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I recently opened a photography/art gallery and ordered this book. I am very pleased with it. There are some really great ideas given. Also, not only does the author talk about his own experience running a gallery, but he brings in many examples from other gallery owners that he knows.
He covers in great detail everything from planning, design, opening, marketing, and selling.
I highly recommend this book for anyone who has plans or even just the desire to open an art gallery. I suggest you read this book FIRST.Get more detail about How to Start and Run a Commercial Art Gallery.

Discount Audio Production and Critical Listening: Technical Ear Training

For the amateur or professional who wants to take on the task of restoring their own photographs, or adding this skill to their existing business, //Digital Restoration from Start to Finish// is a must-have reference guide. Even 20-year old photographs show fading and color variation and those that are older, if they have not been stored in pristine condition, are in worse shape. Restoring these memories is more difficult that it looks, but is not impossible.

The author takes you step-by-step through digital restoration, beginning with equipment recommendations for both hardware and software to tackle this job. Many tips and techniques are spelled out in great detail to help you correct just about any flaw in photographic prints, negatives, transparencies, and even those old instant Polaroid shots.

Ctein is widely recognized as an expert in the printing processes from classic dye transfer to state-of-the-art digital methods. He has nearly four decades of experience running his own photo restoration business. His book is full of his expertise and perhaps the finest book of its kind available today.

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Cheapest Behind the Glass, Volume II: Top Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits

If you are interested in audio this book is a must read.

Its an interview style book that asks the top audio engineers the who, what, why, and where.

Everyone has different opinions on digital vs analog etc. Very cool book and easy read!Get more detail about Behind the Glass, Volume II: Top Producers Tell How They Craft the Hits.

Cheap The New Breed

Previous reviews are correct, this book is hard. But it's meant to be a challenge to everyone whether their just learning to read music (which I am) so someone who needs more stick patterns and whatnot to try out. The author is a genius writing this book with all the real-world experience that he's acquired over his many years of playing many different types of music. This book will slowly but surely give you most of the tools you'll need to be well on your way to impressive drumming, if you have the patience for it. It'll make you work for it, but as any musician knows, working for it is the only real way to get anywhere with an instrument. Very highly recommended book!!!Get more detail about The New Breed.

Buying How to Be a Budget Fashionista: The Ultimate Guide to Looking Fabulous for Less

This is a great book! I def needed to read it...being a college student who loves to shop is not a good combo and this book really helped me out :)Get more detail about How to Be a Budget Fashionista: The Ultimate Guide to Looking Fabulous for Less.

Buy The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up

Very interesting stories, and the way this book is put together (direct quotations from the people Rensin interviewed) makes it very easy to read. However, after a while the stories all kind of blended together, and to a certain extent seemed the same. Young guys pulling themselves out of the mail room, catching a lucky break, working hard to get where they are today, and then an anecdote about someone famous they met or their boss or how they almost screwed it up and what they had to give up to get where they are today. However, I highly recommend this for people interested in the entertainment industry.Get more detail about The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up.

Purchase Watch You Bleed

I'll be mercifully brief here as this book is hardly worth the effort to tear it apart.

The previous reviews are quite correct when they point out the copious amount of laughable errors in "Watch You Bleed". My personal favorite, which these reviews seems to have missed was The Scorpions being from England. Yep.

Stephen Davis is not a bad writer. I've read and enjoyed his other error-riddled tomes on Zeppelin and Aerosmith. They are typically engaging and briskly paced, and deliver the kind of minutiae that we rock bio dorks crave. The main reason he strikes out so badly here is simply his clear and obvious ignorance and disdain for Heavy Metal in general (at least Zeppelin and Aerosmith were bands that this child of the sixties could somewhat wrap his noodle around). I don't think there is a single example in the early chapters (concentrating on the Sunset Strip scene)where he doesn't feel the need to flat-out insult and sneer at every band he mentions. Ratt, Motley Crue, Poison, etc all mentioned only with a nasty adjective preceding their name. Although there are chuckles galore to be had at his utter cluelessness in this regard. German Power-metal pioneers Helloween being referred-to as "Kiss clones" was one of my personal favorites (as if this clown had ever heard Helloween, no less heard OF them). His smarmy contempt is even directed at the very band he's covering, describing Slash receiving an award for his "alleged" virtuosity.

Probably the all-time award winner for the "I was much too busy to research anything" award though, is his hilarious contention that Motley Crue, immediately following the Girls, Girls, Girls tour, were consigned to "the scrapheap of history". No, I'm not making this stuff up. According to this Tacitus of rock biographers, Motley Crue disappeared after their 4th album. You really have to be a special kind of microcephalic to let something like that get into a major published book. I assume the idea of editing and proofreading, at least by someone born after WWII was not even considered.

Now I am no fan of the hair bands, and generally don't like them either, but his overall snotty and disdainful attitude soon becomes intrusive and annoying, and makes you wonder why this aging hippy insists on writing a book on a genre he knows and cares nothing about.

Of course we do know why. Because a book on Gun N' Roses will sell a lot of copies, that's why. Because there is no large demographic clamouring for a book about Moby Grape, that's why.

Avoid this ridiculous book at all costs.Get more detail about Watch You Bleed.