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Patrick Frank

    Aréna
    Sex & Drogy & Rock & Roll
    Under the Never Sky
    The Ocean at the End of the Lane
    Sharing Code: Art1, Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art
    • Exploring the intersection of art and technology, the book recounts the development of Art1, a pioneering computer program created in 1968 at the University of New Mexico. Driven by Richard Williams and inspired by Charles Mattox, this initiative aimed to unify the seemingly disparate worlds of avant-garde art and complex scientific theories. Frederick Hammersley’s prolific output using Art1 is highlighted, alongside 50 illustrations by notable artists. Interviews with key figures provide insight into Art1's significant influence on early digital creativity and its lasting legacy.

      Sharing Code: Art1, Frederick Hammersley, and the Dawn of Computer Art
      4,0
    • The Ocean at the End of the Lane

      • 181pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Sussex, England. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home to attend a funeral. Although the house he lived in is long gone, he is drawn to the farm at the end of the road, where, when he was seven, he encountered a most remarkable girl, Lettie Hempstock, and her mother and grandmother. He hasn't thought of Lettie in decades, and yet as he sits by the pond (a pond that she'd claimed was an ocean) behind the ramshackle old farmhouse, the unremembered past comes flooding back. And it is a past too strange, too frightening, too dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a small boy. Forty years earlier, a man committed suicide in a stolen car at this farm at the end of the road. Like a fuse on a firework, his death lit a touchpaper and resonated in unimaginable ways. The darkness was unleashed, something scary and thoroughly incomprehensible to a little boy. And Lettie—magical, comforting, wise beyond her years—promised to protect him, no matter what. A groundbreaking work from a master, The Ocean at the End of the Lane is told with a rare understanding of all that makes us human, and shows the power of stories to reveal and shelter us from the darkness inside and out. It is a stirring, terrifying, and elegiac fable as delicate as a butterfly's wing and as menacing as a knife in the dark.

      The Ocean at the End of the Lane
      4,0
    • Under the Never Sky

      • 376pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      Exiled from her comfortable home, Aria knows her chances of surviving in the outer wasteland - called the Death Shop - are slim. Violent energy storms can strike suddenly, and even the very air she breathes might kill her. Then Aria meets an Outsider named Perry. He's wild, dangerous - a savage. He's also her only hope. Because Aria alone holds the key to his redemption, Perry needs her, too. Their unlikely alliance will determine the fate of all who live under the never sky.

      Under the Never Sky
      4,0
    • Sex & Drogy & Rock & Roll

      • 192pages
      • 7 heures de lecture

      Soubor fotografií pop a rockových hvězd v situacích, ve kterých by se dnes možná raději neviděly.

      Sex & Drogy & Rock & Roll
      2,9
    • Aréna

      • 328pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      Mickey Haller zastupuje matku zavraždeného dievčaťa. Vrahom je priateľ zabitej zo strednej školy - AI četbot mu poradil, aby ju zastrelil. Haller sa spojí s novinárom Jackom McEvoyom, ktorý chce byť pri tomto prípade iba pozorovateľom, lebo sa chystá o procese napísať knihu, no Haller ho naplno zapojí do práce. McEvoyovo pátranie nakoniec prinesie vytúžené ovocie: kľúčového svedka. V hre sú miliardy dolárov a všetkým zúčastneným ide o život.

      Aréna