![]() ![]() Art Cars spark social engagement and interaction – you can take them anywhere and thousands of people flock to discuss, snap photos and share with friends. ![]() “Today, we’re creating art digitally and we’re putting that art in motion via Art Cars as moving art installations. “Other artists used to tell me I was crazy when I told them computers would one day replace paintbrushes,” said Gartel. Gartel, who was featured as the official artist of the 57th GRAMMY Awards in 2015 and the 113th New York International Auto Show in 2013, is excited about the partnership and says Art Cars are both the future of digital art and most eye-catching form of mobile advertising. ![]() All Art Basel Miami Beach attendees are encouraged to share photos of the Art Cars using #GartelArtCars and #SpeedProArtCars (more info on Art Basel and other winter events can be found below). ![]() On Friday, December 8th, and Saturday, December 9th, Gartel will be joined in South Florida by Lazar as the pair unveil three brand new, and strikingly different, Art Cars – a Chrysler 300, an Infiniti G37, and a Ford C-Max Hybrid – right in time for Art Basel Miami Beach. Eric Lazar, owner of the SpeedPro Chicago Loop location of SpeedPro Imaging, has secured a monumental partnership with Laurence Gartel, “the Father of Digital Art,” to produce three vibrant “Art Cars” for next week’s much anticipated Art Basel Miami Beach – one of the biggest art shows in the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Son of a prominent notary with ties to the ruling families of both Milan and Florence, Leonardo could call on family connections to secure plum commissions drawing on his far-ranging talents. ![]() Isaacson makes the case that Leonardo was a consummate innovator, a disrupter of commonplace verities, and an artist-anatomist-engineer whose titanic intellectual curiosity propelled him relentlessly into new regions of practice and inquiry.Īlthough, today, Leonardo is revered as a great painter of the Italian Renaissance - who painted “The Last Supper” and “Mona Lisa” - Isaacson reminds us that he was far more. ![]() Isaacson mines the artifacts of Leonardo Da Vinci’s life to support a resonant central theme: That he was a hands-on, intuitive genius in the author’s view, perhaps the greatest of all time. Zeroing in on all the known facts of his subject’s life, Walter Isaacson has created a formidable successor to his previous biographies of Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Steve Jobs. This sumptuously produced book comes to us from one of America’s foremost and most readable professional biographers. ![]() ![]() ![]() But her hunger for adventure and her longing to be a great poet conspire to kill the affair. We follow this child as she reaches adolescence, leaves home to study in America, and slowly discovers sexual happiness and love. ![]() For our protagonist, the much-loved child of a late marriage, the first rooms she is aware of as she nears the age of five are those that make up her family’s Moscow apartment. They form her biography, from childhood to death. “Forty rooms” is a conceit: it proposes that a modern woman will inhabit forty rooms in her lifetime. Olga Grushin is dealing with issues of women’s identity, of women’s choices, that no modern novel has explored so deeply. Totally original in conception and magnificently executed, Forty Rooms is mysterious, withholding, and ultimately emotionally devastating. The internationally acclaimed author of The Dream Life of Sukhanov now returns to gift us with Forty Rooms, which outshines even that prizewinning novel. ![]() ![]() Side note: I myself am a dropper - if only dropping things were a talent to be admired… □ But overall, I quite enjoyed the book, and I liked the twist on so-called “flaws” turning out to be heroic talents (the power to “break things” is a powerful talent, for example, as is the talent for arriving late to things as well as the talent for tripping). The first-person narrator style took me some getting use to, and I can imagine future tales getting a bit formulaic in that Lemony Snicket kind of way. ![]() It’s a fun, quick tale, overflowing with magic and adventure and snarky humor. (Ha!) On his 13th birthday, Alcatraz receives a mysterious package full of sand… and is quickly thrust into an adventure involving oculator lenses, self-driving cars, talking dinosaurs who also love reading, and of course, evil librarians. So what’s the book all about? Alcatraz Smedry has grown up in Libraria - the United States, Canada, and England, countries controlled by librarians - often referred to as the Hushlands. ![]() The book began, essentially, as a free-write based on what became the first line: “So, there I was, tied to an altar made from out-dated encyclopedias, about to get sacrificed to the dark powers by a cult of evil Librarians.” ![]() Turns out, this opening sentence was what inspired Sanderson to write the whole book! As he reveals on his personal website: First page of Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not an easy read in many ways but it’s quite important. They said from the start, “we were determined that we would both be equally involved in the creation of Riley and Jen-neither of us would take on the role of the “Black” character or the “white” character, but rather our constant conversations would allow us to create both of these women together…”Īnd what they put together is an exceptional novel that covers race relations, lifelong friendships, police violence, motherhood, all wrapped together. I’m not sure if the finished copy features the note written by the authors-BTW, these are often included in advanced reader’s copies (ARCs) to provide a bit more context to the book. As such, the novel features two key characters: Riley, a Black female reporter and Jen, a white pregnant wife of a police officer. While I have read several fiction books that cover racial injustice, I’ve never read one like this before: a book written by both a Black and white author. This is one of the best books I’ve read this year. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() From there it began to move to the planet's farthest corners. The rise of the song in this country and the launch of its world travels can be traced to Georgia Turner, a poor, sixteen-year-old daughter of a miner living in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in 1937 when the young folk-music collector Alan Lomax, on a trip collecting field recordings, captured her voice singing "The Rising Sun Blues." Lomax deposited the song in the Library of Congress and included it in the 1941 book "Our Singing Country." In short order, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly, and Josh White learned the song and each recorded it. ![]() But that barely scratches the surface few songs have traveled a journey as intricate as "House of the Rising Sun." Bob Dylan did a version and Frijid Pink cut a hard-rocking rendition. Most people know the song "House of the Rising Sun" as 1960s rock by the British Invasion group the Animals, a ballad about a place in New Orleans - a whorehouse or a prison or gambling joint that's been the ruin of many poor girls or boys. "Chasing the Rising Sun" is the story of an American musical journey told by a prize-winning writer who traced one song in its many incarnations as it was carried across the world by some of the most famous singers of the twentieth century. ![]() ![]() ![]() The optical illusions and diagrams used in this book are enthralling and serve a purpose, underlying the principles behind each of the chapters. ![]() It is in these moments where Eagleman consistently excels, being informal without dumbing down the science and presenting the densely packed ideas of the subject in easy to digest segments. Incognito is a journey into the way the brain works but also touches on the morality, psychology and history behind the study of the most complex organ in the body.īeginning this book, it’s easy to feel at ease. Complimenting the reader’s appearance in the second sentence is one of the nicest first impressions an author can give. The depths of the subconscious mind explored in this book address the age-old question: why do we do the things we do?Īn assistant professor of Neuroscience at Stanford University, David Eagleman is a popular science writer and academic who’s known for writing engaging books on the subject. ![]() Weaving eye-catching optical illusions and strange case studies together with a passion for his subject, David Eagleman’s Incognito is both accessible and challenging to the average reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() In The Wreath Undset tells the story of a headstrong young woman who defies the expectations of her much-beloved father, the lessons of her priest, and conventions of society when she is captivated by a charming and dangerously impetuous man. In Kristin Lavransdatter (1920-1922), Sigrid Undset interweaves political, social, and religious history with the daily aspects of family life to create a colorful, richly detailed tapestry of Norway during the fourteenth-century. I’ll use these excerpts from the Penguin Reading Guide that I found online to explain the plot more simply than I’m capable of: In fact I’ve been trying to pull together some thoughts (well actually, I’ve been continuing to avoid doing so) for three days.įortunately I’m not alone – the other participants in this read-along have started posting their reviews, and reading what they have to say and joining in the discussion through comments has kicked my brain back into action. This is slightly unfortunate, I’m finding, now that I am sitting down to try to pull together some thoughts. I just didn’t bother to think too hard about it. That doesn’t mean that the book didn’t make an impression on me. I didn’t take notes, my yellow highlighter didn’t mark a single page, and the story didn’t settle very far into my consciousness. Overwhelmed by an overly eventful month and my hefty reading choices (all three of them…!) I chose to devote the larger part of three evenings to The Wreath and just get it over with. I read the first section of this book in a hurry. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() More than a decade ago, Mira fled her small, segregated hometown in the south to forget. This is a novel, like Octavia Butler's Kindred, that reminds its readers that as long as people don't acknowledge how much of the past still shapes the present, it will bring its whips, its hatchets, and fists to make us learn." - Megan Giddings, author of Lakewood A haunting novel about a black woman who returns to her hometown for a plantation wedding and the horror that ensues as she reconnects with the blood-soaked history of the land and the best friends she left behind. "LaTanya McQueen's When The Reckoning Comes is so deliciously uncomfortable there were moments where I had to put the book down, take a deep breath, and like Mira, its protagonist, urge myself to go further. ![]() ![]() ![]() I Promised Not to Tell is a thought provoking true story which transitions beautifully between the family's personal journey and some of the larger societal issues that face the transgender community today.Įven if you don't know a transgender person, this book will make you feel as if you do. You will hear from Jordan as he expresses his own thoughts on what being transgender means to him and follow along as he and his mother fight for transgender rights. ![]() ![]() Their son's desperate effort to conform to societal gender norms, a suicide attempt, a family members struggle between faith and accepting a transgender loved one, a heartbreaking death and much more. ![]() This book shares it all in the hopes of making a difference in what seems like a harsh and cruel world for transgender people.You get a real sense of what this family went through. Every step of Evan's son's transition from female to male (FTM) is discussed in detail, including hormone replacement therapy and sex reassignment surgeries. What is unique about this deeply personal parenting memoir is that it follows one transgender child from birth through age eighteen. This book will benefit anyone who would like to learn more about gender dysphoria and is an absolute must-read for a parent, relative or friend of a gender-questioning or transgender person. When you have a baby girl you envision many things for her life but becoming a boy is not one of them. **A Red Ribbon Winner - Wishing Shelf Book Awards **A READERS' FAVORITE BRONZE MEDAL AWARD WINNER. ![]() |