Kunst & Kultur

A tale that hatches from disaster on a global scale. Mary is full of young love and dares to break away from her father's strict rules for a night. Only for it go so much worse than she could ever imagine. Earth is under attack and everyone flees the planet, but Mary gets left behind.This is only the beginning of her journey. This is only the start of her path to becoming a powerful force. A force she could never have dreamed she could be.

Theory on Demand #41Pandemic Exchange - How Artists Experience the COVID-19 Crisisedited by Josephine BosmaNews reports on the Covid-19 pandemic seldom include how the virus and the societal lockdowns affect artists. A lively circuit of cultural events, meetings, and exhibitions has come to an almost complete stop, leaving artists often not just with a significant drop in income but also bereft of their vital and supporting social communities. Art writer and curator Josephine Bosma, feeling quite cut off herself after a year of lockdowns and too much screen time, saw both desperate and relieved outcries from artists popping up through the glossy algorithmic veneer on social media. She decided to reach out to some of the more outspoken voices. From this an interview project was born, which grew into this collection of heartfelt stories and brief reports from artists trying to survive the pandemic and sometimes finding unexpected ways to do so.With: Annie Abrahams, Lucas Bambozzi, Dennis de Bel, !Mediengruppe Bitnik, S()fia Braga, Arcangelo Constantini, Tiny Domingos, John Duncan, Nancy Mauro Flude, Ben Grosser, Adham Hafez, Sachiko Hayashi, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Garnet Hertz, Jennifer Kanary, Brian Mackern, Miltos Manetas, Lorna Mills, Daniela de Paulis, Tina La Porta, Archana Prasad, Melinda Rackham, Michelle Teran, Mare Tralla, Igor Vamos, Ivar Veermäe."We are witnessing a trivialization of the internet as an artistic medium." - S()fia Braga, Linz, Austria"Dealing with the cultural context in a profound and responsible way has become urgent." - Lucas Bambozzi, Sao Paulo, Brazil"Reality is our Non-Fungible Token." - Miltos Manetas, Bogota, Colombia"Meetings with friends, usually with some specific purpose or project in mind, take on an unspoken undercurrent of joy that I savor, simply because we're in a room together." - John Duncan, Bologna, ItalyJosephine Bosma is an art writer and curator specialized in, but not limited to, art and technology. Her critical work has appeared in a variety of media, from pirate radio to fancy print, following a life and interest ranging from the underground to the institutional art world. Her book Nettitudes - Let's Talk Net Art appeared with the NAi Publishers/INC in 2011.

" L'esthétique, ou la théorie du beau et de l'art, est la partie de la philosophie qui a été le plus négligée parmi nous. On ne rencontre pas une seule ligne sur ce grand sujet avant le père André et Diderot. Diderot, qui avait des éclairs de génie, où tout fermentait sans venir à maturité, a semé çà et là une foule d'aperçus ingénieux et souvent contradictoires; il n'a pas laissé une théorie sérieuse. Dans une école contraire et meilleure, disciple de saint Augustin et de Malebranche, le père André a composé sur le beau un livre estimable, où il y a plus d'abondance que de profondeur, plus d'élégance que d'originalité2. Condillac, qui a écrit tant de volumes, n'a pas même un seul chapitre sur le beau. Ses successeurs ont traité la beauté avec le même dédain ; ne sachant trop comment l'expliquer dans leur système, ils ont trouvé plus commode de ne la point apercevoir..."

" ... La France, insouciante de sa gloire, n'a pas l'air de se douter qu'elle compte dans ses annales le plus grand siècle peut-être de l'humanité, celui qui comprend dans son sein le plus d'hommes extraordinaires en tout genre. Quand, je vous prie, a-t-on vu se donner la main des politiques tels que Henri IV, Richelieu, Mazarin, Colbert, Louis XIV? Je ne prétends pas que chacun d'eux n'ait des rivaux, même des supérieurs. Alexandre, César, Charlemagne, les surpassent peut-être, mais Alexandre n'a qu'un seul contemporain qui lui puisse être comparé, son père Philippe ; César n'a pu même soupçonner qu'un jour Octave serait digne de lui ; Charlemagne est un colosse dans un désert; tandis que chez nous ces cinq grands hommes se succèdent sans intervalle, se pressent les uns contre les autres, et ne forment pour ainsi dire qu'une âme. Et par quels capitaines n'ont-ils pas été servis ! Condé est-il vraiment inférieur à Alexandre, à Annibal et à César ?..."

" ...Vanini est bien au-dessous de Bruno et de Campanella. Il n'a le sérieux de l'un ni de l'autre, ni la vaste imagination du premier, ni l'enthousiasme énergique du second. Napolitain comme eux, mais rebelle à l'esprit idéaliste de la Grande-Grèce, il appartient plutôt à l'école de Bologne. Il est anti-platonicien déclaré, et disciple ardent d'Aristote, interprété à la manière d'Averroës et de Pomponat. Ce n'est pas la plus noble expression du XVIe siècle. Il en a l'imagination et l'esprit, il en a aussi le désordre, et ce désordre paraît avoir été dans sa conduite comme dans sa pensée ; mais il a du moins ressemblé à ses deux grands compatriotes par son audace et par ses malheurs..."

This is a collection of brief poems by a husband and wife. Passing thoughts, interpreted feelings, made up stuff, and real crap. If you are interested in personality types, this book is created by an INTJ male and an ISFP female.

You have never played music before or cannot read sheet music, and yet you want to play inspiring hymns, famous religious folk songs, and spirituals?Don't worry! You will begin to play right away. Many spiritual "sorrow songs" are slow and melancholic and are ideally suitable for kalimba.We made our pictured sheet music as simple as possible.You'll play by number-coded circles. No musical staff or notes. The easy-to-play songs and melodies were adapted especially for beginners.You will be able to begin to play right away if the keys of your instrument have number notations. Most kalimbas already have them.Our sheet music is universal and suitable for 10-17 note kalimbas.This book includes 45 hymns and gospel songs:Amazing Grace Babylon's Falling Christ Was Born on Christmas Day Elijah Rock Every Time I Feel the Spirit Go, Tell It on the Mountain God Is So Good Great Big Stars Great Day Holy, Holy, Holy I've Got Joy Joy I've Got Peace Like a River Jesus Loves Me Jesus Walked This Lonesome Valley Joy to the World! The Lord is Come! Just As I Am Kumbaya, My Lord Michael Row the Boat Ashore Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen Praise Him, All You Little Children Shall We Gather at the River Silent Night, Holy Night Sinner Man Soldier of the Cross Somebody's Knockin' at Your Door Swing Love, Sweet Chariot The Little Light of Mine There's a Meeting Here Tonight We Are Climbing Jacob's Ladder We Are Marching (Siyahamba)We Shall Overcome When the Saints Go Marching In Who Built the Ark?

You've Been Gilmored! is a handbook for living a life that is thoroughly steeped in Gilmore Girls. Inside its pages, you will find how to 'live like a Gilmore'--including what music to listen to, what films and television shows to watch, what books to read, what food to eat, and how to study like a Gilmore. It provides insight and detailed information about the 'Gilmore-verse' and is the most comprehensive guide written about the lives of the Gilmore Girls, and the town of Stars Hollow, to date. At over 600 pages, consider this your all-inclusive encyclopedia of all the cultural capital that this show had to offer--a Gilmore guide to life. You won't want to watch the show again without it!

"I was lucky enough to grow up during the golden age of Top 40 AM radio and enjoying the best DJs in the business. We all listened to Bill Randle, Carl Reese, Phil McLean, Johnny Holiday, and of course Alan Freed and Mad Daddy. We exhibited our 'smarts' by pretending to know which hits would be # 1, next week. What my friends didn't know was my inside track with DJ's like Alan Freed coming to my house to go over play lists with my dad Leo who, of course, told Alan what would be 'selling' the next week. Although a distant memory, I believe Rock 'n' Roll owes its existence to all these great jocks giving the music we loved a vehicle to expand, last, and become part of our entire generation. Radio today isn't a shadow of the media of the 50's and 60's when the personalities like Pete 'Mad Daddy' truly were bigger than life and made radio fun to listen to. Now, when I was certain I remembered that good old age, these pages thoughtfully written by Janice and Mike Olszewski do indeed inform me of how much I didn't know."- Stuart Mintz, son of Leo Mintz, who saw it all firsthand "Rick (Lux) would be upstairs in his bedroom at our house spinning his countless collection of early rock n roll records, reading Mad magazine, and listening to the Mad Daddy radio show fueling his fire for his love of rock n roll. I was his young toddler brother first witnessing all this and seeing for the first time who was to become the great rock n roll madman Lux Interior of the Cramps. It was a powerful sight that created my own fire for music. Lux would be the first in line to buy this book."- Michael Purkhiser, musician, writer and electronics designer "The story of Pete Myers and his on-air persona, the Mad Daddy, is finally set straight in Janice and Mike Olszewski's ultimate bio of this legendary Cleveland radio god. This long-anticipated tome is a bubbling brew of history and hysterics, filled with facts and foibles of the fast-talking disc jockey who unknowingly influenced generations of bop-infested no-counts, and reset the horizontal for all inspired radio to come. Essential reading and absolutely recommended!"- Miriam Linna, Cramps / Norton Records / Kicksville Radio "I've been to Alan Phreed's grave in Cleveland, and Mad Daddy left us long ago. This book lets their memory live on!"- Phlash Phelps, Sirius XM "Sixties Gold"

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, North American guitarists showed great interest in the compositions of European guitar composers. The guitar works of J. K. Mertz (1806-1856) were clearly favored among the American virtuosi at that time as confirmed in concert programs, in correspondence, and in the numerous American fretted instrument journals, such as Cadenza, Crescendo, S. S. Stewart's Banjo and Guitar Journal, and Etude. This study provides a detailed survey of these sources, as well as collections, archival materials, and manuscripts pertaining to Mertz during this period.Information concerning the life and works of J. K. Mertz and his reception in Europe is followed by an introduction to the guitar in America and an assessment of the stature of Mertz's music in America at the time. Subsequent chapters provide new biographical data for prominent American guitarists including Charles J. Dorn, Arling Shaeffer, Walter Vreeland, C. D. Schettler, C. F. Elzear Fiset, Jennie M. Durkee, Vahdah Olcott-Bickford, William Foden, George C. Krick, J. M. and Gertrude Miller, and Carl W. F. Jansen. Chapters 11-13 chronicle the pertinent activities of these guitarists that resulted in the preservation of significant manuscript copies of Mertz's works.Manuscript copies of three previously lost concert works by Mertz preserved in American collections are described. Further topics included are Mertz in American pedagogical writings, the dissemination of his music, and associations between American and European guitarists. The conclusion discusses the introduction of the music of Tárrega and his followers to American guitarists.

"Fundamentos del Piano Jazz" es una guía clara y detallada de los primeros pasos para el estudio del piano jazz. Cada una de las doce unidades presenta lecciones, ejercicios, licks, actividades, guías de escucha y planes de práctica para una práctica organizada, productiva y creativa.Las lecciones guían paso a paso a los estudiantes hacia un dominio en la improvisación, símbolos de acordes, lectura de leadsheets, voicings, articulación y ritmo swing, acompañamiento, como tocar líneas de bajo, personalizar una melodía, el blues, bossa nova y mucho más. Cada unidad incluye también preguntas frecuentes y contenido audiovisual exclusivo para asegurar que cada tema sea presentado en profundidad y de forma clara. Este libro está diseñado para utilizarse en conjunto con el Real Book, Volumen 6. Recomendado para pianistas con conocimiento de todas las escalas mayores y la coordinación suficiente para tocar un Nocturno de Chopin o Invención de Bach.

Actress Lindsay Wagner's portrayal of THE BIONIC WOMAN launched her to international stardom, but that was not the beginning or the end of her amazing career! LINDSAY WAGNER - THE WORKS chronicles all facets of Lindsay Wagner's trailblazing career, and offers a detailed look at her numerous projects - including her Early Years, Feature Films, Television Guest Appearances, TV Series, TV Movies & Mini-Series, Specials, Endorsements, Public Service, Personal Appearances, Product Covers, and more!

Evening in the Bumblebee's Garden is a book of woodcut style flower prints and rhythmic, rhyming poetry for children.

Dear reader,Thank you very much for purchasing this photobook. My name is Vojtech Zalcik and I am a Czech photographer. I have been taking photographs for over 20 years. This color photobook offers my personal view on what to see in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. The major places to visit include the Prague Castle (Hradcany), Charles Bridge (Karluv most), Old Town Square (Staromestske namesti) with the Prague astronomical clock (Orloj), Mala Strana (Lesser Town), Vaclavske namesti (Wenceslas Square), Vysehrad Castle, or the Petrin hill. The book contains 244 color photographs with subtitles and I hope that you will find the insipiration for your visit inside.Thank you!With best regards,Vojtech Zalcik

Dear reader,Thank you very much for purchasing this photobook. My name is Vojtech Zalcik and I have been taking photographs for over 20 years. I am a Czech photographer, based in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. This color photobook offers my personal view on what to see in Paris, the capital of France. Whether you like the iconic Eiffel Tower, take a walk up the Montmartre hill to visit the Basilica of Sacre Coeur, visit the Arc de Triomphe, shop on the Avenue des Champs Elysees, see the Louvre Museum, visit the show in the cabaret Moulin Rouge, see the view of Paris from the top of Tour Montparnasse or go to the financial quarter La Defense, take a walk around the Place de la Concorde, visit Centre Georges Pompidou or relax along the Seine river, you may find the inspiration inside.Merci!With best regards,Vojtech Zalcikwww.vojtechzalcik.com

Jim Wyman is the last full-time resident on a one-lane, dirt, dead-end road at the tip of a long peninsula in the middle of a very large lake in northern Vermont. He was born and raised in the foothills of the Longfellow Range of the Appalachian Mountains in western Maine. Never having lived more than 50 miles away from 45 degrees north latitude, he has grown to appreciate the texture of the woods, fields, and hills of Northern New England, and the myriad of colors-ranging from the cold black and white of winter to the light-filled prism of a hardwood forest in fall.In an effort to capture and share his mind's eye view of this beauty, Jim studied film photography and quickly realized he was allergic to darkroom chemicals. Then came digital photography. As a published poet, Jim admired the work of Ann Atwood and her gift for combining poetry with photography. It was then he began to experiment with the possibility of blending his poetry with his photography using digital photographic applications and techniques. His intention was to meld the visual impact of New England landscape photography with the mind's eye view-the poem. This book is the result of his efforts.

Ever since the Civil War the history of the Christian Church in England has been characterised by a threefold division, into the Anglicanism of the State, Roman Catholicism slowly being tolerated again and the fastest growing sector, Protestant Nonconformity. The great urban expansion of the 19th century saw the building of thousands of new chapels and meeting houses which form a significant part of the built heritage of our cities, towns and villages.This study covers Nonconformist buildings in the modern Metropolitan county of Tyne and Wear, including the two cities of Newcastle and Sunderland. Taking World War II as its cutoff point, it identifies almost 900 chapels, only about a quarter of which survive today, with barely half of these still in their original use. They vary from the huge Town Chapels seating over a thousand to tiny 'Tin Tabernacles'. A surprising contrast emerges between the traditional Anglicanism of Newcastle (where the 1851 census shows that there was a chapel for every 1145 inhabitants) and the fervent Nonconformity of Sunderland (where there was a chapel for every 639).Nonconformist buildings are of importance both architecturally and as witness to social history. The dwindling of congregations means that many have been demolished or turned to other uses and they, and their builders, have not received the attention that they deserved. This book aims to be their Ebenezer - an Old Testament word for 'a stone of memorial' - and do something to redress that balance.

La composición de esta Sonata estuvo inspirada en las sonoridades de diferentes obras de autores franceses. Siempre me cautivaron las sensaciones sonoras de la Introducción y Allegro para Arpa, Flauta, Clarinete y Cuarteto de Cuerda de Maurice Ravel, la Sonata para Flauta y Piano de Darius Milhaud o la obra para Arpa y Cuarteto de Cuerda Conts Fantastique de André Caplet. Pero, sobre todas estas composiciones, la Sonata para Flauta, Viola y Arpa de Claude Debussy fue un modelo a seguir por su forma y espíritu musical como mi particular homenaje a la música del compositor francés. En el primer movimiento, "Confrontación", tras una breve introducción se "confrontan" dos temas de carácter bien diferenciado, que configuran una clara forma sonata: el primero, muy romántico y apasionado, con una armonía poliacordal, el segundo tema, calmo y sosegado, sugerente, dentro de un sistema pandiatónico. Ambos dan paso a un desarrollo donde se vuelve a dar la confrontación entre el primer tema y el motivo de la introducción, para desembocar en el segundo tema transformado. En el segundo movimiento, "Contemplación", de nuevo la forma sonata aparece con dos nuevos temas de carácter contrastante pero más pausados y contemplativos. Tras el desarrollo ambos temas se reexponen variados. En el tercer movimiento el arpa realiza una figuración en semicorcheas similar a la del "Final" de la Sonata de Debussy, mientras que la flauta recuerda a la fanfarria inicial de Petrushka de Stravinsky, la cual da paso a un tema más melódico en la viola. El desarrollo desemboca en la introducción del primer tiempo, lo cual otorga unidad a toda la obra, dando paso de nuevo al tema inicial del movimiento en forma de cierre de la obra, a modo de "Conclusión". La obra fue escrita en el año 2000, y la presente versión en 2008, la cual está dedicada a Mª Rosa Calvo-Manzano.

This is a collection of artwork created by Jason Strickler

In a series of articles, Chris Wade looks at the first half of Martin Scorsese's film career; from the early student shorts of the mid sixties, through the visceral seventies with films like Mean Streets and Taxi Driver, on to undisputed classics such as Raging Bull and Goodfellas, and culminating with 1995's underrated masterpiece Casino. This remarkable run of movies is arguably unmatched to this day, films which helped reshape and redefine the laws of cinema. This book is a tribute to a remarkable era in movie history, telling the story of one of its true geniuses through his finest cinematic moments.

Pandemics and the changing built environment. Learning from history, planning our future: book of abstractsEdited by Alessandro Camiz, Louai Al Hussein, Anna LinnikDRUM Press, Istanbul, 2022Imprint: Lulu.comISBN: 978-1-4717-1824-3166 pages

This is a hip hop holiday coloring book. It's a fun, unique way to get the kids in your life engaged with the Christmas magic.

Immerse yourself in the beauty and wonder of nature with this delightful coloring book. The Hey Charlie Project invites you on a spectacular journey through the jungle and the forest, where you'll encounterababoon,bear,rhinoceroses, dingo, andmanymore incrediblecreatures. Withdetailed illustrations,this book is an ideal way to unwindandrelaxwhileunleashingyourhiddencreativity.Colorawayyour tensionandletthe relaxing benefits ofcoloring transportyou to a world of peace and tranquility. Thisbook is foreveryone, whetheryou're a teen, an adult, or a kid at heart! Surveys have found that coloring reduces stress, heightens focus, and fosters relaxation. It's theprime way to decompressafter anarduousday and retreat from the everyday hustleand bustle.Grab your coloring supplies and prepare to be amazed and dazzled!

Cuando René Mora me propuso escribir una obra para su original grupo, "Eco Ensemble", nos planteamos realizar una serie de piezas cortas que fuesen agradables de escuchar y también entretenidas de tocar por los intérpretes. Dado que en ese año de 2009 coincidía la efemérides del centenario del fallecimiento de Isaac Albéniz, decidimos realizar un homenaje al compositor de Camprodón. Quizá su obra más importante y representativa sea su suite para piano "Iberia", la cual hemos caricaturizado en referencia a las líneas aéreas españolas. Todo el material temático surge de cada una de las piezas de la "Iberia", aunque se presenta reelaborado en forma de pequeñas miniaturas o "perlas", donde los efectos realizados por la bandurria y la guitarra aportan su especial tímbrica contrastando con la flauta, el violín y el violoncello. Hay una versión con dos guitarras en lugar de bandurria y guitarra (Op. 39b), y otra que incluye clarinete en lugar de violín (Op. 39c). En este caso hemos sustituido las dos guitarras por piano.El humor, ese aspecto casi desconocido en la música, es el centro de esta obra realizada con todo el respeto y admiración hacia la "Iberia" y su autor, Albéniz, enfocada desde una óptica "satieniana". El texto incluido puede recitarse junto a la interpretación de la obra, cuya versión fue encargada por Carlos Galán y está dedicada a él y a su "Grupo Cosmos XXI".Alejandro Román, Octubre de 2.021

Cities in Evolution. Diachronic Transformations of Urban and Rural Settlements,Proceedings of the VIII AACCP symposium, Özye¿in University, Istanbul 2021,Volume II, Edited by Zeynep Ceylanl¿, Pelin Günay and Ezgi Çiçek, DRUM Press,Istanbul, 2023, Printed by Lulu.com, Raleigh, NC, USAISBN: 978-1-4478-0517-5Dynamic Research on Urban Morphology Books, 4Book series directed by Alessandro Camizhttp://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/drum/books/Copyright © 2023 Alessandro CamizAll the papers in this volume were double peer-reviewed by the symposium'sscientific committee.The editors of this volume decline all responsibilities for the images published inthis volume, the authors are responsible for the images provided in their paper.AACCP (Architecture, Archaeology and Contemporary City Planning)General coordinators:Per Elias Cornell, University of Gothenburg, SwedenGiorgio Verdiani, University of Florence, ItalyLiisa Seppänen, University of Turku, FinlandÖzye¿in University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Dynamic Research onUrban Morphology-DRUM laboratoryDiachronic transformations of the built environmenthttps://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/drum

This extraordinary book is an exploration of the author's childhood dreamscapes, where the lines between reality and imagination blur. The dream serves as a metaphorical backdrop, illuminating the transformative potential of our actions and the profound impact they can have on those we encounter. Through the lens of a young protagonist named Refa, readers are taken on a mesmerising journey that traverses the dreamworld, revealing the struggles, fears, and insecurities that arise from navigating social interactions.

Cuatro breves piezas para Coro y Orquesta infantil y juvenil sobre motivos chinos.