Martin Sharp

Martin Sharp
Author: Joyce Morgan
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2017-01-25
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1925575012

'Martin wore tight pants that were striped red, white and blue, like a Union Jack, and an embroidered Afghan vest. In front of his face he carried, like a lollipop, a smile on a stick. As he went, he bowed to passers-by. Even on King's Road, he stood out.' Martin Sharp's art was as singular as his style. He blurred the boundaries of high art and low with images of Dylan, Hendrix and naked flower children that defined an era. Along the way the irreverent Australian was charged with obscenity and collaborated with Eric Clapton as he drew rock stars and reprobates into his world. In this richly told and beautifully written biography, Joyce Morgan captures the loneliness of a privileged childhood, the heady days of the underground magazine Oz as well as the exuberant creativity of Swinging London and beyond. Sharp pursued his quixotic dream to realise van Gogh's Yellow House in Australia. He obsessively championed eccentric singer Tiny Tim and was haunted by Sydney's Luna Park. Charismatic and paradoxical, he became a recluse whose phone never stopped ringing. There was no one like Martin Sharp. When he died, he was described as a stranger in a strange land who left behind a trail of stardust.

Mosquito

Mosquito
Author: C. Martin Sharp
Publisher: Crecy Pub
Total Pages: 540
Release: 1995
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780947554415

Filled with the Mosquitos operational record and supplemented with tables, drawings, maps and charts. Describes every operational sortie, verifying battle claims wherever possible against Luftwaffe records. Sharp and Bowyer combine their talents to produce this exceptional record of de Havillands legendary Wooden Wonder. Foreword by Sir Geoffrey de Havilland. Fully revised and up-dated.

Sharpest

Sharpest
Author: Lowell Tarling
Publisher: ETT Imprint
Total Pages: 782
Release: 2021-03-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1922473677

Lowell Tarling recorded Martin Sharp's life, and his effect on his friends, over twenty years. Now two volumes in one, in advance of the film of these books - GHOST TRAIN... Sharp: The Road to Abraxas - Part One, 1942-1979 Sharper: Bringing It All Back Home - Part Two, 1980-2013 'Like the Ancient Mariner, it's also a ghastly tale. I could understand the events at Luna Park a bit. I was trying to understand them and then suddenly there was this poetic language working to say: this is a crucifixion, Golgotha, death by fire. And then it starts to fit into Apocalyptic vision. It was Abraxas if you like - the dark face and the light face. To look upon Abraxas is blindness. To know it is sickness. To worship it is death. To fear it is wisdom. To assist it not is redemption. I don't know what it means. I've never been able to work it out. You get a Pop Art Parallel. It was the Year of the Child, the place of Golgotha, the Place of the Skull, and the Ghost Train. You then get these events that are caused by plotting, not caring for kids, carelessness, living a human life - the way of the world.' - Martin Sharp, 4 March 1984

Electrical Banana

Electrical Banana
Author: Norman Hathaway
Publisher: Damiani Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Design
ISBN: 9788862082044

"Electrical Banana is the first definitive examination of the international language of psychedelia, focusing on the most important practitioners in their respective fields. With a deft combination of hundreds of unseen images and exclusive interviews and essays, Electrical Banana aims to revise the common persception of psychedelic art, showing it to be more innovative, compelling, and revolutionary than was ever thought before."--P. [4] of cover.

Difficult Men

Difficult Men
Author: Brett Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2014-07-29
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0143125699

The 10th anniversary edition, now with a new preface by the author "A wonderfully smart, lively, and culturally astute survey." - The New York Times Book Review "Grand entertainment...fascinating for anyone curious about the perplexing miracles of how great television comes to be." - The Wall Street Journal "I love this book...It's the kind of thing I wish I'd been able to read in film school, back before such books existed." - Vince Gilligan, creator of Breaking Bad and co-creator of Better Call Saul In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the landscape of television began an unprecedented transformation. While the networks continued to chase the lowest common denominator, a wave of new shows on cable channels dramatically stretched television’s narrative inventiveness, emotional resonance, and creative ambition. Combining deep reportage with critical analysis and historical context, Brett Martin recounts the rise and inner workings of this artistic watershed - a golden age of TV that continues to transform America's cultural landscape. Difficult Men features extensive interviews with all the major players - including David Chase (The Sopranos), David Simon and Ed Burns (The Wire), David Milch (NYPD Blue, Deadwood), Alan Ball (Six Feet Under), and Vince Gilligan (Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul) - and reveals how television became a truly significant and influential part of our culture.

The Digital Transformation Book

The Digital Transformation Book
Author: Martin Sharp
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 124
Release: 2016-10-03
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537785035

Is your IT project lacking? Do you struggle with finding the ways to improve your business? With Digital Transformation: The Significant 7 Imperative, you'll gain access to insight from leaders in the field on how to successfully implement modifications to any IT project. Digital Transformation: The Significant 7 Imperatives is THE best resource for successful change in complex IT projects. Along with the book, available for you to have on hand, Imperators provides you with expert advice and partnership to make transformation a reality. Imperators employs experienced specialists available to partner with your team. We are focused on guiding our clients and working with each individually to achieve the goals you set. We strive to exceed all expectations and provide the best support in the business. With the expert knowledge of our staff and the content included in our book, transformation of your IT project is made easy! Digital Transformation: The Significant 7 Imperatives includes topics such as: The Change Imperative For IT Pressing Business & IT Challenges Delivering Success The Significant 7 Imperatives for All IT Projects The book is written to guide you through the process of transforming IT projects and expanding and improving the business. Identifying the challenges you face and the ways to overcome, our book builds on the knowledge you have to help you turn around performance. There is no better book, guide, or collection of information available! Don't waste another minute dealing with the stress of a failing project and the feeling of helplessness that accompanies it. Take control of your success and learn how to overcome the obstacles in your way. With a partnership with Imperators and by owning your very own Digital Transformation: The Significant 7 Imperatives, you are taking the future of your project and your business in your hands and creating success!"

Early Work

Early Work
Author: Andrew Martin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-07-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0374146128

When Peter meets Leslie, a sexual adventurer, he gets a glimpse of what he imagines himself to be: a writer of talent and nerve. Over the course of a Virginia summer, their charged, increasingly intimate friendship opens the door to difficult questions about love and literary ambition

Play Power

Play Power
Author: Richard Neville
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1971
Genre: Underground literature
ISBN:

A Long Way Down

A Long Way Down
Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1594633568

A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity, and About A Boy. New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they've reached the end of the line. A Long Way Down is now a major motion picture from Magnolia Pictures starring Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, and Imogen Poots. Meet Martin, JJ, Jess, and Maureen. Four people who come together on New Year's Eve: a former TV talk show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother. Three are British, one is American. They encounter one another on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination famous as the last stop for those ready to end their lives. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Nick Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances. Intense, hilarious, provocative, and moving, A Long Way Down is a novel about suicide that is, surprisingly, full of life.