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Legend of the Tengu Prince — Also Available in paperback at Amazon.com!

Legands of the Demon Shape Shifters Book One Tengu Prince (Volume 1)

Synopsis:

Fantasy Action Adventure set in feudal Japan.

During a time of civil war, Karasu Hinata is born the son of a powerful warlord. When he is still a child, his family castle is taken by a rival clan. His father and mother are murdered right before his eyes.

Barely escaping with his life, he is spirited away by the king of the tengu. The shape-shifting raven leads him to the hidden mountain retreat of a sect of mystic warriors. Mountain priests who practice the magic of Shugendo.

Ten years have passed. The time has come for Karasu to leave the mystic’s protective lair and face his demons in the world beyond. But the fiend that haunts his nightmares is also the one that shattered his life. More than a bad dream, it wants him dead.

In Legend of the Tengu Prince, nothing is as it seems. Shape-shifting creatures, both good and evil, populate the magical world of feudal Japan. And a young man will pay the ultimate price for a deadly rival spawned in the mists time. This riveting first volume of a epic fantasy adventure will leave you stunned and begging for more.

Illustrator Saturday - Nancy Armo

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After graduating from the University of Washington concentrating in graphic design, Nancy worked as a graphic designer and art director in the technology industry before discovering the magic of children's books. Nancy lives and works in Seattle, Washington. She enjoys creating characters that have a sense of humor. She works in watercolor, colored pencil, and pen and ink - mixed together with a little bit of digital polish.

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Jade Mountain Resort In St. Lucia

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Exotic vacations are a dime a dozen these days with so many different islands and resorts to choose from. The Jade Mountain Resort in St. Lucia is definitely a diamond in the rough providing guests with an experience they are sure to never forget. This resort has four different package levels which depend on room size and an optional sky jacuzzi, but each and every room includes it’s own private infinity pool sanctuary.

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VID Finding Portland

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A 300,000 image timelapse of Portland.

Finding Portland from Uncage the Soul Productions on Vimeo.

History of Dance; History of Fashion

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Both in one YouTube film. Enjoy!

Top 10 Greatest Piano Concerti

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A piano concerto is a composition in which a solo piano (or harpsichord) is accompanied by a large ensemble of other instruments (usually a full orchestra but not always). This list looks at 10 of the greatest (with an additional bonus entry from JFrater). The criteria for inclusion and ranking of entries are musical artistry, technical artistry, pianistic power, balance between piano and orchestra, and historical influence.

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I believe music is a form of art, that is why I am including this post of classic piano concertos.

Fantastic Illustration by Megan Greene

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In her recent series, Megan Greene subverts and recontextualizes traditional Audubon bird prints, having long incorporated naturalist studies and images of flora and fauna in her work.

In these intricate hybridizations she explores shifts between the found vs. altered, drawn vs. photographic, representational vs. abstract, and the beautiful vs. the grotesque. Her transformations dissolve, evolve and re-conceive the original hijacked images to become something known yet fully new.

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The Dreamy World of Lorland Chen

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Times have changed,” insists Wei Chen, the Chinese artist also known as Lorland Chen. “We shouldn’t hold on to the old ways forever.” Chinese art is more than the traditional ‘ink and wash’ technique.
“We should search for more new ways to express the Oriental spirit.”

Lorland’s own work, built from a palette of subtle painterly tones and powerful fantasy themes, begins to address this problem: “Oriental style is not just a way of painting.

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Painting With Sound

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Martin Klimas is an awesome photographer. For this series, Martin splatter different colors of paint on a speaker and cranked up the volume. The vibrations from the speaker sent the paint sky high in patterns. For each image, Klimas selected a specific type of music, typically something dynamic and percussive, like Miles Davis or Kraftwerk.

For this series, Klimas spent six months and about 1,000 shots to produce the final images from his studio in Düsseldorf, Germany.

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Amazing!