Transitions is a delightful, entertaining chronicle of Doug Rucker's journey through photographic time. Containing a gallery's worth of artisitic photos, Doug explains the thoughts that went into his work and offers his sometimes other-worldly interpretations of the scenes he's captured. Exploring three distinct phases of his work, Realistic, Reflections and Abstract, Doug's clever observations, wry, witty humor and vivid imagination will make you think, prompt a laugh and put a smile on your face.
Catchall is a catch of all the variety of my past unorganized thoughts and philosophies. During the last-period of years, I've been writing myself letters and essays about what's gone on in my mind and what I think and believe with a little humor and a few dreams. However, such a variety of thoughts and ideas did not make a single simple topic that might make a single simple book. Pressed with new ideas that would now make a more cohesive book, I thought my former ideas and essays were important enough to be saved in this book. I couldn't see them wasting away in the computer or inaccessible in a notebook. I wanted to give them a life and let them be free to garner whatever brilliance or aversion is their due. In three articles, Body Surfing, Matusak and Raindrops on my Face, I have taken former prose and presented them.
Bonk! and what's next is a brilliantly conceived collection of illustrated stories, inventions, observations and miscellany by Roy Crandal (a pen-name for the author Doug Rucker), last years winner of the Pulitzer Surprise. Read between the lines and the author's mental state readily emerges, and, GOOD NEWS, it's not catching! Read this book and you'll say as other have, "Hey! Cowabunga, dude!
What's in this book? Detective Bunny leaps into action after the crook who stole the North Avenue Bridge. Someone doesn't get it in the adventures of Abraham, and it may be you. Enter eternity's door with Tom and Bernie in Shortcut to Nowhere. Just another bank hiest has a global twist in The Stick-up. Everyday Stuff with Jorge and Merle is mildly amusing, as is the non-verbal, Conversation between Hector and Globula. Ruth Guilless and Roy Crandal continue to interview to interview weirdow for Station KRUD and filling in the spaces are Acquired Taste Cartoons having no specific theme. What's in this book? Episodes only friends could love.
OFF THE WALL Having an interest in abstract photographic art, that is, art without recognizable objects. I wanted to do an artistic piece that was meaningful and yet with no recognizable objects. Of course, in photography I'm forced to photograph something. Though no doubt obvious to others, the other day I had an epiphany. I was startled to become aware that the Photoshop program, like oils, pastels and watercolors, was a medium. Well, hello! What did I think the inventor had in mind? I finally got it! When Marge and I walked through the tunnel-like culvert under Highway 1 leading to the beach near Point Mugu, I got the urge to photograph lines and shapes sprawled haphazardly across the cement walls. In other words, graffiti! In Photoshop I threw caution to the winds and worked to the top of my talent to make what I thought was art out of designs drawn for another purpose and already there. This book has twenty-four photographs of graffiti including energy, excitement, power, line, shape, audacity and surprise in what I'm calling OFF THE WALL
In this book may be found poetries derived from three sources: abstract art, new poems and those copied directly from short prose and put into poetic form. Having discovered abstract art through my own photography, I have taken a poetic approach to find out what each artwork means. I'm not sure I found out, but the idea stimulated my imagination and this book was created. New verses followed as in most poems as a record of whatever feelings were in me at that arbitrary time. For these, I have no excuses, so I'm willing to live with whatever results they might bring forth and try to go on with life. The final third of this book was taken directly from already-written prose. Oversimplifying, I could say prose is written horizontally to fit a standard book page, while poetry is written vertically in short paragraphs with spaces in between. What they have in common is what each has to say. Perhaps that's the main criterion we must use to judge their worth.
This book is a collection of essays and poetry on philosophy and psychology that I have discovered throughout my life. I have included descriptive prose for better explaination and subjects include, Soul, Love, Life After Death and Mindfulness.
The commercial explosion of ragtime in the early twentieth century created previously unimagined opportunities for black performers. However, every prospect was mitigated by systemic racism. The biggest hits of the ragtime era weren't Scott Joplin's stately piano rags. “Coon songs,” with their ugly name, defined ragtime for the masses, and played a transitional role in the commercial ascendancy of blues and jazz. In Ragged but Right, Lynn Abbott and Doug Seroff investigate black musical comedy productions, sideshow bands, and itinerant tented minstrel shows. Ragtime history is crowned by the “big shows,” the stunning musical comedy successes of Williams and Walker, Bob Cole, and Ernest Hogan. Under the big tent of Tolliver's Smart Set, Ma Rainey, Clara Smith, and others were converted from “coon shouters” to “blues singers.” Throughout the ragtime era and into the era of blues and jazz, circuses and Wild West shows exploited the popular demand for black music and culture, yet segregated and subordinated black performers to the sideshow tent. Not to be confused with their nineteenth-century white predecessors, black, tented minstrel shows such as the Rabbit's Foot and Silas Green from New Orleans provided blues and jazz-heavy vernacular entertainment that black southern audiences identified with and took pride in.
For the St. Louis Cardinals and their fans, there was a great deal of uncertainty going into the 1985 season. Only three years before, the Cards had won the World Series, but were predicted to finish last in the National League East Division by every major publication. Manager Whitey Herzog was expected to rebuild his team, drug abuse had cast a lingering shadow over the game, and a players' strike threatened to halt play. The situation looked bleak for St. Louis but the season turned out to be nothing like the predictions. The Cards found themselves in a battle for the pennant. From beginning to end, that magical season is chronicled here. The book recaps the 1982 championship season and provides background information on Whitey Herzog and Gussie Busch's building of the early 1980s Cards, Busch Stadium and its characteristics particular to base running, and players of the era, including Ozzie Smith and Willie McGee and pitchers Bob Forsch and Joaquin Andujar. It then goes in-depth to discuss the Cards' 1985 spring training and season and the World Series.
Explore over a century of Cardinals baseball in this illustrated tour of the players, teams, ballparks, and historic moments! With a legacy that goes back to the Brown Stockings of the old American Association, the St. Louis Cardinals have one of the longest and greatest traditions in the history of baseball. Winners of ten World Series titles (second only to the New York Yankees) and twenty-one pennants dating back to 1885, the Redbirds have established a dynasty across the decades—from Charlie Comiskey’s four-time AA champs, through the “Gashouse Gang” of the 1930s and the “Runnin’ Redbirds” in the 1980s, up to the 2006 World Champions. Front-office pioneers like Chris von der Ahe and Branch Rickey have put the Cardinals franchise at the forefront of innovation, while bringing in some of baseball’s greatest talent—pitchers Dizzy Dean to Bob Gibson, sluggers Johnny Mize to Mark McGwire, and all-around superstars like Rogers “Rajah” Hornsby, Stan “the Man” Musial, and Albert Pujols. Pairing historic black-and-white photos and contemporary images of the modern game, St. Louis Cardinals: Past & Present explores the ballparks and the fans, the players and the teams that have defined Cardinals baseball.
Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press This beautifully designed and written coffee table book provides a conversational, intimate, thorough and artful book about the evolution of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.
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