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Condizione: New.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Trade paperback. Condizione: Good. Bruce Bulger (Drawings) and Robert Drennan (Cover (illustratore). First Printing [stated]. 154, [6] pages. Illustrations. Cover has some wear and soiling. This is a fantastic "hip" travel guide for hitchhiking in the United States. This is a somewhat hard to find book, and it is a great example of the hippie ethic. Hitchhiking (also known as thumbing, autostop or hitching) is a means of transportation that is gained by asking individuals, usually strangers, for a ride in their car or other vehicle. The ride is usually, but not always, free. Hitchhikers use a variety of signals to indicate they need a ride. Indicators can be physical gestures or displays including written signs.[1] The physical gestures, e.g., hand signals, hitchhikers use differ around the world. The hitchhiker typically extends their arm towards the road with the thumb of the closed hand pointing upward or in the direction of vehicle travel. Hitchhiking is historically a common practice worldwide and hence there are very few places in the world where laws exist to restrict it. However, a minority of countries have laws that restrict hitchhiking at certain locations. In all countries in Europe, it is legal to hitchhike and in some places even encouraged. However, worldwide, even where hitchhiking is permitted, laws forbid hitchhiking where pedestrians are banned. Hitchhikers have started efforts to strengthen their community. Examples include the annual Hitchgathering, an event organized by hitchhikers, for hitchhikers, and websites such as hitchwiki, which are platforms for hitchhikers to share tips and provide a way of looking up good hitchhiking spots around the world. Bruce Bulger wants to capture beauty. To this end, he is a custom woodworker and fine artist based in Deer Isle, Maine. Bruce's furniture is influenced by classic English and early American work, but he is not a reproductionist; his furniture is functional, and, moreover, says Bruce, "It's influenced by my idea of what's beautiful." Working with native lumberâ"Maine pine and maple, Adirondack cherryâ"he seeks to preserve the beauty and feel of wood. "When a piece is done," he says, "It has to stand in space on its own; it has to be beautiful." Bruce brings the same sensibility to his drawing and painting. The flowing curves in his table legs echo the curves in his charcoal and watercolor figure drawings. While his drawings primarily depict nude figures, his oil paintings portray natureâ"rocks, trees, and landscapes. "I'm trying to capture the moment," Bruce says of his paintings, "It's about capturing the beauty of where you are." A Connecticut native, Bruce Bulger graduated from the Philadelphia College of Arts with the intention of becoming a medical illustrator. But his interests took him elsewhere. "Figure drawing took over," says Bruce. "Figure became the emphasis." In the nineteen-seventies, Bruce moved to Deer Isle, where he began to build his own house, applying his drawing skills to the geometric challenges of carpentry. "I learned the ability to draft the vision, and create the vision," he says. This led him to cabinetry; soon, he was creating commission furniture pieces. After two years of working from home, Bruce moved his studio to his present location, the former Deer Isle High School building in downtown Deer Isle. The building's second floor holds his paintings and drawings; downstairs, he maintains an extensive cabinetry shop along with a small gallery. Over his 30 years of work, Bruce Bulger has built hundreds of commission pieces for clients throughout New England and the United States; he has built tables, cabinets, beds, chairs and grandfather clocks. Likewise, his paintings and drawings have been shown at many Maine galleries. All of his work begins as a vision; this vision is translated into a drawing, a painting, or a piece of furniture. The goal, says Bruce, is to portray beauty, and "the excitement of something unique.

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