Delve deeper into the secret society of assassins with the sequel to the blockbuster action-adventure game. Assassins Creed 2 is an epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal, backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci, takes on Florences most powerful families and ventures throughout the canals of Venice where he learns to become a master assassin. This game retains the core gameplay experience that made the first opus a resounding success and features new experiences that will surprise and challenge players.

When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetras daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.

Delve deeper into the secret society of assassins with the sequel to the blockbuster action-adventure game. Assassins Creed 2 is an epic story of family, vengeance and conspiracy set in the pristine, yet brutal, backdrop of a Renaissance Italy. Ezio befriends Leonardo da Vinci, takes on Florences most powerful families and ventures throughout the canals of Venice where he learns to become a master assassin.

When a murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, Robert Langdon, and Mr. Vetras daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for a secret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around the Vatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire and Water. An Assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured four cardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also are searching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.

Painting Landscapes with David Dunlop - TUSCANY
Davidcontinues his series of painting DVDs with an introduction to painting alandscape in oil. In this 90-minute DVD, David visits the ancientcountryside of Tuscany near the town of Artimino. The DVD has twodifferent demonstrations: (1) a panoramic view of the scenery across avalley near Vinci, close to the trail walked by Leonardo da Vinci on histrips to Florence, and (2) an olive grove near Artinio overlooking achurch and a village.
David diagrams each scene and completes a pleinair painting, discussing the Macchiaoli, or Italian Impressionists whopainted in the early 1900s. David also provides a historicalperspective of that era.

Its 1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned to investigate the disappearance of a patient from Bostons Shutter Island Ashecliffe Hospital. Hes been pushing for an assignment on the island for personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasnt been brought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whose radical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downright sinister. Teddys shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promising lead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects would break the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with the mainland, more dangerous criminals "escape" in the confusion, and the puzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything - his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Painting Landscapes with David Dunlop - TUSCANY
David continues his series of painting DVDs with an introduction to painting a landscape in oil. In this 90-minute DVD, David visits the ancient countryside of Tuscany near the town of Artimino. The DVD has two different demonstrations: (1) a panoramic view of the scenery across a valley near Vinci, close to the trail walked by Leonardo da Vinci on his trips to Florence, and (2) an olive grove near Artinio overlooking a church and a village.

Whena murder of a physicist, Leonardo Vetra, finds a symbolist, RobertLangdon, and Mr. Vetras daughter, Vittoria, on an adventure for asecret brotherhood, The Illuminati. Clues lead them all around theVatican, including the four alters of science, Earth, Air, Fire andWater. An Assassin, working for the Illuminati, has captured fourcardinals, and murders each, painfully. Robert and Vittoria also aresearching for a new very destructive weapon that could kill millions.

Its1954, and up-and-coming U.S. marshal Teddy Daniels is assigned toinvestigate the disappearance of a patient from Bostons Shutter IslandAshecliffe Hospital. Hes been pushing for an assignment on the islandfor personal reasons, but before long he wonders whether he hasnt beenbrought there as part of a twisted plot by hospital doctors whoseradical treatments range from unethical to illegal to downrightsinister. Teddys shrewd investigating skills soon provide a promisinglead, but the hospital refuses him access to records he suspects wouldbreak the case wide open. As a hurricane cuts off communication with themainland, more dangerous criminals escape in the confusion, and thepuzzling, improbable clues multiply, Teddy begins to doubt everything -his memory, his partner, even his own sanity.

Leonardo DaVinci was revered for his technical ingenuity and love of engineering. During his lifetime, he managed to produce some 13,000 pages of diagrams, drawings, and notes which combined art and science. He devised many contraptions and engineering wonders ahead of his time, and many which could not be built with the materials and science of the day, including hydraulic pumps, crank mechanisms, and even a steam cannon.

Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobbs rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has ever loved. Now Cobb is being offered a chance at redemption. One last job could give him his life back but only if he can accomplish the impossible-inception. Instead of the perfect heist, Cobb and his team of specialists have to pull off the reverse: their task is not to steal an idea but to plant one. If they succeed, it could be the perfect crime. But no amount of careful planning or expertise can prepare the team for the dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy that only Cobb could have seen coming.

A MINIMALISTIC CINEMATIC EXPERIMENTAL DARK POP TRIP. After the highly respected debut full length “Without the World” and her first European tour in 2011 BIRDS OF PASSAGE (“the new rising star of experimental minimalistic dark pop”) from New Zealand now is back with her second act. It’s a cinematic concept album she recorded together with LEONARDO ROSADO from Portugal. “DEAR AND UNFAMILIAR is a technicolor soundtrack that traces a vivid path through darkened desolate dunes. Stories of forgotten tragedies and unrequited love liberate the journeyman from reveries of misery and guide the wanderer through contrasting landscapes of dysphoria and ecstasy.” Mastered by NILS FRAHM. Artwork done again by BRUNO MERZ. The album should equally please fans of COCTEAU TWINS, PORTISHEAD as those of JONSI & ALEX or ZOLA JESUS.

Fortunately Alicia currently already works on her next solo full length and a single which will feature a long collaboration track with AIDAN BAKER (NADJA, INFINITE LIGHT LTD.) – the atmospheric journey will continue soonish

Leonardo da Vinci broke the mould of medieval thinkers. Or did he? Startling new evidence suggests da Vinci was not the revolutionary engineer legend has portrayed him as.

A biography of the Aeronautical Engineer, and artistically talented Anatomist, Leonardo da Vinci.
Today most people remember Leonardo for his few surviving anatomically correct works of art. They forget that Leonardo spent most of his life experimenting and designing automated machines. He constantly observed the mechanics of nature. He dissected human bodies, carefully recording the workings of muscles and organs. He studied optics, sound and light, gravity, heliocentric celestial mechanics, physical geology, fluid dynamics, and especially the flight of birds. Leonardo believed that machines could be built, using levers, gears, and pulleys, that could reproduce the efforts of men, birds, and fish; and be used to create huge civil engineering projects. Some of his unique creations, designed years before the birth of their famous so-called "inventors", included pre-fabricated housing, practical indoor plumbing, armored cars, machine guns, armor clad ships, submarines, lenses, mechanical music machines, robots, transmission gears, roller bearings, brakes, streamlining, aeroplane propellers, parachutes, and gliders.