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This handy 180-page book offers a great overview of QuickTime Pro,including a fundamental explanation of video encoding and an invaluablelook-up guide of video codecs and the QuickTime Pro interface. Includesstep-by-step tutorials for the five things people do most withQuickTime Pro: Capturing, editing, using different video tracks,exporting, and scripting QuickTime Pro actions with Automator.Available for both Windows and Mac, QuickTime 6 was downloaded morethan 350 million times. Moreover 98% of those downloads were from PCusers, at a rate of over 10 million per month. QuickTime Pro is nowavailable and can be downloaded for $29.99. ... Read more

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Chapters: Steve Martin, Troy Polamalu, Robert H. Schuller, Dexter Holland, Jennette Mccurdy, Jon Dorenbos, Robert A. Schuller, Rick Bauer, Matt Treanor, Alonzo Cook, Leah O'brien, Van Tuinei, Jered Guzman. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 80. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. Martin was born in Waco, Texas, and raised in Southern California, where his early influences were working at Disneyland and Knott's Berry Farm and working magic and comedy acts at these and other smaller venues in the area. His ascent to fame picked up when he became a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s, Martin performed his offbeat, absurdist comedy routines before packed houses on national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched away from stand-up comedy, he has become a successful actor, playwright, pianist, banjo player, and juggler, eventually earning Emmy, Grammy, and American Comedy awards. Martin in 1982Martin was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee Martin and Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate salesman and an aspiring actor. Martin was raised in Inglewood, California and then later in Garden Grove, California, in a Baptist family. One of his earliest memories is of seeing his father, as an extra, serving drinks onstage at the Call Board Theatre on Melrose Place. During World War II, in England, Martin's father had appeared in a production of Our Town with Raymond Massey. Years later, he would write to Massey for help in Steve's fledgling career, but would receive no reply. Expressing his affection through gifts of cars, bikes, etc., Martin's father was not emotionally open to his son...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=102910 ... Read more

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The private collection of Steve Martin with essays on art and collecting by Steve Martin April 7 - September 3, 2001 to Benefit the Steve Martin Charitable Trust Bellagio Gallery of Fine Art, Las Vegas ... Read more

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A Little Unexpected
This book isn't quite what I expected.It's a bit smaller, and not near as thick as I thought it would be.But it has much more writing by Steve Martin than I expected, and that's a great bonus.His thoughts on his collection are almost better than the paintings. ... Read more

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A fascinating look at more than 100 of the Martin Guitar Company's custom guitars, created for the world's most famous musicians, including Sting, Eric Clapton, and Elvis-along with the inside stories behind each design. From the infamous 'Elvi' guitar owned by Elvis Presley (his original D-18 missing the 's' from his name) to customized instruments belonging to Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Sting, and Eric Clapton, the Martin Guitar company has made a guitar for nearly every notable musician who's ever held a six-string. Now, MARTIN GUITAR MASTERPIECES revisits more than 100 of the company's most desirable guitars, ranging from those belonging to Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Paul Simon, and Johnny Cash to guitars owned by newer artists like Beck, Babyface, and Jonny Lang. Dick Boak, head of Artist Relations and Publicity at C. F. Martin, acts as the artist liaison in these collaborations and now, for the first time, enthusiastically outlines his experiences. Readers also get a sneak preview of Martin's millionth instrument, due in 2004. ... Read more

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Title says it all!
Look, the title and description says it all. I was not disappointed with this volume at all! Not enough technical info for you? Go buy a technical book. This is a book about Martin Materpieces, a SHOWCASE of Artists' and Limited Editions (which I am lucky to own a few) and some one of Custom Guitars. The interaction between Boak and different artists is fun, and not something you will find anywhere else on the planet!! What a great part of his job that must be, to be with some these great artists designing guitars for them! The pictures are fantastic, as are some of the stories, to be looked at and read over and over again! Highly recommended eye candy and one of a kind story recounting!

coffee table book for those without a coffee table
I could hear the ohhs and ahhs from other acoustic guitarists
that would occur when looking at the pictures in this book.
The author is as close to the action as possible because he represents the Martin Corp. to the artists that use them.
Also Dick Boak went from dumpster diving outside Martin to holding most available positions at the company from craftsman to marketing. This volume will remain a constant reference source and entertaining to browse through.

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An amazing book. As a Martin player these past few years, and a couple of years away from placing my own order through the custom shop, I would've loved to see more of the custom models that are made for the players, rather than the celebrity-endorsed, limited editions that are made mostly, I think, for collectors.

There is nothing like a Martin Guitar. And this book showcases some of the most beautiful instruments ever made. Next time, though, give me that inimitable smell of rosewood with a high-gloss finish, a close-up of the herringbone trim on a stock HD-28, and the sustain of an open G. Somebody call Ken Burns, okay?

selling the sizzle
Let me start by saying I love Martin guitars, have played a beloved d-28 since 1968, built guitars and lutes, and have a deep appreciation for luthiers and thier art.Martin is a company which holds my esteem and interest.

Well, the full title of this book isnt mis-leading, but my expectations were not met in reading this book.In a nutshell, this book contains little historical or technical information and is largely a hardcover catalogue for Martins current signature and limited run instruments.

There are a few little tid bits of information here and there for the die-hard Martin geek.Being a guitar geek myself, I appreciate techno babble and tid bits, but this is really nothing other than a very nice photo catalogue.As such, it may have a certain interest to those collectors who want to have the 2002-2003 offering memorialized on thier shelf.Some of the photos are indeed great, with photos of a few truly custom instruments (known among us geeks as guitar 'porn') which would otherwise probably not be seen by many.

I am writng this because having seen the grand book displayed for a few months on merchant shelfs, I had assumed it would be the typical historical account of some great instruments, maybe with info about those involved, such as the artists-but this is not the case-probably because they arent, which is implicit from reading many of the accounts of artist's involvment.

I found it instead to be eye-candy, at best, at worst, little substance in information regarding either instruments, or artists or the company, such as the development of instruments, thier market or even the material used.A ho-hum book for all but the most hungry of Martin collectors.Truly a sad statement for a book by one of Martins marketing people, all form, little substance, selling the sizzle, not the steak. ... Read more

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Commentary (music and lyrics not included).Chapters: Let's Get Small, the Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo, a Wild and Crazy Guy, the Steve Martin Brothers, Comedy Is Not Pretty!. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lets Get Small (1977) was an album by American comedian Steve Martin. It included Excuse Me, a comedy bit whose title went on to become a national catch phrase. The album went platinum and peaked at #10 on the Billboard Pop Albums Chart. It was recorded at The Boarding House in San Francisco, California. This album won the Grammy Award in 1978 for Best Comedy Album. Some of Martin's bits were dependent on visual demonstration, such as when he dances as a Vegas pop singer on the track "Las Vegas" and also during the "Let's Get Small" track where he discusses getting small while driving - here he mimed driving a car while being so short as to barely reach the bottom of the steering wheel. Martin had debuted this particular bit in a 1976 appearance on the show Saturday Night Live. The album cover shows Martin wearing balloon animals, which were a staple of his live act; he made balloon animals on some of his Saturday Night Live appearances as well as his guest appearance on The Muppet Show. Let's Get Small is currently available in its entirety on iTunes. An excerpt from the title cut: I'm on drugs. I'm, uh, I mean, you know what it is. What's the deal, man? I like to get small. It's a wild, wild drug. Very dangerous for kids though, because they get really small. I know I shouldn't get small when I'm drivin', but, uh, I was drivin' around the other day, you know *whistles tunefully* and a cop pulls me over. And he goes, Hey, are you small? I said, No, I'm tall, I'm tall. He said, 'Well, I'm gonna have to measure you.' They've got a littl...http://booksllc.net/?id=404857 ... Read more

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Eric Fischl emerged in the 1980s as one of America's most important figurative painters. His paintings, many of which show a single intense moment, compel the viewer to participate in a world of middle-class suburban ambiguity and drama. In Fischl's engaging distinctly American canvases, narrative, morality, sexuality, and psychology are preeminent.

This volume, an expanded edition of Eric Fischl 1970-2000, is the most comprehensive examination of this important contemporary painter. More than 250 works, selected in conjunction with the artist, present the fullscope of Fischl's career: the formative work of the 1970s; the breakthrough paintings of the 1980s, including the controversial Sleepwalker and Bad Boy; and the mature work, often of a personal and contemplative nature, of the 1990s and 2000s. In his most recent paintings, Fischl has turned to multipiece cycles: The Bed, The Chair series, starting with The Philosopher's Chair; canvases inspired by trips to Italy and India; and the paintings—Fischl terms them "narrative fictions"—of the "Krefeld Project." These engrossing images have been accomplished with a mastery that has been compared to that of Caravaggio.

The introduction, by philosopher and critic Arthur C. Danto, offers a perceptive study of Fischl's work over the course of four decades. Commentary drawn from interviews with the artist, conducted by noted writer Robert Enright, accompanies the paintings. Finally, a witty and personal afterword by Steve Martin, best known as a gifted comic actor and author, but also an astute collector of modern art, discusses Barbeque, a famed Fischl painting from his private collection. ... Read more

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Great Book!
I would say that this must be one of the better books around for Eric Fischl. Before I bought this book I knew very little about this artist. I was surprised at the amount of work packed into this book, what a great deal. I also found out in this book that the art owner/enthusiast Steve Martin whose name appears on many works by many other artists I've seen is indeed the same person, funny.

Great album!
This is a wonderful photo album containing good quality photo reprints as well as author's biography.

Great
This book is an epitome of how perfect a book on any artistic subject must be.

An Artist of Social Comment, A Master of Light
Eric Fischl is honored in this beautifully designed and produced monograph that includes his early works from the 1970s to his current paintings, drawings and sculpture.The quality of the publication is first rate on every level - the color reproductions are outstanding, the essays by Arthur C. Danto and commentaries by Robert Enright and Steve Martin are knowledgeable and readable, and the images throughout the book benefit from frequent passages of thoughts by Fischl himself.

What makes Fischl such an interesting artist and one who has been able to sustain his popularity with the public for four decades is his fascination with figurative painting as a means of making biting social comments and stirring controversy: his works never fail to involve the viewer in far more than a passing interest.Human relationships are explored from the forbidden to the lonely isolation that is often present in his painted tales.Fischl's canvases are large and command presence in galleries, museums, and homes.Though by his own admission he 'does not draw well', it is often in his preparatory sketches that he allow us to watch his message develop, at time completely changing from his original thought.

For many, the sculptures of Fischl will be a surprise, though a welcome one.His sense of human body rhythms catches us unaware, much the way his paintings often include jolting surprises.If Fischl's paintings vary in quality as far as technique is concerned, one aspect remains constant: Fischl's understanding of light and shadow is brilliant and even the more commonplace of his works retain this ability to make sun and shadowa major player in each canvas.

This is a welcome addition to the literature about this important painter and the book's quality and content justify the price.This will become a collector's item!Grady Harp, April 09

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wonderful paintings herein, still the arbiter of what art should do, and the deepest place to do something,although with the vagaries of performance art and mixed photography within our sensibilities now, painting has become a recluse art;painters laways need to find a more extroverted aspect of their Being;Fischl however seems to have had a good run thus far; with suggestive narratives of desires of the flesh, the the act, cunninglingis capturing the attractions, the magnetisms in the air,as in his early work,human forms beachside, gazing, with eyes to absorb what is avaiable for the imagination, relaxing waiting for a naked body to pass,with a bathing suit on, nothing more sometimes less,Fischl is always subtle with this material;he makes you make the connections,leaves his work open; it is these games and attractions that has fascinating us n' Fischl, as the budding learning scenes, "Birthday Boy", sitting as at the altar of desire with a voluptuous unknown woman, perhaps 'Mommie' perhaps 'Auntie', or a friend of the family, all quite natural,never explicit; later He discovered the vacuous-nesses of middle class surburban life, sitting, contemplating your portfolio,or rotting your brain with aimless thrills; doing nothing for hours, basking in the self-conceit of your money,or last night's fellatio beside the pool,, there are both female and male sex toys in Fischl, players of no sense of worth except self-personas; the naked woman-body draped over her lover or benefactor or agent in his suburban bedroom,or the paunched boyfriend with a small member ready to serve; and always money is assumed to be part of the narrative; Fischl likes to stay away from the complexities of the city,too encumbered; his art is universal and timeless,so it covers this, the history of painting has attracted attractions like these,uncaptured feelings, premonitions of what the body needs,pure perceptions, spectacles,intense situations, pure colour as in Rothko,or the after-violence in Goya or Pollock attracts the representative body to participate as well as the mind, the mind alone and its various intellectualisms can get boring after a while, and we get tired of reading the lauded critics,who have their own career horizons to pursue anyways;Fischl suggests this as well, the after-event, something has already happenened or will happen, future tense, subjunctives, indicatives, or his art is nonsensical. . . ... Read more

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This absurdist comedy places Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso in a Parisian cafe in 1904, just before they transformed the physics and art worlds respectively. The two geniuses muse on the century's achievements and prospects, as well as other topics, with infectious dizziness. ... Read more

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PLAYBOY magazine JANUARY 1993 -- this issue contains centerfold echo leta johnson from austin tx -- an interview with steve martin -- 20 questions with sean young -- pictorials on the barbi twins - playmate review - the year in sex -profile of catherine mackinnon -- articles on the age of turnaround - the pentagon - quotes of the year -- ... Read more

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PLAYMATE: Louann FernaldCOVER: Monique St. Pierre (wearing gown designed by Bob Mackie)PICTORIALS: Monique St. Pierre PMOY plus pictorial of all 19 past PMOYs including Ellen Stratton, Christa Speck, Donna Michelle, Jo Collins, Liv Lindeland, Patti McGuire, Marilyn Lange, Claudia Jennings, Victoria Vetri and all the rest; Dance Hall Demoiselles- sexy tinted photos of dance hall girls in 1890's garb; The Magical Mr. Arkin- 2 page pictorial from the film, "The Magician of Lublin," featuring Alan Arkin with nudes of Maia Danziger and Valerie Perrine.INTERVIEW: Dennis KucinichFEATURES: Cruel Shoes- short stories by Steve Martin; fiction, A Bay Changeby Elliot Arnold; treasure hunting in the Caribbean explained in Ocean Killingsby Roger Simon; winners of Playboy's first humor contest; Class Reunion is 3 nice pages of cartoons by Phil Interlandi; Brock Yates supplies A Right Turn To Turbosfeaturing the Porsche 911, Saab 900, Mercedes-Benz 300 SD, Mustang Cobra and others; Jay Cronley describes the terror of tornadoes in Twister!; Playboy Funnies.PAGES: 306 ... Read more

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Title: ¿Una novela de Steve Martin?(El placer de mi compañía)
Author: Federico Urtaza
Publication: Siempre! (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 17, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 53Issue: 2779Page: 74(1)

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