Films, cinema

Paint by Sticker: Music Icons

Paint by Sticker is the most exciting new idea in activity books, both for grown-ups and kids. A compelling activity for crafters and artists, doodlers and colorers of all ages, each Paint by Sticker book includes everything you need to create twelve vibrant, full-color "paintings." The original images are rendered in low-poly, a computer graphics style using geometric polygon shapes to create a 3D effect. As in paint-by-number, each template is divided into dozens of spaces, each with a number that corresponds to a particular sticker. Find the sticker, peel it, and place it in the right space. Add the next, and the next, and the next--it's an activity that's utterly absorbing, both in the pleasure of peeling and sticking and the growing satisfaction of watching a "painting" come to life, emerging from a flat black-and-white illustration to a dazzling image with color, body, and spirit.Paint by Sticker: Music Icons brings us face-to-face with Elvis, The Beatles, Beyoncé, Katy Perry, David Bowie, Cher, Prince, and other legendary stars.

1. Paul Lang

Eurovision

Paul Lang is a pop-culture writer from the United Kingdom whose earliest Eurovision memory is watching Bucks Fizz win when he was six years old — and he’s seen every show since, usually while telling everyone else in the room to shut up and listen to the songs. By a strange twist of fate he ended up with Gina G as his landlady for ten years, and enjoyed the Contests from 2006–2016 sitting on her actual sofa. If you ask him, he will tell you that his favourite Eurovision act is ABBA, but it’s actually Nicki French.

1. Dave Grohl

The Storyteller

In The Storyteller, een verzameling van gebeurtenissen uit alle periodes van zijn leven, biedt Dave Grohl iets zeldzaams: een echt, rauw en eerlijk portret van een buitengewoon leven bestaande uit alledaagse momenten. Hij schrijft over zijn diepgewortelde liefde voor muziek en zijn collega-muzikanten, zijn hechte verbondenheid met zijn geboorteplaats Springfield, Virginia, en het ontzag dat hij voelt tijdens het opvoeden van zijn dochters. Dave Grohl vertelt verhalen zoals hij liedjes schrijft: vanuit zijn ziel. Over toeren met Scream, toetreden tot Nirvana en alles zien afbrokkelen, de oprichting van Foo Fighters toen zijn leven zich op een kruispunt bevond, het kriskras reizen over de wereld als familieman en zijn heldere perspectief op roem. The Storyteller zit boordevol leven en humor. We kenden Dave Grohl al als een van de meest gewaardeerde muzikanten, maar in dit boek ontpopt hij zich daarnaast als een begaafd en boeiend schrijver.

1. Cameron Crowe

The Uncool

‘A warm-hearted memoir as lively, sentimental and plain envy-inducing as the movie it inspired back in 2,000 … one of the most fascinating sections of the book sees him reunite with David Bowie three decades after their time on the road’ Adam White, Independent ‘Charming, nostalgic, gently revealing … such an enjoyable read… Crowe has a writing style that matches his personality: laid-back and inviting, with flashes of wit’ Thomas W. Hodgkinson,Spectator ‘The Uncool captures an extraordinarily inventive period in which rock music was stretching out in all directions … He succinctly evokes both eccentric characters and the era they represented … Crowe shows that music can sometimes be a key, not only to the deepest aspects of one’s own self, but to the otherwise incomprehensible inner lives of others’ Guardian (Book of the Day) 'Crowe's strongest suit is pen pictures of people, scenes and situations that draw you back to the sights, sounds and, yes indeed, smells, of the music scene of the early 70s … A heartwarming affair' Johnny Sharp,Classic Rock Magazine ‘The book is not a salacious celebrity memoir, but a tender chronicling of his Rolling Stone years, where he earned the trust of musicians and witnessed now-iconic concert moments. He also goes deep on his upbringing and family life, and the time he may or may not have prank-called Lucille Ball’ Rolling Stone ‘A delicious tale of a devotee who worships at the altar of rock and roll … It’s a love letter to fandom, sealed with Cameron’s trademark sincerity and heart’ Maggie Rogers ‘We know his voice: the journalist/adventurer, the cinematic novelist, and now the raconteur of his own literary self. He sculpts and weaves the events of his experience into scenes and language that often turn into something like a manifesto … His clarity of observation and memory, his choice words, his people – Cameron Crowe, wonderfully, continues to serve us’ Wes Anderson

1. Tim Greiving

John Williams

Tim Greiving takes us on a fascinating and insightful journey into the brilliant mind of composer John Williams. Fantastic! I could not put it down.

1. Insight Editions

Wicked: The Ultimate Pop-Up Book

Thank Oz! Discover the wonderful world of Wicked in this stunning pop-up book by world-renowned paper engineer Matthew Reinhart that unfolds and expands to become a 3D map of Oz!