I couldn't wait for this book, and I am please that this exciting event has had a book printed in its honour. Charlie Waite, one of the UK's most celebrated and respected landscape photographers is this events brainchild and the book is published by AA Publishing.
The book opens to an introduction, covering the competitions categories, the sponsors and special prizes. There is then a foreword...
If any comic has a claim to have truly reinvigorated the genre then The Dark Knight Returns by Frank Miller--known recently for his excellent Sin City series and, previously, for his superb rendering of the blind superhero Daredevil--is probably the supreme contender. Batman represented all that was wrong in comics and Miller set himself a tough task taking on the camp crusader...
If you are at all interested in street art, this book is a definite must. I'm not that much into street art, but after having a thumb through this at the school library, I was actually tempted to graffiti my local neighbourhood (this is coming from a very strictly law-abiding citizen...)!
Never have I looked in an art book, and actually laughed so much! Strange you may think, to be laughing...
The portfolio gets better and better every year but in 2008 there has been a significant improvement in the way the pictures reflect the animals in their natural environment.
Take the example of the 2 eagles fighting over a carcass or the bat flying in the jungle, every picture has an interesting story about the painstaking weeks (months in some cases) that it took to produce it.
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Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways is an absolutely extraordinary and inexhaustible "guide to visual awareness", a virtually indescribable concoction of anecdotes, quotes, images and bizarre facts that offers a wonderfully twisted vision of the chaos of modern life. Fletcher is a renowned designer and art director and the joy of The Art of Looking Sideways lies in its beautiful...
Just feel I should add that most of this left-brain/right-brain stuff is just myth, mostly from the 1800s. Modern brain imaging shows that the two sides of the brain are very interdependent and complementary. About the only thing that remains true is that the right side of the brain controls the left side of the body and the left side of the brain controls the right side of the body. Otherwise creativity...
Strange, inexplicable, yet weirdly compelling set of images. Some are intensely evocative, capturing perfectly the essence of life experiences in any city. The lonely wait for the late night bus, the sad wait for a no-show date, the mundane journey home from work. Others are more lighthearted and surreal, like the near fatal pigeon-pooh close shave, and some are definitely sinister. The London setting...
With the basic principle that creative expression is the natural direction of life, Julia Cameron and Mark Bryan lead you through a comprehensive 12-week program to recover your creativity from a variety of blocks, including limiting beliefs, fear, self-sabotage, jealousy, guilt, addictions and other inhibiting forces, replacing them with artistic confidence and productivity.
