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Fish Market (Various Artists) $4.99 For everything you do, there’s a song that hits the spot. MOG brings them all to you: a world of music on demand, unlimited mobile downloads and ways to discover music free from the limitations of Pandora. The music you love, with you everywhere you go.

Sleeping in the Market: Ethiopian Music &… $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Laluyeah (Yearning Song) – Various Artists, 2. Bale-Washinto – Various Artists, 3. Berewoo Taha Taha (The Bull… Taha Taha…) – Various Artists, 4. Demam Era Dema – Various Artists, 5. Aderch Arada (Sleeping in the Market) – Various Artists, 6. Bale Ageru – Various Artists, 7. Ney, Ney, Ney (Come, Come, Come) – Various Artists, 8. Endiaw Mela Mela (Compassion) – Various Artists

The Place of Artists Cinema $20 In The Place of Artists’ Cinema, Maeve Connolly identifies a recurrent concern with site, space and cinema architecture in film and video works by artists, extending from the late 1960s to the present day. Focusing on developments over the past decade, Connolly provides in-depth readings of selected recent works by twenty-four different artists including Carlos Amorales, Gerard Byrne, Jeremy Deller, Stan Douglas, Tacita Dean, Pierre Huyghe, Aernout Mik, Tobias Putrih and Anne Tallentire, ranging from multi-screen projections to site-specific installations and feature-length films. The book also explores changing structures of exhibition and curation, tracing the circulation of film and video works within public art contexts, galleries, museums, biennial exhibitions and art fairs. Providing a chapter on the role of public funding in the market for artists’ film and video,The Place of Artists’ Cinema will appeal to both curators and artists.

Adobe Photoshop for VFX Artists $39.99 Adobe Photoshop for VFX Artists is an in-depth guide to using Photoshop to achieve a specific goal. It is not meant to serve as a general bible or litney of functions. By incorporating a straight-forward, visual approach to Adobe’s best selling software, this book will provide you with everything you need to use Photoshop within your own specific context. Although there are many Photoshop books on the market, there are very few that are targeted specifically to the 3D artist, and even fewer that are written by a movie industry professional. Adobe Photoshop for VFX Artists adheres to the high standards of the VFX world, but is designed to still be clearly understandable to the intermediate hobbyist.

2009 Songwriter’s Market Complete $29.99 Songwriter’s Market is packed with insider information about the music industry that can spell the difference between success and failure. You’ll find support and encouragement through listings for support organizations, online resources, as well as articles and interviews with industry insiders. With completely updated listings for music publishers, record companies, managers, booking agents, and record producers, as well as information about how the music industry works and how to protect yourself from the scam artists of the industry, this helpful guide is every musician’s best friend.

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The Motivational Clich For Ambitious Artists Is 'The Sky's The Limit,' Except For Union Town Singer Songwriter Maryam Qudus, The Sky May Simply Become A View From The Ladder Of Success She Shortly Sits Upon.

The inspirational clich for expectant artists is "the sky's the limit," except for Union Town singer songwriter Maryam Qudus, the sky may simply become a view from the ladder of success she soon sits upon.

At twenty years old , Qudus, who performs under the moniker Doe Eye, is making noise delicate, haunting noise in the Bay Area music scene.

She released her debut EP, Run Run Run, last month to high praise from indie music blogs and websites.

"Since then, things have occurred terribly fast," she claimed. "The reply has been amazing."

Her lead single, "I Hate You," has started receiving spins on Live105, the leading rock radio stations in the Bay Area. The video for the track, which debuted online the same day as her EP's release on August. 19, was afterwards featured on the station's website, together with dozens of other music blogs.

Produced by Steven Murr, you wouldn't know that the record was made with little help from outside musicians. Qudus is the only vocalist and guitar player heard on the record, with a guest drummer on 2 tracks. All of the instruments were created digitally by Murr to make a polished, high-quality indie-folk production.

In its abruptness, the four-track EP unearths Qudus's vulnerabilities, hopes and wishes, wrapped in her appealing vocals that even make the words "I hate you" sound seductive.

"I like to form something out of my emotions," she said. Her emotions go from the bold and defiant lead single to the somber and upbeat dreamscape of "Sea to See"

"The scars on my feet / It's the strength I'm going to keep / Thru the ugly and beauty that lies ahead," she sings on "Sea to See."

"It's about being held back and wanting to let go of things you are fearful of, taking probabilities and not being afraid of doing something because you'd get hurt," she said about the song.

This lack of fear and unbending grit are what set Qudus' career in motion at a young age.

She has had a fondness for singing for so long as she can remember, but failed to get serious about playing music till she was in middle college, where she picked up the guitar and learned on her own, she said.

"I'm not the greatest guitarist, but I know enough to write songs off it," related Qudus, who owns three guitars, a bass, keyboard and tambourine.

Driven to make a job of music, she started paying for her own voice lessons at 16 after getting a part time job. "Every dollar I made went to that," she claimed.

Last year, she tried to write one new song a day. "I didn't pressure myself. It didn't have to be good. I could not keep it up, but it taught me a lot," she said.

She took those "skeletons" of songs to Murr. "He took those concepts and made them bigger," she announced,writes tagza.com.

The last 2 months have been the "craziest" for her, she announced.

In the last fourteen days of July, she recorded and completed her EP. Right after, director Adrien Colon filmed the noire-like black-and-white video for her single

While she's excited for the opportunities that may come from her recent exposure, she is not playing the waiting game. Instead , she's pushing forward with her education to further develop her craft.

This weekend, Qudus packs her life into four enormous suitcases and sets for the east coast to visit the Berklee Varsity of Music in Boston. She already plans to assemble a band and tour the coast, and return customarily for spot dates in the Bay Area.

"My career will only improve from here," she said. "There's more songs to come."

By next summer, she is hoping to perform at Live105's BFD and the Outside Lands holidays, a couple of the biggest music holidays in the Bay Area.

"I think I can make it happen," she said.

$12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art $26 Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.

$12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art $7.95 Why would a smart New York investment banker pay $12 million for the decaying, stuffed carcass of a shark? By what alchemy does Jackson Pollock’s drip painting No. 5, 1948 sell for $140 million? Intriguing and entertaining, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark is a Freakonomics approach to the economics and psychology of the contemporary art world. Why were record prices achieved at auction for works by 131 contemporary artists in 2006 alone, with astonishing new heights reached in 2007? Don Thompson explores the money, lust, and self-aggrandizement of the art world in an attempt to determine what makes a particular work valuable while others are ignored.This book is the first to look at the economics and the marketing strategies that enable the modern art market to generate such astronomical prices. Drawing on interviews with both past and present executives of auction houses and art dealerships, artists, and the buyers who move the market, Thompson launches the reader on a journey of discovery through the peculiar world of modern art. Surprising, passionate, gossipy, revelatory, The $12 Million Stuffed Shark reveals a great deal that even experienced auction purchasers do not know.