![]() ![]() Roland Barthes starts out by saying that a photograph is a message without a code. Nevertheless his short essay “The Photographic Message” (published in the book Image, Music, Text) offers also some very interesting reflections on visual images and what they tell us. Barthes’ work Camera Lucida – along with On Photography by Susan Sontag – is probably the most important book written about the nature image taking. His books and essays are standard reading in every university teaching photography as well as for every photographer looking for theoretical reference on the subject. Roland Barthes Roland Barthes and his concept of the photographic image as a message without a codeįrench thinker Roland Barthes is a classic author of modern philosophy about the nature of photography. ![]() “What the photograph reproduces to infinity has occurred only once: the photograph mechanically repeats what could never be repeated existentially.” ![]()
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6/29/2023 0 Comments Bff judy blume![]() ![]() “I’m afraid to lose you and you’re not even mine.” ~ Drake.“The mark of a true crush… is that you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward.” ~ Shana Alexander.It feels like you’re alive, you know?” ~ Scarlett Johansson “It’s nice to have a crush on someone.“All I really want is to hold you tight, treat you right, be with you day and night.” ~ Britney Spears.Love is something that finds you.” ~ Loretta Young “He’s smiling… I am melting.”~ Anonymous.“If I know what love is, it is because of you.” ~ Hermann Hesse.“No matter how hard I try to think about something else, my thoughts always go back to you.” ~ Anonymous.”When I see you, I admit I start to lose my grip and all of my cool.” ~ Anonymous.Here are Crush quotes to help express your feelings. Love at first sight is a overwhelming feeling and can change your life for ever. ![]() You may feel butterflies in your stomach, feel a sense of happiness when you are around him/her or have a longing for that special person. Having a crush on someone can give you crazy feelings and emotions. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments I am pilgrim series![]() ![]() He has also done un-credited writing on a host of other movies including Reign of Fire, Cliffhanger and Flightplan, starring Jodie Foster. ![]() His credits include Payback with Mel Gibson, From Hell, starring Johnny Depp, and Vertical Limit with Chris O'Donnell. ![]() In all, he has won over twenty film or television awards.After moving to Los Angeles he worked as a screen-writer on major studio productions. He also co-produced and wrote Dead Calm, the film which launched Nicole Kidman's international movie career, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and a large number of TV movies and mini-series - including Bodyline and Bangkok Hilton - two of which received international Emmy nominations. He resigned to produce a prominent current affairs radio program and a short time later, with George Miller, wrote the screenplay for Road Warrior/Mad Max 2. At twenty-one he was appointed North American correspondent, based in New York, and after two years returned to Sydney to become an investigative reporter, political correspondent and columnist. Born in Sussex, England, he migrated to Australia as a child and trained as a journalist at the country's leading broadsheet. Terry Hayes is a former journalist and screen-writer. ![]() 6/29/2023 0 Comments Almost heaven mcnaught![]() I find it appealing and I don’t know why. I don’t know why but I really have a thing for bad boys. I’m a sucker for bad-guys-turned-good-guys type of stories. But her character matured as her level of living in the society drastically change. Maybe I was just used with how the female characters were brought up in the first two books. ![]() She’s so indecisive and she doesn’t know what she wants. I didn’t like Elizabeth’s character at first. I guess the effect this book gave me is not as strong as the first two books. Not because it has the most heart-wrenching story but because the couple had both undergone the most unfortunate events among the three pairs. Of the three books, this is the most tragic. From the elegant salons of London, to the wild beauty of the Scottish Highlands, their tempestuous, dramatic romance was played out, a romance between two lovers destined for each other, even though they refused to admit it. Yet for Thornton, a dangerously handsome man of secret wealth and mysterious lineage, the voyage to Elizabeth’s heart was fraught with intrigue, scandal, and a venomous jealousy. In Ian Thornton’s powerful embrace, Elizabeth felt the first stirrings of a passion that blazed through her senses. But beneath her exquisite emerald eyes and cloud of golden hair, lived a girl of rare gentleness, good humour, and a splendid, even ferocious courage. No beauty in England could outshine Elizabeth Cameron, Countess of Havenhurst. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Tarzan of the apes book![]() ![]() Things do not turn out well for them, however. John Clayton is going to assume a post in Africa for the British government. The movies made the story of the jungle ape man much more famous and popular than it would otherwise have been.Īs the book begins, John Clayton and his wife, Anne (Lord and Lady Greystoke) have set out from England for Africa. It was during the 1930s, however, that Tarzan became a genuine movie icon. The first movie version of the novel was in 1918, with many others following. ![]() The book proved so popular that Burroughs wrote more than twenty sequels over the next thirty years. Tarzan of the Apes, by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs, was first published in All-Story Magazine in 1912 and in book form in 1914. Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs ~ A Capsule Book Review by Allen Kopp ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Things like integrity, humility, temperance, courage, justice, patience, simplicity, and modesty. In Covey's words, "Almost all the literature in the first 150 years or so. Covey's 7 habits, on the contrary, takes an inside-out approach and focuses on the character ethic rather than the personality ethic. Most of the books that have been released about achieving success have focused on how to appear rather than how to actually be. This includes defining the foundation of success to de dependent on things managing one's public image, defining guideline about how you should perform in social interactions, hoe one can go about developing a positive mental attitude, and picking up skills and techniques to get people how to get people to behave certain ways. ![]() Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, has been a bestseller for the simple reason that it ignores trends and pop psychology and focuses on timeless principles of fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity.įor his book, Covey researched the last 200 years of success literature, and found that the last 50 years of success literature and analysis have been heavily focused on personality ethics. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments Claimed in Shadows by Lara Adrian![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Eager to prove herself, she is thrilled to be given the chance at a key operation-even if she must share the mission with an arrogant, far-too-seductive Breed male who's practically Order royalty.Their unwanted partnership soon erupts into a desire neither of them can resist. ![]() Having grown up in squalor and neglect on the streets of Montreal, she longs for the close-knit family she's found during her training to be a warrior. His rare ability to daywalk lands Aric an assignment in Montreal, where he learns he's to be teamed with another new recruit, a beautiful, but tough-as-nails Breedmate named Kaya Laurent.Independent and driven, Kaya wants nothing more than to become a full-fledged member of the Order. With his training completed, all he needs is one successful mission before he can join the fight to destroy the Order's chief nemesis, Opus Nostrum. As the son of a formidable Breed warrior, Aric Chase has been devoted to the Order all his life. In this pulse-pounding new Midnight Breed vampire romance novel from New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Lara Adrian, passion explodes between a daywalking member of the Order and a fiery female warrior whose shadowy past will test the bonds of both duty and desire. ![]() 6/28/2023 0 Comments The eight cousins![]() ![]() Kirk Cousins, Osa Odighizuwa among NFC picks. All other NFL-related trademarks are trademarks of the National Football League. Kevin Patra ranks all eight candidates to go from worst to first in 2023. Include Lulus Library, Aunt Jos Scrap Bag, Dom Vs. Rose In Bloom Book Other series written by Louisa May Alcott. ![]() NFL and the NFL shield design are registered trademarks of the National Football League.The team names, logos and uniform designs are registered trademarks of the teams indicated. We would recommend you read the Eight Cousins series in order by series number which is: 1. ![]() 6/27/2023 0 Comments Warchild by Karin Lowachee![]() ![]() Matryoshka is the fourth book based in the universe of the award-winning science fiction mosaic series that began with Warchild. The catch? Yuri is a pirate on the run and this mission threatens to place Jascha in his own brother’s crosshairs. When Jascha is approached by covert agents posing as officers from the Department of Justice, they offer him a deal he can’t refuse: go back to deep space to locate his brother Yuri-the monetary compensation will set his family up for life and afford his sister the care she needs. Life as refugees on Mars is not the promise of stability they were told. Now eighteen years later, Jascha works long hours to provide for his sister’s medical care. Though his sister was eventually reunited with him and his mother, Yuri was lost-apparently signed onto a merchant ship as a child. ( - ) Guyana-born author, in Canada from an early age, whose Warchild sequence, comprising Warchild (2002), Burndive (2003. At three years old, his mining colony was attacked by alien enemies and the destruction thrust his parents, older brother Yuri, and younger sister into separate relief camps on different planets. Lowachee, Karin Entry updated 12 September 2022. In Karin Lowachee’s debut novel Warchild, Earth is fighting a. ![]() This is an intense coming-of-age story with. Warchild by Karin Lowachee When humanity spreads out into deep space, their encounters with other aliens don’t always go well. ![]() Jascha Terisov and his broken family are refugees. Ontario writer Karin Lowachee won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest for Warchild, and its easy to see why. ![]() ![]() Prior to August of 2018 content providers were guaranteed $50 per each new subscription. In August Amazon/ACX altered the bounty payment structure they have with their content providers, authors and narrators. ![]() If you are starting a new Audible subscription with this audio book, it is imperative that you use the link here to start your sub. Now, all that said, and with the time and effort we put into this title I need to ask my readers & listeners a special favor. In audio time alone this book exceeds The Rational Male. We went through several rounds of edits and approvals, but the end result is really something worth the wait I think. In addition to Sam’s medical challenges ACX / Amazon has really stepped up their quality assurances requirements with respect to the audio quality. ![]() A lot of work has gone into making this title the best we could make it. The book logs in at 23.7 hours and is presently $29.99. The book is once again narrated by Sam ‘The Voice’ Botta and as with the other two books I’m sharing the royalties with him to help him with his absolutely insane medical expenses due to his injuries sustained from his hit & run “accident”. The third installment of The Rational Male series – Positive Masculinity – is now available for purchase and download from Amazon / Kindle. Okay, okay, spare me the ‘better late than never’ jokes. ![]() |