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Horse Paintings and Photographs by Artist Karen Brenner Featured in Beautiful New Book

Beautiful Moments in the Lives of Horses is a book for horse lovers only. Packed with over 250 photographs and 80 paintings by equine artist Karen Brenner, its 160 pages overflow with vibrantly colored paintings and action filled photos of horses of all kinds. The artist's luminous oil paintings are beautifully displayed in this coffee table book, but what makes Beautiful Moments in the Lives of Horses extremely unique is the book's combination of paintings, photographs and text. The photos offer an realistic depiction of the horses. The paintings give an interpretive view based on the artist’s personal encounter with the horse and owner. And the text is for those who are curious for details. This combination offers readers an opportunity to look at each horse from a variety of view points.

Ex Libris Integrates Direct Links to Google Pages in its Products

Ex Libris Group, a provider of automation solutions for academic libraries, announced the integration of "About this book" pages from Google Book Search service into Ex Libris products. Using a new "viewability" application programming interface (API) supported by Google Book Search, library patrons can now enhance their findings with Google Book Search features such as full text, book previews, cover thumbnails, and a mashup from Google Maps linking pages in a book describing a specific place to its location on the world map. Use of this "viewability" API has been added to the Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution, SFX context-sensitive link resolver, and the Aleph and Voyager integrated library systems. Libraries running Primo now display a link from an item's detailed view to Google Book Search "About this book" pages when su

Artist to Artist Hamburg 2008

Erika Wain, Canadian artist now living in California, is joining other well known international artists for exhibition entitled Artist to Artist Hamburg 2008 in Germany during March through May 2008 at Forum Alstertal. Wain will be showing 4 pieces: Climax (acrylic), Market Day (oil), Ice Whales (oil), Untitled (acrylic). There will only be 15 artists from the U.S.A. -Other participants will come from Germany, Switzerland, France, Italy, and Poland. Erika Wain has been a Portfolio Artist at absolutearts.com since 2004.

InfoTech: Ex Libris Adds Google Book Search Features

Ex Libris has incorporated Google Book Search’s “About this Book†info into its stable of products. “Using a new ‘viewability’ application programming interface (API), library patrons can now enhance their findings with Google Book Search features such as full text, book previews, cover thumbnails, and a mashup from Google Maps linking pages in a book describing a specific place to its location on the world map,†Ex Libris said. The “viewability†API has been added to the Ex Libris Primo discovery and delivery solution, SFX context-sensitive link resolver, and the Aleph and Voyager® integrated library systems.

Digital Art Masters:v2 Free Book Chapter

The Digital Art Masters: Volume 2 is the second of the series of books created by 3DTotal, which features 58 talented artist that are working in the CG industry today. Over the course of the next few months, we are giving away a FREE sample chapter from the book, for you to download and read. This week you can take a look at how, 3d character artist Hrvoje Rafael created his piece of artwork: Wings Up, in this four page give away.

Artist book created by Skratch

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Singapore artist promotes ethnic equality

Taipei, March 26 (CNA) A cubic sculpture, created by a Singaporean artist with the aim of promoting ethnic equality, will be on display starting Friday, according to officials of the Taipei Artist Village where the artist currently resides.

Scott Kelby's The Digital Photography Book is Best-Selling Digital Photography Book Ever!

Peachpit today announced that Scott Kelby's The Digital Photography Book has been recognized as the best-selling digital photography book ever by Nielsen Bookscan, with over 250,000 copies currently in print.

Scott Kelby's The Digital Photography Book is Best-Selling Digital Photography Book Ever!

BERKELEY, Calif. --(Business Wire)-- May. 1, 2008 -- Peachpit today announced that Scott Kelby's The Digital Photography Book has been recognized as the best-selling digital photography book ever by Nielsen Bookscan, with over 250,000 copies currently in print.

New York Times Bestselling Author David Bach Jumps to #1 Most Downloaded Book on Amazon Kindle and at the eBook Store from Sony for Earth Day 2008 With Breakthrough Eco-Finance Book Go Green, Live Rich

New York Times Bestselling Author David Bach Jumps to #1 Most Downloaded Book on Amazon Kindle and at the eBook Store from Sony for Earth Day 2008 With Breakthrough Eco-Finance Book Go Green, Live Rich

Blake Morrison on the welcome irreverance of the livre d'artiste or artist's book

Before the 20th century, artists were subservient to authors in the creation of books, but that changed with the birth of the livre d'artiste, or artist's book. Since then, texts have been cut open, painted over, burnt and locked up. Blake Morrison browses through novel works by Henri Matisse, Joseph Cornell and Paula Rego

Photoshop Book for Digital Photographers

AdobePhotoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers : Peachpit announced the publication of The Photoshop Elements 6 Book for Digital Photographers , the definitive book on using Photoshop Elements 6 to create the best possible images, by Scott Kelby and Matt Kloskowski. Kelby and Kloskowski show readers how to work with their images like a professional, from importing to organization to correction to output. Readers will learn all they need to know about the digital photography workflow, as well as how to create the best special effects in their workflow, apply the most useful sharpening techniques, and avoid many of the hassles and problems that are encountered in the world of digital photography.

Blurb launches international online photography book competition

Online creative publishing service Blurb has launched Photography.Book.Now – a Juried Book Competition, International Salon and Symposium to help photographers create their own book and achieve international recognition for their work.

NEWS: The best-selling digital photo book ever

Nielsen Bookscan, the leaders providers of book-related data, have recognised Scott Kelby's "The Digital Photography Book" as the best-selling book ever on, well you guessed it - digital photography.

Aluminum Prices Hit Artist In The "Can"--Calls AriZona Green

What does the rising price of aluminum have to do with art? Plenty, if you're artist John Kuzich. The San Francisco artist is hoping to get free cans of AriZona Green Tea for a piece of artwork he'd like to make. But Kuzich is more than an artist, he's an entrepreneur!

Breach of Gravity: Artist-in-Residence Lee Renninger

McColl Center for Visual Art is pleased to announce that winter Artist-in-Residence Lee Renninger will work with students from The Art Institute of Charlotte’s Fashion Marketing and Management class in constructing couture pieces created from clay and fiber. The work will be inspired by the designer, Vionnet, because of her beautiful use of intricate decoration and detail and the way she uses sheer fabric to create negative space. Renninger will work with the students during her tenure at the Center with the project culminating with a display of the pieces, and reception for the artist, at Neiman Marcus on March 13, 2008 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm.

Apress adds iPod touch book to its catalog

imageFollowing up on her Taking Your iPhone to the Max book, Mac Guru Erica Sadun switches her attention to the iPod touch with her new book, Taking Your iPod touch to the Max. The 240-page book covers undocumented tricks and shows readers how to take full advantage of the iPod.

Welcome Internationally Acclaimed Laura Elgey to April's "Meet the Artist" at Hot Shotz, a Gastropub

(INDIANAPOLIS, IN. 7 April 2008) – Internationally acclaimed artist Laura Elgey will be the featured artist at April’s “Meet the Artist” soiree at Hot Shotz, a Gastropub.

German Wikipedia To Be Published As a Book

David Gerard writes "Bertelsmann is to publish a single-volume book of the German Wikipedia in cooperation with Wikimedia Deutschland. It will cost 20 Euros, and 1 Euro from each copy will go to Wikimedia. They're editing down the most popular 50,000 articles for the 1,000-page book, to be released in September. Because of the open-source origin of the material, the publisher cannot claim copyright in the book." The German-language Wikipedia is second in size only to the English version, which has 2.3 million articles.

VH1 Launches Online Site to Cast One Would-Be Suitor for the Upcoming Season of 'The Pick-Up Artist 2'

NEW YORK, March 20 /PRNewswire/ -- VH1 is teaming up with world-renowned pick-up artist Mystery for a second season of the hit how-to dating series "The Pick-Up Artist." Beginning today, an online casting call has launched at http://pickupartist2casting.com/. One would-be suitor who doesn't yet have what it takes to make it in the dating world will be cast alongside seven other men in the upcoming "The Pick-Up Artist 2," premiering later this year.

Scott Kelby Releasing New Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Lightroom(R) 2.0 Book

TAMPA, Fla. --(Business Wire)-- In concert with the launch of the Adobe(R) Photoshop(R) Lightroom(R) 2.0 Beta at the Photoshop World Conference & Expo in Orlando on April 2, Scott Kelby - the world's #1 bestselling computer and technology author - has announced the upcoming release of The Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 2.0 Book for Digital Photographers, an update to his 2007 award-winning Lightroom book. The new book is currently available for pre-order on KelbyTraining.com and will be in bookstores this July.

Artist Maaike Schoorel: Inside the London home of the Dutch artist

Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel has turned the rooms of her Victorian terrace into a series of white cubes – all the better to showcase her friends' work

Book, exhibition on late Turkish artist

One of the important names of Turkish art, Şeker Ahmet Paşa, is the artist who opened his first solo exhibition in the history of Turkish art. His works are on display in Dolmabahçe Palace 50 years after his death

Local artist publishes first book

The local artist works in such a variety of mediums that bringing it together for her new business became a challenge.

Was comic book artist the greatest ever?

(CNN) -- The nickname was meant as a joke, a little needle from Marvel Comics mainstay Stan Lee to artist Jack Kirby.


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