Category: Books
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Batwoman – Elegy
Batwoman: Elegy tells two stories. The first is of Batwoman taking on a villainess named Alice who has plans to gas Gotham City with chemical weapons. The second story tells of how Kate Kane took up the mantle of Batwoman. In the first, the action occurs quickly and ends half way through the book after […]
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Extreme Photography
Extreme Photography: The Hottest, Coldest, Fastest, Slowest, Nearest, Farthest, Brightest, Darkest, Largest, Smallest, Weirdest Images in the Universe… shows the physical and technological limits of photography. From volcanoes, Antarctic exhibitions, outer space, thermal, infrared, x-ray, MRI, examples are given as to the potential of the application, its practicality and a little bit of how-to thrown […]
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The Passage
Essentially, The Passage is a worthy literary attempt at a post-apocalyptic vampire zombie novel. The premise is solid–mysterious virus developed by the military is tested on random subjects, and then something goes wrong, and the the vampire zombies lay waste to anything with warm blood. Told over the span of a 100 years, Justin Cronin […]
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Dennis Hopper – Bucharest Nights
Eccentric and edgy Hollywood actor Dennis Hopper avidly collected art, and photography was a lifelong active hobby. In 2005, he published Bucharest Nights, a collection of “digital paintings” at night with a digital camera. The majority of the images are ghostly and ethereal. Stark figures in golden tones against a black backdrop, light trails down […]
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Finite and Infinite Games
James P. Carse’s Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility philosophically explores the premise of life as a series of games and infinite games. Finite games have an end and rules may not change, whereas infinite games are never ending and the rules must change. Directly, think of Super Mario […]
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Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now
Charlie Styr published Click: The Ultimate Photography Guide for Generation Now using pictures from the Flickr Teenage Photography group. It’s aimed at the beginner or wanna-be-a-little-bit-cooler-by-by-taking-cool-pictures photographers. It’s balanced covering all the essential photography topics-exposure, aperture, shutter speed, light, composition, etc. It goes a little further with the example photos and includes camera settings. This […]
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1000 Fences and Gates
1000 Fences And Gates by Jo Cryder should contain the subtitle Wrought Iron of the American Southeast. The majority of the pictures are snapshots and hardly vary. I’m not sure if it meant to be a coffee table book or a sampling for Southern belles to fence in their magnolia trees.
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Art Space Tokyo, a Kickstarter postmortem
After a project, it’s a good thing to capture your thoughts on how you did. This includes everything from the initial idea, the the steps you took to get everything together and complete it, for better or worse. Craig Mod did a writeup about the whole process of creating Art Space Tokyo using Kickstarter as […]