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Point Suite Art Book
The Point Suite Contemporary Art Book is a unique endeavor created and produced by artists Annika Connor and Nicholas Papadakis to document and share the artworks of their extended community. Featuring a wide array of local and international painters, sculptors, print makers, and photographers The Point Suite Contemporary Art Book presents the art of the next generation of up and coming artists. Capturing an idea, a conversation, a moment in time, is something all artists seek to do.
Toni Morrison says, "If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it." The Point Suite Fine Art Book is Active Ideas Productions answer to that challenge.
Point Suite is a professional and exciting venue for emerging artists to exhibit their art, and AI Productions thanks all parties contributing for their support with this publication, and invites all interested supporters to contact us with donations of time, assistance, or finances.
Nicholas Papadakis
The works in this ongoing series of metaphorical portrait paintings strive to capture signature moments in the lives of people with whom I'm familiar. Those moments — that in a flash of recognition remind us of the individual's unique charm (and often times reveal life-changing states of mind) — are ultimately expressions of universal human qualities.
Annika Connor
Conjuring extraordinary scenes of visual decadence, Annika Connor's paintings reflect her continued fascination with moments of extreme beauty in our contemporary world. In shimmering, radiant jewel-tones, her watercolors invite the viewer into everyday but exceptional encounters - through sun-dappled forests, past daffodil-strewn fields, across a neighbor's deserted yard and into a maze of rococo interiors.
Active Ideas Productions Audiobooks
Friday Night Knife & Gun Club is a short nurse noir thriller written by Linda Collison with narration and cover art by Annika Connor.
Publisher’s Summary:
"The Friday Night Knife & Gun Club is a short story absurdist fiction, a noir thriller about a shooter in an urban hospital in the American West. Annika Connor, as Kit Carson, RN, narrates the story as her shift from hell unfolds. Collison calls the story a fictional memoir, as much of it is based on incidents in her own life as a single mother and nurse working the night shift in Denver area hospitals. “It’s a satirical statement of the current culture of gun violence in America,” the author says. “I wrote the first draft in a response to the Newtown school shootings. Unfortunately, it’s becoming less fictional every day.”
Linda Collison, who sometimes publishes as L.S.Collison, is the author of novels, essays, short fiction, and screenplays. Her novel Star-Crossed was a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age – 2007. Collison worked more than a decade in Denver hospitals as a registered nurse.”
Friday Night Knife & Gun Club is the first of a series of “nurse noir” fiction from L.S. Collison and Annika Connor. The audio drama is available from Audible.com, Amazon, and iTunes.
Gun up, download -- then get ready for a Friday night shift from hell.
50 Things to Know Before Having a Baby is a quick listen. This is a short list of helpful things for an expectant Mom to know written by Lisa Rusczyk with cover art and narration by Annika Connor.
Publisher's Summary:
“Ask yourself the question... How much do you know about having a baby? This is a collection of 50 simple tips that any pregnant woman would like to know before having a baby.
The audiobook offers practical, timeless tips including organization tips, advice for visiting the doctor’s office, and things a pregnant woman should learn or complete before the new bundle of joy arrives.
A great, quick listen for a soon-to-be new mom or someone who is helping a soon-to-be mom! The audiobook also includes tools including website resources, baby feeding and diaper schedules, mom medicine schedule, babysitter sheet, short hospital bag checklist, after recovery kit, baby medicine basket items, and 10 things to know when traveling with a baby.”
Playing Doctor is written by Allison Gatta and narrated by Annika Connor.
Publisher’s Summary:
“High-powered executive Felicia Webb went on the company retreat to Hawaii for one reason: To win over her new boss. Well, that and to finally score the promotion she’s had her eye on for a solid two years now. Still, grabbing the boss’ attention may be easier said than done when a freak accident forces her into the hospital…and the arms of the handsome doctor hell-bent on showing her just how screwed up her priorities are.
Trey Patterson is determined to live a life without complications. Now that he’s moved away from the big city and settled on the laid-back island of Oahu, he’s made some pretty big changes to his life—the biggest of which is his new no-dating policy. Still, when a fiery redhead practically falls into his lap, it’s all he can do to control his anything-but-hands-off urges.”