![]() “When I prepared the PowerPoint pitch for buyers, I wanted a very bombastic title card to catch everyone’s attention. ‘It Wasn’t Just a Case of Doing Cool Sh*t’: Why ‘The Mother’ Fight Scenes Smart And that’s the mood that creator Lee Sung Jin wanted to set from the very beginning. The opening sets a baseline for the show’s particular palette of chaos, born out of ordinary people’s day-to-day hypocrisy and elevated to something wild and strange. ![]() But that pretension to one specific meaning is betrayed by the font over the imagery and the cut to the episode titles – the score, artwork, text, and editing coming together as if to pop an invisible balloon. The title card shots in “Beef” are abrupt but visually convey everything that makes the characters so flawed: Each card looks on its surface like a museum piece carrying some deeper artistic merit, especially given how the show’s score hypes up the shots. ![]() ![]() But maybe the most fun way that “ Beef” accelerates Amy’s and Danny’s revenge spiral is the placement of each episode’s opening title card. The main enabler of the show’s anger management issues is the edit, which can wield a cut like a sledgehammer to emphasize or undercut a moment. ![]() One of the twisted joys of “ Beef” is how the show escalates the drama between Amy ( Ali Wong) and Danny (Steven Yeun) after they cross paths in a road rage incident. ![]()
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![]() It was eventually and rightfully recognized as an art form along with its technological extension of cinematography. Experts say that “it was originally considered a mere skill rather than a form of art” and “photography was seen to be more part of technical knowledge rather than art on its own” (Photoportrayal 2020, par. A significant body of critique back then was because photography does not require any expertise or skill from its creator since it was believed that the technology creates an image and not a person. ![]() As Sontag (2003, 24) points out, “photographs were superior to any painting as a memento of the vanished past.” However, when photography was introduced into the field of visual art, it was met with criticism and dislike from many artists and thinkers. Every technical element and mechanism involved in this practice has undoubtedly been an objective technological advancement. Although photography is about 200 years old, it remains a paradoxical thing in a meta sense. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His books include such bestsellers as Forged, Misquoting Jesus, Jesus Interrupted, and How Jesus Became God. Raised with a fundamentalist background, he seems to have “rebelled” against that during his time as an academic, and now works to deconstruct the Christian faith. He is a specialist in New Testament textual criticism, and he has written a wide range of books that are, in my opinion, damaging the Christian faith by repeating and amplifying various false theories.Įhrman is an agnostic, but he didn’t start out that way. Erhman is a well-known Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bart Ehrman is the man that gives Christians more heartburn than any other academic these days. ![]() ![]() Skema uses language and allusion to destabilise, drawing the reader into an intimate, culturally and historically specific world to explore universal human themes of selfhood, alienation, creativity and cultural difference. Via multiple narrative voices and streams, the novel moves through sharply contrasting settings and stages in the narrator's life in Lithuania before and during WWII, returning always to New York and the recent immigrant's struggle to adapt to a completely different, and indifferent, modern world. Drawing heavily on the author's own refugee and immigrant experience, this psychological, stream-of-consciousness work tells the story of an emigre poet working as a bellhop in a large New York hotel during the mid-1950s. White Shroud (Balta drobule, 1958) is considered by many to be Lithuania's most important work of modernist fiction. ![]() ![]() And ultimately, about the one person who really, truly knows you-and knows what has the power to hurt you and heal you. It's about promises and secrets and betrayals. More than a coming-of-age novel, this is the story of a generation of women who were both blessed and cursed by choices. Yet they are best friends who swear they'll be there for each other, and for thirty years that promise holds strong-until events and choices in their lives make that promise impossible. ![]() Tully, steeped in glamour and mystery, but with a secret home life that is destroying her. On the surface they were as opposite as two people could be: Kate, doomed to be forever uncool, with a loving family who mortifies her at every turn. ![]() Includes: FIREFLY LANE To the people around them they were known as KateandTully or the Firefly Lane Girls. ![]() Available for the first time in this stunning electronic edition, THE KRISTIN HANNAH COLLECTION: VOLUME 1 is sure to delight the beloved, blockbuster bestselling author's legions of fans. ![]() ![]() ![]() If you have an awareness or even a curiosity of words (for example do you like to read Shakespeare?) this book is for you. ![]() Bryson makes this not only a learning experience but lots of fun! The peculiarities of language are very very interesting. What is actually in the context of this novel? The history of English linguistic form studied by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence (about 700 A.D.) and then tracing its transmission, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages and reaching thoughtful conclusions about just why we talk in the manner which we do. The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way Paperback Januby Bill Bryson (Author) 6,979 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 13.49 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Library Binding 22.01 5 Used from 22.01 2 New from 22.02 2 Collectible from 49. A great read or if you prefer a stupendous listen to. Thus, what would have been leaden, is in fact, a most titillating and intriguing journey through etymology. Now, if that all sounds dull, well it could be but for the fact this is written by Bill Bryson. ![]() It then compares its findings to the observable and proves its conjectures as apparent from the observable. ![]() Don’t get me wrong this book is scientifically written meaning it takes data accumulates it and proposes a point concerning language and its maturation over the centuries. Bryson’s statements in the book, “anguage is more fashion than science.” That is the bottom line, or the more ethereal learning from the book. ![]() ![]() Close accepting friendship between girls and women, betrayal by adult role models. The writing: rich period color, first person perspective, strong voice, some graphic violence, modest sex scenes, excellent heroic counterparts, complex politics. ![]() “In truth, I have never flashed so much as an ankle before, but I am sorely vexed at being treated like a temptress when all I feel is bruised and broken.” ~ Robin LaFevers, Grave Mercy Each is then sent from the convent into the politics of late 1400s Brittany where they find self confidence through love, purpose, and place in society. ![]() The series premise: three girls from difference backgrounds are deemed daughters of death and taken in to a mysterious convent where they are trained as assassins, called death’s handmaidens. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() For several years Dara was the only author publishing in this subgenre, keeping the subgenre alive. Her Matrix of Destiny series is acknowledged as a classic in SF/Rom literature (In recent years, the trilogy took the top three slots in the IOO Favorite Books of All Time on the web). Knight of a Trillion Stars set a standard in the field and paved the way for the current trend. The book received countless awards, including the first Prism Award for Science Fiction Romance. In 1995, Dara Joy reinvented the science fiction romance crossover with her breakout first book, Knight of a Trillion Stars, which introduced multiple heroes and a highly evocative storyline. Never content to rest on her past success, this novelist takes risks. Hailed as “a breakout talent!” and “a publishing phenomenon” by Publisher?s Weekly, Dara Joy has written eight consecutive New York Times and USAToday bestselling novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() The Dancer we stole is ours to play with. We steal, thieving not just the artist themselves, but the light that makes them shine bright. We’re the soulless creatures as twisted as any monster real or imagined. The prisoners within it, scarred by our wrath. With our father “The Collector” dead, we are the heirs to a twisted dynasty with nothing but revenge in our hearts, blood on our hands, and darkness in our souls. They’ll come crashing down even if I have to rip them apart myself, brick by bloody brick.Ī payment for a debt. This time they stole the wrong girl, and these walls…? I’m not just a dancer, or a singer, or a musician that they can loan out as entertainment to sick men and women. I may seem fragile, weak, but I’m not like all the rest. ![]() Refuse their orders and feel the consequences of their wrath. ![]() Ripped from the people I love, and imprisoned in a medieval castle in Scotland with walls as thick and impenetrable as the stone encasing my kidnappers' hearts.ĭo as they say and you’ll survive this place. Three faceless men with one thing on their mind, revenge. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The result is a vivid, beautifully illustrated read about one of the century’s true individuals. Conekin seamlessly intertwines this fascinating history with Miller’s life and accomplishments, as well as those of her friends and peers, including Edward Steichen, Man Ray and Picasso. In 1927, in a brownstone apartment on West 48th Street in New York, 19-year-old. Lee Millers fashion photography, see Conekin, 2013. The story of Lee Miller in Fashion is also the story of an amazing transatlantic creative community in New York, London and Paris, as well as the changes that rocked the world in these glittering, then tumultuous decades.īecky E. A new book, Lee Miller in Fashion, adapted here, looks back on the photographer. the first time led taste trends in fashion and music, as well as other forms. Only a few short years after she picked up the camera for the first time, Vanity Fair would declare her one of the ‘most distinguished living photographers’. Miller’s transition from one side of the camera to the other was unprecedented, and her fashion self-portraits, in which she was simultaneously model and photographer, are unique in the history of fashion photography. From the late 1920s when her face graced its cover to the 1940s and 1950s when her stunning photographs lit up its pages, Vogue was the primary outlet for Miller’s daring creative vision. This book is the first to redress the balance by exploring her unprecedented contributions as both model and photographer to the century’s leading fashion magazine, Vogue. ![]() |