Artist Ann Blockley is renowned for her innovative approach to traditional subjects Following the huge success of her previous book Experimental Flowers in Watercolour she now explores ways to interpret landscape Packed with stunning examples of her colourful expressive work this book encourages you to experiment with the same techniques in your own watercolour painting to develop a personal style Techniques covered include combining water-based paint & ink with other media such as gesso & collage to create dramatic effects; manipulating paint with materials such as plastic wrap (clingfilm); tearing layering & reassembling paintings into watercolour collages; & developing textures & marks made using fabrics & other found objects Throughout the book Ann offers her personal commentary on how her paintings were created giving us a unique insight into the mind of the artist Both practical & inspirational this glorious book is the ideal companion for watercolour painters who want to take their work a step further ...

What is experimental music today? This book offers an up to date survey of this field for anyone with an interest from seasoned practitioners to curious readers This book takes the stance that experimental music is not a limited historical event but is a proliferation of approaches to sound that reveals much about present-day experience An experimental work is not identifiable by its sound alone but by the nature of the questions it poses & its openness to the sounding event Experimentation is a way of working It pushes past that which is known to discover what lies beyond it finding new knowledge forms & relationships or accepting a state of uncertainty For each of these composers & sound artists craft is developed & transformed in response to the questions they bring to their work Scientific perceptual or social phenomena become catalysts in the operation of the work These practices are not presented according to a chronology a set of techniques or social groupings Instead they are organized according to the content areas that are their subjects including resonance harmony objects shapes perception language interaction sites & histories Musical materials may be subject among other treatments to systemization observation examination magnification fragmentation translation or destabilization These restless & exploratory modes of engagement have continued to develop over recent decades expanding the scope of both musical practice & listening ...

Photography has always been about experimentation & anyone who thinks the advent of digital imaging might have stopped photographers from inventing new ways to impress their film is in for a big surprise Experimental Photography presents the most interesting & creative modifications for low-cost film cameras manual printing techniques & unconventional use of the medium The book accompanies the reader through the world of photography special effects & manipulations documenting techniques approaches experimenters camera makers & their extraordinary creations One picture at a time Experimental Photography compiles a manifesto against visual homogenization ...

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A heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction&s most original talents—back in print! Ghosts can be caught & bottled & sold by covert dealers to addicts who inhale the things—and when a young boy named Kootie accidentally inhales the ghost of Thomas Edison he finds that all the factions of Los Angeles& occult underground are after him determined to kill him & get Edison&s powerful ghost for themselves Aided by Edison&s confused & irascible ghost Kootie flees—and finds himself dodging perils natural & supernatural in the gritty alleys & trainyards of a Los Angeles that tourists never see Fromm the slums around the LA River to the abandoned Houdini mansion in the Hollywood Hills to a final dramatic confrontation on the haunted ocean liner Queen Mary docked in Long Beach Expiration Date is a heart-stopping supernatural adventure from one of fantasy fiction&s most original talents About the Author Tim Powers won the World Fantasy Award twice for his critically acclaimed novels Last Call & Declare Declare also received the International Horror Guild Award His novel On Stranger Tides inspired the Monkey Island video game series & was sold to Disney for the movie franchise installment Pirates of the Caribbean On Stranger Tides His book The Anubis Gates won the Philip K Dick award & is considered a modern science fiction classic & a progenitor of the Steampunk genre Powers won the Dick award again for straight science fiction post-apocalypse novel Dinner at Deviant’s Palace Many of his novels such as Last Call & Alternate Routes upcoming from Baen Books are so-called “secret histories” which use real historical events in which supernatural & metaphysical elements influence the story in weird & compelling manners Powers grew up in Southern California & studied English at Cal State Fullerton where he met frequent collaborators James Blaylock & K W Jeter as well as renowned science fiction author Philip K Dick who became a close friend & mentor Powers is a practicing Catholic who claims “stories are more effective & more truly represent the writer’s actual convictions when they manifest themselves without the writer’s conscious assistance I concern myself with my plots but I let my subconscious worry about my themes” Powers still resides in Southern California with his wife Serena ...