Download Planet Ink: The Art and Studios of the World's Top Tattoo by Dale Rio PDF

By Dale Rio

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have engaged in ritualistic marking of the surface to spot themselves as a member of a tribe, of a lineage, of a mind-set, or of a culture. the traditional paintings of tattooing is a convention we feature directly to at the present time. whereas the earlier 10 years have visible no scarcity of books approximately tattoos and tattooing, so much are top defined as “idea books.” formerly, none have profiled the world’s most famed artists throughout numerous kinds. This booklet explores this most elementary type of self-expression via showcasing the studios and paintings of 18 of the world’s most sensible tattoo artists, together with Sulu’ape Angela (San Diego), Aaron Bell (Seattle), insects (Los Angeles), Mo Cappoletta (London), Madame Chan (Brussels), Daniel DiMattia (Liege), Durga (Jakarta), Gakkin (Kyoto), Horiryu (Costa Mesa), Henning Jorgensen (Copenhagen), Rory Keating (San Diego), Brent McCowan (Carinthia), Maneko (Brasilia), Keone Nunes (Oahu), midday (New York/London/Berlin), Sua Sulu’ape Petelo (Sydney), Te Rangitu (Waipapa), and Simon & Eddie (Hartama). each one bankruptcy profiles the artist within the context of the place she or he matches into the final culture of tattooing, whereas the photographs exhibit not just the paintings but additionally the artists and their workspaces.

About the Author
Dale Rio is an artist, photographer, and author at present dwelling in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She has written and contributed to 8 books, together with Tattoo (Running Press, 2005), and her writing has seemed in different books on tattooing, burlesque, and curler derby, in addition to in periodicals epidermis Deep, overall Tattoo, and Kerrang!. She is usually the co-founder and editor of Blood & Thunder curler derby journal and Shimmy burlesque magazine.
 

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Download Jeff Smith's Guide to Head and Shoulders Portraits by Jeff Smith PDF

By Jeff Smith

After interpreting all of the sparkling stories of this booklet, i used to be watching for whatever actually outstanding. After completing the booklet, i will not aid yet consider a bit upset. approximately forty% of the e-book has not anything to do with easy methods to take head and shoulders photographs (or any photographs, for that matter), yet quite with the enterprise of images, and the way to make yours extra ecocnomic. it kind of feels this publication is aimed, now not on the beginner photographer, yet on the professional who is trying to enhance his company. He is going on approximately how to define out what a consumer desires, how one can deal with them, what issues to have on hand at your studio, and so forth. this can be all solid details if you desire it, yet probably he must have stored it for a e-book entitled "The enterprise of images" or anything. so much of his feedback easily wouldn't observe to an beginner. for instance, he indicates hiring assistants to do nearly every little thing other than take the pictures, claiming "You make thousands of bucks an hour at the back of the digicam, but if you take a seat on the computing device, you are doing the task of somebody making twelve money an hour." good, that is all advantageous, yet it is not what i used to be trying to find in a ebook with the name "Jeff Smith's consultant to go and Shoulders Portraits". i used to be hoping for...I do not know...maybe a few info on the way to take nice head and shoulders pix. it isn't like most people studying this e-book are capable of rent plenty of assistants. If I had that sort of cash, i would just pay a professional seasoned photographer to coach me every little thing he knows.

Mr. Smith is going on and on approximately how one can make your images enterprise ecocnomic, and primarily states that, in case you do not stick with his suggestion, you can be a kind of photographers complaining approximately being placed into chapter 11 by means of "soccer mothers with dSLR's". He time and again emphasizes the significance of understanding what your clients wishes and needs are. yet he does not appear to remember the fact that this publication is probably no longer being learn through fellow pros, yet by means of the very "soccer mothers" and different amateurs he rails opposed to. i feel he has did not take his personal recommendation and has positioned out a ebook that does not meet the expectancies of his clients.

Now, the explanation I provide the e-book 3 stars and never only one is since it does comprise a few priceless information regarding posing and lights the topic, and his graphics are really wonderful. after all, it is helping that he runs a really high-end images studio, and his consumers are the "beautiful humans" of California, now not the typical Joe or Jane. i am not convinced his lighting fixtures setup, which leans extra towards style lighting fixtures than portraiture, will be acceptable for many consumers. nonetheless, the booklet indicates the lighting fixtures concepts and posing rather well. He additionally is going into aspect on posing the palms, head, shoulders, or even the eyes. it truly is only a disgrace that he wasted a lot house on details that won't on subject. I want he had long past into extra element on a variety of lighting fixtures setups, yet it appears he did not have sufficient room. evidently, he felt that together with info on find out how to inventory tampons simply because "the commonplace girl starts off her interval at unforeseen occasions in embarrassing areas and has no hygiene items" used to be extra very important.

I'm protecting the publication, so Jeff has made his revenue off of me, which appears to be like his major aim. yet I will not be placing him on my record of authors to shop for from within the future.

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Download Principles and Practice of Controlled Ovarian Stimulation in by Surveen Ghumman PDF

By Surveen Ghumman

This publication is on ovulation induction and regulated ovarian stimulation that's an essential component of so much infertility remedies like intrauterine insemination and in vitro fertilization. it'll care for reasons of anovulation and symptoms for ovarian stimulation. This e-book offers with fundamentals in addition to present and complicated practices. It offers a step-by-step protocol for ovarian stimulation. It supplies a transparent figuring out of the technological know-how of reproductive endocrinology in the back of those stimulation protocols and roadmaps the most recent cures, defining their present relevance to remedy. in addition to the sensible information it additionally covers most modern examine paintings performed during this box. during this day of knowledge overload it's an try to combine correct info in a way which might be utilized in infertility perform in proof dependent demeanour, making it rational, logical and worthwhile for the reader.

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Download The Art of Raising a Puppy (Revised Edition) by Monks of New Skete PDF

By Monks of New Skete

For greater than thirty years the priests of latest Skete were between America's such a lot relied on specialists on puppy education, canines habit, and the animal/human bond.

In their now-classic bestsellers, How to be Your Dog's most sensible Friend and The paintings of elevating a Puppy, the clergymen draw on their adventure as long-time breeders of German shepherds and as running shoes of canines of all breeds to provide--brilliantly distilled--the imperative details and suggestion that each puppy proprietor needs.

This re-creation of The paintings of elevating a Puppy beneficial properties new pictures all through, in addition to up to date chapters on play, crating, adopting canines from shelters and rescue organisations, elevating canine in an city atmosphere, and the most recent advancements in canines overall healthiness and dogs behavioral thought.

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Download Through the Eyes of Vincent Van Gogh by Barrington Barber PDF

By Barrington Barber

View the realm as visible during the eyes of the mythical artist Vincent Van Gogh during this follow-up to the wildly profitable in the course of the Eyes of Leonardo da Vinci. appealing colour illustrations by means of Van Gogh are followed through informative and attractive textual content. find out about the topics, factors, and meanings at the back of the drawings and work of 1 of the main attention-grabbing artists of the 19th century. All of Van Gogh's significant works are the following, from pix similar to that of postman Joseph-Etienne Roulin to the best-known panorama "Starry Night."

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Download Musik & Eros by Hans-Jürgen Döpp PDF

By Hans-Jürgen Döpp

?Wenn die Musik der Liebe Nahrung ist, spielt weiter." (Shakespeare, used to be Ihr Wollt). Die Musik ist nicht nur eine Freude für die Ohren; sie ist auch das Echo des Herzschlags, des Atems und des Verlangens. Professor Döpp deutet die Musik als Katalysator für Tanz, Liebe und intercourse. Vom Notenblatt, über den Tanz bis hin zu den Instrumenten ist die Musik der Ausdruck unserer tiefen Sehnsüchte und stärksten Leidenschaften. Dieser textual content befasst sich mit der Musik und der Kunst von den Tänzen der ersten Menschen über den Bauchtanz bis hin zur Popmusik und elektronischen Musik. Das Buch Musik & Eros nimmt uns mit auf eine Zeitreise, um die Beziehungen zwischen Musik und Sexualität zu erforschen.

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Download Art and Identity in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium: Hagia by Antony Eastmond PDF

By Antony Eastmond

The church of Hagia Sophia in Trebizond, outfitted by way of the emperor Manuel I Grand Komnenos (1238-63) within the aftermath of the autumn of Constantinople to the Fourth campaign, is the best surviving Byzantine imperial monument of its interval. paintings and identification in Thirteenth-Century Byzantium is the 1st research of the church in additional than thirty years, and is greatly illustrated in color and black-and-white, with many pictures that experience by no means formerly been released. Antony Eastmond examines the architectural, sculptural and painted of the church, putting them within the context of up to date advancements in other places within the Byzantine international, in Seljuq Anatolia and one of the Caucasian neighbours of Trebizond. wisdom of this region has been reworked within the final two decades, following the cave in of the Soviet Union. the hot proof that has emerged permits a considerably assorted interpretation of the church to be reached, and opens questions of cultural interchange at the borders of the Christian and Muslim worlds of jap Anatolia, the Caucasus and Persia. This learn makes use of the church and its ornament to check questions of Byzantine id and imperial ideology within the thirteenth century. this can be important to any realizing of the interval, because the fall of Constantinople in 1204 divided the Byzantine empire and compelled the successor states in Nicaea, Epiros and Trebizond to redefine their techniques of empire in exile. paintings is right here exploited as major historic facts for the character of imperial strength in a contested empire. it is strongly recommended that imperial identification was firm as a lot by way of craftsmen and expectancies of imperial energy as via the emperor's decree; and that this used to be a reputable substitute Byzantine id to that constructed within the empire of Nicaea.

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Download On the Cusp of an Era: Art in the Pre-Ku?a?a World (Brill's by Srinivasan, D.M. (ed.) PDF

By Srinivasan, D.M. (ed.)

South Asian non secular artwork grew to become codified in the course of the Kusana interval (ca. starting of the second to the mid third century). but, to this point, neither the chronology nor nature of Kusana artwork, marked by means of nice variety, is easily understood. The Kusana Empire was once large, stretching from Uzbekistan via northern India, and its multicultural creative expressions turned the fountainhead for a lot of South Asian artwork. the basis of this ebook is that Kusana paintings achieves larger readability via analyses of the humanities and cultures of the Pre Kusana international, these lands turning into the Empire. Fourteen papers during this e-book through prime specialists on nearby topography and connective pathways; interregional, multicultural comparisons; paintings ancient, archaeological, epigraphic, numismatic and textual reports symbolize the 1st coordinated attempt having this concentration.

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