Used Books

Disguise Techniques

2011-01-04T22:51:00.001-08:00

Personality Projection in the Drawing of the Human Figure

2010-11-29T21:44:00.000-08:00

Memoirs of the Devil

2010-11-29T21:41:00.001-08:00

The Human Face

2010-11-29T21:39:00.001-08:00

Luis Bunuel

2010-11-29T21:34:00.000-08:00

The New York School

2009-12-27T23:27:00.001-08:00

Embalming Treatments

2009-08-23T19:45:00.001-07:00

Chapter XLVII

DECAPITATED BODIES

"If the neck has not been destroyed the work is much easier. Secure three sticks ( a broom handle will do nicely) of one-foot lengths. Sharpen both ends and set two in the back portion of the trunk and one in front. The sticks should protrude about four inches from the torso. Set the head securely into position upon the sharpened ends of the sticks. This work can be done best if the body is placed in an upright position; as that will permit the operator to work from all sides. DE-CE-CO Hardening Compound should be applied liberally at the point where the flesh is joined, to prevent further leakage. Suture the flesh together with "Kant-strand or some heavy cord, making allowances for any missing portions...."
pp. 153-154

Nancy & Sluggo

2009-08-23T19:36:00.001-07:00

Men of Tomorrow

2009-08-23T19:29:00.001-07:00

Marvel Comics, identity, and consumer culture:

"Lee, Kirby, and Ditko dramatized what had been implicit in superheroes: the glory and torture of being unique, the divisions in modern identity, the ambivalence about the body that arises in an economy that makes physical labor less important as it makes body consciousness more so, the constant tension between self-indulgence and self restraint demanded by consumer culture."
p. 302

You & Your Telephone

2009-08-23T19:28:00.001-07:00

The Modern Fantastic: The Films of David Cronenberg

2009-08-23T19:24:00.000-07:00

Seminar, August 1950

2008-12-12T20:53:00.001-08:00

How To See (U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare)

2008-12-12T20:51:00.000-08:00

Small-Scale Sausage Production

2008-12-12T20:50:00.001-08:00

Human Robots in Myth and Science

2008-12-12T20:49:00.001-08:00

Funnyworld No. 13

2008-12-12T20:47:00.001-08:00

Funnyworld No. 16

2008-12-12T20:44:00.000-08:00

Undersea Vehicles for Oceanography

2008-11-23T08:11:00.000-08:00

Environmental Communications

2008-06-15T22:04:00.000-07:00

Planet of the Apes

2008-06-15T22:03:00.000-07:00

Beneath the Planet of the Apes

2008-06-15T22:02:00.000-07:00

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

2008-06-15T22:00:00.000-07:00

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

2008-06-15T21:59:00.000-07:00

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

2008-06-15T21:56:00.000-07:00

Clockwork Orange

2008-06-15T21:49:00.000-07:00

Franju

2008-03-20T22:23:00.001-07:00

Men, Women, and Chainsaws

2008-03-20T22:22:00.001-07:00

Black Sun

2008-03-20T22:20:00.000-07:00

Dark Carnival

2008-03-20T22:19:00.000-07:00

Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature

2008-03-20T22:18:00.001-07:00

Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious

2008-03-20T22:15:00.000-07:00

Downward To The Earth

2008-03-02T22:20:00.001-08:00

New Dimensions IV

2008-03-02T22:19:00.001-08:00

The Masks Of Time

2008-03-02T22:18:00.000-08:00

To Live Again

2008-03-02T22:17:00.001-08:00

The Fantastic

2008-03-02T22:16:00.002-08:00

The Worlds of Clifford Simak

2008-03-02T22:16:00.001-08:00

Les larmes d'Eros

2008-03-02T22:14:00.000-08:00

Psychic Surgery

2008-03-02T22:12:00.001-08:00

Biohazard

2008-03-02T22:11:00.001-08:00

Tokyo: A Certain Style

2008-03-02T22:05:00.000-08:00

Tokion Magazine / Richard Prince

2008-02-25T08:28:00.000-08:00

Richard Prince interviewed by John McWinnie
Tokion Magazine -The High/ Low Issue # 47 Mar/ Apr 2005 :

JW: By now everybody knows that you were working for Time Life in 1977 when you started re-photographing magazine ads, but few people know that you started collecting literary first editions at the same time. What was your first big purchase, and why do you collect books?

RP: My first big purchase was a signed limited edition of Larry McMurtry's Essays In A Narrow Grave. I paid $40 for it, and it was all the money I had in the world. I love collecting books. I think it's just another way of talking to people. Another way of saying 'this is it.' It makes me feel good.

The Ludwig Drum Method

2007-12-28T22:59:00.001-08:00

Seahorses

2007-12-28T22:58:00.000-08:00

Toothpick Sculpture & Ice-Cream Stick Art

2007-12-28T22:55:00.000-08:00

Umesh Yoga Darshan Part One

2007-12-28T22:54:00.001-08:00

Violence and the Brain

2007-12-28T22:52:00.001-08:00

Crazy Man

2007-12-11T21:43:00.001-08:00

Son of a Preacher Man

2007-12-11T21:41:00.000-08:00

Our Friends From Frolix 8

2007-11-23T22:19:00.001-08:00

Moebius 4 - The Long Tomorrow

2007-11-23T22:17:00.000-08:00

Blade Runner - A Marvel Super Special

2007-11-23T22:11:00.000-08:00

Plop! #7

2007-11-12T22:53:00.001-08:00

The Eloquence of Color

2007-11-12T22:52:00.001-08:00

The Enjoyment of Color

2007-11-12T22:50:00.000-08:00

The Problem of Knowledge

2007-11-04T21:46:00.001-08:00

Existentialism

2007-11-04T21:44:00.000-08:00

Ethics

2007-11-04T21:43:00.000-08:00

Universals and Particulars

2007-11-04T21:42:00.001-08:00

The Mighty Thor # 155

2007-11-04T21:40:00.001-08:00

Nick Fury, Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D. # 4

2007-11-04T21:38:00.001-08:00

Lord of Light

2007-11-04T21:36:00.000-08:00

Nova

2007-11-04T21:35:00.001-08:00

This Is It

2007-11-04T21:34:00.001-08:00

Head Monthly

2007-10-16T22:33:00.000-07:00

Everywoman's

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Booze

2007-10-11T22:45:00.000-07:00

Why Do We Jump To Conclusions?

2007-10-11T22:44:00.000-07:00

Words And What They Do To You

2007-10-11T22:43:00.000-07:00

El Laberinto

2007-10-11T22:41:00.000-07:00

Masks

2007-10-07T16:29:00.001-07:00

Other Worlds

2007-10-07T16:27:00.000-07:00

Astounding Science Fiction

2007-10-07T16:25:00.000-07:00

Science Fiction Terror Tales

2007-10-06T22:20:00.001-07:00

Stoned Images

2007-10-06T22:18:00.000-07:00

Underground Houses

2007-10-06T22:16:00.000-07:00

Walt Disney: Triumph of the American Imagination

2007-08-02T20:37:00.001-07:00

THE "PARCOSM":

"His (Disney's) life would become an ongoing effort to devise what psychologists call a "parcosm," an invented universe, that he could control as he could not control reality. From Mickey Mouse through Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs through Disneyland through EPCOT, he kept attempting to remake the world in the image of his own imagination, to certify his place as a force in the world and keep reality from encroaching upon it, to recapture a sense of childhood power that he either had never felt or had lost long ago."
Introduction xvi

THE CREATION OF LIFE:

"The process of animation was a process of giving life, of literally taking the inanimate and making it animate. It was, at base, a hubristic process in which the animator assumed and exercised godlike control over his materials, which was why it also offered a feeling of empowerment to its viewers who sensed the control. .....Indeed the animator created his own world- an alternative reality of his imagination in which the laws of physics and logic could be suspended. Though Walt Disney could never fully articulate why he was attracted to animation, falling back instead on vague generalities, it always had these two great and unmistakable blandishments. For a young man who had chafed within the stern, moralistic, anhedonic world of his father, animation provided escape, and for someone who had always been subjugated by that father, it provided absolute control. In animation Walt Disney had a world of hos own. Walt Disney could be the power."
p. 55

THE CULT:

"Many, including Walt, had previously observed the similarity between the animator and God. At the Disney studio this similarity was manifest in the attitude of the employees toward their leader, who was spoken of in quasi-religious terms...." You just felt it if he were in the same wing of the building you were in. I know it sounds weird but you never got over that awe of him." He had an overwhelming power over people and the voice of a prophet," said animator Joe Grant. "You always had the feeling he knew what you were going to say and he seemed to know things before they happened. That sort of omnipotence held a mental control over you." "
p. 212

"By the mid -1930's the Disney studio operated like a cult, with a messianic figure inspiring a group of devoted, sometimes frenzied acolytes."
p. 212

CONTROL:

It had always been about control, about crafting a better reality than the one outside the studio, and about demonstrating that one had the capacity to do so. That was what Walt Disney provided to America - not escape, as so many analysts would surmise, but control and the vicarious empowerment that accompanied it."
p. 479

Elements of Color

2007-08-02T20:32:00.001-07:00

Hollow Earth

2007-08-02T19:12:00.000-07:00

FMR Magazine - Androids

2007-08-02T19:09:00.001-07:00

At the beginning of Diderot's Encyclopedie is this dictum: In the construction of machines, engineers should look to monsters for inspiration. But eighteenth-century engineers looked instead to man, and built automatons. Charmingly attired mechanical men and women were presented at court like visiting dignitaries or captured savages. The Musician, the Writer, and the Draughtsman of Jaquet-Droz fascinated royal and working class spectators, as did Kempelen's false automaton the Chess Player, whose machinery included a live man. Genuine or fake, these figures inaugurated an age that is now producing astonishing results: the age of artificial intelligence.
p. 78

Roland Carerra. 1985

Alien Zone

2007-08-02T13:41:00.000-07:00

Blade Runner ( the script )

2007-08-02T13:38:00.000-07:00

The New Communes

2007-07-15T20:24:00.001-07:00

One of the more colorful managerial positions at the commune is that of the "Generalized Bastard." Kathleen Griebe, a member of the community explains the requirements for this position:

His job is to be officially nasty. For example, suppose that a certain member has a habit of letting his work partner do the dirty part of the work and of skipping out on the last ten minutes of cleanup on a shared job. If this happens once or twice, his partner begins to resent it. He hates to say, "Hey, how about doing a full share of this job for a change?" In order to avoid a building-up of resentment, the complaining member goes to the Generalized Bastard. His job is to carry the complaint to the offender, which he can do in an objective way."
p. 94-95

Manson In His Own Words

2007-07-15T20:21:00.001-07:00

Divine Invasions

2007-07-15T20:20:00.001-07:00

Vulcan's Hammer

2007-07-15T20:18:00.000-07:00

Color for Profit

2007-07-01T19:23:00.001-07:00

Interaction of Color

2007-07-01T19:21:00.000-07:00

Critical Path

2007-07-01T19:20:00.001-07:00

Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings

2007-07-01T19:17:00.000-07:00

This Is Arizona

2007-07-01T19:14:00.000-07:00

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

2007-06-17T18:44:00.001-07:00

Alien Zone II

2007-06-17T18:42:00.001-07:00

Herzog on Herzog

2007-06-17T18:40:00.000-07:00

John Lautner, Architect

2007-06-17T18:39:00.001-07:00

Rancho Costa Nada

2007-06-17T18:37:00.001-07:00

Living In One Room

2007-06-07T18:33:00.001-07:00

Sculptor-designer Michael Kalil's studio measures twelve by twenty-three feet and is dominated by a three-by-fourteen-and-a-half-foot black vinyl-covered table running down the middle of the room. This table, which is strongly constructed, is used for working, eating, displaying artworks and books, and sleeping ( on a mat). Underneath is a library and storage unit. In a niche on the right is a mirror which extends the space and in effect doubles the window area. p. 16

We

2007-06-07T18:32:00.001-07:00

The Walrus Was Paul

2007-06-07T18:30:00.001-07:00

Walt Disney: Hollywood's Dark Prince

2007-06-07T18:28:00.000-07:00