Patently Christmas
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.65 (520 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0452286808 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has photographed for the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Discover, Vogue, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and has had his work displayed in galleries throughout the West. About the Author Richard Ross is an award-winning photographer and professor based in Santa Barbara, California.
"I was not happy with this vendor" according to joni Croll. This book was advertised as new, but it was anything but. They sent an old, creased, worn paperback book that had sticky tape on the back. I emailed them and told them I was unhappy, so they sent another book. It was the same, used, creased and had sticky tape on it. I emailed them and told them to not send another one and that I didn't want a refund. I will not order fromt them again.. "YULE LIKE THIS HOLIDAZE TREAT" according to Alan W. Petrucelli. It's beginning to read a lot like Christmas. The publishers spew out the Yuletide titles, and we read them. And sometimes we weep. In the case of Richard Ross' latest, we laughed. Often. This collection of patent applications --- think Santa Claus detectors, singing elves, inflatable snow people and collapsible, pine-scented fake evergreens, smoke alarms in the shape of haloed angels --- proves what happens when the creativity, curiosity, capitalism of idle wanna inventors collide perhaps sparked by a generous helping of spike. Not worth even the low price on Amazon I like to read about absurdities, and I expected that this book would describe absurd Christmas inventions over the years. This book is nothing more than a collection of patents, without any editorial content at all. So you get to see the mind-numbing diagrams the 'inventors' made, along with their tedious descriptions, just as the patent office received them. Too boring to even attempt to find the humor. An editor should have distilled the jist of each invention and added a little humorous commentary. Don't waste even a few do
He has photographed for the New York Times Magazine, Los Angeles Times Magazine, Discover, Vogue, the J. Richard Ross is an award-winning photographer and professor based in Santa Barbara, California. . Paul Getty Museum, and has had his work displayed in galleries throughout the West
Christmas lovers have a new reason to rejoice! Building on the exhaustive U.S. Like its predecessors, Patently Christmas provides a fascinating glimpse into what happens when creativity, capitalism (and perhaps a small dose of delusion) collide. Patent Office research that spawned the cult classics Patently Ridiculous and Patently Erotic, Richard Ross presents a collection of yuletide patent applications—some puzzling, some insane, all hilarious. Extensively illustrated with the inventors’ own diagrams, Patently Christmas is the perfect stocking stuffer, filled with new and wacky takes on time-honored Christmas traditions.