Sentences with phrase «working as an amateur»

As an artist, she engages in genre - bending performance, installation, writing creative non-fiction, and working as an amateur private eye.

Not exact matches

Thinking about the sports - media market as a supply - and - demand problem probably also pushed Bleacher Report toward its original business model, which relied heavily on amateur bloggers producing prodigious amounts of work.

Security experts who looked at the app, known as ByLock, at the request of Reuters said it appeared to be the work of amateur software developers and had left important information about its users unencrypted.

Then, while working as a paint salesman, Palmer quickly got his game back in order and won the 1954 U.S. Amateur Championship.

I am sure that by this time next year, when the man gets up to teach all the amateur fisherman who have never caught a fish about the miracle - working wonders of this prayer, he will have some stories to tell them about me, and how I prayed five times a day, and as a result, caught the biggest fish the world and the most fish all in one day.

Coming as it does from one who considers himself an outsider and an amateur in regard to process thought, his essay nevertheless, or precisely for that reason, provides those of us working on «process hermeneutics» with illuminating analysis and criticism.

As so often happens, the great discovery was the work of amateurs.

In her considerable spare time she went to work on her credentials: She enrolled at UCLA as a political science major; she founded the Women's Sports Foundation with King and served as its president for seven years; she worked on various Olympic committees; she lobbied for, and helped frame, the Amateur Athletic Act of 1974; and she got involved in the Special Olympics.

If Otani is not subject to international amateur bonus limits, and is posted through the working agreement MLB has with NPB in Japan, Otani would have 30 days to negotiate with any team as a major league free agent, and if he reached an agreement, that team would be required to pay a posting fee to the Nippon Ham Fighters, most likely at the maximum $ 20 million allowed.

He feels like a Jim Ross hire from the early 2000s as he was a successful college athlete with a legitimate amateur wrestling background, and someone comfortable working with other alpha males in a locker room.

I got to talking with Bob Spagnola, who'd been an amateur fighter and was working as an accountant for Pennzoil, and he said, «You seem to know what you're looking at.»

Recently married and hard at work as associate editor of Golf magazine, she will not compete in this year's Amateur.

The longest - running exhibition of African - American art in the U.S. features more than 100 dynamic works of art from amateur and professional African - American artists from around the nation, as well as a youth category which features work by a dozen area high school artists.

I'm a compulsive amateur photographer and I also work from home as a writer.

Supporters of amateur boxing state that the sport is beneficial to participants by providing exercise, self - discipline, self - confidence, character development, structure, work ethic, and friendships.14 For some disadvantaged youth, boxing is a preferential alternative to gang - related activity, providing supervision, structure, and goals.14 The overall risk of injury in amateur boxing seems to be lower than15 in some other collision sports such as football, ice hockey, wrestling, and soccer.4, 16 However, unlike these other collision sports, boxing encourages and rewards direct blows to the head and face.

well said, all the media attacking the internet and bloggers, leave it the professionals with editors they say, as if that ever stopped them before, all involved weren't just amateur bloggers but political activists / public relations people who worked for the partys at one time.

More discoveries, and papers with amateurs as authors, are in the works.

Scientists may also be recruited to work with more junior athletes in specific training centres, colleges and universities with sports programmes, as well as semiprofessional and amateur sports teams.

But as Johnson explained here today at the 219th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, that all changed thanks to British amateur astronomer Kevin Apps, who is working closely with the Kepler science team.

These high - brow amateurs included a teacher, a priest (albeit one who as a kid took part in the Mathematical Olympiads) and a math Ph.D. who now works in computing.

She earned her doctorate in mathematics from the University of Oxford in 1945, worked as a part - time math instructor for several years, served in local government, including as Lord Mayor of Manchester, and became a dedicated amateur astronomer after her husband died.

«An amateur astrophotographer wouldn't be very impressed by these images, but they show that Junocam is correctly aligned and working just as we expected», said Mike Caplinger, Junocam systems engineer.

enthused amateur image processor Kevin Gill, who works as a science data software engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

As a working professional and a competitive amateur triathlete, mentally, her class and teachings have grounded me in a way that I have never experienced before.

For a non professional though I don't reducing training amount would work (might improve health but not race results) as amateurs training time is often interrupted / limited and not consistent on a year by year basis as per a professional.

As I was telling my friend who is an artist why I stopped blogging, she simply held up her hand and said, «Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.»

Jacob's work has been published in well known photography publications both in the UK and worldwide such as Digital Camera, Amateur Photographer, Tutti Fotografi and N - Photo.

Sometime during my awkward high school years, probably drooling over the spreads of Teen Vogue, I realized this park would work as a pretty darn cute backdrop for my amateur «fashion photography,» if you can even call it that.

Jacob's work has been published in well known photography publications both in the UK and worldwide such as Digital Camera, Amateur Photographer, Tutti Fotografi and N - Photo.

He worked as a farm implement salesmen in his late teens before turning his hobby of amateur theatricals into a lifelong profession.

The most prominent characters include Haven Hamilton (Henry Gibson), a socially conservative, arrogant country music star; Linnea Reese (Lily Tomlin), a gospel singer and mother of two deaf children; Del Reese (Ned Beatty), her lawyer husband and Hamilton's legal representative, who works as the local political organizer for the Tea Party - like Hal Philip Walker Presidential campaign; Opal (Geraldine Chaplin), an insufferably garrulous and pretentious BBC Radio reporter on assignment in Nashville, or so she claims; talented but self - involved sex - addict Tom Frank (Keith Carradine), one - third of a moderately successful folk trio who's anxious to launch a solo career; John Triplette (Michael Murphy), the duplicitous campaign consultant who condescendingly tries to secure top Nashville stars to perform at a nationally - syndicated campaign rally; Barbara Jean (Ronee Blakley), the emotionally - fragile, beloved Loretta Lynn - like country star recovering from a burn accident; Barnett (Allen Garfield), Barbara Jean's overwhelmed manager - husband; Mr. Green (Keenan Wynn), whose never - seen ailing wife is on the same hospital ward as Barbara Jean; groupie Martha (Shelley Duvall), Green's niece, ostensibly there to visit her ailing aunt but so personally irresponsible that she instead spends all her time picking up men; Pfc. Glenn Kelly (Scott Glenn), who claims his mother saved Barbara Jean's life but who mostly seems obsessed with the country music star; Sueleen Gay (Gwen Welles), a waitress longing for country music fame, despite her vacuous talent; Bill and Mary (Allan F. Nicholls and Cristina Raines), the other two - thirds of Tom's folk act, whose ambition overrides constant personal rancor; Winifred (Barbara Harris), another would - be singer - songwriter, fleeing to Nashville from her working - class husband, Star (Bert Remsen); Kenny Frasier (David Hayward), a loner who rents a room from Mr. Green and carries around a violin case; Bud Hamilton (Dave Peel), the gentle, loyal son of the abrasive Hamilton; Connie White (Karen Black), a glamorous country star who is a last - minute substitute for Barbara Jean at the Grand Old Opry; Wade Cooley (Robert DoQui), a cook at the airport restaurant where Sueleen works as a waitress and who tries unsuccessfully to convince her that she has no talent; and the eccentric Tricycle Man (Jeff Goldblum), who rides around in a three - wheel motorcycle, occasionally interacting with the other characters, showing off his amateur magic tricks, but who has no dialogue.

DAVID CRONENBERG»S EARLY WORKS: BLU - RAY DISC 3 AND DVD DISC 4 [LIMITED EDITION EXCLUSIVE]: • High Definition Blu - ray (1080p) and Standard Definition DVD presentation of four Cronenberg films • Transfer (1966) & From the Drain (1967), Cronenberg's previously unavailable short films newly restored by the Toronto International Film Festival [7 & 12 mins] • Stereo (1969) & Crimes of the Future (1970): Cronenberg's early amateur feature films, shot in and around his university campus, prefigure his later work's concerns with strange institutions (much like Videodrome's Spectacular Optical) as well as male / female separation (Dead Ringers) and ESP (Scanners).

Emily Blunt and Amy Adams have a few things to say, but most of the featurette is given over to Marie FitzGerald & Dana Hooper of A&M Bio-Recovery, who talk about their work and its intersection with their personal lives, as well as how the film gets it right and finds the funny side of their work (basically, what happens when it's done by amateurs).

For the most part, the amateurs hold their own, although the first half of the picture — focusing on the younger versions of the lovers — is more potent and inventive than the second half, which becomes more rigid as it works overtime to follow the dictates of the source material.

Now he comes across as a rank amateur with no idea how to make Enduring Love work.

Dean, the son of a janitor who played music, is himself an amateur musician who works (in the flashbacks) as a removal man and (in the present) as a painter - decorator.

The award «recognizes high quality professional production in a variety of content categories, as well as in student and amateur works,» according to CINE.

The Corvette makes you feel like a superstar on slithering, open back roads — it flatters the talented as well as the amateur willing to work a bit but it certainly won't suffer fools.

I speak as an amateur writer who is now seeing all chances of ever getting any monies from my time and work evaporating, so it's fair to say I'm anti-Kindle type devices.

For every one of Andy Weir's «The Martian,» there have to be 100 military SF, zombie or dystopia amateur hours masquerading as finished works.

Frazier grew up in Hudson, Ohio - his father worked as a chemist for Sohio, and his mother was an amateur actor, performing and directing plays in local Ohio theaters.

She currently works as a freelancer and amateur baking enthusiast — Harms can make a lot of things, but not clafoutis.

It is supported by its own library touted as the «YouTube» of eBooks where both amateur and professional writers can share content by uploading their published and unpublished works for readers to download, and there are tons of fiction short stories, fantasies, science fiction, romance, etc., that you won't find in Kindle or Nook sites.

If you design your own cover, you might think it looks great, and some of your friends might think the same, but many people with a genuine design sensibility will instantly recognize it as the work of an amateur.

After years of amateur film - making and writing short fiction, he journeyed to Hollywood in 1976 where he quickly found work writing scripts for such major television series as Hill Street Blues, Cagney & Lacey, and Miami Vice, as well as numerous series pilots and Movies - of - the - Week for the major networks.

Even in a populous country such as China, you can only have so many amateur translators who are willing to do free but difficult work for titles they may not even like.

Lately, he's worked as a ghostwriter and biographer, having recently penned biographies for two WW II veterans, one of which, We Were Amateur Soldiers, won an RPLA.

As a copy editor of mostly books and magazines, I regularly hear amateur authors especially tell me they're afraid of someone stealing their work.

«One of the best editors I know got started as an amateur reading my work for free,» I said.

I did this at an amateur level and as is always the case it didn't work out at all.