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ATWOOD - "A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliverance" -AVAILABLE
NOW FOR KINDLE (INCLUDING KINDLE COMPUTER APPS) FROM
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CCJ Publisher Rick Alan Rice dissects
the building of America in a trilogy of novels
collectively calledATWOOD. Book One explores
the development of the American West through the
lens of public policy, land planning, municipal
development, and governance as it played out in one
of the new counties of Kansas in the latter half of
the 19th Century. The novel focuses on the religious
and cultural traditions that imbued the American
Midwest with a special character that continues to
have a profound effect on American politics to this
day. Book One creates an understanding about
America's cultural foundations that is further
explored in books two and three that further trace
the historical-cultural-spiritual development of one
isolated county on the Great Plains that stands as
an icon in the development of a certain brand of
American character. That's the serious stuff viewed
from high altitude. The story itself gets down and
dirty with the supernatural, which in ATWOOD
- A Toiler's Weird Odyssey of Deliveranceis the
outfall of misfires in human interactions, from the
monumental to the sublime. The
book features the epic poem "The
Toiler" as
well as artwork by New Mexico artist Richard
Padilla.
Elmore Leonard
Meets Larry McMurtry
Western Crime
Novel
I am offering another
novel through Amazon's Kindle Direct Publishing service.
Cooksin is the story of a criminal syndicate that sets its
sights on a ranching/farming community in Weld County, Colorado,
1950. The perpetrators of the criminal enterprise steal farm
equipment, slaughter cattle, and rob the personal property of
individuals whose assets have been inventoried in advance and
distributed through a vast system of illegal commerce.
It is a ripping good yarn, filled
with suspense and intrigue. This was designed intentionally to
pay homage to the type of creative works being produced in 1950,
when the story is set. Richard Padilla
has done his usually brilliant work in capturing the look and feel of
a certain type of crime fiction being produced in that era. The
whole thing has the feel of those black & white films you see on
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of Elmore Leonard, whose earliest works were westerns.
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 Fashion and
Design
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Style, Fashion and their Disastrous Twins
By RAR
The model-clients of
Elite Model
Management
(Los Angeles roster shown below - there are similar for New York, Miami and
Toronto) provide an extraordinary peek into not only the world of fashion, but
also of style. Fashion is a designer's statement, an expression of
creativity from the production side. Style is all about selection, presentation
and attitude. This group of photographs presented below offers a panoramic view
of the archetypes available to women, ranging from the vulnerable (Alejandra,
somewhat comically, to my eye) to the '50s housewife
Amanda Viola, who appears to be completely absorbed in La Dolce Vita.
The prominence of cigarette smoking in this collection is interesting and also
an element of style. Things that kill you, used as props, bespeak a reckless
lifestyle, so have a natural attraction to art directors. Some of these girls
are flat-out beautiful, even among the range of probable subjective opinions.
Most just have a factor, which varies with the individuality of each.
They are "plug-in" imagery, specific cuts of humankind that represent certain
broadly recognized types. Of these photographs below, for instance,
Penelope Cordoba looks like a rich man's wife.
Tess Wohrle looks like an actress.
Veronica Pfeiferova looks like a successful
actress. Ali Stephens looks like a photo shoot, as
does Charlott Cordes, which is no doubt what they
were up to in these shots, but Lauren Brown looks
like an art film. Here lies the difference between personality, a style thing,
and "fashion sense". One can be the womanly creature Lauren Brown portrays in
this shot - maybe not for long, given the effects of cigarette smoking - but one
can't really be what is being portrayed in the fashion shots of
Michaela or Julie Ordon,
not that you don't see it all the time. Katy Perry refers to this, speaking of
her own stage presentation, as "full-out tranny". One sees young girls and old
woman who seemingly present as such 24/7. One I know personally once revealed
that she went from being a makeup-free flower child to a committed face painter
after reading a report in which she was described as "a plain girl". Ouch! No
one wants that! Or do they? Plain works pretty well for
Anna Norheim and Nicole Lichtenberg. Plain,
of course, is synonymous with "natural", and it is another style choice. Plain
beauty is a big part of the requirement for getting a contract with the likes of
Elite. All of these girls have the symmetry and dimensions required for the
position. For girls 14 to 15 years old, that means they are between 5'7" to 6'0"
tall, and for girls from 16 to 22 that means 5'9" to 6'0" tall. Those are the
optimal altitudes from which to hang clothing. Linear-vertical types also tend
to be thin, which works best on camera, lenses tending to "add" a few pounds to
the captured image. The idea is to be thin and to photograph perfectly.
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Originally posted on Artist News, January 2009
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