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The Jazz Loft Project: Photographs and Tapes of W. Eugene Smith from 821 Sixth Avenue, 1957-1965
$40.00
Product Description
In 1957, Eugene Smith, a thirty-eight-year-old magazine photographer, walked out of his comfortable settled world?his longtime well-paying job at Life and the home he shared with his wife and four children in Croton-on-Hudson, New York?to move into a dilapidated, five-story loft building at 821 Sixth Avenue (between Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth streets) in New York City��s wholesale flower district. Smith was trying to complete the most ambitious project of his life, a massive photo-essay on the city of Pittsburgh.

821 Sixth Avenue was a late-night haunt of musicians, including some of the biggest names in jazz?Charles Mingus, Zoot Sims, Bill Evans, and Thelonious Monk among them?and countless fascinating, underground characters. As his ambitions broke down for his quixotic Pittsburgh opus, Smith found solace in the chaotic, somnambulistic world of the loft and its artists. He turned his documentary impulses away from Pittsburgh and toward his offbeat new surroundings.

From 1957 to 1965, Smith exposed 1,447 rolls of film at his loft, making roughly 40,000 pictures, the largest body of work in his career, photographing the nocturnal jazz scene as well as life on the streets of the flower district, as seen from his fourth-floor window. He wired the building like a surreptitious recording studio and made 1,740 reels (4,000 hours) of stereo and mono audiotapes, capturing more than 300 musicians, among them Roy Haynes, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Roland Kirk, Alice Coltrane, Don Cherry, and Paul Bley. He recorded, as well, legends such as pianists Eddie Costa, and Sonny Clark, drummers Ronnie Free and Edgar Bateman, saxophonist Lin Halliday, bassist Henry Grimes, and multi-instrumentalist Eddie Listengart.

Also dropping in on the nighttime scene were the likes of Doris Duke, Norman Mailer, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Salvador Dal���, as well as pimps, prostitutes, drug addicts, thieves, photography students, local cops, building inspectors, marijuana dealers, and others.

Sam Stephenson discovered Smith��s jazz loft photographs and tapes eleven years ago and has spent the last seven years cataloging, archiving, selecting, and editing Smith��s materials for this book, as well as writing its introduction and the text interwoven throughout.

W. Eugene Smith��s Jazz Loft Project has been legendary in the worlds of art, photography, and music for more than forty years, but until the publication of The Jazz Loft Project, no one had seen Smith��s extraordinary photographs or read any of the firsthand accounts of those who were there and lived to tell the tale(s) . . .
Look Inside The Jazz Loft Project Click on thumbnails for larger images Thelonious Monk and his Town Hall band in rehearsal, February 1959. Zoot Sims (ca. 1957-1964). Loft interior, fifth floor (ca. 1964).
The northeast corner of Sixth Avenue and 28th Street (ca. 1957-1964). White Rose Bar sign from the 4th floor window of 821 Sixth Avenue (ca. 1957-1964). W. Eugene Smith at 4th floor window of 821 Sixth Avenue (ca. 1957).
(Photos credit W. Eugene Smith. Collection Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona. ��� The Heirs of W. Eugene Smith)

The Blair Witch Project
$9.96
Let's start out if you can't see that this film is a badly improvised horror film then you must not have viewed the great films of the horror genre. Let's start out with the fact that is not a real documentary these are just actors (badly at that) because I remembering that there were those that thought for sure that this was all for real and that the filmmaker's just claimed that this was fiction. When you see 555-idiot on the missing posters in the picture that mean's that it's the number used in movies only. I remembered reading that in the first take were we see the little stick figures that the actor's in the film walked all over them and that the director's had to go back and pick up all there twigs and that them they should have been terrified of them. So, when you hear me outside your house tonight banging on your door I'm really the Blair Witch coming to get you. BOOOOOO.

Project Runway - The Complete Second Season
$19.95
My Favorite Season of One Of My Favorite Shows!

I remember when this show first came out & tons of people that weren't really into fashion, or could barely dress without having a real fashionista yell fashion victim say that they were really into this. Me being the slave to fashion that i am just never got around to watching the show.

I found myself at Staples the other day buying some pens, when i came across an eight dollar DVD rack at the register. I found myself glued to a bargain, but had no intention of getting anything else buy pens that day. Needless to say i was rummaging and found Project Runway season two in the pile of sorted DVDs and decided to examine it thoroughly before finally making a choice. I had to make sure it was a very long show, had enough episodes, and had decent extras before i finally decided to purchase the season two set.

This is my favorite season and it's the awesome cast that really makes it a stand out, knock out, special season. There was crazy Andrae with his insane gestures, Santino with his crazy over the top jokes including a dead on impersonation of Tim Gunn, down to earth genuine cutie pie Nick Verreos who really should have been in the top three, and Zelema Griffin who turned up the heat when she said to Kara: "You can cry, but you have to sew and cry." And let's not forget when she decided to get fierce and had a fashion model walk off in episode eight.

I am so hooked on this show that i ran out for all the other season though i was a bit disappointed in season three. Please pick up this DVD and watch the show everyone's been talking about. Great season, great cast, great extras.

A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge: (Pmbok Guide)
$65.95
This book has become the "Bible" for people preparing for the PMP Exam. It has been helpful as I get ready for the exam. Our study group uses it and has found great value in the book.