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Pacific Benefit Consultants
Location: Eugene
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When one of the younger employees on a committee overseeing the revamp of Pacific Benefit Consultants' website said that all the photos on the existing site looked "stodgy," no one got upset. Instead, the insurance agency's higher-ups took her comments into consideration — and will be updating all the photos.
"It's needed some major upgrading," says vice president Pat Cross, referring to the new site. "We did take that input."
The light-hearted suggestion is just one example of how open communication helps make Pacific Benefit Consultants a great place to work, according to president Brian Lamb.
"We highly value our employees," he says. "We make them a part of every process and always think about what we can do to get their feedback and leadership."
The 38 employees at the agency also find themselves working flexible schedules that allow for a better work-life balance. And if someone's out sick or otherwise off work, the rest of the team makes sure nothing gets left undone.
Thanks to the creation of an employee-operations team, staff members also oversee planning and budgeting for company events like the annual holiday party or regular all-staff breakfasts.
"That is a buy-in to the direction and leadership of the company," Lamb says. "They are making decisions and not waiting to see what we do next."
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KUDOS to U.S. Reps. Dave Reichert, R-Auburn, and Doc Hastings, R-Pasco, for voting this week to raise the federal debt ceiling with no strings attached until March 2015.
Hastings and Reichert were two of just 28 Republicans who bucked the majority of their caucus and joined with almost all the U.S. House's minority Democrats to narrowly pass the "clean" debt bill.
The measure, later approved by the U.S. Senate, spared the nation — for a year, at least — another round of the needless brinkmanship that culminated in last fall's partial government shutdown.
That episode damaged the economy, and congressional Republicans rightfully received most of the blame. You'd think more of them would have figured out by now that, while many voters share their goal of trimming government spending, they don't want to risk default to accomplish it.
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This vote wasn't about new spending. It was about the government paying bills it already has incurred — with Congress' approval.
The other two Republicans in Washington's House delegation, Reps. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Spokane and Jaime Herrera Beutler of Camas, don't seem to get that yet. They joined 197 other Republicans in voting against the debt-ceiling increase.
Their opposition is particularly disappointing in light of their votes last fall
for ending the government shutdown and extending the debt limit.
They defied the GOP's tea-party wing and a majority of their own caucus then. But not this time.
One ominous note: Of the 28 House Republicans who wisely voted for the latest debt measure, at least six — including Hastings — are retiring. Here's hoping their successors show the same wisdom when this issue comes up again.
If just 10 "yea" votes had switched to "nay," the bill would not have passed.
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ABBE: Artists books Brisbane Event 2015
For many years Queensland had a diversity of artists book activities: the bi-ennial Artspace Mackay Artists Book Forums and Libris Awards, the once yearly Noosa Artists Book Events and the Southern Cross University Acquisitive Artists Book Awards. Also contributing to this fertile artists book environment the State Library of Queensland's Australian Library of Art which included the SLQ's Siganto Foundation fellowships, 'white glove' presentations and events. Added to this were exhibitions and artists book fairs coordinated by Grahame Galleries and other shows at scattered venues. With the recent demise of the Mackay, Noosa and Southern Cross events their absence was felt by the artists book community. Now a new event has emerged to add to the SLQ and Grahame Galleries support of the art – the Artists Book Brisbane Event (ABBE). Over July 16, 17 and 18 ABBE featured a triptych of activities; a conference, an exhibition of books, an artists book fair and allied exhibition events at the State Library of Queensland, Grahame Galleries, The Studio West End, the IMA and Impress Printmakers Gallery.
The conference sought to address 3 main themes relating to the artists book:
- post literacy
- materiality/the haptic
- the nature of reading artists books.
Three keynote presenters lead the program:
- Sarah Bodman – Senior Research Fellow for Artists Books, CFPR editor of the Blue Notebook
- Brad Freeman – Founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Artist's Books
- Dr Lyn Ashby – Australian artist and scholar making books
SARAH BODMAN (Abstract)– ARTISTS' BOOKS AS A PHYSICAL SITE OF PRACTICE
If a post-Literate society might also encompass new ways of thinking about reading, we could think of contemporary artists' books as a site of practice beyond that of McLuhan's sign posting of the invention of moveable type as fundamentally responsible for how the Western world physically reads: "along the straight Lines of the printed page."
We seem to have already moved from Linear to non-linear reading; we are used to flitting through digital screen-based texts, and losing our attention through a multitude of online multi-tasking. Physical engagement with artists' books provides us with spaceto breathe, a slower rhythm of ingesting information and time to reflect, so what about the artists who are making them? How are artists engaging with the physical book now?
These examples focus on celebrating the book as a physical container used by artists to: re-present language, offer performative reading, view how reading is perceived, appropriate text from novels and instructional manuals into new works, or to transform information from the virtual into the physical.
BRAD FREEMAN (Abstract) – JOURNAL OF ARTISTS' BOOKS
Brad Freeman's Lecture focussed on JAB, the Journal of Artists' Books, that supports critical inquiry into artists' books. Since 1994 JAB has published interviews with contemporary artists whose primary medium is the artist book, reviews of artists' books, and essays about historical issues and contemporary artists and their work. JAB has a two pronged approach to culture creation via publication arts; an educational approach with critical writing and documentation of current activity; and second, a creative approach with publication art-exploring the creative potential of print and the book by commissioning artists' covers (letterpress and offset), artist designed pages, and artists' books made especially for insertion into JAB.
LYN ASHBY (Abstract) – POSTLITERACY AND ARTISTSBOOKS: Coming to our senses with a modern mythic form
This presentation is a speculation on the idea that contemporary artistsbooks may be the laboratory for a new literacy, and that in honor of the quietly evolutionary nature of this new literacy, we might call it "postliteracy".
As background, it explores how our centuries of standard literacy and its attendant conventions of pictorial space and chronological, narrative time, have privileged a specific code in the representations of our language systems (both image and text) and their operations across the page and through the book. The prescriptions of these conventions and the domination of the line and the grid onto the look of language have come to minimise the participation (and uncertainty) of the senses in the direct process of apprehending meaning with language forms.
But the pages of artistsbooks are often filled with the explorations of other ways that language forms can activate a lively, sensory involvement with the page space, or how meaning can be formulated beyond the limitations of chronology.
Some of these experiments involve the invocation of pre literate, oral language structures that work more by the devices and grammars of music, song and myth than the usual strategies of standard literacy. in this way, the contemporary artistsbook may be the hardcopy home of a modern, mythic form.
Presenting/Participating at the conference
- Lyn Ashby
- Sarah Bodman
- Sara Bowen
- Deidre Brollo
- Helen Cole
- Victoria Cooper
- Marian Crawford
- Daniel Della-Bosca
- Fiona Dempster
- Caren Florance
- Jenny Fraser
- Brad Freeman
- Angela Gardner
- Noreen Grahame
- Bridget Hillebrand
- Joel Lardner
- Marian Macken
- Tim Mosely
- Adele Outteridge
- Mikhail Pogarsky
- Doug Spowart
- Kym Tabulo
- Wim de Vos
- Gabriella Wilson
The 'books by artists' exhibitors
- Isaac Brown
- Blogger_dad
- Penny Carey-Wells
- Victoria Cooper
- Caroline Craig
- Fiona Dempster
- Hesam Fetrati Angela Gardner
- Annique Goldenberg
- Alannah Gunter
- Institute of Modern Art Cassandra Lehman-Schultz
- Alison Mackay
- Judy Macklin
- Heather Matthew
- Tess Mehonoshen
- Christine Mellor
- Tim Mosely
- night ladder collective
- Naomi O'Reilly
- Adele Outteridge
- Mona Ryder
- Rose Rigley
- Glen Skien
- Doug Spowart
- Wim de Vos
Artists Book Fair stallholders
Sara Bowen (no image taken)
Centre for Regional Arts Practice (Cooper+Spowart) (no image taken)
Robyn Foster (no image taken)
Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research (no image taken)
QCA Gold Coast (no image taken)
ABBE participants also visited Grahame Galleries, The Studio West End and the State Library of Queensland
ABBE was an initiative of the Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research and was coordinated by Dr Tim Mosely and Dr Lynden Stone.
All photographs © 2015 Doug Spowart
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
PERFORMING the BOOK @ SLQ – Siganto Artists Book Seminar
The Siganto Artists' Books Seminar 2015
On June 20+21 the 2015 The Siganto Artists' Books Seminar took place at the State Library of Queensland. Attendees were presented with a one–day series of lectures, performances and a forum addressing the diversity of the artists' book and importantly visual and creative research being undertaken by Fellowships supported by the Siganto Foundation.
The State Librarian Jeanette, introduced by MC Christene Drewe, spoke of the Library's Artists' Book Collection. This was followed by Dr Marie Siganto from the Siganto Foundation who spoke enthusiastically about the Foundation's support of the Artists' Book Collection.
A significant theme of this years' event was based around the idea of artists' books as performance. Brazilian artist, performer and academic Amir Brito Cadôr's presented his keynote address The Book as Performance – he also performed a book reading of Momento Vital by Brazilian artist Vera Chaves Barcellos.
In the morning session 2015 Siganto Foundation Artists' Books Fellows Clyde McGill and Julie Barratt presented progress reports on their research projects. Jan Davis discussed her 2014 Creative Fellowship and presented the completed artists' book to the Library. The book was entitled Drawing on the ground and referenced the historical aspects of work and toil on Queensland farms. Reference material for Jan's book came from diaries, books and documents held by the Library. Her artists' book features text fragments and line sketches – the book was bound by Fred Pohlman and the cover was styled to resemble an old station journal.
As the 2014 Siganto Artists' Books Research Fellow I presented an illustrated lecture on my experiences as a researcher of the Australian Library of Art, a selection of the range of books I encountered that employed photography from very minor references in text to conceptual pieces based on photographs. This list included:
Anne Wilson in, Tock 01-01-2000, 2000
Codex Event: Darren Bryant .. [et al.], Wild Cherry Tin Mine, 2006.
Vince Dziekian, Blooms Books, 1993-4.
Barbara Davidson, Different moods of the Opera House, 2001.
Peter Kingston, The Blue Mountains, 1987.
Michael Buhler, Oblique Lines, 19-.
William Copley Notes on a Project for a Dictionary of Rediculous Images, 1972.
Adam Broomberg + Oliver Chanarin, Holy Bible, 2013.
Judy Barrass, Eden-Monaro in Summer, 2001.
Juli Haas, The oyster book of lessons from the memory room, 2007.
Jihad Muhammad aka John Armstrong, Ten menhirs at Plouharnel, Carnac, Morbihan, Bretagne, France, 1982.
Angela Callanan, 7 Signs of Absence, 2010.
Susan King, Photo bio, 2011.
Malcolm Enright, Western Wisdom, 1998.
Pierre Cavalan, Artists Book, 1998.
Compiled by Kay Faulkner Indulge, 2006.
Debra Gibson, Kamikaze, 2004.
Dick Jewell, Found Photos, 1977.
Julie Barratt, Collateral damage, 2008.
Alison Knowles, Bread and Water, 2004.
David King, Raw deal, 1997.
Valerie Keenan HY1, 2001.
Tim Johnson, Fittings, 1972.
Christian Boltanski, Scratch, 2002.
Amanda Watson-Will, Judy and the Jacaranda, 2010.
Phillip Zimmerman, High tension, 1993.
Jan Davis, Solomon, 1995.
I then disclosed the principal research product the paper: The artists' book, the photobook and the photo-a spectral approach, as well as recommendations to the Library for photobooks to be relocated from the General collection into places that reflected the significance of these books in the history of photography and the photobook. I also supplied Photobook Publishers and Info URLs that could be used by anyone wanting to keep up with new photobook releases an purchasing opportunities. I particularly noted that the Library held no Trent Parke books and provided, as an example, his book Dream Life that could have been purchased in 2000 for around $60 is now sold for $1,000+. Highlighting the need for the SLQ to be pro-active in purchasing contemporary book for modest outlay – rather than waiting until they are nearly unaffordable. I also highlighted the need for institutions to engage with and maintain links with artists' book and photobook self-publishers as they exist outside of the usual publishing structures. I quoted Des Cowley, the State Library of Victoria's History of the Book Manager from a statement made by him in his presentation at the 'Other Photobook' forum at Photobook Melbourne. He said:
… It is therefore incumbent upon staff in these institutions to build networks and relationships with the communities creating this work in order to be informed about what is being produced, and to ensure this material is acquired and preserved for future researchers.
My presentation concluded with two quotes from book artist and mail art aficionado Ulises Carrion that I felt related to the contemporary artists' book and photobook. Carrion states:
I include books in the category of
living creatures … : they grow, reproduce, change colour, become ill and finally die.
At this moment we are witnessing the final stage of this process.
… if books are to survive they have to change. And [artists'] bookworks is the real possibility that books have for survival.
Schraenen, G. (1992). Ulises Carrion : We have won! Haven't we?
Other artists' book performances included: Virginia and Julie Barratt's The Morning After, one by Clyde McGill and a performance by QUT drama students of the three-part book Robert Bringhurst's artist's book New World Suite number three: a poem in four movements for three voices. The performers were Thomas Yaxley, Emily Weir and Meghan Clarke and was directed by QUT lecturer Floyd Kennedy.
The afternoon concluded with a forum moderated by Louise Martin-Chew on the topic of collaboration. The forum participants were Clyde McGill, Julie Barratt and Doug Spowart. Each participant discussed a project that involved collaboration and questions were posed by Louise to bring out important points from each panelist. The most interesting aspect of this forum was when questions from the floor created heated debate around the idea of the physical book and its experience verses the virtual online experience.
On Sunday many local and interstate stallholders presented their work for an Artists' Book Fair in the Knowledge Walk at the SLQ. Tours of selected artists' books from State Library's Artists' Book Collection were well attended and provide rare access to special books from the Australian Library of Art Collection. The two-day event was significant for the opportunity for artists' book aficiandos, makers, collectors and readers to engage with the physicality of not only the books but also to touch with the extensive community of the book. Our thanks must go to the SLQ, particularly Christene Drewe and Helen Cole, and to the Dr Marie Siganto and the Siganto Foundation for their continued support of the artists' book collection of the Australian Library of Art and events such as these. Doug Spowart
What follows are a range of images from the Seminar and Artists' Book Fair
Presented by SLQ with the generous support of the Siganto Foundation. All photos and text ©2015 Doug Spowart
REPORT on SIGANTO ARTISTS' BOOK RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP @ SLQ
A PHOTO OPPORTUNITY: Looking for photos in the Australian Library of Art
As the inaugural Siganto Artists' Book Research Fellow I have had an opportunity to access the State Library of Queensland's resources including the significant artists' book collection held in the Australian Library of Art. During the Fellowship I have engaged in specific research related to my proposal and in doing so it has enabled the creation of a much-needed critique on photography and the artists' book. It has enhanced my understanding of the photography and artists' book creative products and has placed me in a position of knowledge of these disciplines, the nature of these creative works, their collection and description.
In this research my particular interest is in the intersection of photography and the artists' book. Over a four-month period from October to January in 2014-5 I worked in the Fellows Room and in the Repository at the SLQ. During this time I engaged in a variety of activities that related to my proposed research activities. These included:
- A review of artists' books in the Australian Library of Art collection looking for the presence of photography
- Creating and using a spreadsheet in which the review was logged
- Documentation of books containing photography
- Selected books were considered for critical evaluation
I was also interested in books that have emerged as being significant in the newly documented history of the photobook and also the ALA's acquisition of contemporary photobooks. I found in the library's general collection many key seminal photobooks like Robert Capa's 1947 Slightly out of focus: [the story of a war photographer], Henri Cartier-Bresson's 1952 The decisive moment, and Richard Avedon's 1976 Portraits. While some of these books are difficult to find, expensive to buy, and have been re-released in modern printings the original book is an important touchstone for those interested in photographic history. The ALA collection also revealed surprises with my discovery of a Japanese 'Provoke era' book from the 1960s and Broomberg and Chanarin's 'The Holy Bible' from 2013 – both books representative of key approaches to the photobook and the use of photographs in creative book publishing.
I attended the library usually 4-5 days per week. After an initial settling-in and establishment of my methodology for work I began near-daily research in the Repository. I usually worked on a 3-hour time limit per session during which I viewed and reviewed as many books as possible. My methodology involved direct contact with the book and an engagement with the physical and the metaphysical. I held each book, I turned each page, I read each word (where text existed), I made my assessment and logged the results of the appraisal on my spreadsheet and photographically documented the book. It was a slow and intense process that has resulted in a significant resource which has the possibility to reveal interesting facts about the photo in the artists' book.
An integral aspect of the review process was the haptic experience of encountering the book, opening its enclosure, clamshell or paper wrap, and sensing the book's activation by this act. I found that these books were entities to themselves, a containers for sharing the artists' vision, idea or narrative. Some perhaps were being read for the first time in a while. And in the quietness of the Repository the books revealed themselves to me… At the end of each 3-hour session I was quite exhausted. Although the ALA staff were always interested to hear my report of the favourite 'book of the day'.
What intrigued me was the diversity of the media and the message that artists place in the creative vessel of the artists' book. I found myself seduced as much by books of abstract, textural or other non-photo print forms as I was with books with photographs in them.
Working through the library's catalogue I often found myself looking up obscure books, different editions of books, photographers, topics and references allied to my research interests. I would request these items and they would be delivered to me. I would stack and categorise these books relating to different research interests. Subsequently, as my desk grew with more and more books, I requested a printout of my personal loans. The librarian assisting me looked surprised as the printer spat out around 50 items. One of my life follys is collecting books and there came a time when this personal library-in-the-library would need to be returned, as I was to exceed my loan limit.
During my Fellowship I was able to develop and complete a significant paper outlining a way of categorising the presence of the photograph in the creative book production genres of artists' books and photobooks. Entitled, A Photo Spectrum: Book genres and photography, it encompasses the limited edition livre d'artiste through artists' books, zines, self-published photobooks, designer photobooks and limited edition deluxe photobooks. This paper is presently being held by an American publisher to be included in a book on the contemporary photobook. I intend to discuss this outcome in the seminar. Another paper about contemporary photobooks written during the Fellowship entitled, Everyone a publisher, was published in the recent special issue on artists' books in the State Library of Victoria's La Trobe journal. I also coordinated and chaired a forum on The OTHER Photobook – Artists' books and Zines at the Photobook Melbourne event in February, and in May I spoke on Encountering a photobook at the Talking Culture Symposium of the Auckland Photo Festival. The Siganto Fellowship assisted in providing me with time and a place where my activities could be dedicated in the pursuance of my research.
As a result of the Fellowship I am working on projects that include the presentation to the SLQ of a strategy for the continuing purchase and collection of contemporary photobooks in the ALA. Still in development is the preparation and design of a book of selected works from the ALA collection that were fundamental to my research thesis on the photo in the book.
At the Siganto Artists' Book Seminar (Click here for the Blog post) I will present a paper outlining the curious and interesting aspects of my ALA review including amazing books that need to be seen, held, and pages turned so that they can share the maker's communiqué, and stimulate the reader to encounter … the photo in the book.
Dr Doug Spowart
2014 Siganto Artists' Book Research Fellow
PHOTOBOOKS: everyone a publisher – The LA TROBE Journal
I'm particularly excited to announce that a copy of my essay on Photobooks published in the State Library of Victoria's La Trobe journal is now available as a free download. Here are some details and links
The photobook: everyone a publisher?
Digital technology, indie DIY and print-on-demand photobooks have transformed contemporary photography book publishing, however the creative and innovative influence that graphic designers have brought to the artists' book is now extending into the photobook artform.
Over recent years the photographically illustrated book has undergone a massive makeover, in effect freeing it from traditional publisher controls. Digital technologies have been the major cause of this paradigm shift due to the democratisation of photography, new production technologies, and new funding and marketing platforms. The 19th-century polymath Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of the positive/negative process for photography, was so enthusiastic about the potential for his discovery that he made a prediction for a future where: 'Every man [would be] his own printer and publisher'. It would now seem that Talbot's prediction has come to pass. Increased public access to book publishing is particularly important for those photographers and artists who employ the camera and the photograph in their art practices.
Topic headings:
- Photographers desire books
- A new term emerges
- A new critique forms for the photobook
- A new accessibility to book production
- The happy self-publisher
- The artist book and self-publishing
- A new challenge emerges: design my book
- In conclusion
Features a commentary on Ying Ang's Gold Coast and photos of books by Louis Porter, Lloyd Stubber and Mimmo Cozzolino.
CLICK THE LINK BELOW TO DOUG SPOWART's ESSAY DOWNLOAD
- [Front matter] (pdf,276.52 KB)
- · Des Cowley, Robert Heather & Anna Welch – Editors' introduction (pdf,105.18 KB)
- · Helen Cole – Public collections of artists' books in Australia (pdf,617.45 KB)
- · Andrew Schuller – A history of the Croft Press (pdf,859.45 KB)
- · Sasha Grishin – Books in the Canberra region: the golden years (pdf,1011.85 KB)
- · Steven Tonkin – A defining decade: Australian artists' books in the 1970s (pdf,461.45 KB)
- · Artists' books from the State Library of Victoria: a photo essay (pdf,5.3 MB)
- · Caren Florance – The changing face of contemporary letterpress in Australia (pdf,493.65 KB)
- · Peter Anderson – Conceptual and perceptual: the early artists' books of Robert Jacks (pdf,503.25 KB)
- · Marian Macken – Reading time: the book as an alternative architectural practice (pdf,1.28 MB)
- · Doug Spowart – The photobook: everyone a publisher? (pdf,523.78 KB)
- · [Back matter] (pdf,274.28 KB)
APRIL 26–WORLDWIDE PINHOLE DAY: Our Contributions for 2015
Round the [w]hole world on the 26th of April pinholers were out having fun – Making their images for the 2015 WPD. Far away from the darkroom we once had we've once again fitted a pin-prick in a piece of aluminium fitted to a body cap of our Olympus Pen EP-5 camera.
This is the 11th year we have made pinhole images to support the WPD project! The other submissions are listed at the end of this post.
VICKY's Submission:
Great to take this image of a moving subject – I used a digital camera with a pinhole to make this possible.
DOUG's Submission:
I have made pinhole photos with all kinds of technology from tin cans to cars but what I like the most is how direct sunlight splashes a rainbow onto the image. It's Autumn in Australia s the two ephemeralities – light and autumn leaves were an ideal subject for pinhole investigation.
Vist the WPD Site for other contributors: http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2015/
Our Past WPD images:
2014 Vicky's http://pinholeday.org/gallery/2014/index.php?id=1810&City=Toowoomba
2014 Doug's http://pinholeday.org/gallery/2014/index.php?id=1811&City=Toowoomba
2013 http://wotwedid.com/2013/04/29/world-pinhole-photography-day-our-contribution/
2012 http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2012/index.php?id=1937&searchStr=spowart
2011 http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2011/index.php?id=924
HERE IS THE LINK to the 2011 pinhole video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yk4vnbzTqOU
2010 http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2010/index.php?id=2464&Country=Australia&searchStr=spowart
2006 http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2006/index.php?id=1636&Country=Australia&searchStr=cooper
2004 Vicky http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2004/index.php?id=1553&Country=Australia&searchStr=cooper
2004 Doug http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2004/index.php?id=1552&Country=Australia&searchStr=spowart
2003 http://www.pinholeday.org/gallery/2003/index.php?id=615&Country=Australia&searchStr=spowart
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PHOTOBOOK INDEPENDENT: Our books in Hollywood – thanks to QCP
As part of its international activities for Queensland and Australian photographers the Queensland Centre for Photography participated in the inaugural Photo Independent art fair at Raleigh Studios, Los Angeles 1–3 May, 2015. The main Australian contingent consists of the wall images of 12 photomedia artists. They are Anna Carey, Belinda Kochanowska, Chris Bowes, David La Roche, Henri van Noordenburg, Kim Demuth, Kelly Hussey-Smith & Alan Hill, Katelyn-Jane Dunn, Lynette Letic, Michael Cook and Marian Drew.
An additional aspect of Photo Independent is one dedicated to the recognition of photographers who work in the book format. Called Photobook Independent the QCP curated a selection of 16 Australian photo publishers to present in the L.A. event.
In QCP media about these two events the following statement was made:
The QCP is excited to be part of this ground-breaking event as the world of photography will set its focus on Los Angeles 1–3 May, 2015 for a weekend celebrating international photography and the most talented image-makers across various genres of the medium. Numerous high profile art fairs including Paris Photo Los Angeles, Photo Contemporary, Photo Independent and PhotoBook Independent will launch their annual editions in Hollywood with additional special photography exhibitions throughout Los Angeles. The weekend promises to offer the enthusiastic art patron a plethora of opportunities to experience photography at its highest calibre.
The photobook publishers were: Ingvar Kenne, Dane Beesley, Anne Ferran, Lindsay Varvari, Rohan Hutchinson, Julie Shiels, Prudence Murphy, Christopher Young, Paul Batt, Ian Tippett, Doug Spowart, Victoria Cooper, Gemma Avery, Michelle Powell, Mathias Heng and Christopher Köller.
Interviews with the artists and photobook makers can be found on the LUCIDA Site: http://lucidamagazine.com/
Biogs on the photobook participants can be seen here: http://qcpinternational.com/portfolios/photo-book-independent-2015/
About Victoria's Book: PILLIGA
Pilliga is the culmination of 10 years work. It is informed by the many physical, psychological and metaphorical journeys through this enigmatic place during the decade of its creation.
This book is not a topographic depiction of the Pilliga Scrub, a remote location in the Australian Bush. Rather it is a human story of lurking deep anxiety manifested as a destructive invisible entity feeding on fears of the unknown and unknowable.
A PDF of the book can be seen here:PILLIGA-redsmr
The book can be purchased from BLURB here: http://blur.by/1Q9cGhh
About Doug's Book: I HAVE INHABITED A PLACE FREQUENTED BY ARTISTS MAKING THEIR ART …
This book relates to the experience of being a documentary photographer within the world. The subject, a deserted artist's studio, becomes an immersive landscape for investigation. This photobook expresses a personal narrative about loss, absence, place, and concepts around the relationship between the non-human and the working practices of artists.
A PDF of the book can be seen here: I have inhabited a place …red2
The book can be purchased from AMAZON here: http://blur.by/1K65dMu


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New True Blood Season 6 First Intense Promo Poster Revealed By HBO
New True Blood season 6 first promo poster revealed by HBO. Recently, HBO dropped this new,first, promo poster for their upcoming "True Blood" season 6,and it looks pretty damn intense,featuring a vampire appearing to be in very intense pain,which could be symbolic of the vampires being given a very hard time by that new,wicked Governor of Louisiana,who's going to make his way onto the Bon Temps scene.
Judging by the way the recent 90 minute trailer looked,it turns out that we'll see quite a few vampires ,getting picked on and tortured, along with some,heavy intense action. We're also going to see new,crazed vampires in the 9th episode. A new love triangle,involving Jason Stackhouse, will go down.
Sookie will find a new love interest apart from Eric,Bill,and Alcide. Alcide will have to keep one of his hot werewolf chicks in check as she doesn't want dead Marcus' daughter around,and more. Season 6 debuts on June 16th at 9pm on HBO. Stay tuned. Follow us on Facebook by Clicking Here. Follow us on Twitter by Clicking Here.Did You Enjoy this Post? Subscribe to Hollywood Hills on Facebook, Twitter, & Email
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Pianist Jon Nakamatsu Performs This Weekend at the Mostly Mozart Festival
The distinguished pianist Jon Nakamatsu will perform Brahms's Cello Sonata No. 1 in E minor, Op. 38 alongside Budapest Festival Orchestra's principal cellist Péter Szabó in a pre-concert recital tonight, August 16th at 7:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 17th at 7:00 p.m. at Avery Fisher Hall, 20 W 65th St., New York.
Mr. Nakamatsu's appearances precede an all-Brahms program with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, led by David Afkham in his Mostly Mozart debut. The concerts will feature Brahms's Double Concerto with soloists Truls Mørk, cello and Vadim Repin, violin and will begin at 8:00 p.m. each evening at Avery Fisher Hall.
Ticket holders for the Mostly Mozart Festival concerts will gain entry into pre-concert events. Tickets are $35- $85 and are available by visiting lc.lincolncenter.org or by calling 212.875.5030.
For well over a decade American pianist Jon Nakamatsu has been heard throughout the United States, Europe and Asia as a concerto soloist, solo recitalist, and chamber collaborator of extraordinary musical powers. Most notably he has performed to universal critical acclaim in such venues as New York's Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and in such cities as Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Paris, London, Berlin, and Milan. Last season Mr. Nakamatsu, an idiomatic interpreter of Chopin's music, performed a Chopin Bicentenary recital (2010) at Philharmonic Hall in Warsaw, and at the 2010 Beijing International Piano Festival. In July 2011 he was heard in recital on the prestigious Masters Series of the International Keyboard Institute & Festival in New York City. In April 2011 Mr. Nakamatsu was heard in recital at the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
Highlights of Mr. Nakamatsu's 2012-13 season included guest soloist engagements with the Rochester Philharmonic, Des Moines Symphony, the El Paso Symphony, and the Stanford Symphony and he is slated to perform with the Baltimore Symphony in late July of this year. In recital he was heard in Pittsburgh, Rockford, IL, and Fresno, CA. As part of the Manasse Nakamatsu Duo with clarinetist Jon Manasse, Mr. Nakamatsu toured the United States in the spring of 2013. Mr. Nakamastsu also joined Mr. Manasse in a concert presented by Music of the Spheres in New York in February 2013.
Mr. Nakamatsu has been an active guest soloist with leading orchestras throughout his career; among them the orchestras of Dallas, Detroit, Indianapolis, Los Angeles, Rochester, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, Berlin, Milan, and Tokyo. He has collaborated with such esteemed conductors as James Conlon, Philippe Entremont, Marek Janowski, Raymond Leppard, Gerard Schwarz, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Michael Tilson Thomas and Osmo Vänskä. In February of 2010, he was the featured soloist for the highly acclaimed American tour of the Berlin-based Philharmonie der Nationen, conducted by Justus Franz, performing Brahms's First Piano Concerto and Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto in twelve cities nationwide. Numerous summer engagements have included appearances at the Aspen, Tanglewood, Ravinia, Caramoor, Vail, Wolftrap, and Britt festivals. In 1999, Mr. Nakamatsu performed at the White House at the special invitation of President and Mrs. Clinton.
Among the many chamber ensembles with which Mr. Nakamatsu has collaborated are the Brentano, Jupiter, Miami, Tokyo, Prazak, St. Lawrence, and Ying String Quartets. He also tours frequently with the Berlin Philharmonic Wind Quintet and in 2008 debuted on the Philharmonic's chamber music series performing with the Quintet and members of the orchestra. Together with the acclaimed clarinetist Jon Manasse, Mr. Nakamatsu tours regularly as part of the Manasse/Nakamatsu Duo. In 2008, the Duo released its first CD (BRAHMS SONATAS FOR CLARINET AND PIANO) which received the highest praise from The New York Times Classical Music Editor James R. Oestreich, who named it a "Best of the Year" choice for 2008. Their latest CD (AMERICAN MUSIC FOR CLARINET AND PIANO) released in 2010 has also garnered international rave reviews. Mr. Nakamatsu and Mr. Manasse also serve as Artistic Directors of the esteemed Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival, founded by pianist Samuel Sanders in 1979.
Mr. Nakamatsu records exclusively for harmonia mundi USA, which has released ten CDs to date, all to high critical praise. His recent all-Gershwin recording with Jeff Tyzig and the Rochester Philharmonic featuring Rhapsody in Blue and the Concerto in F rose to number three on Billboard's classical music charts. Mr. Nakamatsu's disc of Brahms solo piano music drew the following from Gary Lemco of Audiophile Audition: "The two intermezzi and E-flat Rhapsody remind me of Rubinstein's way with these sleek, economical and wistful pieces, with the optimistic, extroverted display saved for the last. Both Brahmsians and Nakamatsu collectors will want this one." (November 2004).
For his 2011-12 season Lincoln Center presented Mr. Nakamatsu in an all-Liszt recital on its 'Great Performers" series in New York City. His busy touring schedule takes him throughout the United States in recital, as concerto soloist and as collaborative artist for many of the most prestigious series and festivals.
A high school teacher of German with no formal conservatory training, Mr. Nakamatsu's electrifying performance of Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto won him the Gold Medal at the 1997 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition amidst a field of experienced competition warriors. Jon Nakamatsu studied privately with the late Marina Derryberry from the age of six, and worked with Karl Ulrich Schnabel, son of the great pianist Artur Schnabel. He has also studied composition and orchestration with Dr. Leonard Stein of the Schoenberg Institute at the University of Southern California, and pursued extensive studies in chamber music and musicology. Mr. Nakamatsu is a graduate of Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in German Studies and a master's degree in Education.
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The lodge comprises of Rondavels, each with a bedroom, a TV with DStv, air-conditioning, a table and chairs. Each Family Rondavel has an extra bedroom.
We have three dedicated conference rooms that can be setup in any arrangement according to your meeting needs. Two rooms can seat 50 delegates and the largest can take a capacity of 75 delegates. We also have a large restaurant that can seat up to 80 guests and an adjacent bar. The resident chef produces excellent buffets and you can also order from our a la carte menu.
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- Laundry Facilities*
- Satellite TV*
- Braai/Barbecue
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- Northern Sotho (Sesotho sa Leboa)
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3 out of 5 stars
Pros: clean, neat rooms, white crisp linen and towels, friendly staff.Cons: loud music from the nearby village, restaurant not in operation.In betweens: 2km dirt road leading to the lodge.
Pro's: Friendly staff. Accommodation ample and clean. Economic.Con's: Dinner was help yourself chicken, pap and salad (sufficient but no alternatives). Did not have any white wine in stock (none).Failed to put additional mattress in the room despite reminders. Credit card facilities not working - had to do an EFT via phone. Three fuzzy TV channels to choose from.
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When it comes to tennis shoes, your players need to have a perfect fit. Wearing shoes that fit correctly will not only help your customers play their best tennis, but also, it can keep players from getting injured.
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- Wear socks that are sport or shoe specific when trying on new shoes.
- Athletic shoes typically fit one-half to one-full size too small.
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- Avoid deep cutouts in the outsole of a shoe — it often means poor arch support.
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The most beautiful place I have ever stayed, and for a fantastic price!! In the heart of medina it's situation is perfect to really experience Marrakech. The owners are wonderfully hospitable and will organise anything you want from booking restaurants to day trips out!! The only thing for English speakers is basic French is essential as they don't speak any English, but a French phrase book is all you need and that would be useful for Morocco anyway.
All in all a perfect place to stay in this brilliant city.
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