In March, Broadway Across America Atlanta presents the Atlanta premiere of AVENUE Q, the 2004 Tony Award® winner for Best Musical. This hilarious smash hit, one of the hottest and hippest new Broadway productions, features a cast of people and puppets who tell their story in a smart, risqué and downright entertaining way. FOR MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY!
Characters include:
Kate Monster, the kindergarten teaching assistant who wants to find a boyfriend and start a special school for monsters
Lucy The Slut, a sexy cabaret singer
Nicky, Rod’s roommate, a slacker
Trekkie Monster, a reclusive porn addict
Gary Coleman, the former child star from the sitcom Diff’rent Strokes.
Brian, a 32-year old aspiring comedian
Christmas Eve, a feisty Japanese therapist, and Brian’s fiancée.
The Imaginary Foundation is a think tank from Switzerland that does experimental research on new ways of thinking and the power of the imagination. They hold dear a belief in human potential and seek progress in all directions. Avoiding direct publicity the team has sought streetwear as an unlikely vehicle for bringing their ideas beyond the academic realm and into popular culture.
I love the imagery they use on their shirts. Some of them are amazing.
Adjusting your photographs to get the color 'just right' can be a chore. Think about this: The Old Masters of painting spent years of their lives learning about color. Why let all their effort go to waste on the walls of some museum when it could be used to give you a hand with color correction?
When Photoshop entered the CS series it included a new tool called 'Match Color.' This tools was made so that you could match a series of photos to one another.
But there is another thing you can do with 'Match Color' that is much cooler: You can match the colors in your photos to those in famous paintings.
I keep a directory of about 30 of my favorite paintings and anytime I need to do color correction, I just scan through them to find the one that gives the photo I'm working on the best look.
This technique can be used in other ways. For example, use the color from a scanned-in 1970's Kodachrome snapshot to give a recent photo a vintage look. Need to make a picture more menacing? Use the color from a picture of a storm.
This is a really neat concept. It will definately add an extra something to photographs.
Grace is a beautiful, loving, loveable, affectionate and fun girl who is challenged with the developmental disability of autism.
Grace's artistic ability was discovered at age four when she began working with an art therapist in addition to a myriad of typical early interventions for autism. Since then she has exhibited on Washington's Capitol Hill and various greater Nashville locations including: Vanderbilt Kennedy Center, Streets, Chapel Bistro, The Mall at Green Hills,Greater Nashville Unitarian Universalist Congregation, Holy Trinity Lutheran Church and Metro Davidson County School Board, Middle Tennessee State University and more. Her work is also in numerous private collections including U.S. Sen. Bill Frist, MD and former NFL Miami Dolphin player Dan Marino. Regional, state and national publications have featured her art.
Autism affects Grace's ability to verbally communicate, interact socially and fully comprehend the world around her. Although the ability to engage in typical conversation eludes her, and she lacks mastery of simply writing her name, Grace is able to powerfully express herself through the medium of intense color and composition.
I was doing some research to better work with one of my students and ran across this little girl from Tennessee who is autistic and comunicates through art. It is interested to see new ways to communicate with these children since autism affects boys more then girls and largely remains a mystery.
bookcrossing n. the practice of leaving a book in a public place to be picked up and read by others, who then do likewise.
(added to the Concise Oxford English Dictionary in August 2004)
You've come to a friendly place, and we welcome you to our book-lovers' community. Our members love books enough to let them go — into the wild — to be found by others. Sharing your used books has never been more exciting, more serendipitous, than with BookCrossing. Our goal, simply, is to make the whole world a library. BookCrossing is a free online book club of infinite proportion, the first and only of its kind. Inside, you'll find millions of book reviews and hundreds of thousands of passionate readers just like you.
Let's get right down to it. You know the feeling you get after reading a book that speaks to you, that touches your life, a feeling that you want to share it with someone else? BookCrossing.com gives you a simple way to share books with the world, and follow their paths forever! The "3 Rs" of BookCrossing...
1. Read a good book (you already know how to do that) 2. Register it here (along with your journal comments), get a unique BCID (BookCrossing ID number), and label the book 3. Release it for someone else to read (give it to a friend, leave it on a park bench, donate it to charity, "forget" it in a coffee shop, etc.), and get notified by email each time someone comes here and records a journal entry for that book. And if you make Release Notes on the book, others can Go Hunting for it and try to find it!
Sounds easy, right? Well it is. It's also a fascinating exercise in fate, karma, or whatever you want to call the chain of events that can occur between two or more lives and one piece of literature. Oh, and we should mention, it's absolutely free and absolutely private, too.
So go grab a book or two from your shelves now (they're not doing anyone any good there, are they?), register them here, jot down our URL and the BCID we'll give you inside the covers, and then give them away or leave them where someone will find them.
