I Am Alive In Los Angeles

Author : Mike the PoeT
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 9780595395200

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I Am Alive in Los Angeles! by Mike the PoeT Pdf

Being alive in Los Angeles means driving It means having friends in a hundred neighborhoods. Everyday I figure 8 my way through the blood & bones of the city. These journeys invigorate me. Connecting the dots is what I like to do, from the hilltop parties to the Watts Towers, North Long Beach to Frogtown, there's o much flavor-landscape & characters. I love it all. I Am ALIVE IN LOS ANGELES! In this progressive collection of poems. Essays & notes, Mike the PoeT digs into the real Los Angeles. Passages of charged prose & poetic snapshots capture the panorama of the city of angels. Pieces cover the mythical afterhour parties, unique architecture, socioeconomics, graffiti, gangs Hollywood & more. Poet Journalist Historian, Mike Sonksen aka Mike the PoeT has performed at the L.A. Times Book Prizes, Divine Forces Radio, Music Plus TV & published hundreds of poems & articles in the LA. Citybeat, O,C. Weekly, Jointz, Kotori & so on. "It's easy to target Los Angeles' deficits: flashiness, venality, gross disparity of wealth. But is takes rare understanding and eloquence to see this fair city in all its lights, both good and bad. Mike Sonksen, aka Mike the Poet, achieves that unusual feat with his debut spoken-word release, "I Am Alive in Los Angeles!" A third-generation L.A. native Sonksen has special insight into the multi-textured realities that comprise the city."-L.A. Alternative Press "Mike the Poet the most cool, positive guy in poetry, future LA legend you read it here first." -TEKA LARK LO

Author : Michael Asher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-15
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780262042673

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Public Knowledge by Michael Asher Pdf

Writings by the conceptual artist Michael Asher—including notes, proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics—most published here for the first time. The California conceptual artist Michael Asher (1943–2012) was known for rigorous site specificity and pioneering institutional critique. His decades of teaching at CalArts influenced generations of artists. Much of Asher's artistic practice was devoted to creating works that had no lasting material presence and often responded to the material, social, or ideological context of a situation. Because most of Asher's artworks have ceased to exist, his writings about them have special significance. Public Knowledge collects writings by Asher about his work—including preliminary notes and ideas, project proposals, exhibition statements, and letters to curators and critics—most of which have never been previously published. Asher gave few interviews, didn't write art criticism, and rarely published extensive accounts of his own work. Yet writing was central to his artistic practice, serving as a tool for working out ideas, negotiating institutional parameters, and describing thought processes. In these texts, he considers writing and documentation, discusses artistic practice, offers notes for gallery and museum talks, presents artist statements for exhibition-goers, describes individual works and their situational context, and reflects on teaching and art education. Among other things, Asher provides his definition of site specificity, addresses the function of art in public space, and analyzes the intersection of teaching art and institutional models of education. Readers will see an artist at work, formulating ethical and political strategies for making art in a situational world.

Author : Brian Gross
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-02
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781387919185

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Misguided Home by Brian Gross Pdf

How does one navigate a social world consisting of identities, facts, truths, problems and solutions constructed from the imprecise building blocks of language? What, if anything, does it mean to be gendered, racialized, aged, sexualized, oriented, mediated, penetrated, assaulted, traumatized, addicted, recovered, redeemed, educated, coupled, immigrated? Misguided Home provides contextual details related to lyrical artifacts of 64 songs composed between 1984 and 2010; between ages 15 and 41; between HIV, AA and DOMA; between existentialism, spiritualism, solipsism, and functional contextualism; between the United States, France, Indonesia, and Canada.

Author : David I. Thompson
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557230112

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The Freeways of Los Angeles by David I. Thompson Pdf

A detailed mini-guidebook about Los Angeles freeways and select boulevards.

Author : Kynaston McShine
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0810961970

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The Museum as Muse by Kynaston McShine Pdf

Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 14 - June 1, 1999.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1124 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : UIUC:30112059887239

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Peter Van Wyk
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781412009010

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Burnham by Peter Van Wyk Pdf

A world-traveled writer recounts the amazing adventures of an American who mentored Robert Baden-Powell and inspired the Boy Scouts. Burnham is bigger than the Chief Scout.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1248 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations
ISBN : NYPL:33433016643987

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Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Petersen,Ardythe Petersen
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781414331409

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The Complete Book of Hymns by William Petersen,Ardythe Petersen Pdf

The Complete Book of Hymns brings to life the stories behind more than 600 hymns and worship songs. With background on the composer, the inspiration behind the lyrics, scriptural references for devotional consideration, and a sampling of the song lyrics, this book brings forth the message of these great songs of the faith like never before!

Author : Richard S Levik
Publisher : Author House
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781477259511

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Off My Chest by Richard S Levik Pdf

As you will see inside this book, most letters were in response to articles, stories, or other issues affecting Jews. Richards criticism also touches on Christianity. Religion is very much a hands-on topic for Mr. Levik. Originally, letter writing was intended as a safe outlet for release of frustration and anger, never expecting such angry and sometimes vicious letters to be published. Astonishingly, provocative letters were published. Inside OFF MY CHEST you will see the published version, the unedited version, along with letters and a few articles which were never published. Whether these letters changed hearts or minds, you be the judge. Read OFF MY CHEST, see if your heart and mind are not moved, challenged, or even changed.

Author : Laurence A. Rickels
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816666652

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I Think I Am by Laurence A. Rickels Pdf

"Aside from its perfect fit of critic and subject, Laurence A. Rickels's book provides the most thorough and exhaustive reading of Philip K. Dick's literary work that exists. He goes through all the novels literally, both the science fiction works and the so-called mainstream novels Dick did not publish in his lifetime. The reader of science fiction should welcome a book like this, which is both knowledgeable of the SF tradition tradition and creatively analytical. I could not put this book down once I began to read it".---George Slusser, University of California, Riverside --

Author : Derek Haas
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781643130613

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The Silver Bear by Derek Haas Pdf

The intense psychological portrait of a hitman—the anti-Jason Bourne—as he stalks his prey from Boston to LA. He wants you to know him, maybe even admire him, but only for his excellence in his craft. Perhaps he was even born for it. "A natural killer," his mentor—a middleman named Vespucci—said he was. He proved it with his first professional hit: a Fifth Circuit Court judge in Boston, executed with a sheet of Saran Wrap in the stairwell of her own courthouse. He's proved his merit often, usually with a Glock semiautomatic, but he's improvised too, with his bare hands, the heel of a shoe, knives, even a sewing machine. He is the consummate assassin, at the top of his form, immune to the psychological strains of his chosen profession. He is what the Russians call a Silver Bear. He calls himself Columbus. It's the name Vespucci gave him, ten years ago, when he discovered a dark, new world of fences, clients, marks, jobs, jack. Not that his real name meant much to him anyway. He never knew his father or his mother, a prostitute who became dangerously involved back in the seventies with an earnest young congressman named Abe Mann, then a rising star in the Democratic Party. The magnetic Abe Mann has since become the Speaker of the House. He is currently running for the Democratic nomination in an exhausting presidential campaign, weaving his way across the country. Columbus is not far behind. But as he pieces together his past and prepares the seamless assassination of his mark, the criminal underworld he has always ruled begins unraveling violently around him.

Author : Arty Nelson
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0446565881

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Technicolor Pulp by Arty Nelson Pdf

Jimi, a twenty-three-year-old Generation X-er, struggles for a sense of identity and an understanding of the world as he travels to London and Paris while under the influence of drugs, alcohol, and tumultuous sex.

Author : Marjorie Bard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134885381

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Shadow Women (Routledge Revivals) by Marjorie Bard Pdf

First published in 1990, this book emerged from the author’s experiences talking to homeless women and her desire to bring these problems to light along with the social injustice that often underlies them. The book also describes being "at risk": a paycheck, widowhood, or unfair divorce settlement away from sleeping in a car, living in malls and parks, "dining" in grocery stores. The author intends to raise awareness, participation and proposes solutions that do not simply beg more government funded shelters but rather foster self-sufficient living and working by raising self-esteem and community spirit. This book will be of interest to students of sociology.

Author : Kim Chuppa-Cornell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Academic writing
ISBN : 0071540520

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Creating Community in a Changing World by Kim Chuppa-Cornell Pdf