art of Theater (New Directions in ...

The Art of Theater argues for the recognition of theatrical performance as an art form independent of dramatic writing.

  • Identifies the elements that make a performance a work of art
  • Looks at the competing views of the text-performance relationships
  • An important and original contribution to the aesthetics and philosophy of theater

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Photography (9th Edition) ...

This best-selling introductory photography text teaches students how to use the medium confidently and effectively by emphasizing both technique and visual awareness. Comprehensive in scope, this book features superb instructional illustrations and examples in its clear presentation of both black and white and color photography. London offers extensive coverage of digital imaging and the latest technological developments, such as Web page design and formatting photos on CD-ROMs.

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Cellini Art Of Street Performing Volume ...

Cellini Art Of Street Performing Volume 3 This video is the third volume of the Cellini Presents the Art of Street Performing series. I was inspired to create this video by the questions I am most frequently asked when performing or while lecturing. In this video you will experience live performances, and behind-the-scenes exposure, with tips from some of the top pros working on the streets today. We take you to Boston where you will learn why funny means money. Through interviews with the performers, we hear their comments about the Art, and learn from their years of experience on the streets. As with my first two videos in this series, I have brought you the best, and held nothing back. Running Time Approximately 1hr 57mi

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Against Theatre: Creative Destructions ...

Against Theatre shows that the most prominent writers of modern drama shared a radical rejection of the theatre as they knew it. Together with designers, composers and film makers, they plotted to destroy all existing theatres. But from their destruction emerged the most astonishing innovations of modernist theatre.

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Strategies for Playbuilding: Helping ...

Strategies for Playbuilding is a step-by-step manual for anyone who wants to help young people turn their perceptions into artistically engaging scripts, song lyrics, or choreography.

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Niki de Saint Phalle Braves the Crisis ...

Niki de Saint Phalle Braves the Crisis – artmarketblog.com

ndsp 1After the sale of three Niki de Saint-Phalle’s giant Nanas in Germany in December 2008 for €750,000, the Paris sale last month of her Le Banc produced another excellent result. The French-American artist – whose works are collected all over the world – is generating good sales performances in spite of the crisis.

Born in France and raised in the United States, Niki SAINT-PHALLE de successfully steered her career under the two flags at a key moment in the history of art and of the art market. Indeed, at the start of the 60s – when Niki de Saint-Phalle was creating her first Tirs and Nanas – the art market’s centre of gravity was being pulled across the Atlantic towards the United States and the American Pop Art phenomenon. Niki, who was associated with the New Realists in France, created the most distinctly “Pop” works of the French movement using a playful iconography of curves and colours. By successfully establishing herself as a female artist on both sides of the Atlantic, Niki de Saint-Phalle managed to join the ranks of artists whose price-indices enjoy international recognition (unlike some of the other New Realists, including her partner Jean TINGUELY). Nevertheless, the market for her work has remained more dynamic in France, and 35% of her auction sales take place in her native country. In terms of sales revenue, the geographical breakdown of her auction sales (often involving monumental pieces) is as follows: 38% in France, 31% in the UK and 15% in the United States.

Her Nanas – buxom women made with fibres glass and painted in bright colours – easily reach and exceed the estimate. Niki created her first Nanas in papier mâché and fibre in 1965, inspired by a friend’s pregnancy. Initially uncoloured, her joyous Venuses soon acquired multi-coloured surfaces – leading a playful revolution against gloominess. The very large and unique pieces – including some of her later works produced from the 1990s – sell for over €100,000. Her best-ever auction result was generated by a giant Nana (270 cm) in painted polyester which fetched $1m (nearly €780,000) at Sotheby’s in New-York during the sale of the Vanthohournot Collection on 14 November 2006. Two years before this record, a Nana of the same dimensions fetched €360,000 in Paris (Sotheby’s, 18 July 2004 La vie en rose – La danseuse rose).

ndsp 2The price range for the Nanas is very broad because Niki made them in various different sizes and sometimes produced limited editions of the same piece. For a small Nana from the 1960s (less than 30 cm), one would expect to pay between €15,000 and €30,000. Indeed, a Mini nana acrobate of 20 cm doubled its price estimate in Paris last month when it sold for €26,000. With strong demand for her work already developing during her lifetime, Niki de Saint-Phalle decided to make her work available to a broader public by producing prints and small porcelain Nanas edited in 200 copies, some of which can be acquired at auctions for around €3,000 (one such piece recently fetched €2,800 at Venator & Hanstein in Cologne).

The price index for her sculpture-furniture is also regaining momentum. On 27 May 2009, a sculpture of a man reading a newspaper on a bench watched by an imaginary animal entitled Le Banc (1 of 3 copies) fetched €460,000, substantially more than its estimated value. The fact that the piece was presented at Christie’s sale of a collection of pieces by François-X. & Claude LALANNE – hybrid works on the cusp of art and design – undoubtedly contributed to the result: the high number of furniture-sculpture pieces at the sale and the good results for the Lalanne works was the perfect context for the sale of the Saint-Phalle work.

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**Nicholas Forrest is an art market analyst, art critic and journalist based in Sydney, Australia. He is the founder of http://www.artmarketblog.com, writes the art column for the magazine Antiques and Collectibles for Pleasure and Profit and contributes to many other publications.

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Nikon School DVD – Understanding ...

Nikon School Presents:
Understanding Digital Photography – Release Your Digital SLR’s Potential

Featuring Nikon Digital SLR Cameras
Hosted by award-winning National Geographic Traveler photographer, Bob Krist

If you’re ready to learn even more about Nikon digital SLR photography, Understanding Digital Photography is a great place to start. World-renowned photographer, Bob Krist, will take you beyond the automated features of your Nikon cameras, and share valuable insights about how to see and compose breathtaking photographs.

Go on location to learn about:

  • Portraits
  • Sports and Action
  • Close-Ups
  • Creative Landscapes
  • Low-light Photography
  • Photographing Nature
  • Tips for Proper Camera Handling

    PLUS

  • Setting Up Your Digital SLR to Achieve Optimal Quality
  • Understanding Basic Exposure Fundamentals
  • Creative Lens Suggestions
  • Exploring Nikon’s Retouch Menu for In-Camera Editing
  • Tips on How to Print, Share, and Save Your Pictures

Join award-winning National Geographic Traveler photographer Bob Krist as he demonstrates in a clear, easy-to-understand style how to go beyond the basics of digital photography. Learn how to bring your best ideas to light!

Program length: Approx. 45 minutes Format: 16×9 widescreen DVD

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American Photography

Time travel at its best! American Photography: A Century of Images is a remarkably complete, high-caliber PBS presentation of who Americans were and are, using 20th-century images that capture everything from the everyday to the once-in-a-lifetime. While of course you’ll see many photographs, some familiar and some new, you’ll also learn about the history of our relationship with photography and the ways pictures are used. See the progression from posed to unposed photographs and from picture postcards to digitally enhanced photos that show what a missing child might look like today. Learn about the importance of photography for social causes such as abolishing child labor, the civil rights movement in America, and the way we feel about everything from what we buy and how we dress to how we get the news. Especially interesting is the discussion of how Native Americans have been portrayed–including the photographer who brought a trunk of costumes with him to dress Native Americans the way he wanted them to look in his pictures.

The three episodes, The Developing Image 1900-1934, The Photographic Age 1935-1959, and Photography Transformed 1960-1999, are educational and entertaining. Whether you’ve enjoyed National Geographic or Life magazine, or are interested in photography or 20th-century history, this will make a great addition to your video collection. –Tara Chace

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HDR (High Dynamic Range) Photography ...

Learn one of the hottest new techniques in photography.
Master Photographer Tony Sweet teaches the art of high dynamic range (HDR) photography. HDR photography captures a wider dynamic range than traditional photography is able to achieve. The technique uses a series of exposures at varying levels, and combines them with HDR software (Photomatix). The results range from hyperrealism to surrealism.

Shot on location at Eastern State Penitentiary, HDR Photography Made Easy simplifies the steps of fine-tuning exposures in capture, merging with HDR software, and tone mapping the final image. Ten compositions with a range of tonal challenges are set up, captured, and processed. The program covers traditional, Pseudo HDR, and double-image processing. HDR Photography Made Easy will have you creating your own amazing HDR images in no time!

Bonus Material includes:
– Eastern State Penitentiary portfolio
– Tony’s HDR Portfolio highlights
– The Ellis Island HDR portfolio
– Other HDR Photography resource list

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LP – 2029 Squirrel Fish Underwater ...

Smart Blonde is one of the largest factory-direct distributors of novelty aluminum signs and license plates in the U.S. and we are manufacturers too. Every item we carry is of the utmost highest quality aluminum metal because we believe it absolutely matters! We have compared plastic and the super heavy weight steel (3 lbs each) signs and license plates, as well as the very ultra thin lightweight aluminum embossed and non-embossed signs. Our conclusion was simple: Plastic was really just ok, steel was way too heavy to ship and stock and the ultra lightweight aluminum… well they just bend like a piece of paper. Squirrel Fish Underwater Full Color Photography License Plates – standard size: 6 x 12

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Xm Radio Business Music System with Jbl ...

Cost effective professional grade audio system featuring XM RadioJBL 2-way speakers with wall mount bracketsXM receiver w/remote and antenna (160 channels of digital sound and over 60 commercial-free channels)Front-panel LCD screen displays XM channel informationXM line out for system expansion flexibilityMusic-on-hold output easily connects to most business phone systemsBuilt-in priority ducking feature for public address4-ohm 70V or 25V operation40-watt 2 JBL Control 1S speakers20 custom channel presets4 inputs (XM switchable mic/line with phantom power 2 stereo line inputs) with independent volume bass (100Hz) and treble (10kHz) controls3 year no-fault fully transferable warrantyAmplifier unit dimensions: 17 1/3″ W x 3 1/2″ H x 12 1/5″ DIncludes detachable rack ears with screws non-touch cover for output connectors spade lugs Phoenix-type connectors XM antenna remote control and power cord80Hz-20kHz frequency response4″ shielded driver and 1/2″ titanium-laminate shielded tweeter (4kHz crossover)20-watt 70V tap89dB sensitivity

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Cellini Art Of Street Performing Volume ...

Cellini Art Of Street Performing Volume 1 A word from Cellini about this long-anticipated video release: This video will do much more than entertain you. It will enlighten you and excite you. It can even change the course of your life. I have tried my best to explain this illusive art. You will learn how to attract, build, hold and entertain an audience, while making a good living. Those I have influenced found themselves transformed by the experience in ways they never imagined. All the secrets are here…it’s up to you. It could change your life forever…it did mine! – Cellini Running Time Approximately 51mi

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Art of Acting Antiquity

Provides greater insight into the dramatic art of antiquity by analysing three major groups of iconographical material in context with the written sources. As a theatre historian, the author’s object was to discuss some fundamental scenic questions, from the viewpoint of theatre history, in an attempt to shed fresh light on performance tradition in ancient drama.

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Moving the Image: Independent Asian ...

is the most comprehensive effort to define independent Asian Pacific media arts and to describe its course from 1970-1990. The words, essays, and statements by the fifty media artists and cultural workers in this book challenge, celebrate, and contradict each other. Over ninety film stills and archival photos from the early 1900s to the 1990s illustrate this volume, designed to be used as a creative sourcebook and as an introductory text.

Russell C. Leong is the editor of Amerasia Journal and Adjunct Professor of English at UCLA.

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RelaxingMusicSource.com: Convert For ...

Huge Forgotten Niche Converts Like Crazy- $18 A Sale! Backend Bonuses, Low Bids And High Conversions.

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Tamayura

Produced by Kitaro, Tamayura is a unique combination of Kitaro’s signature sound married to visuals performed by Kochi Tamano and Harupin-Ha Butoh Dance Theater who bring the characters of the story to life. With costumes by Heather Hanse and choreography by Koichi Tamano, Tamayura features wildly colorful scenes and surreal, almost magical dance routines. Tracks include: Magma, Mercury, Sitara, Nageki, Beam Wave and Uranus.

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