Portal Cubarte. Feedbooks | Free eBooks and Best Sellers. Cesar liao. Underlined Book Quotes Become Clever Illustrations. Bookworm or not, you can't help but enjoy these black and white illustrations of literary quotes by Evan Robertson. The New York-based graphic designer has taken some of the cleverest lines written by famous authors such as William Faulkner and Oscar Wilde and turned them into wonderful posters.
These literature-inspired fine art illustrations are currently being sold on Etsy under the name Obvious State. Robertson would see a "little jewel of a sentence" and he'd underline it. Then, he would take those "snippets of text and ideas" and "let the words be a springboard for an illustration. " As he told Huffington Post, "The illustrations incorporate and interact with the text and hopefully add up to something that engages the mind as much as the eye. " Here are 12 of our favorites. May these timeless words inspire you today and always. Update: Check out more clever illustrations in Part II of this story.
Obvious State on Etsy via [Quipsologies], [Huffington Post] Volume 1. Susan Bell was just an ordinary Earth girl, until she's whisked away one night by lesbian pirates from outer space. Led by Captain Janet, they insist that Susie is their long lost princess, who was stolen from the queen of planet Lesbos-1 when she was a baby, and they're going to bring her home. On the way, they rob a bank, and catch the interest of an incompetent superhero, crash land on a planet of hulking beasts, enter a space race, find romance, and nearly go to jail.
Then their trek truly becomes an odyssey as they encounter cannibals, witches, gods, and sirens on the way home. Then they must fight the leader of the Intergalactic Justice Force who threatens to take down everything the pirates of Lesbos-1 hold dear: freedom and love. I worked on this comic from 2006-2013. It ran for 18 issues. Unfortunately, I sold it to Platinum Studios in 2006. For now, in true pirate fashion, there are torrents floating around the web on places like Pirate Bay. Read my other comics: Ten gemstones that are rarer than diamond. 30 Motivational Self Improvement Quotes. Everyone of us wants to be perfect, everyone of us wants to be loved, everyone of us wants to be famous, everyone of us wants to have a good and satisfied life. Follow these few simple tips for life, get inspiration, be motivated to set your tracks and be a good human being and improve yourself.
Here are 30 Motivational Quotes for all who wants to be a good human being. Hope you like them and get an inspiration. Follow your heart, be yourself and yes you can do it. [Image Source: Random on Internet] Simply What It Is: If you love me, I'll make you a star in my universe. Un día nostálgico te puede saludar con muchos recuerdos y esperanzas... Amanecí pensando en habitaciones vacías y momentos inevitables, impredecibles y sin ninguna certeza de que pasen. Intente recordar que muchas cosas pueden no salir como esperas, pero el verdadero sentido de la vida es bueno. Algo bueno traerá. La mayor parte de las personas siempre buscan encajar y cambiar para vivir de una manera mas cómoda, y a veces resulta que ese es el camino mas fácil. Hoy te quiero decir que no tienes por que cambiar si eres feliz en tu mundo. Siempre habrá personas que encajen contigo que se queden contigo en tu memoria, en tu vida.
Pensar que eres un instante en el mundo y con un instante puedes cambiarlo. Perder y ganar batallas es el factor comun en todas las vidas y no te tienes que dejar entristecer por ellas. Pd. hermoso disco por cierto. Ever Dream This Man? In January 2006 in New York, the patient of a well-known psychiatrist draws the face of a man that has been repeatedly appearing in her dreams.
In more than one occasion that man has given her advice on her private life. The woman swears she has never met the man in her life. That portrait lies forgotten on the psychiatrist's desk for a few days until one day another patient recognizes that face and says that the man has often visited him in his dreams. He also claims he has never seen that man in his waking life.
The psychiatrist decides to send the portrait to some of his colleagues that have patients with recurrent dreams. Within a few months, four patients recognize the man as a frequent presence in their own dreams. All the patients refer to him as THIS MAN. At the moment there is no ascertained relation or common trait among the people that have dreamed of seeing this man. Book reviews. CPP - Musee des Beaux Arts - W.H. Auden. Grabación multipista. Grabador multipista analógico Tascam 85 16B de 16 pistas de audio. La es un método de grabación de sonido que permite registrar múltiples fuentes sonoras por separado para luego unirlas y formar un todo. Es la forma más común de grabar música en la actualidad. En los años 2000 , el software de grabación multipista se volvió muy popular. Aunque existe un precedente con una grabación del año 1941, la persona a quien se acredita como inventor de la grabación multipista fue el guitarrista, compositor e inventor estadounidense Les Paul , quien hizo aportes en el diseño de la guitarra eléctrica modelo Gibson Les Paul para la empresa Gibson Guitar Corporation al inicio de los años 1950.
En 1948, un amigo del músico, el cantante y actor Bing Crosby le regaló una de las primeras unidades de producción del Magnetófono de carrete abierto Ampex Modelo 200. Algunos países se retrasaron notablemente en la instalación de grabadores multipista en sus estudios. Grabador multipista digital Alesis HD24. Humbucker. "Open Coil" (uncovered) humbucker pickup Hum is caused by the alternating magnetic fields created by transformers and power supplies inside electrical equipment using alternating current. While playing a guitar without humbuckers, a musician would hear a hum through his pickups during quiet sections of music.
Sources of studio and stage hum include high-power amps, processors, mixers, motors, power lines, and other equipment. Compared to unshielded single coil pickups, humbuckers dramatically reduce hum. History[edit] The "humbucking coil" was invented in 1934 by Electro-Voice, an American professional audio company based in South Bend, Indiana that Al Kahn and Lou Burroughs incorporated in 1930 for the purpose of manufacturing portable public address equipment, including microphones and loudspeakers.[1] In 1938 A.F. To overcome the hum problem for guitars, the humbucking pickup was invented by Seth Lover of Gibson under instruction of then President Ted McCarty. How humbuckers work[edit] The Charterhouse of Parma. The Charterhouse of Parma (French: La Chartreuse de Parme) is a novel published in 1839 by Stendhal.[1] Plot summary[edit] The Charterhouse of Parma chronicles the adventures of the young Italian nobleman Fabrice del Dongo from his birth in 1798 to his death.
Fabrice spends his early years in his family’s castle on Lake Como, while most of the rest of the novel is set in a fictionalized Parma (both locations are in modern-day Italy). The book begins with the French army sweeping into Milan and stirring up the sleepy region of Lombardy, which was allied with Austria. Fabrice grows up surrounded by intrigues and alliances for and against the French—his father the Marchese comically fancies himself a spy for the Viennese. The novel's early section describes Fabrice's rather quixotic effort to join Napoleon when the latter returns to France in March 1815 (the Hundred Days). Fabrice at seventeen is idealistic, rather naive, and speaks poor French. Literary significance[edit] Criticism[edit] Amélie Nothomb: “Estamos vivos gracias a la risa” Nueva novela de la escritora belga-japonesa residente en París. La número 18 en 19 años (empezó a publicar en 1992), se titula Una forma de vida (Anagrama y Empúries), es la primera que tiene forma epistolar y se lee de un tirón entre sonrisas, asombros y tristezas.
Un soldado americano llamado Melvin Mapple y destinado en Irak ha leído todos los libros de una autora famosa, llamada Amélie Nothomb, y empieza a cruzarse cartas con ella. El epistolario arranca animoso pero poco a poco se va enredando hasta convertirse en una trampa para osos y atrapar como una droga letal a los dos redactores, narradores y protagonistas. La fama, la apariencia, el body-art y la identidad, la soledad de los monstruos, la verdad y las mentiras y la necia ligereza contemporánea desfilan ante el lector a toda pastilla, y todo el tiempo se le hace difícil saber si está en un mundo de ficción o en la realidad. La cita para la entrevista es en su editorial francesa, Albin Michel, en el barrio de Montparnasse. The Traveler IQ Challenge® Cleaning File.
5 Ways To Hack Your Brain Into Awesomeness. Much of the brain is still mysterious to modern science, possibly because modern science itself is using brains to analyze it. There are probably secrets the brain simply doesn't want us to know. But by no means should that stop us from tinkering around in there, using somewhat questionable and possibly dangerous techniques to make our brains do what we want. We can't vouch for any of these, either their effectiveness or safety. All we can say is that they sound awesome, since apparently you can make your brain... #5. So you just picked up the night shift at your local McDonald's, you have class every morning at 8am and you have no idea how you're going to make it through the day without looking like a guy straight out of Dawn of the Dead, minus the blood... hopefully.
"SLEEEEEEEEEP... uh... What if we told you there was a way to sleep for little more than two hours a day, and still feel more refreshed than taking a 12-hour siesta on a bed made entirely out of baby kitten fur? Holy Shit! List of common misconceptions. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Each entry on this list of common misconceptions is worded as a correction; the misconceptions themselves are implied rather than stated. These entries are concise summaries; the main subject articles can be consulted for more detail. A common misconception is a viewpoint or factoid that is often accepted as true but which is actually false. They generally arise from conventional wisdom (such as old wives' tales), stereotypes, superstitions, fallacies, a misunderstanding of science, or the popularization of pseudoscience. Some common misconceptions are also considered to be urban legends, and they are sometimes involved in moral panics. Arts and culture[edit] Business[edit] Federal legal tender laws in the United States do not require that private businesses, persons, or organizations accept cash for payment, though it must be treated as valid payment for debts when tendered to a creditor.[1] Food and cooking[edit] Food and drink history[edit] Music[edit]