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Creative journey around Saint Petersburg (Creative books-antistress #2)
by Olga Kryuchkova Elena Kryuchkova Daria SuvorovaThis creative book is dedicated to the views of the Russian city of Saint Petersburg. Here you can find a stylized colour images with a brief description and a black and white images. You can take a screenshot from a black and white image to color it on your computer or print it and color it on paper. When colouring, you can use a sample or choose your own colours. After that, you can find the images of Saint Petersburg, used in this book, on the Internet and enjoy the magnificent views. The book helps you to express your creativity, have an imaginary trip to Saint Petersburg and learn some new information about the city. This creative book has no age limit. The authors wish you further creative success and have a good time! This book can be used as an art therapy for reducing your stress.
Creative journey around Venice (Creative books-antistress #1)
by Olga Kryuchkova Elena Kryuchkova Daria SuvorovaThis creative book is dedicated to the views of the wonderful Italian city of Venice. Here you can find stylized colour images with a brief description and black and white images. You can take a screenshot from a black and white image to color it on your computer or print it and color it on paper. When colouring, you can use a sample or choose your own colours. After that, you can find the images of Venice, used in in this book, on the Internet and enjoy the magnificent views. The book allows you to do something creative, have an imaginary trip to Venice and learn some new information. The creative book has no age limit. The authors wish you further creative success and have a good time! This book can be used as an art therapy for reducing your stress. All the images in this book are based on the photos from https://www.shutterstock.com
A Creative Journey through London
by Olga Kryuchkova Elena KryuchkovaThis creative art book is devoted to views of the wonderful English city called London. Here you will find a stylized image with a short description, and a black and white copy of it. If you wish, you can take a screenshot of the black and white image and colour it in on a computer, or print it out and colour in the paper copy. When colouring in, you can use a coloured sample for guidance, or make your own decisions about the colours. Later, you can enjoy looking at the photos of the real views of London included in this book on the internet. The book gives you a chance to be creative, have a virtual tour of London and learn new facts about it. This art book has no age limits. The authors wish you success in your creative undertaking and lots of enjoyment! This colouring book can be used a means for anti-stress or art therapy. All images in this book have been created on the basis of photographs sourced from internet.
Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Crochet
by Deborah BurgerAre you looking for the perfect guide to teach your child to crochet? Look no further! Creative Kids Complete Photo Guide to Crochet starts with the absolute basics about stitching, beginning with a discussion about hooks and yarn and how to make simple chains, then gradually introduces skills and techniques until kids are crocheting confidently.Veteran crochet author Deborah Burger, author of Crochet 101 and How to Make 100 Crochet Appliqués, will guide you and your children through projects. With over 200 photos and clear, concise instructions in language easily understood by grade-school kids, you're going to be creating crafty crochet projects with your child in no time!Each project lists the crocheting skills that will be exercised in making it and projects are rated for difficulty, so kids can learn and grow as they develop dexterity and coordination. Your children will learn to crochet by making simple projects and building skills by practicing the essentials, and this book provides a sound foundation for a lifetime of crocheting enjoyment.
Creative Knitting: A New Art Form. New & Expanded Edition
by Mary Walker PhillipsThe first book to introduce knitting as an art form, this classic guide has been newly revised and expanded to offer even more suggestions and inspiration. Mary Walker Phillips shows how to use traditional stitches in original ways to produce highly decorative creations rather than strictly functional items. Scores of examples demonstrate methods for taking basic knitting skills into new and rewarding directions.Clear, easy-to-follow diagrams and color photos supplement the text. In addition to serving as practical guides, the illustrations offer a vast gallery of ideas. Many of the pictures are accompanied by detailed analyses that provide a foundation for experimentation. Phillips discusses the use of a wide range of nontraditional materials, including linen, silk, and leather. A chapter on the history of knitting offers insights into the nature of the craft as well as further sources of creative vision.
Creative Landscapes
by Harold DavisCapture the beauty of the world around you with this professional adviceLandscape photography inspires millions of photographers. If you're one of them, you'll find new insight into landscape photography in this book by professional photographer Harold Davis, as well as tips, tricks, and technical advice to help you improve the quality of your photos. You'll learn to use lighting and composition creatively, choose and use appropriate equipment, look at your subject matter in a new way, and even when to break the rules in order to capture the best image of all. Illustrated with the author's own spectacular landscape photos.Landscape photography intrigues and inspires photographers, but there is more to getting great landscape photos than many photographers expectProfessional photographer Harold Davis teaches tricks and techniques that will enhance your skillsExplains how to approach the subject creatively, choose and use appropriate equipment, and refine photographic technique to create spectacular landscape shotsLooks at how lighting, texture, and composition affect landscape imageryLavishly illustrated with the author's own photosLandscapes have long been a popular photographic subject; this book helps you advance your skills as a landscape photographer.
Creative License: The Law and Culture of Digital Sampling
by Kembrew Mcleod Peter DicolaHow did the Depression-era folk-song collector Alan Lomax end up with a songwriting credit on Jay-Z's song "Takeover"? Why doesn't Clyde Stubblefield, the primary drummer on James Brown recordings from the late 1960s such as "Funky Drummer" and "Cold Sweat," get paid for other musicians' frequent use of the beats he performed on those songs? The music industry's approach to digital sampling--the act of incorporating snippets of existing recordings into new ones--holds the answers. Exploring the complexities and contradictions in how samples are licensed, Kembrew McLeod and Peter DiCola interviewed more than 100 musicians, managers, lawyers, industry professionals, journalists, and scholars. Based on those interviews, Creative License puts digital sampling into historical, cultural, and legal context. It describes hip-hop during its sample-heavy golden age in the 1980s and early 1990s, the lawsuits that shaped U. S. copyright law on sampling, and the labyrinthine licensing process that musicians must now navigate. The authors argue that the current system for licensing samples is inefficient and limits creativity. For instance, by estimating the present-day licensing fees for the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique (1989) and Public Enemy's Fear of a Black Planet (1990), two albums from hip-hop's golden age, the authors show that neither album could be released commercially today. Observing that the same dynamics that create problems for remixers now reverberate throughout all culture industries, the authors conclude by examining ideas for reform. Interviewees include David Byrne, Cee Lo Green, George Clinton, De La Soul, DJ Premier, DJ Qbert, Eclectic Method, El-P, Girl Talk, Matmos, Mix Master Mike, Negativland, Public Enemy, RZA, Clyde Stubblefield, T. S. Monk.
Creative Life: Music, Politics, People, and Machines
by Bob OstertagIn this eloquent and passionate volume, Bob Ostertag explores the common ground and points of friction among music, creativity, politics, culture, and technology. In terrain ranging from the guerrilla underground in El Salvador's civil war to the drag queen underground in San Francisco and New York, these essays combine journalism and autobiography to explore fundamental questions of what art is and what role it can occupy in a violent and fragmented world, a world in which daily events compromise the universality toward which art strives. Drawing on his intimate engagement with political conflict in Latin America and the Balkans, Ostertag identifies an art of "insurgent politics" that struggles to expand the parameters of the physical and social world. He also discusses his innovative collaborations with major modern performers, filmmakers, and artists around the world. Part memoir, part journalism, and part aesthetic manifesto, Creative Life is a dazzling set of writings from a musical artist who has worked on the cutting edge of new music for thirty years.
Creative Lighting: Digital Photography Tips and Techniques
by Harold DavisHow to make digital photography lighting more creative--and less challenging!How do you master the art of lighting your photographs? Go beyond the basics, go beyond the "rules," and get creative with the help of renowned photographer Harold Davis. In this book, Harold shows you how to break the boundaries of conventional wisdom and create unique, lively, and beautifully lit photographs. Packed with tips and tricks as well as stunning examples of the author's creativity, this book will both inform and inspire you to create your own lighting style.Teaches you when and how to control the light in your photographsReviews the basic "rules" of digital photography lighting and shows you how to break the rules to create your own uniquely lit imagesHelps you start building a lighting style of your ownIncludes stunning examples of the author's photography and lighting techniquesWhether you're a beginner or a seasoned digital photographer, you'll find ideas and techniques to spark your creativity.
Creative Measures of the Anthropocene: Art, Mobilities, and Participatory Geographies
by Kaya Barry Jondi KeaneThis book proposes that creative and participatory modes of measuring, knowing, and moving in the world are needed for coming to grips with the Anthropocene epoch. It interrogates how creative, affective and experiential encounters that traverse the local and the global, as well as the mundane and the everyday, can offer new perspectives on the challenges that lay ahead. This book considers the role of the arts in exploring geographical concerns and increasing human mobility. In doing so, it offers ways to counteract the unstable, shifting and disorienting impacts and debates surrounding human activity and the Anthropocene. The authors bring together perspectives from mobilities, creative arts, cultural geography, philosophy and humanities in an innovative exploration of how creative forms of measurement can assist in reconfiguring individual and collective action.
Creative Milieux: How Urban Design Nurtures Creative Clusters
by Quentin StevensThe so-called ‘creative industries’ are increasingly being presented as an important tool of urban regeneration and economic development. Until now, research on the clustering of such activities has been limited to economics, geography and urban policy. This book is the first to gather together emerging research in urban design and spatial planning that explores what characteristics of the built form of cities support the distinctive activity patterns of various creative industries, and how and why they cluster together at a range of local scales. The book offers detailed case studies and comparative analyses of creative city neighbourhoods on five continents. Contributions examine urban forms, building types, and other qualities of place that attract and retain creative workers and foster creative production, outlining a range of methodologies for studying them. Taken altogether, Creative Milieux offers new insights for urban design practice, and for its role in wider urban policy. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Urban Design.
Creative Motion Graphic Titling: Titling with Motion Graphics for Film, Video, and the Web
by Bill Byrne Yael BrahaThe book features genre-based tutorial sections, with step by step instructions for creating effective horror, comedy, drama, and suspense titling sequences. Tutorials for creating some of the most popular title sequences in blockbuster movies are included (Se7en, The Sopranos, 24, The Matrix). Other tutorials teach you how to effectively use sound and VFX in your titles, and also included is instruction on editing your title sequence. These techniques, as well as chapters on the essentials of typography allow you to apply these lessons to your title sequence regardless of whether it's for TV, the web, or digital signage. Also included is a DVD with sample clips, as well as project files that allow you to refine the techniques you learned in the book. As an added bonus we've included 3 titling chapters from other Focal books, with specific instructions on titling within certain software applications. Cover images provided by MK12, from The Alphabet Conspiracy. Learn more at www.MK12.com
Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, Revised Edition
by Brenda TharpA classic guide to creative nature photography, now updated for the digital world.Amateur and experienced photographers interested in taking more compelling, personal images will love this new edition of Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, now updated to address the exciting possibilities (and challenges) of digital image-making. Author Brenda Tharp's inspiring approach has garnered fans all over the world, as she teaches that magical skill no camera can do for you: learn how to "see." Readers expand their photographic vision and discover deep wellsprings of creativity as they learn to use light, balance, color, design, pattern, texture, composition, and many simple techniques to take a photo from ordinary to high-impact.Featuring more than 150 stunning, all-new images, Creative Nature & Outdoor Photography, Revised Edition is for anyone who understands the basic technical side to photography but wants to wake up their creative vision.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Creative Nature Photography
by Bill CosterAn indispensable guide to nature and outdoor photography, from the acclaimed author of Creative Bird Photography.This beautifully illustrated, inspirational guide to nature photography is packed with practical advice presented in author Bill Coster's informative but accessible writing style. It takes a fresh approach to the subject, breaking it up into chapters on habitats, each of which contains images of specific aspects of the environment, starting with landscapes and moving on to plants and animals. Each photograph demonstrates particular points and approaches, taking into account light conditions, terrain and the general surroundings. Fascinating anecdotes about Coster's experiences in each habitat bring the images to life. Each photograph is accompanied by detailed technical data, as well as information on locations and other issues that need to be tackled in order to achieve the perfect shot. There is also an up-to-date chapter on bird photography basics, including equipment such as cameras and lenses.
Creative Night
by Harold DavisTake a well-timed shot in the dark with this invaluable guide to night photographyShooting in low light and at night is challenging, but it can result in stunning images, so don't put that digital camera away after the sun goes down! Start capturing eerie and intriguing photographs at all levels of light with this information-packed guide from renowned photographer and author Harold Davis.He provides pages of field-tested techniques to help you find the proper exposures, including the best settings for ISO, aperture, and shutter. Don't miss the intriguing examples of his own work, including cityscapes, landscapes, and more.Walks readers through the intricacies of night and low light photography Explores the fundamental rules of exposure, including creative settings for ISO, aperture, and shutter speedsInforms and inspires with the author's own breathtaking examples of night photography, including cityscapes, landscapes, exciting night events, and other photos that illustrate the concepts Capture the visually exciting world after the sun goes down with this essential guide to night photography.
Creative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses: Your Complete Guide to Conceptualizing, Planning and Creating Composite Nightscapes and Time-Lapses
by Mike ShawCreative Nightscapes and Time-Lapses is your all-in-one guide to making spectacular, multi-image nightscapes and time-lapses. Covering everything from conceptualization and planning to post-processing, this book features innovative cookbook-style "recipes" for each composite nightscape and time-lapse project. Beginning with a review of the key fundamentals of astronomy and photography, author Mike Shaw covers the latest methods for planning your night shooting sessions and how to set up your gear to get the best constituent images. The book precisely details how to combine images into 12 different varieties of state-of-the-art nightscape trophies, each impossible to capture in a single image, before demonstrating how to create stunning level and ramp time-lapses that transition fluidly from day to night. Each nightscape and time-lapse project category includes specific tips for (i) acquiring the constituent images; (ii) assembling them into the composite image or time-lapse; (iii) overcoming common obstacles and (iv) finding the best subjects. Providing examples of how to apply these techniques in the field through four detailed case studies, including one, three-night immersive retreat, this book is the comprehensive guide to creating creative nightscapes and time-lapses.
Creative Origami Kit: Learn to Fold Like a Pro!
by Marc KirschenbaumReady to take your origami to the next level? Fold innovative and original origami projects with this fun new kit. <P><P>This collection of origami projects features models that use fewer folds to produce clever forms rivaling complex constructions that would normally stump a beginner. Many of the models presented in this origami kit use only simple mountain and valley folds, following the "Pureland" origami system pioneered by English artist John Smith. Noted origami artist Marc Kirschenbaum draws his inspiration from the art world and other sources to create easy origami projects that can be folded in just afew minutes. This origami kit contains Full-color 64 page booklet Clear, step-by-step diagrams and instructions 15 original origami designs 72 origami papers Free Instructional DVD Try your hand at exciting new projects like: Homage to Picasso The Duck-Billed Platypus A Ship in a Bottle The Freedom Eagle The Doctor's Dog
Creative Paper Crafts: 35 Cool, Customizable Projects for Crafty Kids
by Lisa GloverTransform paper into unique keepsakes with hands-on crafts for kids 8-12 With a little cutting, folding, and gluing, kids can turn paper into cool gadgets, games, and accessories—like a Starry Night Globe, a Tiny Ticket Suitcase, a Fleecy Alpaca, and more. Creative Paper Crafts shows them how with 35 templates included right inside the book, so all they have to do is cut them out and get crafting! With detailed instructions and step-by-step photos, kids will create their own impressive paper treasures in no time. Tips and tricks—This book sets kids up for success with a quick introduction to preparing their workspace, choosing materials, and paper crafting terms like "scoring" and "quilling." No special tools required—Kids just need some basic household items like paper, scissors, glue, and pencils to complete these projects. For all skill levels—Kids can try out simple crafts like the Archipelago Bookmarks and the Uplifting Envelopes Card, or more difficult crafts like a Scaled-Down Crown and a Book Nook Alley. Help kids have a blast learning new skills with this book of awesome paper crafts.
The Creative Path: A View from the Studio on the Making of Art
by Carolyn SchlamDemystifying the creative process. The Creative Path is an inquiry into the creative process from philosophical, psychological, spiritual, and practical points of view. In this welcoming work on the creative process, Carolyn Schlam encourages the reader to embark upon his or her own journey of discovery, identity, and wonder through art. The author started her career in art under the tutelage of master teacher Norman Raeben in the Carnegie Hall Studios in New York. Raeben's students included Bob Dylan, who said of him: "He put my mind and my hand and my eye together, in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt." Schlam's warm and inviting tone speaks directly to her readers, encouraging them to energize their practice and offering the tools to do so. Chapters discuss the meaning of inspiration, intention, talent, authenticity, and many other aspects of art creation. Included in The Creative Path are: Six lectures by Norman Raeben with commentary by the author Exercises designed to strengthen readers' creative muscles Analysis of aesthetic criteria Reflections on the artist's role in society Discussion of the mindset required to make art a life path A celebration of creativity, this inspirational book examines why we make art. Though it makes primary reference to visual art, The Creative Path will resonate with all creative practitioners, whatever their chosen discipline.
Creative Pep Talk: Inspiration from 50 Artists
by Andy J. Miller Brandon RikeEvery artist needs a little pep talk now and then. An inspiring tool and beautiful art book in one, Creative Pep Talk offers illustrated words of wisdom from 50 of today's leading creative professionals. With full-color, typographic prints and explanatory statements from a host of creative luminaries—including Aaron James Draplin, Oliver Jeffers, Lisa Congdon, Mike Perry, and many others—this volume encourages artists to stay excited, experiment boldly, and conquer fear. "Create curiosity," "Learn to say no," and "If you can't be good, be different" are just a few of the motivational maxims in this visually rich collection that's perfect for students, designers, artists, and creatives at any stage in their careers.
The Creative Person's Website Builder: How to Make a Pro Website Yourself Using Word Press and Other Easy Tools
by Alannah MooreYour website is the face that your creative endeavours show to the world, and you owe it to yourself to make it the most inviting and user-friendly site on the web. With The Creative Person's Website Builder, you'll learn how to create a site from scratch, or massively improve what you already have, quickly and economically.Tailor-made for creative professionals, artists and entrepreneurs, this book offers step-by-step solutions to constructing a site that looks great, works smoothly, and drives visitor numbers up.
Creative Perspective for Artists and Illustrators (Dover Art Instruction)
by Ernest W. WatsonIn this thought-provoking practical guide, a noted artist and educator demonstrates that learning to violate the rules of perspective (profitably) is as important for the practicing artist as learning the principles of perspective themselves. Only in this way can students free themselves from the constraints of tradition and find their own imaginative paths. However, it is vital that students first have a solid grasp of classical perspective before they can think about adapting it creatively.In presenting the principles of perspective drawing, Mr. Watson devotes a chapter each to step-by-step discussions of such topics as the picture plane, foreshortening and convergence, the circle, the cone, three-point perspective, universal perspective, figures in perspective, and much more. To illustrate his points he offers expert analysis of the works of such leading illustrators as John Atherton, V. Bobri, R. M. Chapin, Jr., Albert Dorne, Robert Fawcett, Constantin Guys, W. N. Hudson, Carl Roberts, Ben Stahl, and Aldren A. Watson, as well as drawings by Pieter de Hooch and Paul Cézanne. The result is a ground-breaking study that artists, illustrators, and draftsmen will find invaluable in learning to create works with convincing perspective.Ernest W. Watson taught at Pratt Institute for over 20 years, co-founded and served as editor-in-chief of the magazine American Artist, and co-founded the prestigious art publishing house of Watson-Guptill.
A Creative Philosophy of Anticipation: Futures in the Gaps of the Present (Routledge Research in Anticipation and Futures)
by Jamie Brassett and John O’ReillyThis edited collection highlights the valuable ontological and creative insights gathered from anticipation studies, which orients itself to the future in order to recreate the present. The gathered essays engage with many writers from speculative metaphysics to poetic philosophy, ancient writing systems to the fringes of pataphysics. The book situates itself as a creative intervention in and with various thinkers, designers, artists, scientists and poets to offer insight into ways of anticipating. It brings together philosophical practices for which creativity is both a fundamental area of consideration and a mode of working, a characterization of recent Continental Philosophy which takes a departure from traditional futures studies thinking. This book will be of interest to scholars and research in futures studies, anticipation, philosophy, creative practice and theories about creative practice, as well as the intersections between philosophy, creativity and business.
Creative Photography: 52 More Weekend Projects
by Chris GatcumExperiment with new projects and techniques, and create arresting images time and again Digital cameras have made it easy for us all to take photos that are, technically, perfect: clearly exposed, sharply focused, and beautifully composed. However, what most photographers want from their photography is something more personal, more individual - in short, more creative. In this sequel to the highly successful Creative Digital Photography: 52 Weekend Projects, respected author and prize-winning photographer Chris Gatcum will show you how to create images that pack that creative punch and involve fun.
Creative Photography: The Professional Edge
by Dan Lee Adam JuniperTo earn a living these days, your photography has to rise above a lot of noise, so you need all the advantages you can get. Here, Dan M. Lee gives you back-to-back hard-hitting ideas that are proven to make every shot in your portfolio a stand-out image that grabs attention and wins new clients.Clients recognize and reward creativity. It's not enough to be competent with a camera: you need to experiment, find new perspectives, and innovate your workflow if you want to stay competitive. Whether that's using drones for aerial viewpoints, or creating perfect 360-degree real-estate images, this book gives you the edge you need to make it as a professional photographer.