Using my unique experiences as I went from being on welfare to becoming a world renowned metal sculptor I share with you step by step how I designed my perfect life by creating a picture, an Inspiration Blueprint, and how you too can create yours and live your most inspired life!
Rose Cumming was the most flamboyant and exciting of the so-called Great Lady Decorators who invented the field of professional decorating and interior design in the early twentieth century. Flavored by surrealism and suffused with drama, her interiors were sumptuous, mixing bold colors and patterns. Her own library had emerald-green walls, a peacock -blue satin sofa, and scarlet japanned chairs.
Cumming’s famous New York decorating and antiques shop became a stopping point for celebrated personalities such as the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Andy Warhol, Rudolf Nureyev, and Jacqueline Onassis. Encompassing styles from gothic, Venetian, and Austrian baroque to early Oriental furniture, Cumming would add glittering chandeliers, birdcages, and fine carpets. Her glamorous style was reminiscent of film sets, and Marlene Dietrich and Norma Shearer were among her clients.
This book, the first on Cumming, is a richly illustrated volume of a great American artist, whose influence is manifest in the ongoing production of Cumming-designed fabrics and wallpapers. Rose Cumming will inspire the interior designer and home decorator, both professional and amateur alike.
Searching For The Ideal Machine: How Strategy Drives VEX IQ Robot Design is a handbook that explores the relationship between strategy and engineering design in the field of competitive robotics. The book provides a methodology for finding success in competitive robotics. The process starts by determining the key functional requirements of a season’s game, and details and discusses a variety of machines and mechanisms that can satisfy such requirements, using the 2015 VEX IQ Highrise game as an illustrative example. These machines and mechanisms can be versatile (or general purpose) or specialized (or of limited purpose but with higher performance). The problem of building stable irregular stacks is discussed and solved in a mathematically rigorous way. Next the authors develop a taxonomy of robots, classifying the various common types of machines into a set of six robot “families” – pushbots, clawbots, harvesters, plowbots, gantries and (task-optimized) cherrypickers. The authors show how compliance of designs with game rules on robot sizing can be evaluated prior to construction using simple trigonometry. The book applies these principles to the 2015 VEX IQ Highrise game, developing a variety of strategies for transport, sorting and stacking of game objects. Next the authors show how these specialized strategies can be combined for improved competition performance using an evaluation schema that considers the maximum and likely score and the reliability of the machine to assess the suitability of each machine for solo and alliance telerobotics as well as autonomous robotics based upon its strengths in transport, sorting and stacking of game objects. After describing their favored solution to the exemplary problem, the authors provide a detailed methodology for extending such an approach to future competitions. Written in plain English for a middle school audience (both students and coaches), most of the book is accessible to elementary schoolers as well. Two sections of the book are mathematically sophisticated– particularly the sections on designing robots for rules compliance, and the mathematically rigorous solution to the problem of building stable irregular stacks. Elementary and middle robotics coaches may find this book useful to illustrate robotics concepts and help train their students in designing the optimal machine for their chosen strategy. The machines, mechanisms and assessment process described in this book will prove useful to future season robotics competitions.
Albert Koetsier’S X-rayography images possess a certain mysteriousness and unusual beauty that is captured in this wonderful 2018 calendar.
In 2014, Independent by Design, a history of the New York State Association of Independent School (NYSAIS) from its inception in 1947 to 2014 was published. I can imagine a reader asking why I would work on a new volume about NYSAIS just three years later. The answer is twofold. For one, the past three years represent a period of significant organizational growth and development. This new level of momentum and focus has not only established NYSAIS as a thought-leader in the field, operating at a high level among independent school associations world-wide, it also comes at a time when education itself is undergoing a significant tectonic shift. That this surge also comes at a time when NYSAIS is celebrating its seventieth anniversary makes it all that more noteworthy. One way to look at this volume is as an important postscript to the earlier volume. But it also serves as the opening chapter of NYSAIS’s next seventy years of operation. The ability of the organization to make significant adjustments in an era of deep social change and disruption while staying true to its seventy-year-old mission is a clear sign of a healthy organizational future. To say our current era is interesting would be an under-statement. There are a number of forces at work, of course. But a key one is the way multiple generations, with their particular mindsets, overlap and interact. When I was first teaching, for instance, we lived in a world essentially of three generations— The Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, and Generation X. Today, our world is five generations strong—The Greatest Generation, Baby Boomers, Generation X, Millennials (GenerationY), and Generation Z. For a long time, the Baby Boomers more or less called the shots, but the shift is now on—with the Baby Boomers moving into retirement and the younger generations having both a greater presence and greater influence. And all signs suggest that this influence will only get stronger. Writing for the Independent School Magazine Blog in 2016, NAIS president-elect Donna Orem underscored this ongoing shift in leadership. “‘Who will lead’ is a refrain we hear routinely in the media as the workforce changes hands from the Baby Boomers and Generation X to the Millennials,” she writes. “The leading edge of the Baby Boomer generation reached retirement age in 2011. According to the Pew Research Center, 10,000 Boomers will retire each day through the year 2030.” This generational shift also corresponds with the dizzying rise of technological innovation. Technology is changing just about everything in our culture, including communications, manufacturing, the workplace environment, entertainment, shopping, and, of course, education. The schools that NYSAIS serves are all multigenerational. They all wrestle with the shifts in education brought on in part by technology, by brain-science research, and by changing cultural perspectives about the role of education in society. For its part, NYSAIS is influenced by all of this—and the progress it makes every day is testimony to the attentiveness and hard work of the staff. Design for Independence, Inspiration, and Innovation: The New York State Association of Independent Schools at 70 presents the changes that have taken place over the past three years within the organization. Granted, this is a short time period, but NYSAIS’s seventieth anniversary and the rapid, impressive changes are more than enough justification for this book—as a birthday celebration, as testimony to the hard work of the current staff, and as an exploration of the evolving role of school associations.
Every great design has its beginnings in a great idea, whether your medium of choice is scenery, costume, lighting, sound, or projections. Unmasking Theatre Design shows you how to cultivate creative thinking skills through every step of theatre design – from the first play reading to the finished design presentation. This book reveals how creative designers think in order to create unique and appropriate works for individual productions, and will teach you how to comprehend the nature of the design task at hand, gather inspiration, generate potential ideas for a new design, and develop a finished look through renderings and models. The exercises presented in this book demystify the design process by providing you with specific actions that will help you get on track toward fully-formed designs. Revealing the inner workings of the design process, both theoretically and practically, Unmasking Theatre Design will jumpstart the creative processes of designers at all levels, from student to professionals, as you construct new production designs.
This incredible “Stay Strong” is the perfect way to relieve stress and aid relaxation while enjoying beautiful and highly detailed images. Each coloring page will transport you into a world of your own while your responsibilities will seem to fade away… Do you love reading uplifting bible verses? Do you enjoy adult coloring? Then you need to Stay strong: Bible Quote: Coloring book for Adult+mandala design!
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