Diller + Scofidio: Eyebeam Atelier of New Media & Technology: The Charles and Ray Eames Lecture

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Diller + Scofidio: Eyebeam Atelier of New Media & Technology: The Charles and Ray Eames Lecture
Kenneth Mitnick , Elizabeth Diller , Ricardo Scofidio , and Keith Mitnick
Manufacturer: University of Michigan, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 1891197258
Release Date: 2003-07-02

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The work of Diller + Scofidio questions how architecture may contribute to a probing and unresolved engagement with the world by challenging the images of stability and control we conventionally confer upon our buildings. Their new design for The Eyebeam Atelier in New York not only reveals the innards of the museum by making a huge transparent billboard of the people, art and media-technology it contains, it also frames the intrinsically mutable identity of any contemporary cultural institution. In the end their proposition for this new media arts and performance center does much more than simply provide an armature for a new vision of art and technology--it produces vision itself.

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In Create Your Own Artist's Journal, Erin O'Toole helps artists capture those fleeting moments of inspiration and beauty that compel them to create. She begins by showing them how to observe and record what they see; composing images that come alive with color and movement.

O'Toole also discusses the materials involved in keeping a journal, and offers advice for finding interesting subjects, painting from memory and improvising sketches as a scene changes. Finally, she provides guidelines for compiling a portable journaling "kit" that artists can take with them anywhere!

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Lovely Nature-Sketching Guide.......2003-08-22

In Create Your Own Artist's Journal, Erin O'Toole opens her hand-made journals and tells how you can create one too. This North Light art book is packed with large format color illustrations (she uses pencil, pen, colored pencil, watercolor and gouache) and tips for drawing and painting, page layout and even establishing a routine of sketching. Mrs. O'Toole includes ideas for materials and suggestions for the kit to carry with you when you sketch away from home. There are recommendations for color; tips for drawing specific subjects: houses, people, animals, etc. and sections on sharing your artwork in print or over the internet (she gives scanner settings). This book reminds me of Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady which Mrs. O'Toole recommends. She also suggests other favorite titles.

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The Forest People -- Colin M. Turnbull's best-selling, classic work -- describes the author's experiences while living with the BaMbuti Pygmies, not as a clinical observer, but as their friend learning their customs and sharing their daily life.

Turnbull conveys the lives and feelings of the BaMbuti whose existence centers on their intense love for their forest world, which, in return for their affection and trust, provides their every need. We witness their hunting parties and nomadic camps; their love affairs and ancient ceremonies -- the molimo, in which they praise the forest as provider, protector, and deity; the elima, in which the young girls come of age; and the nkumbi circumcision rites, in which the villagers of the surrounding non-Pygmy tribes attempt to impose their culture on the Pygmies, whose forest home they dare not enter.

The Forest People eloquently shows us a people who have found in the forest something that makes their life more than just living -- a life that, with all its hardships and problems and tragedies, is a wonderful thing of happiness and joy.

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Enjoyable Reading.......2007-09-05

I love this book, it is well written, informative and interesting;
The story of the Molimo gave me great joy!

Excellent.......2006-01-01

This beautiful anthropoligical work told in a srory is extrenmle fascinating.THE FOREST PEOPLE echoes such works as USURPER AND OTHER STORIE, and SAN PEOPLE. I was completely captivated by this book, which is why I read it four times this winter. It is taking me a step forward in coming to terms with life's different perspectives.

Excellent.......2006-01-01

Anthropologists get punked.......2005-11-01

I can only agree with the "common humanity" sentiments expressed- especially that feature of humans leading them to take the piss out of newcomers.
Turbull utterly uncritically accepts what he is told. He takes a pygmy out onto the plain and drives him up to a Buffalo and the guy expresses surprise at Turnbull's ability to turn an insect (buffalo far away) into a large creature close up.
Come off it!
This pygmy hunts for food and can probably knock a monkey off a branch at 50 yards and he has no depth perception? He's having a laugh at Turnbulls expense!
Read Chagnon on the tricks th Yanomamo used to play on him. A much better anthropologist and less patronising too.

Excellent Transaction!.......2005-10-12

The item was received in a timely manner and was in perfect condition. I would buy from seller again.

Efe Pygmies : Archers of the African Rain Forest

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A Beautiful and Moving Book.

Efe Pygmies : Archers of the African Rain Forest
William Wheeler
Manufacturer: Rizzoli International Publications
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0847821625
Release Date: 2000-12-15

Book Description

Efe Pygmies is a portrait of an endangered people and place. This volume presents a visual portrayal of the Efe pygmies of the Congo, the world's oldest pure-blooded ethnic group and one of its most remote.

Through this book's photography and text, the world can now discover a way of life that has remained intact for thousands of years deep within the reaches of the Ituri rain forest. This volume reflects the seasonally based life of the Efe: boys and men at hunt, family life in the camps, dancing and music making, and bark and body painting. Providing a unique perspective on a people who have been virtually inaccessible until now and capturing the mysterious, sensual quality of the rain forest itself, this special edition is a unique treasure that sheds unprecedented light on an endangered people and environment.

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A Beautiful and Moving Book........2001-01-03

Efe pygmies: Archers of the African Rain Forest is a sumptuously illustrated tome that will long grace my coffee table. The main part of the book - a subtle photographic study depicting the Efe subsisting precariously but harmoniously in the depths of the Ituri forest - is preceded by a brief but fascinating scene-setting section of white-on-black text.

The author presents vivid visual and verbal images of his subjects making baskets, carrying hunting nets, filing their teeth, smoking tobacco, playing music, dispatching a net-caught antelope, touchingly expressing grief at the death of a newborn, and fleeing from their leaf huts into the night beneath a cracking and crashing, lightning-weakened tree.

Skillful, intimate photography makes us yearn for the easy laughter and simplicity of these gentle, peaceful people, yet we are simultaneously made aware of the dangers and discomforts they must constantly face.

It is a fitting tribute to a people as "primitive" and untouched by global culture as any on earth, and the precariousness of their independence. Moreover, it is a compelling and persuasive insight into our own hunting and gathering origins, and the thoughts, feelings, and reactions we all share as part of the human family.

While William Wheeler's book may not lead us to put on treebark loin cloths and chase wildlife through the forest, it is an evocative portrayal of another culture, one that can teach us something about how to live surrounded by danger and dark forces and yet keep on reverentially singing, laughing, and living for the moment.

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Unique Designs Concepts.......2007-01-06

The designs of the Mbuti are unique and ephemeral. They have a very interesting and inspirational aesthetic that consistently influences my own artwork.

Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa

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Houses in the Rainforest: Ethnicity and Inequality Among Farmers and Foragers in Central Africa
Roy Richard Grinker
Manufacturer: University of California Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0520089758

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This is the first ethnographic study of the farmers and foragers of northeastern Zaire since Colin Turnbull's classic works of the 1960s. Roy Richard Grinker lived for nearly two years among the Lese farmers and their long-term partners, the Efe (Pygmies), learned their languages, and gained unique insights into their complex social relations and ethnic identities. By showing how political organization is structured by ethnic and gender relations in the Lese house, Grinker challenges previous views of the Lese and Efe and other farmer-forager societies, as well as the conventional anthropological boundary between domestic and political contexts.

The Okapi: Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire

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Okapis Rock!
The Okapi: Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire

The Okapi: Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire
Susan Lyndaker Lindsey , Mary Neel Green , and Cynthia L. Bennett
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0292747071

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"This book will have long-lasting effects on conservation of the okapi and preservation of the forest: the authors' research will heighten awareness of the plight of the okapi, and their royalties will go directly to helping...the Ituri Forest conservation program. You will be helping if you buy this book and encourage your friends to do the same. Okapis have a special place in the natural world, and it is up to us to ensure that they and their forests survive."

—Jane Goodall

Congo-Zaire contains Africa's largest remaining tracts of intact rain forest, making it one of the most important regions for biodiversity conservation. Its Ituri Forest is home to plants and animals native to nowhere else on earth, including the elusive and little-known okapi.

In this popularly written book, three long-time observers of the okapi present a complete, contemporary natural history of this appealing relative of the giraffe. They recount its discovery by European explorers and describe its appearance and life cycle. They also discuss current efforts to preserve the species, both in the wild and at zoos around the world.

Illustrated with charming line drawings, The Okapi will be a valuable resource for conservationists and zoo visitors alike-indeed anyone fascinated by the mysterious animal of Congo-Zaire.

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Okapis Rock!.......2004-06-11

The book had very interesting pictures. It was informative in writing a report on okapis. It is useful resourse material.

The Okapi: Mysterious Animal of Congo-Zaire.......2001-10-23

The okapi was discovered in 1901 and is sometimes called the forest giraffe. Little was known about it until recently; it lives in the rainforest of the Democratic Republic of Congo (previously known as Zaire). The okapi is very unique and only about 200 are found in captivity; wild populations are threatened. This is the first book in English about this endangered species. The book brings together all that is known about the okapi in a very readable format and is illustrated with lovely drawings by one of the authors. The book is introduced by renowned scientist Dr. Jane Goodall; ALL royalties are used in the country of Congo-Zaire to preserve the rainforest, the okapi and all the other plants and animals which call this place home.

Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias

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Harmony society Expose
What a stunner!!!

Angel in the Forest: A Fairy Tale of Two Utopias
Marguerite Young , and Mark Van Doren
Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press
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Binding: Paperback

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history of utopian 19th-c New Harmony, Indiana

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Harmony society Expose.......2003-10-06

I read this book only for the content about George Rapp's Harmony Society. I found the style tedious and sarcastic. Young portrays George Rapp as a mystical despot and members of the society as under his thrall. However,she presented several points which interested me, especially regarding Rapp's views on celibacy. She implies that he emasculated his son (who subsequently died) when that son and his wife conceived a child. This may be true, but there are no bibliographic references in the book. I can't tell if this is an exageration for literary emphasis or fact. This book seems to belittle the dignity of the Harmony Society members. As someone with ties to the original Harmony Society, I found this unsettling.

What a stunner!!!.......2001-10-17

This book is difficult but so marvelous that it is well worth the effort required. If you are wed to the idea of so-help-me-God facts, this book isn't for you. It is full of magic and mystery and sheer out-and-out glorius poetry.

It is full of moonlight, spiderwebs and golden raintrees. If this book were visual art it would be a William Morris wallpaper.

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A rich, interdisciplinary study of Central African land ethics incorporating conversations with local rainforest inhabitants that yield vibrant new insights into the dilemmas of sustaining Africa's rainforests and its people. In Conversations in the Rainforest, Richard B. Peterson combines interdisciplinary research and intimate, first-hand conversations with members of various indigenous communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He reveals the startling depth and clarity of local peoples' perspectives on nature, on Western-backed conservation projects, and on the challenges of preserving Africa's rainforests. In doing so, Peterson points toward an environmental ethic applicable to rainforests and to the world at large. Can any lessons for long-term environmental sustainability come from Africa, a continent long perceived more as a cauldron of environmental disasters than a cradle of environmental solutions? In Conversations in the Rainforest, Richard B. Peterson answers an emphatic yes. Peterson deftly interweaves the ideas of African and Africanist historians, theologians, anthropologists, philosophers, writers, and ecologists with a series of remarkable conversations he shared with inhabitants of the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yet, rather than remain in the background of his analysis, these conversations-on subjects ranging from traditional interpretations of nature to contemporary indigenous perspectives on modern environmental challenges-constitute the very core of this book. Through this enlightening and frequently mesmerizing narrative approach, Peterson brings the foundations of Central African land ethics into vivid relief. With uncommon empathy and insight, he shows how ecological and social sustainability projects in the region can be based more firmly on these foundations. This book holds invaluable lessons for environmental practitioners, scholars, and anyone interested in long-term environmental sustainability on a global level.

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We are part of nature not set apart from it........2002-04-07

Professor Peterson believes that:
1)The commercialized use, more than indigenous peoples' use of the forest lies at the root of Africa's environmental problems.
2)Central African traditional ecological knowledge suggests that we would do better to try to control the market forces that lead to overexploitation of the environment rather than unjustly restrict the subsistence practices of people who have lived in these forests much longer than ourselves.
3)The environmental wisdom of Central African forest peoples stems from the knowledge and belief that nature and humans are never separate entities but parts of one system.
4)We are part of nature not set apart from it.
5)Nature and culture, humans and environment, social ethics and environmental ethics, ecology and justice go hand in hand.
6)It is not humans or nature that are central; rather it is life that is primary, and that includes the entire community of life, for all of life is important, all of life is bonded, all of life is sacred.

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Soccer is the hottest trend in years, and Bill Hinds's comic strip Cleats finds endless humor in the sport's rowdy but lovable players, coaches, and parents. Carried in 75 newspapers-including the Chicago Sun-Times, the Dallas Morning News, and the Houston Chronicle-the two-year-old Cleats follows the trials and tribulations of a thoroughly contemporary team: Abby Harper, a competitive but kind 11-year-old on a select soccer team Jack Dooley, Abby's 10-year-old neighbor, who's determined to move up from his recreational team to a select team Armando "Mondo" Ruiz, a talented player who continues his family's tradition in the sport but prefers to remain on a rec team Coaches "Bull" Tippit, a granite-jawed retired military man, and earnest Chester NordlingGiven soccer's soaring popularity, Who Tracked Soccer Through the House? A Cleats Collection is sure to score.

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Funny stuff........2004-04-14

Instantly identifiable to anyone who has kids in youth sports, Cleats is one of the most consistently "on the money" strips in existence.

It's a great strip and and a great book.

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