Tag: Direction

I fart in your general direction! Flatulence in Popular Culture


Free Download Don H. Corrigan, ""I fart in your general direction!": Flatulence in Popular Culture"
English | ISBN: 1476691967 | 2023 | 216 pages | EPUB | 11 MB
This exhaustive work on flatulence breaks new wind on every aspect of abdominal gas in popular culture. A definitive taxonomy of farts details the characteristics of each variety, including barking spiders, cheek squeakers and green apple dirties. Philosophical positions on colonic expression are examined, from Confucius, Hume, Voltaire and the existentialists. Chapters cover a wide range of fart-focused stand-up comedy, cinema, children’s books, toys and merchandise. The author’s postscript describes a lifetime preparing for his subject through fraternity membership and offbeat assignments as a newspaper journalist.

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Inside Art Direction Interviews and Case Studies


Free Download Steven Brower, "Inside Art Direction: Interviews and Case Studies "
English | ISBN: 1472569105 | 2016 | 232 pages | PDF | 10 MB
For many design students, the expectation is that they will one day reach the top of the ladder within a design studio or corporation and become an art director. But what does this mean and how does a design student get there? What does an art director do? How is it different from being a designer? How does one lead and inspire a team, work with freelance designers, illustrators and photographers? Inside Art Direction answers all these questions for design students and professionals alike.

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Spiritual Direction as a Medical Art in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford Early Christian Studies)


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English | January 6, 2023 | ISBN: 0198854137 | 400 pages | MOBI | 2.30 Mb
What expectations did the women and men living in early monastic communities carry into relationships of obedience and advice? What did they hope to achieve through confession and discipline? To explore these questions, this study shows how several early Christian writers applied the logic, knowledge, and practices of Galenic medicine to develop their own practices of spiritual direction. Evagrius reads dream images as diagnostic indicators of the soul’s state. John Cassian crafts a nosology of the soul using lists of passions while diagnosing the causes of wet dreams. Basil of Caesarea pits the spiritual director against the physician in a competition over diagnostic expertise. John Climacus crafts pathologies of passions through demonic family trees, while equipping his spiritual director with a physician’s toolkit and imagining the monastic space as a vast clinic. These different appropriations of medical logic and metaphors not only show us the thought-world of late antique monasticism, but they would also have decisive consequences for generations of Christian subjects who would learn to see themselves as sick or well, patients or healers, within monastic communities.

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Art Direction Processes with Shaddy Safady


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Shaddy Safady | Duration: 1 h | Video: H264 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 48 kHz 2ch | 1,54 GB | Language: English
Watch the replay of Shaddy Safady’s master class recorded in Paris, March 2024 and learn more about Shaddy’s experience and creative process
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https://masterclasses.iamag.co/programs/art-direction-processes-with-shaddy-safady

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Starting Something New Spiritual Direction for Your God-Given Dream


Free Download Beth A. Booram, "Starting Something New: Spiritual Direction for Your God-Given Dream"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 0830835970 | EPUB | pages: 185 | 1.7 mb
Do you have a dream? Do you have a creative idea stirring within you to do something different or start something new? If so, you’re not alone. Many people have God-given dreams but don?t know how to discern what they are and develop them into something real. Most of these dreamers aren’t business people or experienced entrepreneurs. They’re just sincere Christ-followers who need a spiritual and practical guide to help them realize their dream―whether it be to start a new ministry, non-profit or business, or even the vision to begin a new lifestyle. Drawing from her personal experience and the stories of fifteen others, spiritual director Beth Booram has written this companion guide for those who wonder if they have a God-given idea but don?t know what to do with it. Interviews from people like Chris Smith, Phileena Heuertz and Randy Reese who have courageously embraced a God-prompted idea are included with each chapter to add further vision and insight. Carefully designed exercises at the end of each chapter will guide and provide practical support for those who are on the spiritual journey of identifying and acting on a God-given dream. By the end, you will know that one of the privileged tasks of life is to discern, shape, birth and sustain something new.

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The Gnomon Workshop – Art Direction for Film Creature Design & Development – From Photoshop to Unreal Engine 5


Free Download The Gnomon Workshop – Art Direction for Film Creature Design & Development – From Photoshop to Unreal Engine 5
Ehsan Bigloo | Duration: 4:13 h | Video: HVC1 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC 48 kHz 2ch | 2,67 GB | Language: English
Ehsan Bigloo demonstrates how he designs creatures for the entertainment industry. Whether you’re a character or creature designer, concept artist, digital sculptor, or simply interested in developing your storytelling skills, this workshop is a fascinating insight into Ehsan’s complete workflow, from sketch to final presentation.
The workshop begins with a detailed look at a design brief and short script based on Ehsan’s own sci-fi/supernatural horror character, “Quehsalien.” He explains his thought process when developing words into a visual narrative, and the initial sketching begins with traditional media before jumping into Photoshop, where he then lays down a paint-over to establish the basis for the final illustration.
ZBrush is brought into the pipeline to sculpt the primary and secondary forms of the design, testing the visual appeal from a three-dimensional standpoint. ZBrush also serves as a great tool for testing the lighting and mood of the character using KeyShot and creating a simple rig for the creature model for early limb locomotion tests. Ehsan also uses ZBrush for the Polypainting process while considering what the environment of the creature would be and how it would move. The final design is then rendered with KeyShot and composited in Photoshop.

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Recalculating Marriage God’S Direction to a Moral Marriage


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2018 | 370 Pages | ISBN: 1973621665 | EPUB | 1 MB
Gods original design for marriage is under attack. Activists have used the media, political correctness, and the courts to advance LGBT and same-sex marriage agendas. In 2015, the United States Supreme Court granted the right to same-sex marriage. To help redirect the immoral trends, Christians must know Gods original design for marriage and vote their conscience. In Recalculating Marriage, author Edward W. Kaleefey explores the need for an infallible moral authority regarding marriage and related issues such as arranged marriages, celibacy, monogamy and polygamy, divorce and remarriage, and same-sex marriageKaleefey shows how same-sex marriage is neither rational, logical, nor moral. Thus, Christians should stop supporting sexual immorality, stand for sexual purity in marriage, and start reshaping societys view of marriage according to Gods will. Recalculating Marriage emphasizes the objective, infallible authority of Gods Word, and it provides a timely and comprehensive treatment of marriage and related issues of sexuality and human relationships. Believers will be informed, challenged, and importantly, motivated to express biblically based convictions in the market place and at the ballot box.

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