Difference Between the U.S. Pop Music and the Chinese Pop Music

Introduction Pop music is a genre favored by young people. It is termed as a nice cocktail of musical sounds and rhythm (Clines 10). Pop music is the most popular music type nowadays. Rather than appeal to a specific taste, pop music is designed to attract a broad audience. This...

“Crash” Movie: Need for a Fight Against Discrimination

Introduction The diversity of people is to a large extend, the root cause of all conflicts. The fact that people vary in terms of their personalities, race, language, skin color, among others, is a clear implication that their interaction is subject to violence. Paul Haggis’ ‘passion piece’ Crash, set in...

New Emerging Genre Spawned From Hip-Hop and the Music Industry

Introduction The emerging type of hip hop in the United States has spurred a lot of energy in the music industry. Hip hop music is a type of music that has grown close to the hip-hop culture. This type of music is characterized by elements like rapping, sampling, a certain...

Style, Philosophy, Life of Claude Monet

Claude Monet is one of the well-known French painters who created a new understanding of painting and applied new social and cultural principles to painting. Monet represents a movement of impressionism; Critics admit that there is no doubt that Impressionism brought with it an enhancement of the tools and techniques...

‘Crash’: The Film Review

The film ‘Crash’ is symbolic of the perils of a multi-cultural society and the resultant evils of racism attached to it. It is a very strong film, depicting a series of events of the entwined lives of diverse individuals including the Whites, the Blacks, the Asians, the Iranians and the...

Pop Art: Artists, Ideas, Works

Introduction Pop art is the short form of Popular Art, which is an imaging fine art society. “Pop Art was a visual art movement that emerged in the 1950s in Britain and the United States.” (Moffat). It is distinguished by topics as well as performances absorbed from the well-known customs...

Frank Zappa: Composer & Social Critic

Introduction Frank Zappa’s extravagant 200 Motels is a film that so much differs from what one is used to see during a normal movie viewing that the first emotions it brings about are confusion, embarrassment, astonishment and perplexity. Such is the psychedelic power of it that the viewer is swept...

How Can the House Be the Part of the Nature?

Architecture is one of the types of art which often amaze people with its creativity and grandeur. Modern buildings may also astonish by their design and architectural decisions. Considering two modern buildings Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater, which was built in 1935 – 1936, and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye, the years...

Lighting Between Art and Science in Hotel Lobby

The design of the hotel lobby is usually developed in accordance with the standards combining aesthetics and luxury of comfort. Lighting is considered to be a very important and powerful design tool affecting the emotions and crafting the space; the appropriate development of lighting in a lobby design is one...

An Office’s Site Management and Engineering

Site Plan Comments FL – Fire Ladder S – Security and reception WC – Water Closet Creative Department – creative director – Conference hall – Designer – Web Designer – Creative Team – HR manager – Accounting department – Client Support Service – Photo studio – Media Team – IT...

Lighting Design: Strategies and Losses

The lighting design is an important element of the architecture, and when related to dining places, lighting can be considered as the most important design feature, drawing the attention and stimulating particular moods. Addressing the various innovations and strategies in lighting design in the last years, it can be stated...

Car Park Description

Car Park – Basic Description Qatar, also popularly known as the educational hub, has a number of parking spaces, the busiest being the ABP front car Park. The reason I chose to describe this car park located in front of the Academic Bridge Program is that I have always seen...

Garden Cities of Tomorrow by Ebenezer Howard

Historical perspective of people’s settlement The modern world is full of innovations and people are not surprised by anything, they have used to the big stream of information and inventions, and do not react actively to some new concepts and ideas about social organizations. Life 100 years ago was different:...

Sub-Contract Management With Construction

Introduction The main form of subcontracting lies with regard to agreement between parties – Employer Company, main contractor or, in other words, works contractor and Sub-contractor who is assigned specific duties by the works, or management contractor. It needs to be said, that it is not the responsibility of the...

Dublin Docklands’ Regeneration and Public Opinion

Introduction Dublin Docklands has become an important cornerstone of Dublin city in recent years with the rapid restructuring that has taken place in the last twenty years. Essentially, the depressed city of Dublin in the last two decades has dramatically been transformed through rapid regeneration, and through development of Dublin,...

Landscape Designer Lancelot “Capability” Brown

Introduction The magnificent and marvelous world of architecture provides mankind with vividness and versatile images of beautiful implementation of creative thought. In this respect, the works of many outstanding architects did not fall into oblivion. Furthermore, the research on the most eminent architects in buildings and landscape of Great Britain...

A Jazz Pianist – Bill Evans. His Contribution to the Music Industry

Introduction Music is an important aspect of our daily life as it can be heard or played in any event. This art incorporates several components including the rhythm, pitch, sonic characteristic of texture and dynamics. In this light, most people choose the kind of music they want to listen to:...

Planning and Development History in New York City

Introduction The building of towns and cities has protracted compound accounts across the world. Urban development as a controlled vocation has only been in existence for less than a century, most cities have a variation of foresight and awareness in designing their layout and implementation. Urban life and diversity have...

Sustainable Silk as Natural Fibers Used in Interior Design

The silk fiber is among the luxurious fabrics such as cashmere, mohair, and others. It is a natural fiber that comes from silkworms which feed exclusively on mulberry leaves to produce the fiber. This paper will look at the historical background of silk and its uses in interior design. Silk...

Postmodern Urbanism and Urban Development

Introduction Urbanism is the study of urban areas taking into consideration their economic, physical, political and social characteristics. Urbanism goes further to talk of the effects caused by the manmade environment on the socio-political and economic conditions of these areas. One view of urbanism is that traditional urban areas are...

Claude Monet: Biography of the Famous Artist

Biography Claude Monet was born in Paris, France, in the year 1940 as the second born son of Claude Adolphe and Louise Justine Monet, who both belonged to the second generation Parisians. He was baptized at Notre -Dame-de-Lorette, a local parish church as Oscar Claude. His family moved to Le...

First Film: Director’s Experience and Adventure

“Experience is the teacher of all things.” – Julius Caesar. A film director has the potential to influence many people through media (Irving and Rea xv). However, influencing others’ lives wouldn’t be very effective if there were no experiences involved – experiences that shape a person as he grows, experiences...

“Thrilled to Be Here” by NY-Based Familial Trio Bailen

26 April 2019 (San Francisco, CA) – Talented musicians and fraternal twins Daniel and David Bailen, along with their similarly gifted younger sister Julia Bailen, have already performed a fair share of successful live performances in their hometown and other U.S. cities and won the hearts of many music lovers...

World Music Appreciation: Music of Latin America

People have used music as a form of expression since the dawn of humankind. The tradition to apply sounds to convey emotions and meaning evolved together with civilizations. Music is deeply rooted in the cultures of all nations, and it is interconnected with other processes that take place in society,...

Kodak Company’s Strategy in Context

The Eastman Kodak company (colloquially known as Kodak) is an American company specializing in imagery recording and film technology. For the past 100 years, it pioneered innovation in photography by developing affordable portable cameras and supplying various consumables and accessories to enable their work. It has been the first company...

The Power of Art

Introduction In antiquity, art was used not only for expressing people’s talents and creativity but also to convey some important messages. One of such types of messages was the expression of political power through art. Two of the works that seem to have born political meaning very clearly are Augustus...

Context and Building in Architecture

Introduction In this paper, I will expound on the relationship between context and building. The study will be in three parts. In the first part, I would define the concept of context and its relationship with architecture. In the second part, I will highlight the role of context in architectural...

Leonardo Da Vinci, His Life and Art

Introduction Leonardo da Vinci is usually regarded as an artistic genius who possessed great ability in art and understanding of the human physical features and natural sciences as depicted in his art. Leonardo da Vinci was also an accomplished musician and scientist. No other artist of his generation had such...

Understanding Prominent Artist Creations

Richard Hamilton – Interior II A single look at the Interior II is enough to realize how clever and subtle the use of space and perspective is. Very sloppy and rough at the first glance, Interior II reveals a range of subtle ideas. The unique perspective of the picture stresses...

Ancient India and Greece Sculptures Comparison

Introduction The stylized elements that define the physical characteristics inherent in a work of art, such as a sculpture, are often the result of aesthetic and cultural influences from the society that the sculptor is a part of (Sayre, 2015). Evidence of this can be seen in the sheer variety...