Izastikup

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unique kind of thing

as far as i've seen, this is the definitive book on this subject.

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Izastikup
Ackbar Abbas , Lolo Abalos , Inaki balos , and Eduardo Abaroa
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IZASTIKUP!!! More than 1000 stickers are presented in this international collection of street sticker art. Featuring the works of 800 of the world's best known street-style artists--from the United States, Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and South America--this book depicts the art movement that started in the underground, and is now being recognized in galleries and museums as high art. Izastikup is a rare collection of stickers as small works of art: hand made, hand painted and cut, glossy, and matte, simple and elaborate. Each page is presented graphically, in genuine sticker style, as art collages. Celebrating a diversity of styles, and methods, colors, logos, characters, comics, stencils, drawings, and the highest quality graphic design, Izastikup shows, in its unique sketchbook format, the best of globalization, and the collective imagination of diverse cultures, religions, symbols, and techniques. In addition to the author's private sticker collections, which is shown here, this book also features the hundreds of responses to an international web-based call for sticker art, as well as a few rare stickers from private collections. And, best of all, in addition to actual peel-out stickers, empty sticker-ready pages at the end of the book are a personal invitation to readers to be creative and leave their mark on the world. Or at least on a wall somewhere.

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best of the best.......2006-03-03

Izastikup is a very good book with lots of stickers from talented artists around the world. anyone who respects stickers or the aspect of Graffiti, will find this book a classic.

unique kind of thing.......2006-02-23

yo, these guys microbo and Bo130- creaters of this book have made a very unique and challenging decision to collect all that great stuff from the world and put it down in very simple way that even we- non stickers can check what is going on.
great typographies, great archetypes of faces.

as far as i've seen, this is the definitive book on this subject........2006-02-21

if you want to look at stickers, and not read about the history of them, that is. and that's the "graffiti" end of the stickering spectrum, not the "fuzzy unicorns in your sticker album" end. while there a couple pages written in the beginning, this book is all about looking at street art stickers collected from the world over. it's layed out like these guys just arranged the stickers on a scanner and took those scans, leaving them untouched, and bound em into a book. which is the way to go. in some cases, similar colors are grouped together, but other than that, it's pretty slap-dash, as stickering tends to be.
the types of sticker vary greatly. mass-produced, one-offs, by hand, multi-color, single-color, stencilled, they're all here. you'll see things you recognize, and tons of art you don't, and you'll be astounded by the quality of all of it.
200 pages (even some blank ones for your own stix in the back!), full color, hardcover. the best of every possible world. and it even come shrink wrapped, so it's all nice and crispy when ya crack it open. for the money, you can't go wrong if you're a sticker nerd.
as of now, there are no images of the inside of this book posted by the publisher, but i wil try to post a few myself, so check to see the pics. the inside of this book is it's biggest selling point.

Great Book.......2006-02-02

Except for some spelling problems that no one would truly care about, this book is great. Full of interesting, inspirational, and some explicit/controversial art. Totally recomended.

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The richly illustrated story of four combat photographers who died in a fiery helicopter over Laos in 1971--and the search, twenty-seven years later, for the crash site.

In 1971, as American forces hastened their withdrawal from Vietnam, a helicopter was hit by enemy fire over Laos and exploded in a fireball, killing four top combat photographers, Larry Burrows of Life magazine, Henri Huet of Associated Press, Kent Potter of United Press International, and Keisaburo Shimamoto of Newsweek. The Saigon press corps and the American public were stunned, but the remoteness of the location made a recovery attempt impossible. When the war ended four years later in a communist victory, the war zone was sealed off to outsiders, and the helicopter incident faded from most memories. Yet two journalists from the Vietnam press corps--Richard Pyle, former Saigon Bureau Chief, and Horst Faas, Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer in Vietnam--pledged to return some day to Laos, resolve mysteries about the crash, and pay homage to their lost friends. True to their vow, twenty-seven years after the incident the authors joined a U.S. team excavating the hillside where the helicopter crashed. Few human remains were found, but camera parts and bits of film provided eerie proof of what happened there.

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Not Captivating.......2005-10-18

Before picking up this book I had just finished Requiem by Horst Faas and Tim Page, The Best and the Brightest by David Halberstam, A Bright Shining Lie by Neil Sheehan (all of which I loved), A Rumor of War by Philip Caputo, and Street Without Joy by Bernard Fall. I have to say that Richard Pyle is not in the same league (except maybe with Caputo). A dramatic, tragic story, but it just wasn't captivating in Pyle's hands. Also, he seemed to be stretching to create a book out of this story. Would have been better as an article in Atlantic Monthly rather than a complete book.

Lost Over Loas: A True Story of Tragedy, Mystery, and Friend.......2004-12-08

I throughly enjoyed this book. I love history and this book gave a good insight into the press of Saigon including their risks and misfortunes. I enjoyed reading about the relationships developed at a personal level between the press core and the military. I would highly recommend this book.

Explores and explains the psyche of the war photojournalist.......2003-08-08

For those of us born too late to be part of the generation that was, in the words of Richard Pyle, "educated, molded, and aged by the Vietnam experience," our second-hand knowledge of this war has been limited largely to the negative: the horrors of the battlefield, the mental anguish of the young soldiers being asked to sacrifice their lives for goals that were far from clear, and the deeply divisive debates over the agony of continued warfare vs. the humiliation of abandoning the cause. Yet this book is about journalists who VOLUNTEERED to go into the jungle. What would make an otherwise sane person want to do this? As Pyle explores the lives and deaths of the four killed photojournalists, various answers to this question surface, making the journalist's motives comprehensible even to outsiders such as myself--the lure of the exotic setting, the sense of regret that one might have felt if excluded from the most important event of the decade, and the sense of obligation to "compel the world to see Vietnam," to see it "through a camera lens that illuminated, explained, told truths of what the war looked like and how it felt to be there." As for coping with the drawbacks of death and dismemberment, there was always denial. As Richard writes: "It was part of the war correspondent psyche to recognize the possibility of the worst, but to worry or even think much about that was to invite oneself to look for work in another field"; and "there was a sense among members of the Saigon media that journalists who reached celebrity status through repeated stellar performance could become exempt from ordinary danger, passing into a realm of immunity where the worst simply could not happen to them--as if North Vietnamese gunners tracking a helicopter would receive a last-second order: 'Don't shoot. That's Larry Burrows up there.'"

As summarized in the reviews of others, the primary focus of this book is on (1) the lives of Larry Burrows, Henri Huet, Kent Potter, and Keisaburo Shimamoto; and (2) the difficult search for the details of a crash that took place behind enemy lines (details which, for almost thirty years, were limited to little more than "helicopter shot down over the Ho Chi Minh Trail, apparently killing all aboard"). Yet it's the tangent themes that I found the most affecting, perhaps none more than Pyle's search for meaning in the tragic loss of his colleagues and friends. These four civilian photographers went to Vietnam to share the images of war with the rest of the world, and it seems to double the tragedy "that the only monument to their commitment, their skill, and their courage should be a few bone shards and bits of metal, left out in the rain on a nameless, forgotten hillside." Five stars.

An excellent, evocative book.......2003-04-15

This book describes the world of photojournalists in the Vietnam work and focuses on the death of four photojournalists in a battle over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Laos during a the US government's semi-covert war against the North Vietnamese in that country (the pilots of their aircraft were South Vietnamese and their death occurred during a South Vietnamese attack against NVA supply lines). The book also describes the effort to find their remains and the authors' attempt to give meaning to their loss. The photojournalists who died included two of the most celebrated of the war and two younger men of great skill. In a relatively short text, the book manages to tell their stories and the story of Vietnam War photojournalism in a manner that is reverent without being professionally aggrandizing. By coincidence, I visited the village where the search for remains took place a few months before the authors and their time in that place was particularly evocative for me. The authors offer a perspective on the war that is complex and, in some ways, more hawkish than other first-hand retrospective war accounts, although too skeptical to really fit the conceptualizations of hawk and dove that characterized the times. Given the many parallels that some have drawn between Vietnam and our own era, this is a book that thoughtful critics and partisans of the Iraqi conflict should read. My only complaint is that book does not include enough of the award winning pictures of Larry Burrows and his fallen colleagues.

Especially recommended reading for students of journalism.......2003-04-08

Collaboratively written by foreign correspondent Richard Pyle and Associated Press photographer and photo editor Horst Faas, Lost Over Laos: A True Story Of Tragedy, Mystery, And Friendship is an historical and memorial testimony showcasing four combat photographers who died in Indochina: Larry Burrows of "Life" magazine; Henri Huet of the Associated Press; Kent Potter of United Press International; and Keisaburo Shimamoto of "Newsweek". Twenty seven years later, a recovery team was able to visit the site of the helicopter crash that took the lives of these remarkable men, recover evidence, and bring closure to the tragedy. Lost Over Laos is a powerful and poignant narration, and especially recommended reading for students of journalism.

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Fred Notehelfer of the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies says.......2006-06-01

"Nimura is by all measures a leading figure in the field of Japanese labor history. And he has much to tell us about how labor in Japan was transformed in the Meiji period from traditional structures to a newer and more 'modern' system."

I would just add to this that Nimura succeeds in doing something like what E.P. Thompson did in his study of English bread riots - explaining a particular labor conflict in a way that shows its broader significance. I found this case interesting for the light it cast the relationships of labor and capital in the formative decades of industrial Japan. Some of the book is engaged in a guild conversation among historians of Japan, but as a generalist interested in labor and global capitalism, there was plenty to keep me reading as well. Nimura's discussion of "migrant labor" in industrializing Japan was particularly fascinating.

The Ashio Riot of 1907: A Social History of Mining in Japan.

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Ron Naveen loves penguins more than anything. He has spent season after season studying chinstrap, gentoo, and Adélie penguins in their icy home ranges. Sixteen years huddled at penguin-eye level, avoiding guano blasts, vicious pecks to his groin, and falling to his death off slippery rocks--not to mention exposure. Yet this man feels happier among his beloved penguins than in the temperate north, the nominal home of his own species. He writes:

To starboard, I pass an undulating line of chinstraps descending to the beach. The moment tingles, weirdly. I think of all the time I've spent doing something other than chinstraps. How could I have waited so long?

Waiting to Fly is a meditative, sweeping look at these misunderstood birds and their flightless, elegant lives. Naveen has terrific field biology tales, and he tells them with grace, making you understand how he might want to freeze his own tail feathers communing with short, goofy, tuxedo-wearing avians. We can learn from the penguins, he says, lessons about health, priorities, and a good work ethic. They may actually have mastered the art of life better than humans. --Therese Littleton

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A tour de force of nature writing, Ron Naveen's Waiting to Fly captures the spirit of the gentle and charming creatures called penguins while also beautifully rendering the frozen, windswept landscapes through his magical prose.In Waiting to Fly, Naveen weaves together the stories of his own experiences as a field scientist with the adventures of earlier explorers who have studied these fascinating flightless birds. He recounts tales of daring voyages in the Antarctic's dangerous seas and of the men who had to survive for months in this treacherous terrain. These stories of humans struggling to overcome the elements are paralleled with the lives of the very humanlike penguins. Naveen fell in love with penguins sixteen years ago, and ever since they have held a strong place in his mind--whether he is counting their numbers on the icy shores of the seventh continent or studying their behavior as they go through their hectic and productive lives. We see that their natural and healthy lives, unfettered by the clamor and clutter of our workaholic existence, can teach us much about ourselves. Penguins don't spend time reasoning, planning, pondering, or worrying. They're very, very busy, with lots of work to do and little time to do it. The penguins in this delightful and informative book emerge as distinctly resourceful and beguiling personalities.

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Adélies, And Chinstraps, And Gentoos, Oh My!.......2007-06-10

Ron Naveen has an amazing amount of experience working with brushtail penguins (adélie, gentoo, and chinstrap) in Antarctica, and this book is his account of his years of work there. Like Naveen, I am a biologist by education (though I am a mammalogist, not an ornithologist), and have a deep appreciation for fieldwork with these magnificent animals. Naveen is definitely an expert in his field, and I recommend this book to anyone serious about understand penguin habitation, reproduction, and lifestyle, but not as much to the casual reader, who may find it a bit detail-oriented.

The book largely follows one season's worth of research with highlights from other experiences intermingled within the various chapters. The book is quite detailed, to the degree, for instance, that he analyzes what penguins are eating by the color of their guano. In fact penguin guano is a key element of this book, and something of a recurring theme. This brings me to my major issue with the book. While the information is generally excellent and is certainly authoritative, I wavered on a three versus four star review because of the repetition and sometimes muddled organization in the book. Much of the subject matter is repeatedly reinforced to the point of monotony (the guano discussions are excellent examples). In a book on algebra, for instance, repetition is important for learning and retention of complex new ideas, while it is probably unnecessary to repeatedly cover how penguin guano smells. (We get it.)

Having said that, the book does reveal a lot about the lives of these fascinating birds, and I am glad that I read it. I decided on a four star review because of the occasionally sublime passages in the book, my favorite of which involves a gentoo chick in the Aitcho Islands hopping in Naveen's lap for a prolonged rest. While the book does have some drawbacks, on balance I think it's a worthwhile read, especially for people interested in penguins or Antarctica.

First rate book on penguins and Antarctica .......2006-04-14

_Waiting to Fly_ by Ron Naveen is an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and well-written account of the author's years of field experience with the penguins of Antarctica, mostly as a researcher but also before that as an expert guide leading tourists on expeditions to view the seventh continent's wildlife.

Naveen's research and interests as described in the book focused on finding all breeding sites and determining population numbers of three species of penguin found on the Antarctic Peninsula and its many adjacent islands (which he called a "banana belt" compared to the much sparser wildlife and brutal climate of the rest of the continent). All three species were related and referred to as brushtailed penguins, which include the species known as gentoos (third largest of all penguin species, ranging up to 35 inches and between 10-19 pounds, noted for bearing white patches on their heads and a bright, red-orange bill), chinstraps (so named because of the characteristic thin black line that bisects their white faces), and Adelies (which he said look the most like little tuxedoed animals, with a prominent white eye ring set against an all-black head and a sharp contrast between the white of the belly and breast and the black of the head and back).

The author vividly described his adventures studying the penguins, of switching from ship to ship to reach the various breeding sites, making transfers at sea, "ship-hopping" as he put it, trying to avoid long layovers at research stations, back-tracking, or worse, being stranded. The risk of a "busted schedule" very real, his tight timetables could be derailed by the unpredictable weather and ice of the region.

Of course getting to the sites was only half the battle, as Naveen and his colleagues had to deal with difficult conditions when performing their censuses. Some islands for instance were difficult to land on due to weather conditions and/or shore topography. At other times Naveen only had hours, even in some cases barely and hour and a half to complete his work, as he had to leave early because the ship (or in some cases the aircraft) had to press on or weather and sea ice conditions cut his time short.

The penguins themselves did not come up short in producing challenges either. The sounds of many thousands, tens of thousands, or in some rare sites, nearly a million penguins erupting in ecstatic display could be deafening. The smell of tens of thousands of breeding penguins could be overpowering, the smell sometimes detectable for miles. In late summer, when the snow had melted, water, guano, and mud could mix together and produce a pungent and "indescribable cauldron of muck."

Naveen also described the difficulties of counting such large numbers, counting sometimes by "fistfuls" (figuring out about how many nests fell within a closed fist, stretched at length in front of his eyes) and "fingerfuls" (approximating penguin numbers that fit in a finger-length, stretched and extended).

Naveen also participated in studies at sites that did detailed analyses of particular penguin populations, measuring them, weighing them, analyzing the stomach contents of select birds (a messy and delicate procedure), and banding birds so that they could be tracked year after year.

I really enjoyed the author's detailed depictions of the three different species. Though often two and sometimes all three species will nest in the same area, each species differs enough that they seem to successfully cohabitate. While gentoos were often nonmigratory, Adelies and chinstraps were migratory and additionally arrived at nesting sites weeks apart from one another. Each species differed also in their degree of nest site and mate fidelity, as well as the type of terrain they favored, not only for nesting but hunting as well, as each species hunted at different depths (with gentoos diving the deepest, up to 500 feet beneath the surface), staying underwater for different periods of time, favoring different ice conditions (chinstraps did well with minimal sea ice, while Adelies did better with much more sea ice), eating different percentages of fish and krill, and staggering peak demands for food with their chicks fledging at different times.

The three species also differed a lot in personality and temperament, Naveen's descriptions making for enchanting reading. Chinstraps for instance are very boisterous, assertive, quarrelsome, and above all loud (early explorers called them "stonecrackers" due to their ear-splitting voices, the loudest of all penguins). Naveen described being surrounded by a "howling potpourri, all seemingly unglued," each penguin trying to out-shout its neighbor. Gentoos in contrast were much calmer, easy-going, more playful, and a great deal less irritable than chinstraps.

Naveen also covered a fair amount of penguin history, covering in great detail the experiences of two notable early researchers, Thomas Wyatt Bagshawe and Maxime Charles Lester, who spent over a year in the early 1920s on a tiny island studying penguins, as well as the history of the knowledge of and study of these penguins. The Adelie penguin was named for the wife of the French Antarctic explorer Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont d'Urville, while gentoo might derive from an anglicized version of the Portuguese "gentio" ("gentile"), a name used by Muslims in India to describe Hindus (also the Hindi word "jantu" means "creature" or "insect").

So what did Naveen learn? Though the three species are hardly endangered, populations of all three are declining. Though the Adelie are in part declining from a reduction in their favored pack-ice feeding grounds, all three species are declining due to declining krill populations because of a reduction in sea ice. Krill use winter sea ice as nurseries, safe havens where the larvae can feed on algal blooms, safe from penguins, seals, and whales. Additionally, excess UV-B radiation through a diminished ozone layer may be depressing phytoplankton stocks - krill food - by as much as 20%.

A wonderful book that is both great nature writing and travel writing and has great color photographs, my only complaint was the lack of maps.

A must for serious penguin lovers!.......2001-01-17

From the first page, Naveen's love of the three brush tailed species of penguins comes through. Follow his account of years of working with chinstrap, adalaide and gentoo penguins in the Antarctic peninsula. Learn details about their habits and habitats as you read his entertaining account of his work. For the person who wants to know more than superficial penguin books tell you.

ALL THERE IS TO KNOW ABOUT PENGUINS.......1999-12-26

THERE IS SOOOOOO MUCH HERE - THE HISTORY OF PENGUIN RESEARCH IN THE ANTARCTIC PENINSULA, TALES OF THE LIVES OF THESE FUZZY ANIMALS, AND A MEATPHYSICAL GLIMPSE AS TO WHY PENGUINS AFFECT US SO HAPPILY, SO POSITIVELY. NAVEEN'S STORIES ARE TOTALLY ENGAGING, WEAVING IN MYRIAD FACTS AND DETAILS ABOUT CHINSTRAP, ADELIE, AND GENTOO PENGUINS, BUT NOT TO THE POINT THAT THE READER IS OVERWHELMED. ONE IS TAKEN SOUTH, FAR SOUTH, TO WHERE PENGUINS GRAB YOU AND NEVER LET GO. LOTS OF FUN READING - AND A MUST FOR ANY ANIMAL LOVER.

Wonderful read from a world-class naturalist!.......1999-08-04

I loved this book. It is beautifully written with an underlining message of environmental stewardship. The antics and bustle of penguin behavior are combined with historical snippets from the southern continent. This engaging account is told from the first hand perspective of a wonderful naturalist, Ron Naveen.

Waiting to Fly - My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica

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Waiting to Fly - My Escapades with the Penguins of Antarctica
Ron Naveen
Manufacturer: New York: William Morrow and Company Inc. 1999
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000NXMO58

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