106 Results for : skimming
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The Darker Saints , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 936min
Behind the walls of respectability is a world exploding with crime, sin, and the darkest magic of all. The rain beats down on the hot New Orleans streets. A derelict staggers, no longer a man, but a zombie, a vessel emptied by voodoo sorcery and poured full of another's will.This is the land of lace curtains and Mardi Gras. This is the world of the bayou, and sizzling crawfish, and a man in white who can kill at any distance.A storm of corporate greed and cruel vengeance is sweeping through New Orleans, descending on a young advertising executive (Nightlife‘s Justin Gray), who fears he may be selling his soul along with brand names, a weary ex-CIA agent, and a Caribbean chauffeur on the run from enemies he can't understand.Two powerful businessmen, one legitimate, the other a criminal, have built a common empire. Now it is coming apart in a tidal wave of bloodshed and shattered lives, flooding the Delta with voodoo - the dark magic of darker saints.PRAISE FOR THE DARKER SAINTS:“Southern Louisiana is always a terrifically atmospheric setting for hot, humid, moldering, multicultural horror. Hodge uses his setting well...moves along with the speed of an airboat skimming a steaming bayou. The action's hot, the magic is dark, and you start getting a little sorry for Justin, considering all the shit he gets into in the space of just two novels... This is a quite literate edge of night in which the morning apparently never comes.” (Ed Bryant, in Locus)“You've got the spicy ingredients for a dish so intense and uncompromising, it'll leave your eyes stinging... If you're tired of predictable horror yarns, then step into Hodge's dark and obsessive world, where lovers circle each other like enemies, brothers see murder as a tool of capitalism, and ancient voodoo gods descend to earth to possess willing subjects. Hodge's work often emphasizes that the real world can be scarier than the supernatural. The Darker Saints ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Wes Freeman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/206598/bk_acx0_206598_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Hunted Wolf , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 359min
In "Death for Double-O Neighbors", Tom Lucas owes plenty to Old Bob Hurley who raised him and helped him start up his own ranch, the Wagon Wheel. Lucas is also in love with his granddaughter, Marcia, who has just returned from the East. Hurley calls a meeting of all the small ranchers, for which Tom is a leader, to warn them a range war is headed their way if the skimming off of his yearlings doesn't stop. Lucas is torn by his loyalty to both Hurley and his Double-O Ranch on one side and to the small ranchers on the other. That loyalty is tested when his ranch is burned out and he and his partner are branded cattle thieves by Hurley himself.When Stanley Blanton, an engineer charting the mineral resources of the Northland, in the "Out Trail", crashes through a snow bridge with his sled and dogs, he injures his ankle. Two hundred and fifty miles from food and shelter for both himself and his dogs in the midst of a blizzard, all hope seems gone until a sled team appears in the distance. Knowing the code of the North - that one must to help another in distress - Blanton calls out, but the man and his team pass him by.Court martialed and losing the woman he loved seven years earlier, Cass Morgan, in "Powder for Santa Anna", has been living recklessly, shipping freight between the African coast and the Mexican gulf with his partner, O'Malley. As the war with Mexico, which Morgan is against, ramps up and the services of brigs are needed to move supplies and men to Taylor at the mouth of the Rio Grande, a web of deceit encircles Morgan as rumors of blockade running and smuggling contraband, including slaves, into Mexico tighten around him.When Tom Buckner, in "Hunted Wolf", quits Hal Stafford's Cross-T Ranch, he didn't expect to be pursued and left to die in the desert, his horse wounded and a single cartridge in his gun. The appearance of a scrawny wolf at the dry basin provides a chance for survival - and revenge - if only Buckner can outw ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Traber Burns. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/011891/bk_blak_011891_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Making Futures
Welche Rolle können Architektur und Architekten im 21. Jahrhundert spielen? Welche Möglichkeiten ergeben sich, wenn wir Architektur nicht als Ansammlung von Gegenständen, sondern als Handlungskompetenz begreifen? Welche Raumdynamiken entstehen, wenn wir uns in unseren Praktiken von den wachstumsbesessenen und abschöpfungsgetriebenen Impulsen des Neoliberalismus abwenden? Seit 2018 versucht Making Futures, diese Fragen mithilfe einer praxisbasierten Forschung zu beantworten, die verschiedene Disziplinen, Institutionen und Territorien umfasst. An Schulen, in Workshops und anderen Bildungsformaten hat Making Futures Modi der Gestaltung von Städten erkundet, die auf verschiedenen Arten des Wissensaustauschs beruhen: Montieren, Bauen, Backen, Recyceln, Tanzen usw. Die Publikation von Making Futures erläutert die Erfahrungen und Forderungen, die sich aus dieser Actionresearch ergeben. Sie bietet ein neues Verständnis von Architektur als kollektivem Prozess und Ressource. Making Futuresist ein praxisbasiertes Forschungsprojekt, das 2018 in Zusammenarbeit zwischen dem raumlabor und der Universität der Künste (UdK) Berlin entstanden ist.Making Futures sind: Markus Bader, Juan Chacón, George Kafka, Anna Kokalanova, Christof Mayer, Tatjana Schneider, Rosario TaleviWhat role might architecture-and the architect-play in the twenty-first century? What possibilities arise when we view architecture as a form of agency rather than as a collection of objects? What spatial dynamics emerge when we turn our practices away from the dictates of the neoliberal era with its obsession with growth and skimming off profit? Since 2018, Making Futures has sought ways to answer these questions through practice-based research across disciplines, institutions, and territories. In schools, workshops, and other educational formats, Making Futures has explored modes of city-making based around diverse forms of knowledge exchange: assembling, constructing, baking, recycling, dancing and more. The Making Futures publication lays outlines the experiences of this action research and the ideas it urges. It proposes a refreshed understanding of architectural practice as a collective process and as a resource. Making Futures is a practice-based research project initiated in 2018 as a collaboration between raumlabor and the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK).Making Futures is: Markus Bader, Juan Chacón, George Kafka, Anna Kokalanova, Christof Mayer, Tatjana Schneider, Rosario Talevi- Shop: buecher
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Mariano Fortuny
Mariano Fortuny was a visionary designer and artist - best known today for his rich, innovative textiles and opulent dress designs, he was also an accomplished painter, etcher and photographer, as well as a designer of theatrical sets, costumes and lighting, revolutionising the stagecraft of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with his ambitious lighting designs. Fortuny's varied and sumptuous output has acquired almost mythological status in the canon of early twentieth-century Aestheticism. Guillermo de Osma sets out to provide a complete and authoritative account of his life and work.Born in 1871, into a famous family of artists, critics, architects and craftsmen, Fortuny benefitted from an eclectic artistic education, and inherited his father's passion for collecting, as well as his interest in the art and artefacts of the Arabic world. He supplemented this early immersion in the art world with his own 'Grand Tour' of Europe's cultural centres, including Paris and Bayreuth, where he was introduced to the work of composer Richard Wagner. Fortuny eventually settled in Venice and, from his studio in the Palazzo Orfei, began to create work in the burgeoning tradition of Aestheticism, rejecting the hierarchies and barriers between the arts and creating 2D artwork as well as furniture, textiles and stage designs for pioneering opera and ballet productions.The 'Delphos robe' is perhaps the quintessential Fortuny creation - a dress as work of art, with its origins in progressive theatrical costume design, that went on to be worn by avant-garde figures including Isadora Duncan and was even immortalized by Proust in 'Remembrance of Things Past'. Hand-dyed and pleated to a patented design, this figure-skimming robe was considered shocking on its first appearance in 1907 but examples still appear on red carpets today. Bringing together craftsmanship, liberal principles of 'rational dress' and a deep immersion in the dress traditions of the Arabic and Classical worlds, it is an iconic garment that transcends fashion.- Shop: buecher
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Flight of the Skimming Bird
Flight of the Skimming Bird: ab 1.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Skimming Stones
Skimming Stones - and other ways of being in the wild: ab 3.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Talon of the Blackwater
PROGRESSION: THE QUARTERLY JOURNAL OF PROGRESSIVE MUSIC LAURA SIERSEMA 'Talon of the Blackwater' Style: Jazz/Folk/Art-Rock/New Age Inspired by church singers and jazz greats like guitarist Pat Metheny, Laura Siersema brings the power of her crystalline voice and compositional skills to bear on her third release. Fluid, poetic vocals ride high in the mix. The performances are mainly the product of Siersema and Jay Hovnanian (producer/engineer/synthesizers), but are augmented by T Lavitz (Dixie Dregs) and other skilled players. The understated accompaniments are at times brilliant. Siersema takes the traditional spiritual "Wade in the Water" and makes it her own with a ghostly arrangement reminiscent of Daniel Lanios's work. "My Eye This Flower in Julep Runs" brings to mind Mahavishnu Orchestra's "Smile of the Beyond" vocal section, an indication of the timbre and clarity of Siersema's voice and the album in general. The excellent 14-minute closer "Along the Fenway" features cellist Eugene Friesen (Paul Winter Consort) and is strikingly beautiful. The pace of these compositions is slow and deliberate, and tunes like "Who Will Pass this On veer toward lounge music. But the stream-of-consciousness quality of Siersema's lyrics trumps this album's minor shortcomings. By Rick Tvedt LiveWire: Laura Siersema's 'Talon of the Blackwater' by The Republican Entertainment Desk Thursday April 02, 2009, 9:04 AM By Donnie Moorhouse When you listen to Laura Siersema's new release 'Talon of the Blackwater,' it is almost impossible to imagine that this talented local songwriter once felt uncomfortable with her own voice. 'I have always felt particularly vulnerable about singing, that continues to this day,' said Siersema. 'It was many years of studying voice, auditioning, before I ever felt a sense of freedom and connectedness to my own voice.' While the Greenfield resident's voice gives 'Talon of the Blackwater,' it's beauty, her writing is what gives it depth. 'It's (the record) everything I can say about the journey, condensed,' she said. 'With each of the albums, it was my life as I knew it up to that point.' At first glance, the talent is obvious but it just may be Siersema's work ethic that makes her stand out in a crowded folk field. 'I worked intensely for a period of 13 months on this material alone,' she said. 'I did not go into studio along the way. I wrote the majority of it first, then went to record it. The creative process was much more concentrated an experience, and the tools with which I worked were becoming increasingly focused and sharp.' Siersema is not unaccustomed to hearing comparisons to Joni Mitchell when people are first introduced to her art. 'I've heard that from a number of different people,' she said. ''Hejira' is my favorite album ever and her adaptation of 'Slouching Towards Bethlehem' is one of my favorite songs. Though I did not come to know her work until later, I consider her one of my heroines. She is a poet too. The volume of her work is just amazing.' Siersema is working on putting together her performing schedule and has lined up an afternoon showcase at Borders Books and Music in Keene, NH on Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. Her full schedule, along with the brilliant 'Talon of the Blackwater,' is available at laurasiersema.com. Laura Siersema's Talon of the Blackwater Valley Advocate February 13, 2009 By Ryan Duffy Currently based out of Greenfield, singer/songwriter Laura Siersema offers her third album. According to her biography, she loved music as a child, attempted nursing school and dropped out, and fell back into music-not exactly the worst move, in her case. Siersema clearly has a lot to offer with her sonorous singing and her agile playing. Many of the songs on this CD are not far removed from some of Kate Bush's more subdued '80s output, which means flowing, ethereal vocals, murky, fretless bass, jazz piano, subtle synthesizers, some strings, drums and even bouncing marimba on one track. The record makes good use of silence and space at times, creating a fairly minimalist setting, circling and entrancing rather than forcing it's way in. Lyrically, the album uses cryptic poetry to evoke moods, rather than providing the listeners with cheap, cut-and-dried imagery. I liked this bit from "Along the Fenway," the 13-minute closer: I saw the future in somebody's hand They're gonna steal a wallet What does it matter when you're in-between the black sheep and the chosen one? Or how about, from the title track: Hurling shotgun shells at a wedding party brother half-cocked at the pulpit nausea always skimming just beneath Not sure exactly what she's alluding to, but anyone who can wield strong lyrical ability while avoiding pretension and tired clichés scores points with me. Lead track "Mother Mary Rose" slowly floats along, buoyed by watery and delicate guitar work, but the vocals cut through the mix, creating a disembodied ambience. Siersema's take on the traditional tune "Wade in the Water" is carried by clomping congas and is lit up like a jazzy old torch song. Fans of Tori Amos, Joni Mitchell and even Leonard Cohen, albeit strictly on a lyrical basis, might feel at home with Siersema. MOTHER MARY ROSE Mother Mary Rose drinking from a fountain I feel the rain coming down like life or the remnants of a hurricane will you break me up? will you hold me down? Mother Mary Rose well he shook his head and I wanted to tell him it was alright but we were on the ocean it was breathing like a child I held him in my arms he was alone and so was I. Why do shadows fall so slowly hovering o'er this field of all who pass-- Mother Mary Rose my sisters and I spent out summers this way hardly noticed slipping over the many mountains slipping over the lush down of scooter slipping, slipping away. Vocal, Fluid Guitar Siersema Synthesizers Jay Hovnanian Brush Marcelo Woloski TALON OF THE BLACKWATER AND GRACES Somebody pulled the hair right out of my head something so small 'bout a quarter-size not me that's pointing a knife admit that you're wrong not to matter-- Don't you remember anything denting the car, the machete stealing bread and meat under your jacket-- get afraid and lie get afraid and twist things up your riddle underneath I go-- scraping up the sides and dropping down-- talon of the blackwater and graces. Hurling shotgun shells at a wedding party brother half-cocked at the pulpit nausea always skimming just beneath what's cheated you it's all coming up-- keep it down, keep it quiet it's a tailspin let's just get away-- scraping up the sides and dropping down-- talon of the blackwater and graces. So put me in your dress and step on my shoes tell me how much you like them take my picture, press it all over the house tear this roof off my head this throbbing in my heart-- keep it down, keep it quiet it's a tailspin let's just get away-- scraping up the sides and dropping down-- talon of the blackwater and graces. ^#^keep it down, keep it quiet it's a tailspin let's just get away-- Vocals, Fluid Guitar Siersema Fretless Bass Michael Farquharson Synthesizer T Lavitz Lead Guitar Nate Comp Frame Drums Nick Falk Congas Marcelo Woloski GO CHILDREN SLOW Go children slow walk on the water what you become those suits and guns they bring the massacre down the tracks you ride raising your hopes under the gathering tree under the gathering tree-- All the wooden horses, all that's sleeping in the yard listen, can you hear me? there's gonna be a big trial, gonna saw the people up singing, all your questions like heads are gonna fall--you're swimming now as you lie awake at night lie awake at night-- Fix upon the bell you took, instrument you wore-- Go children slow walk on the water what you become those suits and guns they bring the massacre down the tracks you ride raising your hopes under the gathering tree under the gathering tree-- Vocal, Piano Siersema Fretless Bass Michael Farquharson Synthesizers T Lavitz & Jay Hovnanian Percussion Nick Falk WAD- Shop: odax
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