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At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond
between Chris Stein and Debbie Harry carried Blondie through their
many tribulations: terribly misogynistic music scenes, greasy
record execs, bitter band mates, gruelling schedules, and hard drug
abuse abound, and Chris lays it all bare with blunt sincerity and
humour. Ultimately, Chris and Debbie broke up, but their bond never
dissipated; they remain closest of friends, and continue to tour
and promote their various projects together to this day.
At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond
between Chris Stein and Debbie Harry carried Blondie through their
many tribulations: terribly misogynistic music scenes, greasy
record execs, bitter band mates, gruelling schedules, and hard drug
abuse abound, and Chris lays it all bare with blunt sincerity and
humour. Ultimately, Chris and Debbie broke up, but their bond never
dissipated; they remain closest of friends, and continue to tour
and promote their various projects together to this day.
A beautiful coffee table art book chronicling the extraordinary
collaboration between Debbie Harry and H.R. Giger for Harry's 1981
solo album KooKoo. When the visual artist H.R. Giger, best known
for his biomechanical creature and set design for seminal 1979
sci-fi-horror film Alien, encountered Debbie Harry, the punk icon
and lead singer of globally successful New Wave band Blondie, the
results were sublime. The artwork for Harry's 1981 debut solo
KooKoo album cover was deemed so frightening it was originally
banned on the London Underground. The fantastical videos for two of
the tracks on the album, 'Backfired' and 'Now I Know you Know,'
featured Giger himself piercing an Egyptian sarcophagus and a newly
brunette Harry reimagined as a xenomorphic Giger creature. With
photographs and words by Chris Stein, Harry's long-term
collaborator, artefacts and sketches from the Giger archive, and an
introduction by Debbie Harry, this is an essential
behind-the-scenes insight into the processes of an incredible
creative partnership.
WARRR2K //WORK 2014-17 showcases all of Alexander Heir's visual
work created since the release of his last book, Death Is Not the
End, in addition to a new full-color series exclusive to this
volume. Expanding upon war, police brutality, political corruption,
and death as his canon of punk subject matter, his latest work
brings sci-fi and psychedelia influences into the fold, blending
them with his impeccable design aesthetic and signature sense of
twisted playfulness. The result shows Heir making his most
sophisticated, detailed and demented work to date.
Pro Web Project Management is a collection of hard-won lessons the
authors have learned managing modern web projects with small and
medium budgets in a consulting environment. This isn't a book about
project management theory. Pro Web Project Management tells how to
create real deliverables, get answers from indecisive clients,
manage wayward programmers, and use checklists to wow clients. This
book is made up of real examples, real lessons, real documents, and
real tips woven together into a step-by-step walkthrough of a
project's life cycle. Pro Web Project Management is written for
both the full-time project manager and the aspiring project manager
who might have a role that blends client support, web development,
and project management. The project budget sweet spot for this book
is $50,000 to $500,000. If you manage a project in this space,
reading this book will make you a better project manager.* Learn
how to manage a modern web project with a budget of $50,000 to
$500,000 * Get actionable tips on dealing with real project
management challenges * Learn the simple, defined process - refined
over the years - to take simple and complex projects from proposal
to successful launch What you'll learn * How to run an effective
meeting * How to write scopes of work that lead to successful
projects * How to create awesome screen mock-ups and wire frames *
How to use checklists to ensure successful project launches * How
to create deliverables like site maps, agendas, technical
specifications, and requirements documents * How to keep developers
on track without micro-managing Who this book is for Pro Web
Project Management is for project managers, project managers in
training, and client sponsors that need real advice, tips, and
guidance on small and medium-sized projects. It's an excellent
choice for consulting organizations that build web sites and web
applications for clients.Table of Contents * The Project Lifecycle
* The Project Definition & Scope of Work * Meetings, Meetings,
Meetings * Discovery and Requirements * Project Schedule &
Budgeting * Running the Project * Technical Specification *
Development * Quality Assurance & Testing * Deployment *
Support and Operations
On the occasion of Blondie's fortieth anniversary, Chris Stein
shares his iconic and mostly unpublished photographs of Debbie
Harry and the cool creatures of the '70s and '80s New York rock
scene. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, Chris Stein
photographed the downtown New York scene of the early '70s, where
he met Deborah Harry and cofounded Blondie. Their blend of punk,
dance, and hip-hop spawned a totally new sound, and Stein's
photographs helped establish Harry as an international fashion and
music icon. In photos and stories direct from Stein, brilliant
writer of hits like "Rapture" and "Heart of Glass," this book
provides a fascinating snapshot of the period before and during
Blondie's huge rise, by someone who was part of and who helped to
shape the early punk music scene--at CBGB, Andy Warhol's Factory,
and early Bowery. Stars such as David Bowie, the Ramones, Joan
Jett, and Iggy Pop were part of Stein's world, as were fascinating
downtown characters like Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hell,
Stephen Sprouse, Anya Phillips, Divine, and many others. As
captured by one of its greatest artists and instigators, and
designed by Shepard Fairey, this book is a must-have celebration of
the new-wave and punk scene, whose influence on music and fashion
is just as relevant today as it was four decades ago.
A new collection of unseen photographs of New York City's 1970s
punk heyday, by one of the icons of the city's golden age of new
wave, Blondie's Chris Stein. A new collection of unseen photographs
of New York City's 1970s punk heyday, by one of the icons of the
city's golden age of music, Blondie's Chris Stein. For the duration
of the 1970s - from his days as a student at the School of Visual
Arts through the foundation of the era-defining band Blondie and
his subsequent reign as epicenter of punk's golden age - Chris
Stein kept an unrivaled photographic record of the downtown New
York City scene. Following in the footsteps of the successful book
Negative, this spectacular new book presents a more personal and
more visceral collection of Stein's photographs of the era. The
images presented here take readers from self-portraits in his
run-down East-Village apartment to candid photographs of
pop-cultural icons of the time and evocative shots of New York City
streetscapes in all their most longed-for romance and dereliction.
An eclectic cast of cultural characters - from William Burroughs to
Debbie Harry, Andy Warhol to Iggy Pop - appear here exactly as they
were in the day, juxtaposed with children playing hopscotch on
torn-down blocks, riding the graffiti-ridden subway, or cruising
the burgeoning clubs of the Bowery. At once a chronicle of one
music icon's life among his punk and New-Wave heroes and peers, and
a love letter to the city that was the backdrop and inspiration for
those scenes, Point of View transports us to another place and
time.
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