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  The Spoonflower Handbook - A DIY...

  Stephen Fraser, Judi Ketteler

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  An accessible guide to understanding and using Spoonflower to design your own fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap. 
   
  Designing fabric, wallpaper, and gift wrap used to be the stuff of dreams. Only a few select creatives got to do it, and it required formal training and significant financial investment. But times have changed, and today anyone with a computer, Internet connection, and idea can upload a file and order their own fabric or paper, printed affordably one yard or more at a time. At the forefront of this revolutionary DIY movement is Spoonflower, a North Carolina startup that produces designs for hundreds of thousands of users worldwide—twenty-four hours a day/seven days a week to keep up with demand. 
   
    
   
  With step-by-step tutorials and projects that span a wide spectrum of skills, The Spoonflower Handbook is written for both new and experienced users of this print-on-demand technology. Covering everything from equipment to software to working with photos, scans, repeats, vector files, and more, it is an essential guide to a booming new creative outlet.

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  Swifty McVay Presents: The...

  Swifty McVay

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  The Seventh Star is a deeply personal, unflinching and unapologetic memoir that sheds light on an intense childhood spent on Detroit's notorious West 7 Mile, the pivotal role that the area's hip hop scene played, and the rise to national prominence Swifty McVay and his peers experienced after the massive mainstream success of the group D12. 
  Ondre Moore, better known by his stage name Swift—or Swifty McVay—speaks plainly here, telling the inside story of how the members of D12 met and how their relationships have evolved throughout the years. He describes D12's close connection and initially mixed reaction to a then little-known rapper, Marshall Mathers III, better known as Eminem. 
  But Swifty also details the significant struggles each of them overcame in their personal and professional lives—including the bleak and brutal deaths of group members Bugz and Proof—as they rose through the ranks in the demanding world of rap. Finding anchors in sobriety and spirituality, Swifty continues to challenge himself creatively as he releases solo albums and tours today. 
  The Seventh Star is the unique story of an artist finding his voice in America's heartland, succinctly and intimately told by a creative powerhouse in the world of hip hop.

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  Musician's Map - The Complete...

  Kane Power

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  The Musician's Map is a complete guide to building success in music. Whether you're just thinking about learning music, or you're already in the process of building a career; this book will help you. Musician's Map provides practical advice for musicians just starting out and musicians looking to get ahead and further their career.
  
  This book is a step-by-step guide that will save you years of time, thousands of dollars, and will make you a better musician.
  
  The Musician's Map includes 36 chapters and more than 40,000 words of advice, information, and tools to help you build success in music. Topics include:
  
  The value of listening and expanding your musical world-view
  Instruments, practice, and improving
  Bands, rehearsals and auditions
  Recording, demos, and promotion
  Getting, advertising, preparing for, and playing gigs
  Performing and getting paid to play
  Professional recording, studios, mixing, and mastering
  Music videos and self-releasing music
  Booking and going on tour
  Getting label interest and making money as a musician
  
  This is an invaluable resource that you will refer to over and over again for years.
  
  Stop with trial and error, wasting money and energy, the uncertainty, the unknown.
  
  Start growing, improving, seeing progress, and realizing your ambition.
  An Author's Republic audio production.

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  Top Girls

  Caryl Churchill

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  In this play by Caryl Churchill, it's the middle of the high-flying, go-getting 80's in Maggie Thatcher's England and Marlene finally has something to celebrate—she's just been made Managing Director of Top Girls Employment Agency. But with no friends to speak of, and a past she'd just as soon forget, the guests at Marlene's party are a collection of famous women from history. Soon, Marlene discovers that life above the glass ceiling is not all it's cracked up to be.An L.A. Theatre Works full cast performance featuring:Amy Brenneman as MarleneMegan Austin Oberle as Kit/Shona/WaitressKirsten Potter as Lady Nijo/WinSamantha Robson as Mrs. Kidd/JeanineCarolyn Seymour as Isabella Bird/JoyceKate Steele as Dull Gret/AngieConcetta Tomei as Pope Joan/LouiseMissy Yager as Patient Griselda/NellDirected by John Rubinstein. Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in January of 2006.

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  The Writings and Letters of...

  Ruth Gillen

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  "[Wolff] is a remarkable pianist, an excellent theoretician, a learned teacher, a brilliant thinker and writer." —Artur Schnabel"This collection of [Wolff's] writings and letters should bear ample testimony to a musician who happily combined the artist, the teacher, the musicologist, and the charm and integrity of a human being." —Alfred Brendel"Konrad Wolff writes about music with the verve and enthusiasm of a great teacher who has never lost his sense of music as an adventure. To read him is to enter into a lively dialogue with a superior musical mind and a buoyant spirit." —Richard GoodeThis collection provides elegant and thorough portraits of an important 20th-century performer and lover of music, as well as of his greatest influences.

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  Ensemble - An Oral History of...

  Mark Larson

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  This definitive history brings Chicago’s celebrated theater and comedy scenes to life with stories from some of its biggest stars spanning sixty-five years. 
   
  Chicago is a bona fide theater town, bursting with vitality that thrills local fans and produces generation after generation of world-renowned actors, directors, playwrights, and designers. Now Mark Larson shares the rich theatrical history of Chicago through first-person accounts from the people who made it. 
   
  Drawing from more than three hundred interviews, Larson weaves a narrative that expresses the spirit of Chicago’s ensemble ethos: the voices of celebrities such as Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ed Asner, George Wendt, Michael Shannon, and Tracy Letts comingle with stories from designers, composers, and others who have played a crucial role in making Chicago theater so powerful, influential, and unique. 
   
  Among many other topics, this book explores the early days of the fabled Compass Players and the legendary Second City in the ‘50s and ‘60s; the rise of acclaimed ensembles like Steppenwolf in the ‘70s; the explosion of storefront and neighborhood companies in the ‘80s; and the enduring global influence of the city as the center of improv training and performance.

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