15 Years of Essay-Blogs About Contemporary Art & Digital Photography: In-Depth Articles from 1997-2012 By Rick Doble Rick Doble is the author of 3 books on digital photography and a photography expert for the PIXIQ website with over 100,000 reads of his blogs. In this ebook he has collected 43 of his short, easy to read, essay-blogs written during the last 15 years. These articles explore the artistic potential of digital photography from the earliest days to today. Illustrated with more t...

Living My Life As an Artist, an Autobiography: True Stories of Art, Love, Family & the Creative Process Told in Poetic Form By Rick Doble Lifelong stories about finding an art form, romance, struggles, friendships, failure, success, discovery, inspiration, courage, adventure, peak experiences and personal growth, from the age of 6 to 66. The stories cover high school, learning, college, divorce, travel, hitchhiking, writing, photography, painting, music, theater, film, book authoring and m...

The 2nd Edition of Deconstructing Time - essay-blogs about the human experience of time. We are immersed in time. We take time as a fact of life and think very little about its workings, yet we are at its mercy. In a sense time is all you have: on your gravestone will be your name and the date you were born and the date you died. What could we gain by obtaining a perspective, by standing a bit outside of time? Although the clock will still continue to tick, your relation to time will be ch...

Few artists have documented their creative journey from their earliest efforts to their current work. In this eBook Rick Doble shows how his work evolved from his first black & white film photos to the experimental digital photographs that he exhibits worldwide today. Covering 40 years and containing over 100 photographs and also a condensed but complete autobiography, he shows how one artist's thoughts, vision and imagery developed over time. A useful eBook for inspiring artists and also ...

Deconstructing Time is an eBook about the human experience of time. This 3rd Edition is almost twice the size of the 2nd Edition and is organized into sections. With over 500 pages, 60+ articles and 400+ photographs and diagrams, this book covers the human experience of time starting with human biolology through the Paleolithic time period to our modern concept of time and how as individuals to manage our personal time. This fully illustrated work is the result of almost five years of inde...

These popular monologues for both men and women are free for students, schools and non-profits. One reviewer wrote: "Dramatic monologues that have contemporary spunk." Author Rick Doble received over a hundred emails from teens and professional actors who were excited to perform his work. Ghost Story, a one act play, has been performed around the world for the last ten years. Prometheus in Chains is a new one act play that combines Greek drama and myth with rock and roll which should both ...

In this third book of the "Sea of Destiny" series, Breeze decides to jump ship before the new owner of “M/Y Night Crossing” shows up in her rodeo attire and cowboy boots. She travels the Bahamas and the Caribbean and back to Beaufort, her home port, all the while sailing, and cooking for charter guests and crew, and absorbing the local color.

This story is about our near death experience in New York City. We had just visited our son in Denver and were on the way home. If certain travel plans had not been changed, we would not be survivors of 9-11-2001.

The bestselling investigation into NASA, hidden space history, and the evidence for extraterrestrial structures on the Moon and Mars. Dark Mission by Richard C. Hoagland and Mike Bara is a bestselling exploration of alternative space history, NASA controversies, and the enduring debate over anomalous structures photographed on the Moon and Mars. Blending archival research, mission analysis, and speculative interpretation, the authors examine decades of space-program imagery and data to arg...

Chris Eaton, a Biography is a novel that arises from the idea that we have all been driven, at some point, to Google ourselves. And if you did, what did you find? That there are people out there who seem to have something in common with you? Dates, places, interests? How coincidental are these connections? And what are the factors that define a human life? We are the sum of our stories: Anecdotal constructs. We remember moments in our pasts the way we remember television episodes....

Winner of the Man Booker International Prize"You read Lydia Davis to watch a writer patiently divide the space between epiphany and actual human beings by first halves, then quarters, then eighths, and then sixteenths, into infinity," says The Village Voice. Indeed, Lydia Davis is mathematician, philosopher, sculptor, jeweler, and scholar of the minute. Few writers map the process of thought as well as she, few perceive with such charged intelligence.T...

Selected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin YoungThe poems in Adrian Matejka's second collection, Mixology, shapeshift through the myriad meanings of "mixing" to explore and explode ideas of race, skin politics, appropriation, and cultural identity. Whether the focus of the individual poems is musical, digital, or historical, the otherness implicit in being of more than one racial background guides Matejka's work to the inevitable conclusion that...