Found Footage Films examines the rich aesthetic history of cinematic remixes, from pioneering films by Joseph Cornell and Bruce Conner to contemporary mashups and memes.We live in the era of the remix. Visual artists rework images from popular culture, music producers sample and loop elements from classic songs, and content creators transform images from films and television shows into viral memes. We are swimming in a sea of appropriated sounds and images...

François Villon — poet, thief, and the best swordsman in the taverns — boasts in his cups about what he would do if he were king, and Louis XI, who is listening from the next table, gives him a week to make it good. McCarthy sat in Parliament for Irish Home Rule, then left politics for the theatre; this 1901 romance became a play, an opera by Rudolf Friml, and four films.

The slowest part of hiring was never the interview. It is the hours of writing that surround every candidate: the job description, the Boolean string, the outreach message, the screening summary, the rejection, the offer. This book is a complete, ready to run library of 101 tested ChatGPT prompts that collapse that writing time into minutes, so you can do the work a recruiter actually adds value to.Written for full cycle recruiters, hiring managers, founders who hire alone, and tal...

Military families are given a unique financial life and no manual for it. The compensation is generous, but complicated and full of holes, and improvising is exactly how the money leaks out. This book is that missing manual: the complete operating system for the money side of service, written for the service member, the spouse who holds the checkbook through a deployment, and every family that moves every 2 to 3 years, sometimes with 45 days of notice.Financial success in uniform i...

Many years ago I started texting people in my phone daily devotions. I sent them out to everyone everyday. As I did that I started to form a book on my email with them. I just wanted to share what God put on my heart and mind with others. All of us go through things everyday and these were a way to cope and hope through all things we experience. With a focus on Jesus and just the basics of everyday life. I hope and pray it helps you and others who read it to strengthen your faith and your ...

'Next to impossible to put down . . . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.' STEPHEN KINGREADERS LOVE THE FERRYMAN:'Part novel, part thriller and part Sci fi. Best book I've read in a long time!''Wildly exciting, moving and provocative, this one's worth a read''Great concept and engaging writing. One part had me snort out loud!'*****The islan...

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES!'THE STAND meets THE ROAD' Entertainment Weekly'Enthralling ... richly imagined. Above all, Amy is a superb creation, believably human yet beguilingly enigmatic' Sunday TimesAmy Harper Bellafonte is six years old and her mother thinks she's the most important person in the whole world.She is.Anthony Carter doesn't think he could ever be in a worse place than De...

Welcome to Hero and the Inner Compass. My name is Justin R. Brown.As a creator and a father, I look at the world our children are growing up in, and I see how fast and noisy it can get. Between the screens, the crowds, the pressure to fit in, and the constant noise of everyday life, it is so easy for young minds to lose sight of who they truly are. We spend so much time teaching kids to look outward to follow the group, to listen to the crowd, and to look to others for direction.

Long before he ever wore a uniform, Maverick Sinclair was forged in chaos. Raised in a toxic storm of generational addiction, domestic violence, and constant instability, his childhood was a masterclass in raw survival. With no blueprint for a normal life, his teenage years quickly devolved into a reckless streak of bad decisions, explosive fights, and a desperate search for an exit strategy.But trauma has a way of following you. Seeking authority and a steady paycheck, he pinned o...

Nothing in this life happens to you. It is said that everything happens for you. Learning to trust yourself during the many changes in our life is the secret to managing the transitions! Please enjoy my story

“You want me to pretend to date you.”The words should have sounded ridiculous.Instead, Ava Bennett feels her pulse quicken.Damian Voss is the kind of man she should stay far away from: a cold, impossibly wealthy CEO who commands every room he enters and trusts almost no one. But when he asks Ava—the brilliant consultant who has challenged him from their very first boardroom meeting—to become his temporary public girlfriend, walking away could cost h...

Welcome to Shipwreck Beach.The island you find yourself washed up on when a storm knocks you off course — and your life gets splintered around you. I know this beach. Divorce, job loss, illness, death of a loved one — any one of them can put you here. Alone, scared, and angry — staring at pieces of a boat that isn't coming back together.Here's the truth: we are never in the same boat. But we sail the same waters, and the storms are inevitab...