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The Djinn Chronicles 2008-06-26 15:46:06 Today we add a new Category: Writings, where we’ll publish exclusive short stories, novels or poems available on ManuelMarino.com only. Today’s Author is Erick Behymer. Read his words about this work of fiction:
The Djinn Chronicles
Well, I do have one that directly involves the mythological creatures known as Djinn. Naturally, I have titled the first [...]
Exporting Outlook mail messages 2008-06-25 09:20:31 Matti Mattila wrote for us A musician story. He is back with a new article, this time a technology topic that I’m sure will interest many of you.
ExportingOutlook
mail messages
I ran into a whole new problem a week ago when my six years old computer stopped working. The “Old Faithful” had served me for [...]
An Explosion Of Blues Music 2008-06-20 03:51:10 Author of this article is Robert Benson. He writes about rock and pop music, vinyl record collecting and operates CollectingVinylRecords.com, where you can pick up a copy of his ebook called “The Fascinating Hobby Of Vinyl Record Collecting.” You can have your vinyl records appraised at VinylRecordAppraisals.com.
An Explosion
Of BluesMusic
Anyone who has ever [...]
Artwork Displayed in Unusual Places 2008-05-11 19:40:45 Joyce Boncal wrote this exclusive article for us.
Artwork
Displayed in Unusual Places
If you’re young, budding artist, hoping to be discovered, where can you display your artwork? There is always your own web page but I wouldn’t recommend it unless you can afford to advertise that web page. This very web environment, ManuelMarino.com, is a good [...]
History of Music and Current Recording Industry Crisis 2008-03-20 23:08:53 Roger L. Bagula wrote this exclusive article for ManuelMarino.com.
History
of Music
and CurrentRecording
Industry Crisis
In a time when the whole future of how music is distributed is in question, maybe we should look at the history of music for a guide.
Many of us find music is a part of our everyday life; both in [...]
My personal collection of book trade ephemera 2008-03-11 04:11:53 Benjamin Clark is the Curator of Education for the Oklahoma Museum of History. Benjamin wrote this exclusive and very interesting article for us. He retains copyright of the first image and the text, of course. The second image is in the public domain.
My personal collection
of book trade ephemera
My personal collection of book [...]
The Invictas are back 2008-02-29 12:53:57 Bruce Atchison is one of my Yahoo Group best members and he wrote this great article. Bruce is a legally blind freelance writer and the author of two books, When a Man Loves a Rabbit (Learning and Living With Bunnies) and Deliverance from Jericho (Six Years in a Blind School). The first memoir is about [...]
Art, Communication, Connectivity 2008-02-28 13:32:37 Michael Marcus (also known as “Jacques Treatment”) is a published author, poet, artist, and game designer; with George McVey, he has been publishing comics as “The Hamtramck Idea Men” on the very sensible grounds that they live in Hamtramck, have many ideas, and they are men. Joint work can be found at while his [...]
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Punk music in the late seventies 2008-02-14 11:00:21 Wade Crawley said me “I propose to write an article about the influence of punk and indie music and culture on a young person (myself) coming of age in England in the late seventies and early eighties”.
I accepted, and Wade wrote this article! I must add also these more lines from him: “I’m quite excited [...]
What is Anglo-Welsh Literature and why Should Anyone Care? 2008-02-06 15:39:10 Ceri Shaw is a former college lecturer from Cardiff, South Wales. Currently he attempts to make a living as a Web Designer and as a freelance writer on a range of topics including Literature
. He is a regular contributor to Americymru.com. Ceri wrote this article about Anglo-Welsh literature and its exploration of the themes of [...]
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Two Words from a Greek Painter 2008-07-08 18:56:49 Yanna Brouzou is a talented Greek
painter. She is also a member of my Yahoo Group. She said me: I am a classical painter (I do sculpture as well) and I am in search of a manager. There is no such thing over here! But that is all I need, you see artists usually [...] Read more:Words
, Painter
Walk Hard: a Retro-Styled Philosophy? 2008-08-01 23:06:22 Yesterday I’ve seen Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story with a great John C. Reilly. It is a parody movie, a spoof of every musical biopic where John as music star Dewey Cox covers every musical style from Elvis to the Beach Boys over five decades. Dialogue and sequences are funny and goofy and the [...]
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Country Music Star Is Unleashed! 2008-08-01 21:21:54 Robert Benson (if you remember he wrote An Explosion of Blues Music
) this time gave me a review about the next big star in Country
Music, Laura Roppe (pronounced ro-pay). She has a Shiana Twain-like quality and already is receiving major air play in Europe. Robert said me also that he has just launched [...]
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Music, Movies and Independent Films 2008-07-30 11:22:54 In this exclusive interview, Todd Cericola, owner of Clocktower Pictures, talks about his movie studio, about music in movies and about the independent productions world.
Manuel Marino: When did you start your movie studio and how did you have the idea?
Todd Cericola: Clocktower Pictures was started in February of 2008. We are a new company [...]
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A software that helps you to be a novelist 2008-07-27 23:01:23 Erick Behymer wrote for us The Djinn Chronicles. Now he is back with the review of MyNovel. MyNovel is a novel writing software. It contains a complete word processor and will get you to think about and plan your characters, settings, and the events that will form the skeleton of your novel. But let’s [...]
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American Music and Vintage Guitars 2008-07-27 19:03:12 Mark Weakley is an impressive artist; sculptor, painter, musician. He plays guitar, banjo and harmonica, and has recently recorded a CD of his original compositions. In this exclusive article he talks about himself, about his passions, about his father, about traditional american music, about vintage guitars and banjoes, and much more.
AmericanMusic
and VintageGuitars
My [...]
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Creating Clouds 2008-07-23 14:04:57 Frank Kane job is very particular… he creates clouds! He can do it through his C++ library for real-time sky and 3D cloud rendering, used worldwide by scores of games and visual simulation applications on the Windows platform.
Its name is SilverLining.
CreatingClouds
Manuel Marino: Your sky and clouds library is impressive :)
Frank Kane: Thanks! SilverLining is [...]
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Raymond Thoughts about Games and Arts 2008-07-23 09:40:33 Today we interview Raymond
Jacobs, owner of Ethereal Darkness Interactive. Founded in 2002 Ethereal Darkness Interactive is commited to developing quality indie games with high production values. Raymond talks about his latest project, Morning’s Wrath 2, about videogames, Arts and technology.
Raymond Thoughts about Games
and Arts
Manuel Marino: You are working on some new features for [...]
The B52’s, London Roundhouse 2008-08-18 23:24:43 Wade Crawley is back with a great B52 concert review! If you remember, Wade wrote for us Punk music in the late seventies. Now read his new exclusive article for ManuelMarino.com!
The B52’s, London Roundhouse
It was on a hot and very sweaty summer night in London’s trendy Camden and a packed audience of all ages and [...]
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Stop jogging and listen to some new music 2008-08-13 04:23:39 I’m a big fan of 80s music. Yes, the decade that gave the world the sound of pop, the memorable 80s! I’m talking about Madonna, Michael Jackson, Huey Lewis, Cyndi Lauper, George Michael and many others. Well, let’s focus on Madonna, eleven albums, an impressive career.
Stop jogging and listen to some new music
Madonna, the world’s [...]
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Mobile Games and Technologies 2008-08-07 15:18:23 Federico Elinger, owner of Pocketsol Games
, wrote this exclusive article for us. Pocketsol Games creates high quality mobile games for the mobile phone based java platform (J2ME). The development studio is in Argentina where fun and addictive games are created for most of the actual mobile phones.
Mobile
Games and Technologies
Currently, we can forget the keys [...]
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Very Simple Audio Mastering Guide 2008-08-31 23:38:57 I’ve just released my ebook (PDF document) about AudioMastering
. I wrote it after receiving hundreds requests from my musicians friends. You can find many guides on the net and at your preferred bookstore. But what beginners really need are few tips, to understand the basics, not huge tomes with neverending technical data.
Very Simple
Audio [...]
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