Author: Pascale Estellon
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
ISBN: 9781934734544
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This colorful, oversized book is filled with hours of doodling, drawing, and fun. Starting with vivid color photographs with key pieces missing or the start of a new backdrop drawn in, readers are invited to finish the scene as they paint the missing half of a portrait, fill a summer sky with flying saucers, make a broccoli ballerina, give a dog his dinner, turn a teacup into a cowboy, draw heads inside hats and helmets, or teach a fish to talk. Pascale Estellon's clever artwork provides a whimsical launching pad for creative fun in this remarkable book.
Beyond the Finish Line
Author: Jonathan Finn
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228004527
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In the 1880s photographers and sports enthusiasts confidently declared the end of dead heats in sporting competition. Reflecting a broader social belief in technology, proponents of the camera stressed that the device could provide definitive proof of who won and who lost. Yet despite this remedy for the inadequate human eye, competitive races between horses, boats, and bicycles ended too close to call a sole champion. More than a century later, when cameras can subdivide the second into ten-thousandths and beyond, athletes continue to cross the finish line in ties. In this fascinating journey through the history of the photo-finish in sports, Jonathan Finn shows how innovation was animated by a drive for ever more precise tools and a quest for perfect measurement. As he traces the technological developments inspired by this crusade - from the evolution of the still camera to movie cameras, ultimately leading to complex contemporary photo-finish systems - Finn uncovers the social implications of adopting and contesting the photograph as evidence in sport. At every turn empirical obsession intersects with the unpredictability of sports, creating a paradox wherein the precision offered by photo-finish technology far exceeds the realities of human performance and its measurement. Separating athletes by the hundredth, thousandth, or ten-thousandth of a second is often a fiction that comes with significant material and cultural implications. A lively biography of a critical technology, Beyond the Finish Line illuminates the cultural role of the photo-finish in win-at-all-costs culture and warn that in our pursuit for precision we may threaten the human element of sport that galvanizes mere spectators into fans.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0228004527
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
In the 1880s photographers and sports enthusiasts confidently declared the end of dead heats in sporting competition. Reflecting a broader social belief in technology, proponents of the camera stressed that the device could provide definitive proof of who won and who lost. Yet despite this remedy for the inadequate human eye, competitive races between horses, boats, and bicycles ended too close to call a sole champion. More than a century later, when cameras can subdivide the second into ten-thousandths and beyond, athletes continue to cross the finish line in ties. In this fascinating journey through the history of the photo-finish in sports, Jonathan Finn shows how innovation was animated by a drive for ever more precise tools and a quest for perfect measurement. As he traces the technological developments inspired by this crusade - from the evolution of the still camera to movie cameras, ultimately leading to complex contemporary photo-finish systems - Finn uncovers the social implications of adopting and contesting the photograph as evidence in sport. At every turn empirical obsession intersects with the unpredictability of sports, creating a paradox wherein the precision offered by photo-finish technology far exceeds the realities of human performance and its measurement. Separating athletes by the hundredth, thousandth, or ten-thousandth of a second is often a fiction that comes with significant material and cultural implications. A lively biography of a critical technology, Beyond the Finish Line illuminates the cultural role of the photo-finish in win-at-all-costs culture and warn that in our pursuit for precision we may threaten the human element of sport that galvanizes mere spectators into fans.
Photo Finish
Author: Pascale Estellon
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
ISBN: 9781934734544
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This colorful, oversized book is filled with hours of doodling, drawing, and fun. Starting with vivid color photographs with key pieces missing or the start of a new backdrop drawn in, readers are invited to finish the scene as they paint the missing half of a portrait, fill a summer sky with flying saucers, make a broccoli ballerina, give a dog his dinner, turn a teacup into a cowboy, draw heads inside hats and helmets, or teach a fish to talk. Pascale Estellon's clever artwork provides a whimsical launching pad for creative fun in this remarkable book.
Publisher: Seven Footer Press
ISBN: 9781934734544
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
This colorful, oversized book is filled with hours of doodling, drawing, and fun. Starting with vivid color photographs with key pieces missing or the start of a new backdrop drawn in, readers are invited to finish the scene as they paint the missing half of a portrait, fill a summer sky with flying saucers, make a broccoli ballerina, give a dog his dinner, turn a teacup into a cowboy, draw heads inside hats and helmets, or teach a fish to talk. Pascale Estellon's clever artwork provides a whimsical launching pad for creative fun in this remarkable book.
O'Sheens Photo Finish
Author: Leroy Yexra
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612104584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Publisher: eStar Books
ISBN: 1612104584
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Photo Finish
Author: Jon Canfield
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470113332
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
"A must-have book for all photographers." --John Shaw, johnshawphoto.com If you're serious about digital photography, you know that taking a great photo is only the beginning. You want to share your polished images with the widest possible audience. This means you need to optimize images for different mediums--print, the Web, slideshows--and draw people to your work. Learn how to do so with digital-imaging experts Jon Canfield and Tim Grey. Combining practical know-how with inspiring examples, they'll teach how you to take control of your output. They introduce the technologies and techniques you need to attain the best results for any medium and they reveal tips for attracting viewers. By the time you finish this book, you'll be able to get your photographs the attention they deserve.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470113332
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
"A must-have book for all photographers." --John Shaw, johnshawphoto.com If you're serious about digital photography, you know that taking a great photo is only the beginning. You want to share your polished images with the widest possible audience. This means you need to optimize images for different mediums--print, the Web, slideshows--and draw people to your work. Learn how to do so with digital-imaging experts Jon Canfield and Tim Grey. Combining practical know-how with inspiring examples, they'll teach how you to take control of your output. They introduce the technologies and techniques you need to attain the best results for any medium and they reveal tips for attracting viewers. By the time you finish this book, you'll be able to get your photographs the attention they deserve.
Photo Finish
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416906487
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Jason competes to secure one of the four top spots to compete in a competition in New York.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416906487
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Jason competes to secure one of the four top spots to compete in a competition in New York.
Photo Finish
Author: Ngaio Marsh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312973018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Roderick Alleyn, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent, accompanies his celebrated artist-wife, Troy, to an exotic New Zealand island where Troy begins an opera star's portrait, only to assist in solving her murder.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312973018
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Roderick Alleyn, Scotland Yard's chief superintendent, accompanies his celebrated artist-wife, Troy, to an exotic New Zealand island where Troy begins an opera star's portrait, only to assist in solving her murder.
Photo Finish
Author: Sara Paretsky
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101537515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A classic V.I. Warshawski short story from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky. When a beautiful young man hires Chicago detective V.I. Warshawski to find his long-lost father, his story has so many holes that V.I. knows she’s on thin ice. Some illusive resemblance to a face she can’t quite remember keeps the PI on the case, even though when she finds the old man, he claims he never had a child. Uncovering the real identities of both father and son leads V.I. on a chase from Chicago’s seedy bars to its Gold Coast hotels and leave her shaken to the core. Don’t miss this rare story about the detective who is a “powerful magnet for trouble” (People) by the international bestselling and award winning Sara Paretsky. Originally published in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine and reprinted in Body Work
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101537515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
A classic V.I. Warshawski short story from New York Times bestselling author Sara Paretsky. When a beautiful young man hires Chicago detective V.I. Warshawski to find his long-lost father, his story has so many holes that V.I. knows she’s on thin ice. Some illusive resemblance to a face she can’t quite remember keeps the PI on the case, even though when she finds the old man, he claims he never had a child. Uncovering the real identities of both father and son leads V.I. on a chase from Chicago’s seedy bars to its Gold Coast hotels and leave her shaken to the core. Don’t miss this rare story about the detective who is a “powerful magnet for trouble” (People) by the international bestselling and award winning Sara Paretsky. Originally published in Mary Higgins Clark Mystery Magazine and reprinted in Body Work
The Case of the Photo Finish
Author: Carolyn Keene
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481404040
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Nancy tries to find out who is trying to sabotage the International High School Track and Field Games before it is too late.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1481404040
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 129
Book Description
Nancy tries to find out who is trying to sabotage the International High School Track and Field Games before it is too late.
Hover Car Racer
Author: Matthew Reilly
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369373427
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Super fast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race - car driver, all superstar. But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive. This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut, is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780369373427
Category : Automobile racing
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
In the world of the near future, the most popular sport in the world is hover car racing. Super fast and dangerous, its heroes are the racers: part fighter pilot, part race - car driver, all superstar. But to get to the Pro Circuit, you must first pass through the International Race School, a brutal cauldron of wild races on even wilder courses, where only the best of the best will survive. This is the story of Jason Chaser, a talented young racer selected to attend the Race School. He's younger than the other students. He's smaller. His trusty car, the Argonaut, is older. But Jason Chaser is no ordinary racer. And as he races against the best drivers in the world he will learn that at Race School winning is everything, that not everyone in this world fights fair, and that you never ever have any friends on the track.
Photography, Temporality, and Modernity
Author: Kris Belden-Adams
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351004247
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book examines the photography’s unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium’s ability to capture and sometimes "defy" time, while also traveling as objects across time-and-space nexuses. The book features studies of understudied, widespread, practices: studio portraiture, motion studies, panoramas, racing photo finishes, composite college class pictures, planetary photography, digital montages, and extended-exposure images. A closer look at these images and their unique cultural/historical contexts reveals photography to be a unique medium for expressing changing perceptions of time, and the anxiety its passage provokes.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351004247
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
This book examines the photography’s unique capacity to represent time with a degree of elasticity and abstraction. Part object-study, part cultural/philosophical history, it examines the medium’s ability to capture and sometimes "defy" time, while also traveling as objects across time-and-space nexuses. The book features studies of understudied, widespread, practices: studio portraiture, motion studies, panoramas, racing photo finishes, composite college class pictures, planetary photography, digital montages, and extended-exposure images. A closer look at these images and their unique cultural/historical contexts reveals photography to be a unique medium for expressing changing perceptions of time, and the anxiety its passage provokes.