Gary Rogowski

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Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction

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Produktbeschreibung

In an era when there are countless competing claims on one's attention, how does one find the internal focus to be creative? For master furniture craftsman Gary Rogowski, the answer is in the act of creative work itself. The discipline of working with one's hands to create unnecessarily beautiful things shapes the builder into a more complete human being.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Linden Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610353243
• Artikelnr.: 50027924

Autorenporträt

Gary Rogowski is a furniture maker, designer, teacher and author. Since 1974 he has built public and private furniture commissions for clients and galleries nationwide. He was a contributing editor for Fine Woodworking Magazine for fourteen years and has written hundreds of articles and several books, including the best-selling Complete Illustrated Guide to Joinery. He is also a playwright, novelist, and essayist. Rogowski has taught and lectured throughout the United States and in the United Kingdom, Iceland, and Germany. In 2015, he gave the first-ever lecture in English at the Ecole Boulle in Paris. Rogowski is the founder and director of The Northwest Woodworking Studio, A School for Woodworkers, in Portland, Oregon. In 2015 he founded a nonprofit organization, Woodworking Ideas Northwest (WIN) to mentor high school students at the bench

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
PREAMBLE
Introduction
Education Works!
Beliefs
ACT ONE: DISCOVERY AND SURPRISE
CHAPTER ONE: The Smell of Sawdust
Abner Ridge
CHAPTER TWO: The Scientists
Snow Camping
CHAPTER THREE: Jake the Mechanic
Lost at the Bench
CHAPTER FOUR: Something Useless and Beautiful
Pine Mt. Trail
CHAPTER FIVE: Beginner's Mind
Choosing a Route
CHAPTER SIX: Learning Curve
Humility and Arrogance
CHAPTER SEVEN: The Valiant Plywood Rack
Rooster Rock
CHAPTER EIGHT: Expectations
Mountain Side
CHAPTER NINE: The Magician Distracts
The Pencil
ACT TWO: PRACTICE
CHAPTER TEN: A Hundred Shoes a Day
Daisy Plain
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Don't Do It!
Angels Rest
CHAPTER TWELVE: Discipline and Practice
Thinking by Walking
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: You See It?
Birthday Hike
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: What We Can Agree Upon No quote
Bench Mark
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: The Psychic Network
Pacific Heights Library
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: Ruby's Knees
Sur Mt.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: The Center of the Universe
Backside Trail
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: The Oak Beams of New College
Damn Right, A Prayer
ACT THREE: MASTERY AND FORGIVENESS
CHAPTER NINETEEN: The Problem at the Bench
Pete French Round Barn
CHAPTER TWENTY: Letters to Molly
The Road to Mastery
CHAPTER TWENTY ONE: Don't Think
Abner Ridge
CHAPTER TWENTY TWO: Tools Have Magic
Borrowing My Chisel
CHAPTER TWENTY THREE: Forgiveness
Shadows
Letter to Wheaton