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My Secret: A PostSecret Book

Author: Frank Warren
ASIN : 0061196681
Sales Rank : 2138
Studio : William Morrow
Binding : Hardcover
EAN : 9780061196683
ISBN : 0061196681
Number Of Pages : 144
Publication Date : December 24, 2006
Release Date : December 24, 2006
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Postsecret.com founder Frank Warren is back with a fresh and compelling companion to his wildly popular Los Angeles Times bestseller, PostSecret. For My Secret, a collectible, paper-over-board book that includes a page of vibrant, decorative stickers, Warren has personally selected never-before-seen anonymous postcards created by teens and college students from across the country. Each card bears an intimate and powerful secret—at turns inspirational, shocking, hilarious, and poetic—that is told through original illustrations, photographs, collages, and other creative means. Sample messages include:

* "I am avoiding you because you are socially below me." * "I know the truth to the lie my parents tell... " * "My friends think I was homeschooled. I spent high school in juvi."

A unique and important book that will appeal to both young adults and their parents, My Secret offers a raw and revealing glimpse into the real lives of today's teens and twentysomethings. Choosing their own handmade postcards over email or text messages, teens and college students express their hopes, fears, and wildest confessions in a way that truly represents their diverse personalities and voices.

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At the beginning of 2005, Frank Warren launched a new blog called PostSecret as an experiment in community art, inviting strangers to mail him anonymous postcards that made art out of their innermost secrets and then posting a selection of the cards every week on his blog. Within a year, his blog was one of the five most popular in the world, and his first book, PostSecret, was one of the surprise bestsellers of 2005. My Secret is his second book, a collection of cards from teens and college students--none of which has been shown on the website--that carries the same emotional power and creativity that have made Warren's project a phenomenon.

We are featuring seven postcards from the book here: see two of them on this page, and click on the numbers below to see five more.

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Cynthia Harts Victoriana Calendar 2009 (Wall Calendars)

Author: Cynthia Hart
ASIN : 0761147721
Sales Rank : 2110
Brand : 2009 Calendars
Studio : Workman Publishing Company
Binding : Calendar
EAN : 9780761147725
ISBN : 0761147721
Number Of Pages : 28
Publication Date : December 15, 2008
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
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It's a jubilee! We're celebrating twenty years of bestselling success. Cynthia Hart's Victoriana Calendar is a treasure—a feast for the eyes and imagination that dazzles with its exuberance and prettiness, and evokes comforting thoughts of family, home, and tradition. These dozen luxuriant collages reflect the artist's exceptional eye for detail, layering antique paper ephemera, lavish fabrics, garlands of ribbon and lace, jewelry, and perfect cut flowers for an effect that's nostalgic, yet utterly fresh and dynamic. This special anniversary edition is packaged with a crafty gift: a scrapbooking kit with four sheets of decorative papers, thirty-five die-cut embellishments and frames, and sixty-five stickers—all decorated with Cynthia Hart's keepsake designs.

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1,000 Artist Journal Pages: Personal Pages and Inspirations (1000 Series)

Author: Dawn DeVries Sokol
ASIN : 1592534120
Sales Rank : 7429
Studio : Quarry Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781592534128
ISBN : 1592534120
Number Of Pages : 320
Publication Date : December 01, 2008
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Mixed-Media Self-Portraits: Inspiration & Techniques

Author: Cate Coulacos Prato
ASIN : 1596680822
Sales Rank : 7379
Studio : Interweave Press
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781596680821
ISBN : 1596680822
Number Of Pages : 128
Publication Date : December 23, 2008
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The Artist's Way Workbook

Author: Julia Cameron
ASIN : 1585425338
Sales Rank : 5245
Studio : Tarcher
Binding : Spiral-bound
EAN : 9781585425334
ISBN : 1585425338
Number Of Pages : 176
Publication Date : December 21, 2006
Publisher : Tarcher
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For the millions of people who have uncovered their creative selves through the Artist's Way program-a workbook and companion to the international bestseller.

Alife-changing twelve-week program, The Artist's Way has touched the lives of millions of people around the world. Now, for the first time, fans will have this elegantly designed and user-friendly volume for use in tandem with the book. The Artist's Way Workbook includes:

- more than 110 Artist's Way tasks;
- more than 50 Artist's Way check-ins;
- a fascinating introduction to the workbook in which Cameron shares new insights into the creative process that she has culled in the decade since The Artist's Way was originally published;
- new and original writings on Morning Page Journaling and the Artist's Date-two of the most vital tools set forth by Cameron in The Artist's Way.

The Artist's Way Workbook is an indispensable book for anyone following the spiritual path to higher creativity laid out in The Artist's Way.

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Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series

Author: John Berger
ASIN : 0140135154
Sales Rank : 1503
Studio : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780140135152
ISBN : 0140135154
Number Of Pages : 176
Publication Date : December 01, 1990
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the "London Sunday Times" critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings ...he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

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Fabric Art Workshop: Exploring Techniques & Materials for Fabric Artists and Quilters

Author: Susan Stein
ASIN : 158923328X
Sales Rank : 17065
Studio : Creative Publishing international
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781589233287
ISBN : 158923328X
Number Of Pages : 128
Publication Date : December 01, 2007
Publisher : Creative Publishing international
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Exhibition 36: Mixed Media Demonstrations + Explorations

Author: Susan Tuttle
ASIN : 1600611044
Sales Rank : 10560
Studio : North Light Books
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781600611049
ISBN : 1600611044
Number Of Pages : 160
Publication Date : December 15, 2008
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Within the pages of Exhibition 36, readers will enter a virtual art exhibit featuring thirty-six mixed-media artists whose collage, digital, assemblage, altered and repurposed art adorn the walls and pedestals of this unique gallery. The artists are "present" throughout the exhibit, answering questions, sharing their thoughts, talking about their work and offering instruction. The tour is structured to provide insight into the creative process of the artists whose work is on display and the reader will be delighted with the plethora of inspiration, articles, techniques and general visual candy. As a final bonus, many artists featured in the book have contributed imagery as a gift to readers for attending the exhibit to reuse in their own creations.

Possesses great crossover appeal for mixed-media artists of nearly every discipline, including jewelry makers, collage artists and more.

Readers will enter a "virtual tour" featuring art from a variety of contributing artists, including well-known crafters such as Claudine Hellmuth (Collage Discovery Workshop) and Suzanne Simanaitis (Kaleidoscope).

Includes bonus collage imagery sheets for readers to use in their own art.

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Collage Journeys: A Practical Guide to Creating Personal Artwork

Author: Jane Davies
ASIN : 0823099512
Sales Rank : 16230
Studio : Watson-Guptill
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9780823099511
ISBN : 0823099512
Number Of Pages : 144
Publication Date : December 11, 2008
Release Date : December 11, 2008
Publisher : Watson-Guptill
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Art Forms in Nature: The Prints of Ernst Haeckel (Monographs)

Authors: Ernst Haeckel, Olaf Breidbach, Richard Hartmann, Irenaeus Eibl-Eibesfeldt
ASIN : 3791319906
Sales Rank : 30750
Studio : Prestel Publishing
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9783791319902
ISBN : 3791319906
Number Of Pages : 139
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
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The geometric shapes and natural forms, captured with exceptional precision in Ernst Haeckel's prints, still influence artists and designers to this day. This volume highlights the research and findings of this natural scientist. Powerful modern microscopes have confirmed the accuracy of Haeckel's prints, which even in their day, became world famous. Haeckel's portfolio, first published between 1899 and 1904 in separate installments, is described in the opening essays. The plates illustrate Haeckel's fundamental monistic notion of the "unity of all living things" and the wide variety of forms are executed with utmost delicacy. Incipient microscopic organisms are juxtaposed with highly developed plants and animals. The pages, ordered according to geometric and "constructive" aspects, document the oness of the world in its most diversified forms. This collection of plates was not only well-received by scientists, but by artists and architects as well. Rene Binet, a pioneer of glass and iron constructions, Emile Galle, a renowned Art Nouveau designer, and the photographer Karl Blossfeld all make explicit reference to Haeckel in their work.

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Every biology student knows Ernst Haeckel as the originator of the "Biogenetic Law": ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. Haeckel was a passionate student of the evolutionary shaping of biological forms, and Art Forms in Nature captures both his artistic sensibility and the scientific rigor he applied to all his studies. First published in 1904, Art Forms in Nature is a glorification of function and form, a demonstration of organic symmetry that has nothing--and everything--to do with nature as it actually exists. Each plate exhibits organisms carefully arranged and exquisitely detailed, "a symbiosis between decorative sketches and descriptive observations of nature," as Olaf Breidbach states in his fascinating introductory text. The radiolarians, medusae, rotifers, bryozoans, and even frogs and turtles lovingly recreated here are gorgeous and self-explanatory, rendered in delicate, filigreed lines, and colored gently with muted green, delicate pink, and sepia. Art students will appreciate the designs found in nature--scientists will love the evolutionary statement of form inherent in the beauty. --Therese Littleton