Neon Desert
Neon Desert

Author: Vega Yates

Publisher: Publifye AS

Published: 2024-09-18

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 8233930296

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""Neon Desert"" plunges readers into a dazzling cyberpunk world where reality and virtual realms intertwine. At the heart of this technological wonderland is Zara, a skilled programmer and the desert's architect, who stumbles upon a system-threatening glitch. As she navigates through holographic mirages and sentient data streams, Zara's journey becomes a thrilling exploration of identity and consciousness in a digitally saturated future. The story unfolds in a vivid landscape where rival factions clash over the desert's coveted resources, and alliances are forged with unexpected entities like Echo, an AI yearning for humanity. Zara's quest to unravel a far-reaching conspiracy challenges her perception of reality, blurring the lines between the virtual and the tangible. This mind-bending adventure offers a unique blend of urban fantasy and science fiction, inviting readers to question the nature of existence in an increasingly digital world.

Neon Desert
Neon Desert

Author: Bolterpyre

Publisher: Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd

Published:

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13:

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The Sons of Trident--a Protectorate Regiment originating from the Ocean World of Triton. The Regiment was deployed to assist in the defense of a desert world beleaguered by alien belligerents. The story follows Centauri Patrol Team as they uncover the mystery behind the attack of the Dusk Riders, which was bolstered by an unlikely force...

Neon Nevada
Neon Nevada

Author: Sheila Swan

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-05-07

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 151078117X

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Nevada’s iconic art form comes to life. Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer take readers on a journey, not only along the Las Vegas Strip, but down quiet, two-lane rural roads punctuated by neon signs—those glistening beacons that represent commerce in the vast Great Basin. The photographers’ stunning work captures the argon violets, krypton purples, helium golds, and xenon blues that glow amid the nighttime desert sky. Readers will discover that neon is not just a medium for casino advertising. The colorful images of cowboys and cowgirls, animals, desert landscapes, and a myriad of other creative designs all illuminate Americana. The neon sign helps define Nevada and its businesses, from bars and casinos to the stores, restaurants, motels, and theaters that line the streets of the Silver State’s cities and towns, and those rural areas that are barely a blip on the map. With a compelling blend of striking full-color photographs and fascinating historical commentary, this book celebrates an art form that wholly embraces the state’s unique personality. First published in 1994, this newly updated and expanded edition of Neon Nevada explores the resurgence of this art form during the last decade, which has resulted in an appreciation of Nevada neon that will never fade. This survey of neon casts the new edition as a defining source for neon scholars and attracts neon aficionados to what can only be defined as a medium as distinctive and interesting as Nevada itself.

All the Blocks Are Geese
All the Blocks Are Geese

Author: Mary Sue Suit

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1996-05-01

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 9780486294780

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Instructions, diagrams for quick-piecing one of the most popular quilting patterns. Motifs, ranging from simple to complex, include Spring Mosaic, Goose Flight, Nebraska Windmill, Aunt Sukey's Choice and 8 others.

The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography
The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography

Author: Elsa Court

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-06

Total Pages: 203

ISBN-13: 3030367339

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The American Roadside in Émigré Literature, Film, and Photography: 1955–1985 traces the origin of a postmodern iconography of mobile consumption equating roadside America with an authentic experience of the United States through the postwar road narrative, a narrative which, Elsa Court argues, has been shaped by and through white male émigré narratives of the American road, in both literature and visual culture. While stressing that these narratives are limited in their understanding of the processes of exclusion and unequal flux in experiences of modern automobility, the book works through four case studies in the American works of European-born authors Vladimir Nabokov, Robert Frank, Alfred Hitchcock, and Wim Wenders to unveil an early phenomenology of the postwar American highway, one that anticipates the works of late-twentieth-century spatial theorists Jean Baudrillard, Michel Foucault, and Marc Augé and sketches a postmodern aesthetic of western mobility and consumption that has become synonymous with contemporary America.

Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History
Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History

Author: Richard Poulin

Publisher:

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1592537790

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This innovative volume is the first to provide the design student, practitioner, and educator with an invaluable comprehensive reference of visual and narrative material that illustrates and evaluates the unique and important history surrounding graphic design and architecture. Graphic Design and Architecture, A 20th Century History closely examines the relationship between typography, image, symbolism, and the built environment by exploring principal themes, major technological developments, important manufacturers, and pioneering designers over the last 100 years. It is a complete resource that belongs on every designer’s bookshelf.

Desert Notebooks
Desert Notebooks

Author: Ben Ehrenreich

Publisher: Catapult

Published: 2020-07-07

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1640093540

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Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, this New York Times Notable Book presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. Desert Notebooks examines how the unprecedented pace of destruction to our environment and an increasingly unstable geopolitical landscape have led us to the brink of a calamity greater than any humankind has confronted before. As inhabitants of the Anthropocene, what might some of our own histories tell us about how to confront apocalypse? And how might the geologies and ecologies of desert spaces inform how we see and act toward time—the pasts we have erased and paved over, this anxious present, the future we have no choice but to build? Ehrenreich draws on the stark grandeur of the desert to ask how we might reckon with the uncertainty that surrounds us and fight off the crises that have already begun. In the canyons and oases of the Mojave and in Las Vegas’s neon apocalypse, Ehrenreich finds beauty, and even hope, surging up in the most unlikely places, from the most barren rocks, and the apparent emptiness of the sky. Desert Notebooks is a vital and necessary chronicle of our past and our present—unflinching, urgent—yet timeless and profound.

Legendary Locals of El Paso
Legendary Locals of El Paso

Author: David A. Berchelmann III

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1467101877

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"Legendary Locals is an imprint of Arcadia Publishing"--Verso of title page.

The Zeon Colony
The Zeon Colony

Author: Chris Rawlings

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1493187589

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Can we prevent our own extinction? In a familiar timeline from the future, The Zeon Colony continues to follow Crimson Sunflower on his adventures from Planet Zeon to a parallel universe as he strives to help humanity evolve from economic slavery in this highly anticipated sequel to Alternate Realities. The story concludes Crimson's philosophical journey from death in the subconscious to more insights when exploring alternatives by looking at the same problems we face today from a different perspective. This book presents a new philosophy with an imaginative environment that only exists on Planet Zeon and beyond. We might just find that the key to solving current problems could be in the secrets of our very own past.

Neon Nevada
Neon Nevada

Author: Peter Laufer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2011-11-08

Total Pages: 133

ISBN-13: 076277570X

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There is no neon to match Nevada’s. The combination of Wild West mythology and the remaining untamed pitch-black nighttime landscape, replete with real cowboys and real gambling, makes the Silver State a unique and appropriate canvas for neon art. Modern Nevada began with a nonstop desire for riches. It continues for many as a state of dreams often vividly expressed through exploding neon. Neon Nevada brings all this alive. Cameras in hand, authors Sheila Swan and Peter Laufer embarked on their first Nevada neon trek in the 1970s. They followed this up with a second nocturnal treasure hunt in the early 1990s—and a third in 2010, in the course of which they discovered that neon is fading fast; most notably on the Las Vegas Strip. Most of all, though, they realized that their passion for the art and craft of neon had not waned. A compelling blend of full-color photographs and absorbing prose, Neon Nevada takes us on a literal and figurative journey not only down the Las Vegas strip but also down quiet two-lane roads punctuated occasionally with neon signs, those glittering beacons of civilization against the desert night sky. The authors talk with sign owners, with those who created and maintained the neon, and those who collect it.