Posts Tagged ‘French’

Jim Nantz Keeps Mispronouncing Pierre Garçon’s Name

January 24, 2010

Jim Nantz keeps pronouncing Indianapolis Colts receiver Pierre Garçon’s name, “Gar-SONE” with a massive emphasis on the ending as if it rhymes with “phone.” Garçon is pronounced as if the ending rhymes with the French “non.”

Here’s another one:  people always mispronounce “crêpes.”  They say “craypes” as if it rhymes with “grapes.”  But it rhymes with “reps.”

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Art Books for Sale on Amazon

May 25, 2009

In my quest to find the holy grail of books – one that is cheap to buy that I can resell at a great price – I found some really great art books with some really great…art in them.  Here are a few of them.  My prices are the best on amazon.  Please see http://www.amazon.com/shops/mikefrandsen.   

  • The Glass of Lalique by Christopher Vane Percy
  • 18th Century Venetian Drawings from the Correr Museum
  • The Essential Van Gogh – Kroller Muller Museum
  • Paris in New York:  French Jewish Artists in Private Collections edited by Susan Chevlowe
  • The Parthenon Frieze by Ian Jenkins
  • Raphael by James H. Beck
  • Brumidi:  Michelangelo of the U.S. Capitol by Myrtle Murdock
  • Gemaldegalerie Berlin, Prestel Museum Guide
  • Michelangelo Painter by Giovanni Poggi
  • The Essentials of Lettering by French and Meiklejohn
  • Impressions of an Irish Countess:  The Photography of Mary Countess of Rosse by David Davison (signed by Alison, Countess of Rosse)
  • Color Perception in Art by Faber Birren
  • The Blood of Kings:  Dynasty and Ritual in Maya Art by Schele and Miller
  • Modern Masters by David Smith
  • Architectural Beauty in Europe:  Germany, by Stephen Daye Press
  • Angelica Kaufmann by Dorothy Moulton Mayer
  • Indian Miniature Painting by Anjan Chakraverty
  • American Folk Decoration by Jean Lipman
  • La Peinture Prehistorique Lascaux ou la Naissance De L’Art
  • African Majesty by Alan Wilkinson
  • Art of the Western World:  Spanish Painting by Ugo Bicchi
  • 50 Norman Rockwell Favorites by Christopher Finch
  • Piranesi as Designer, Edited by Sarah Lawrence
  • Vasari on Technique by Giorgio Vasari
  • Paintings of Maine, Edited by Arnold Skolnick
  • My Life in Art by Constantin Stanislavski
  • Florentine Renaissance Sculpture by Charles Avery
  • The New Art, Rachmaninoff’s Zoo Art Fair
  • The Pyramids, MR. Luberto
  • This is Photography by Miller and Brummitt