The Orchid Cage

The Orchid Cage: A Science Fiction Novel  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by hill0 at June 2, 2024
The Orchid Cage: A Science Fiction Novel

The Orchid Cage: A Science Fiction Novel
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031604989 | 156 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 1.2 MB

The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by First1 at April 7, 2019
The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up

The Bullfighter Checks Her Make-Up by Susan Orlean
English | August 31st, 2010 | ISBN: 043400877X | 320 pages | EPUB | 0.44 MB

Susan Orlean's collection of profiles ranges from the well-known (Marky Mark) to the unknown (Colin Duffy, a typical American man, aged ten) to the formerly known (the cult sixties girl group the Shaggs). Orlean meets with Cristina Sanchez, Spain's first fully-qualified female matador, Silly Billy, New York's most successful children's clown, an African king who is a New York taxi-driver, and a champion show dog called Biff, who from a certain angle looks like President Clinton. As in her remarkable bestseller The Orchid Thief, soon to be the basis of Spike Being John Malkovich Jonze's new film, starring Meryl Streep and Nicholas Cage, Orlean's eye for the fascinatingly bizarre and her wonderfully witty way with language make her take on the world utterly original and unique.

Adaptation (2002)  Movies

Posted by fekmax at Feb. 2, 2016
Adaptation (2002)

Adaptation (2002)
English or Spanish (2 audio tracks) | DVDRip | AVI | XviD, 890 Kbps | 608x336 | 25.000 fps | 1.38 GB
Audio: AC-3, 448 Kbps | 6 channels | 48.0 KHz | Runtime: 01:49:57 minutes | Subtitles: Spanish (srt)
Genre: Comedy, Drama

Despite the success of his first produced script, for which he received an Academy Award® nomination for best original screenplay, Charlie Kaufman (Cage) is plagued by insecurities, both in his career and his personal life. When he is hired to adapt The Orchid Thief, a non-fiction book about a fanatical orchid breeder, John Laroche (Cooper), he is completely stumped. Though, on the surface, the book is about Laroche’s flower poaching adventures in the Florida Everglades, on another level it’s also about the desire in all of us to experience passion. This longing plagues the book’s author, Susan Orlean (Streep) and, Charlie realizes, himself as well.
Daniel Kurganov, Constantine Finehouse - Rhythm & the Borrowed Past (2021)

Daniel Kurganov, Constantine Finehouse - Rhythm & the Borrowed Past (2021)
FLAC tracks | 47:04 | 194 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Orchid Classics

Soviet-born American Violinist Daniel Kurganov and Russian-American pianist Constantine Finehouse perform a stunning program of contemporary and 20th-century music by Lera Auerbach, Richard Beaudoin, John Cage and Olivier Messiaen. As Richard Beaudoin argues in his booklet notes, this program is characterized by the powerful sense of rhythm shared by these composers and the performers themselves.

Adaptation (2002)  Movies

Posted by Sartre at Sept. 18, 2014
Adaptation (2002)

Adaptation (2002)
BDRip | MKV | 1hr 54mn | 1920x1040 (1080p) | x264 -> 4500kbps | DTS 5.1 -> 768kbps | 4.24 GB
Comedy-Drama | Language: English | Subtitles: ARA, DAN, ENG, NOR | Uploaded/1Fichier

The creative team behind Being John Malkovich – director Spike Jonze and screenwriter Charlie Kaufman – return with this equally offbeat comedy, in which Kaufman himself becomes the leading character. Charlie Kaufman (Nicolas Cage) is a gifted but profoundly neurotic screenwriter who, after the success of Being John Malkovich, has been hired to write a script adapted from the nonfiction book The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean. But while Charlie is obsessive about his work, he's also intensely paranoid, given to deep depression, socially inept, and terrified of talking to women, qualities which are making it difficult to get on with his work or hold on to his tenuous relationship with girlfriend Amelia (Cara Seymour). Meanwhile, Charlie's identical twin brother, Donald Kaufman (also played by Cage), has shown up to move in with his brother. Emotionally, Donald is Charlie's polar opposite – a loudmouthed, over-confident, superficial party animal who has an easy way with the ladies.
Daniel Kurganov - Rhythm & the Borrowed Past (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/48]

Daniel Kurganov - Rhythm & the Borrowed Past (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/48 kHz | Front Cover & Digital Booklet | Time - 47:04 minutes | 467 MB
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics, Official Digital Download

Soviet-born American Violinist Daniel Kurganov and Russian-American pianist Constantine Finehouse perform a stunning programme of contemporary and 20th-century music by Lera Auerbach, Richard Beaudoin, John Cage and Olivier Messiaen.

Adaptation.  Movies

Posted by at Jan. 19, 2025
Adaptation.

Adaptation. (2002)
Nicolas Cage is Charlie Kaufman, a confused L.A. screenwriter overwhelmed by feelings of inadequacy, sexual frustration, self-loathing, and by the screenwriting ambitions of his freeloading twin brother Donald. While struggling to adapt "The Orchid Thief," by Susan Orlean, Kaufman's life spins from pathetic to bizarre. The lives of Kaufman, Orlean's book, become strangely intertwined as each one's search for passion collides with the others'.
Comedy  Crime  Drama 
Ralph Van Raat - Tan Dun - Piano Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Ralph Van Raat - Tan Dun - Piano Music (2022) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 72:55 minutes | 1,06 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Tan Dun’s originality has been reflected in worldwide recognition of his music, which draws on both Chinese and Western musical languages. The Eight Memories in Watercolor are deft painterly reflections, while in Traces he balances sound with silence in this evocation of nature. The vibrant drama of Blue Orchid incorporates the opening motif of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations.

Ralph van Raat - Tan Dun: Piano Music (2022)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 10, 2022
Ralph van Raat - Tan Dun: Piano Music (2022)

Ralph van Raat - Tan Dun: Piano Music (2022)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:13:04 | 173 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Naxos

Tan Dun’s originality has been reflected in worldwide recognition of his music, which draws on both Chinese and Western musical languages. The Eight Memories in Watercolor are deft painterly reflections, while in Traces he balances sound with silence in this evocation of nature. The vibrant drama of Blue Orchid incorporates the opening motif of Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations.

Coco Tomita, Yume Tomita & Simon Callaghan - Echoes (2024)  Music

Posted by delpotro at Sept. 11, 2024
Coco Tomita, Yume Tomita & Simon Callaghan - Echoes (2024)

Coco Tomita, Yume Tomita & Simon Callaghan - Echoes (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 322 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 180 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:17:42
Classical | Label: Orchid Classics

Following the success of her "head-turning debut" with Orchid Classics in 2022, dynamic young violinist Coco Tomita returns with her new album "Echoes", reuniting with pianist Simon Callaghan in a reflective and intimate exploration of late 19th and 20th century repertoire. Coco first gained widespread recognition as winner of the 2020 BBC Young Musician Strings Category, an event which led to the recording of her debut album, "Origins", which garnered huge critical acclaim and was selected as one of Apple Music's Albums of the Month. She was named as 'One to watch' by Gramophone Magazine and 'Young Classical Star' by Classic FM, while elsewhere her rendition of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" rapidly amassed over 2 million streams as part of Apple Music's Classical Christmas campaign in December 2022.