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“…That’s when I understood that in the same way as all brooks, creeks, and rivers are eventually falling into an ocean, all stories of our life, all these touching loves, worrying fights, exhausting labour, joys and sufferings are sooner or later turning to one eternal tale of the struggle between Good and Bad, between Virtue and Evil.”
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Andrew (Andrew Praiseword),
from the Introduction to his book of poetry
Mama, I Will Never Do a Crime (2007).
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Andrew Praiseword Publishing is registered in the Canadian ISBN Publishers Directory. This is small publishing house making its first steps and oriented on poetry and fine arts. The first release of the Andrew Praiseword Publishing is the owner’s book of poetry Admirer of Beauty.
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admirer of Beauty
andrew Praiseword
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Book of poetry, Andrew Praiseword Publishing, Toronto, 2010,
67 pages with colour illustrations, ISBN 978-0-9867350-0-4.
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| Admirer of Beauty, a new book of poetry by Andrew Praiseword, first front cover (left) and its magnified fragment (right) |
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A new book of poetry by Andrew Praiseword is now available. It is called Admirer of Beauty after one of its poems. Andrew Praiseword is the creator of the lyrics and the editor. (The author of nearly corresponding to the poetry’s level stunning cover design, artworks, photographs, and typesetting is Andrew Praiseworthy.)
The book’s initial concept was intended as blend of poetry and fine arts. Its inside consisting of 36 poems, one photograph, one photo collage, one coloured drawing, and many black and white drawings (pencil and digital) takes 67 pages, not counting introductory part. The verses include such hits as "Poetical Philosophy," "Come on, Amadeus," "The Rock," "Making the Lines," "Rating Lists," and “Bad is worse than Good is better…” Fine art styled cover, featuring a portrait of Socrates whose images were mostly available in sculpture before, demanded two pages (glossy, 40 or 80 lb each) to become consistent. The main, "the portrait page" is hidding under the “intriguing” first cover page, presented above.
Similarly to the Andrew’s first book this one is also saddle-sewn, but what distinguishes it - is absolutely flat spin with usual title and name (very first release of Mama, I Will Never Do a Crime of September 2007 did not have the information); so Admirer of Beauty will not be confused and won’t be lost on your book rack.
The suggested retail price of CAD $17.50-19.95 is mostly based on the value of manufacturing. The design and the available technique are expensive. You can order the book (or 1-3 packages of twenty volumes; 112 g, 13.9 cm x 21.6 cm each volume) to be delivered to you by mail right now.
Please, send your email request to andriypo ‘at’ gmail ‘dot’ com or leave your contact information at …1-416-763-9916 (voice mail). It is good idea to do both. Payment must be made by postal money order or similar.
First published on October 23, 2010
Minor editing on October 25, 2010
Minor editing on December 28, 2010
Minor editing on January 6, 2011
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Poetical Philosophy
(Fragment of the poem included into Admirer of Beauty):
...Rains,
they sound the same
in a downfall or raise.
Close your eyes and you'll get
to your favourite place.
Then don't open - because
magic will disappear.
Let me keep my eyes closed
and continue
to see...
July 13, 2008
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
© Andrew Praiseword, 2008. All rights reserved
The Flower
(Fragment of the poem included into Admirer of Beauty):
The culture – fragile
and most beautiful flower,
surpassing all grown
by flora and fauna,
despite of the “punches”
of boots of the guard
was squeezing asphalt
on the prison’s grave yard...
May 9, 2008
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
First published here on May 19, 2009
© Andrew Praiseword, 2008. All rights reserved
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The Master
(Until an Artist Is Busy...)
(Fragment of the poem)
to Pablo Picasso
...The artist is driving a screw into wall.
He stands on a ladder. The line has been drawn.
And crosses are pointing the places for holes.
He follows the Master who said once so well,
"An artist creates his collection {by} himself."
He's making next step using luck of being taught:
his paintings, in fact, are even better than the world...
So pity, some day
(but he hopes not too soon)
the collection will vanish
with the Earth
and the Moon.
But that's what we can't change.
Then, he's doing his thing;
and until he is busy...
be merry and sing!
November 18, 2010
Minor editing June 2011
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
First published here on November 18, 2010
© Andrew Praiseword, 2010. All rights reserved
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Andrew Praiseworthy. Find It in a Book. Two different inks, colour pencils on card stock paper. January 29 - May 3, 2011, 27.9 x 21.6 cm. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This is an illustration to the Andrew's unpublished yet poem. Colour pencils, two different inks on card stock paper. Started on January 29, 2011 and finished on May 3, 2011. Done in more than 10 short and not too short sessions with pile of sketches left. First published here on May 5, 2011.
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Composition of Three Colours. This is a sequel of Andrew’s very first art-work created after about 30 years of “silence,” in 2001 right on the computer screen with a mouse only. The presented painting of 2009 is made totally manually and with other set of colours. It may be the very first work in the history of fine arts migrated from computer technique back to more traditional. 2009.
Acrylics, brush, quality canvas panel. 51 x 61 cm.
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy 2001, 2009: March 15. |
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Oraculum. This is a sequel of the one of Andrew’s very first digital art works which was created in 2001 right on the computer screen, also with a mouse only. Presented version of 2009 is a painting, performed in different colours as well. (The first computer variant, called Untitled-2, has black background.) 2009.
Acrylics, brush, quality canvas panel. 51 x 61 cm.
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy, 2001, 2009: March 15. |
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Woman at a Theatre. This painting of 2009 is an interpretation of Andrew Praiseworthy’s work performed in ink yet in the beginning of 1980s in Europe. Acrylics, waterproof ink, brushes, dip pen, canvas. 49 x 59 cm.
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy circa 1980, 2009: March 31, April 18. |
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Woman at a Theatre-2 or Allegory of Intellectualism. This is a further development of Woman at a Theatre. 2009.
Acrylics, waterproof ink, brushes, dip pen, canvas. 49 x 59 cm.
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy circa 1980, 2009: March 31, April 18 - May 24. |
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy, 2001. |
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy, March 31, 2009. |
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy, April 1, 2009. |
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy, April 7, 2009. |
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| Right or Wrong? Acrylics, ink, brushes, pen, April 7, 2009, 14.5 x 20 cm. This is a sketch. By the way, first time Andrew had painted similar setup on… the edge of 1970s and 1980s. This version is already the fifth approach. So, this is a kind of Andrew Praiseworthy’s “standard”.
"The doctrine of Right and Wrong, is perpetually disputed,
both by the Pen and the Sword: Whereas the doctrine of
Lines, and Figures, is not so..."
Thomas Hobbes
Leviathan, 1651 [50]
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| © Copyright Andrew Praiseworthy, March 29, 2009. |
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(Left.) Woman at a Theatre - Sketch: Developing Pointillism-2. Acrylics (brushes), ink (dip pen) on paper, April 12, 2009, 24 x 18 cm. Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Pointillism is a branch of Impressionism invented by George Seurat.)
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Andrew Praiseworthy. After Hours. Digital copy, paper appliqué, July 6 of 2009, 27 x 20 cm. Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
This image is created for the Website of the Political Philosophy and Executive Management Course... All nine watches are showing the same time. But what if it is just one watch in nine different hours of the day? Will you decide that the watch is broken or that something had happened with the flow of time?
Published on July 7, 2009.
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FOR ROMEO AND FOR JULIET
(NO PLACE FOR THEIR LOVE)
(Lyrics by William Shakespeare and Andrew Praiseword,
music by Andrew Praiseword)
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| Uncut label for Andrew Praiseword’s EP QUANTUM MUSIC (made in Canada, 2005). Copyright © Andrew Praiseworthy, 2005. |
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| The song FOR ROMEO AND FOR JULIET (NO PLACE FOR THEIR LOVE) was written in September of 2010 with the melody in mind, but without a guitar.
When it was recorded first in August of 2011, only two acoustic guitars were used in background not because the song is considered as an “acoustic,” but because this demo track was expected to be clear from extra decoration and leave space for imagination. This song can be interpreted in variety of styles: from classic Rock-and-Roll to the most contemporary “digitized” sound. The recording was made in Toronto, Ontario on August 7, 2011 in Andrew's room with unplugged Epiphone acoustic guitar on four track TASCAM POCKETSTUDIO/DP-004 using its internal microphones. Andrew played guitar tracks and sang both vocals alone. Music MP3 file was created on August 9, 2011 using free online converter. That demanded uploading of the 1 min fragment of the WAV file to the provider of service.
Copyright © William Shakespeare, Andrew Praiseword, 2011.
First posted here on August 9, 2011.
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| FOR ROMEO AND FOR JULIET (1 min clip). Lyrics by W. Shakespeare & A. Praiseword, music by A.Praiseword, copyright © W. Shakespeare, A. Praiseword, 2011. Demo version. |
ANDREW PRAISEWORD'S SUGGESTION
TO OTHER SINGERS
NOTE: The information below became obsolete. Andrew wants to sign contract with big music publisher as a Songwriter for his more commercial songs. First with one song only. For his less commercial material he wants common recording deal as a Singer-Songwriter without touring, or with minimal touring. (October, 2011)
Andrew Praiseword is interested in selling of non-exclusive rights to perform and record his songs to other singers, bands worldwide. This obligatory assumes signing of a written contract with reasonable prices. Andrew Praiseword must be mentioned as the author of the music
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Because of, first of all, financial reasons any of these wonders had not been recorded yet. The most the author could reach was nearly accidental yesterday's one-track recording of a short and simple demo for "Come On Amadeus." This song has incredible potential. If tuned to the modern sound, it can reach the level of one of the best Rock-and-Rolls ever. This can be pulsing contemporary dance Alternative, and it may be, even, a Rock-and-Roll performed by opera singers with a symphony orchestra as the only background. Stream this short piece of the song written on July 22 of 2009 in Toronto.
| [Track for information purpose:] COME ON, AMADEUS by Andrew Praiseword, copyright © Andrew Praiseword, 2009. Recorded on speach recorder. First posted here in 2010. See later demo below! |
You can appeal for the rights to perform/record any of the songs by Andrew Praiseword which you may find on the Internet, including this page, or from other sources. (Some of the websites are: radio3.cbc.ca/bands/Andrew-Praiseword, www.soundclick.com/andrew1111Canada, www.soundclick.com/andrewpraiseword, www.cdbaby.com/andrewstudio. )
Recently Andrew had switched to writing less "dramatic" songs with no politics and slighter influence of high-end philosophy. There are, even, several songs about love (for example "Next Time When I Will Fall in Love," "Road to Empty Home," "Polar Star and Southern Cross").
| Please, don't multiply the copy, don’t use it as the base for your own song/music, or as a subject of commerce. Donate Andrew what you can afford: his own tracks, unfortunately, are not selling… Contact emails: andriypo “at” gmail.com, andriy “at” Canadian-furs.com. You can find the telephone number in the clip info on Winamp media player. Use all the contacts simultaneously.
February, 8, 2010
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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| [Track for information purpose:] COME ON, AMADEUS, demo of October 2011 by Andrew Praiseword, copyright © Andrew Praiseword, 2009. Here was posted on October 29, 2011. | WWW (WORLD WILDE WEST, … OR 12 RULES OF VIRTUAL LIFE, OR...), instrumental; by Andrew Praiseword. Demo. © Andrew Praiseword, 2006, 2011. Here it was posted on October 29, 2011. | RATING LISTS, by Andrew Praiseword. Demo. © Andrew Praiseword, 2010, 2011. Included in the book Admirer of Beauty. Here it was posted on October 29, 2011. |
| COME ON, AMADEUS, demo sketch of January 2012 with original tempo and experimental guitars (imitated piano) by Andrew Praiseword; copyright © Andrew Praiseword, 2009--song, 2012--recording. Included in the book Admirer of Beauty. Here was first posted on January 29, 2012. | LITTLE FLOWER ELVES WITH FUNNY FLASHLIGHTS (fragment, song is considered still unpublished), demo sketch of March 2012 with “experimental” guitar (bass, solo and drums are waiting). Words, music and performance by Andrew Praiseword; copyright is registered: © Andrew Praiseword, 2012. Here was first posted on March 25, 2012. | [Track for information purpose:] PICTURE OF MY DREAM (“pre-demo,” just to reserve a slot, without real bass; song is considered still unpublished) sketched on April 8-9 2012. Words, music by Andrew Praiseword, written on May 22, 2010; performed by Andrew Praiseword; copyright is registered for the book Admirer of Beauty: © Andrew Praiseword, 2010. Here was first posted on April 9, 2012. |
October 25, 2011 Andrew recorded bass for "Come on, Amadeus" and the entire song "Rating Lists," which he wrote on February 6-20 of 2010. (The lyrics are included in the book Admirer of Beauty.) Donate and download the fragments.
October 23, 2011 Andrew recorded guitar and vocals for more decent demo of “Come on, Amadeus” (previous one was recorded confidently in very poor way, there was a reason) and single amplified acoustic guitar instrumental version of WWW. This was done in astonishingly beautiful day in High Park in Toronto. You can hear cicada between the guitars on the tracks.
Oct. 6, 2011 Andrew Praiseword relocated from Lansdowne Avenue in Toronto a little bit more North-West. His acoustic Epiphone had disappeared and he bought new amplified Fender in credit.
August 7, 2011 After six years long break Andrew Praiseword made his new recording. This was rough demo (all what he could afford technically making improbable effort) of his song “For Romeo and for Juliet (No Place for Their Love)” written in September of 2010. Everything was made in Toronto. (Donate and download the fragment.)
Oct. 23, 2010 Yesterday, on October 22, 2010 Andrew Praiseword had released his second book of poetry "Admirer of Beauty" (Andrew Praiseword Publishing, Toronto, 2010). The book includes 36 poems and stunning collectible's design including two covers (really, two pages of 80 lb!) and original canvas worthy artwork. You can order a single book or, for wholesalers, several packages of 20 books from this website. Retail price is $CAD 17.50, wholesale discount 40%. See more details below.
Sep. 14, 2008 Andrew had extraordinary creative time since last fall. He had written about 130 poems and songs after September 14, 2007. Almost three times more than he had written in all previous years in English! Maybe because he is not using guitar now. The list of the most impressive titles has been changed significantly since last publication on Aug. 20, 2008. It is really funny how time is influencing our estimations, even self-estimations:
Canadian Dream (September 14, 2007),
Planet of Killers (November 13-15; December 9, 2007),
White Knight on Black Horse (December 27, 2007),
37 (December 30, 2007),
The Eagle (December 31, 2007),
Common Words (January 2, 2008),
Product of Concentration (January 13, 2008),
What Means 'Being "Human"' (January 21, 2008),
Staying Alone (January 27, 2008),
Dead Poetry: My Grave (February 7, 2008),
Not Alone with the Shadows (February 12, 2008),
Secular Values (February 20, 2008),
Astronaut (February 22, 2008),
Empty Big Home (February 24, 2008),
Rectangular World (May 2, 2008),
The Flower (May 9, 2008),
With No Heart (World Upside-Down) (May 11, 2008),
Murderers, Killers, and Slayers (June 25, 2008),
The Question (July 4, 2008),
Polar Star and Southern Cross (July 8, 2008),
Let the Music Will Play (Poetical Philosophy) (July 13, 2008),
* ('I Look at the Heaven...') (Translation from Ukrainian, Myhajlo Petrenko, 1817-1862; July 17,20, 2008),
2045 (August 7, 2008),
* ('Let Our Goblets Will Be Overfilled...') (Translation from Ukrainian, traditional; August 18, 2008),
How to Change the World (And to Make the Life Better) (August 28, 2008).
© Andrew Praiseword, 2008-2010. All rights reserved.
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About the pictures:
At the right top corner of the page you can see several photos. In the left row, there are three pictures of the only, until now, Andrew’s studio album QUANTUM MUSIC, showing the label in development. (Unfortunately the album was pretty often posted on the Web on behalf of other “Andrews”, so, now you know that this is Andrew Praiseword’s exclusive creation and recording…) His first book of poetry, which is available in some consignment stores only in Toronto (Ontario, Canada), is at the right (middle). This is a second edition of the book, released in 2008 under the full name "Andrew Praiseword". Yet, at the right top of the set, you will find Andrew’s painting “Blue Rock: Kara-Dag” (this is a place in Crimea; painted in 1974), water colour and liquid chalk. They say that the rock’s silhouette resembles the profile of Kiev born poet Maximilian Voloshin. Andrew likes the guy, because he was hiding at his villa the "Reds” from the "Whites”, and the "Whites” from the "Reds” during the civil war in the USSR. That what real poet is supposed to do in such moments of history. At last, at the right bottom, Andrew placed two logos (emblems). Please note, the year 2008 in the copyright notice on the logos, is related to the logos themselves (not to the attaching them pictures, at least for this particular page, for both SoundClick websites: http://www.soundclick.com/andrew1111canada -- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=315145) and http://www.soundclick.com/andrewpraiseword -- http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=787220 and possibly somewhere else. Andrew's resources do not allow him to track all such detail at this stage of his life).
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Announcement:
After living for nearly fifteen years in the West, Andrew Praiseword understood that the project of his “world rock encyclopedia,” signed by his those times pen name Anrew Andy (Энрю Энди) now became obsolete. He thinks there are several compound reasons for this.
First, it was compiled at the edge of the Soviet Union’s crash, when available for the writer information resources on the subject were hardly better than during the core years of the USSR. The author is afraid that what could be useful for music collection enthusiasts located far away from the area of major events at the very beginning of 1990s, became insufficient and, sometimes, may be even wrong in current situation. (You know how myths had trend to spread in the absence of reliable information.)
Next, even though the text is currently unavailable for Andrew himself, just by memory, already in the West, he found out that he made there at least a couple of serious factual mistakes, such as, for example, confusion of personalities or years of events. Some of the creator’s own conclusions were also doubtful, affected by view from “information lacking outside” too much.
Then, after Andrew Praiseword had written a bunch of his own songs in English, he thinks that it is just unethical for him to analyze creations of other authors. Let critics do the job… Andrew officially wants to use this opportunity (better later than never; please, don’t forget about his inescapable introversion), to apologize before the artists who are disagreed with his description of their efforts.
At last, as far as the author can remember some pieces of the text, written in the USSR and the post-USSR atmosphere (1990-1993) could have the attitude of a representative of other “cast” judging with some mix of admiration, intellectualism, sarcasm, and jealousy simultaneously, what could bring to display of bad tone descriptions. To some extent it was inevitably while living in totally different environment, and probably may be excused by those who can see the big picture of “between-environmental” relationships. But after years of life in the western society this kind of view is not appropriate, and this is one more reason why now the text cannot be released.
Andrew NEVER TRANSLATED the manuscript in any other languages, and he is not going to do this. Besides the unfortunate publishing attempt in Saint Petersburg (1993-1994; see Biography: Years Before the Immigration), before leaving Ukraine in 1995, he gave large part of the manuscript, he thought nearly needless for him because of already near immigration, to a businessman from South of Ukraine. It was made kind of “for reference” while publishing a magazine. Andrew never renewed this contact and has no idea what was done in this direction. If you will find a copy spread beyond his knowledge – consider it, also, as kind of “memorial” of the époque and the circumstances.
So, Andrew announces HERE that HE WILL NEVER PUBLISH the version of the rock encyclopedia, except, maybe, printing of one single copy for himself, for his own strictly in-house personal use: the text contained developed discography, some of its chronological and stylistic considerations still remain valuable, and it took three or four years of memorable labour to complete... At the moment the compiler cannot imagine what can ever change this decision. If something improbable still will happen - he will re-consider the work completely. But, of course Andrew Praiseword (Энрю Энди) still retains his authorship rights on the work’s original texts and all his rights and copyrights on the compilation and totally original pieces.
January 22, 2010
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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More details on the downfall of the Rock Encyclopedia project
In about 1992 Andrew had asked in a letter for the references for the already finished rock encyclopedia the member of the world most famous super-group. The guy did not answer. Andrew sent some fragments to the radio BBC – they did not respond either. (Approximately at the same time Andrew had mentioned the project in his letter to the radio-station “Voice of America” as well.) Andrew’s project, because of the severe inflation1, was eventually squeezed to his own text: more than 800 entries of the developed compilation, sometimes, seasoned by his own memories and analysis. From the Western point of view it, possibly, had copyright violations, at least in taking the pictures right from the books. But Andrew did not grasp it in full, because in the Soviet Union absolutely all publishing was executed by the state and people did not understand the copyright concept at the moment well enough; if you will compare it with other planet situation--you will not make a big mistake. When he asked known publishing lawyer how to be with the pictures, the attorney recommended to “ask the publishers in letters, but they rather will not respond…” Andrew had made some attempts. They really did not respond.
In 1993-4 Andrew was invited for the discussion about publishing of the rock encyclopedia in Saint Petersburg (Russia). There he was asked to leave his manuscript (and the pictures) for the further review. Several months later there was a… fire at the Saint Petersburg's publishing house. They said in a telephone conversation that the manuscript was not affected, but never send the materials (including the pictures) back. Eventually they refused to publish. Then, Andrew never had published this text, though he gave rather big pieces of it without any written agreement (to keep them "not wasted") to a publisher of a Russian language Rock-magazine in southern Ukraine influenced by approaching emigration mood.
1 The subscription announced for the project had brought not more than 1,500 (but rather about 700) contributors which paid about 20 Russian Rubles each, what was considered as about 1/4 of future price. This contribution remained for several weeks about US$4, then the Rouble catastrophic downfall came. (One US dollar at the beginning had been equal about 4-6 Rubles unofficially, at real life market. Compare it to 4,900 Rubles, what is thousand times less at the references below, which came soon.) The money had disappeared in 1-3 months of initial translation of not English language sources. The rest three years or more Andrew was working as a volunteer, sometimes supported by several volunteer non-professional editors, which altogether did not invest more than 3-5% of his effort: most of them did only rather small parts, then - editing and writing, especially compiling from sometimes up to ten patch sources demands totally different effort. This was done in despair as an attempt to compensate the inflated contribution what was already made and in the expectation of finding of a future investor. Despite all the efforts, eventually, the project became total financial loss because of the Force Majeure hyperinflation. The Andrew's company which had announced the subscription was officially closed in the correspondent governmental board.
Here are two examples, which it was possible to find on the Web to trace the level of the inflation on December 15, 2010 about more successful than Ukraine Russia for the time period.
“Unfortunately, hyperinflation was a serious problem during the early part of the 1990s, which devalued the Russian Ruble dramatically.” (http://www.exchangerateforecast.com/exchange-rate-forecast/russian-ruble-exchange-rate-history/)
“The government deficit was growing at a rate that was not manageable. ‘Unwilling to increase taxes, the Russian government printed more money which increased inflation’ (McGraw-Hill, 2009). The rate of inflation was out of control, and the Ruble was severely instable. When inflation reached an annual low, the Russian government decided to take action. To reduce its instability, the Ruble was regulated to stay within a range of 4,300 to 4,900 against the dollar.”
(http://hubpages.com/hub/The-Russina-Ruble-Crisis)
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Partially was published before
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About Andrew Praiseword: Years Before the Immigration
Andrew Praiseword, also known as “Andrew”, “Andrew 1111 (Canada)”, “Andrew P.”, “Anrew Andy” (in Russian), "Antuan Gugalo" (in Russian) and other (he had long way in his pen name search), had immigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe on the Thanksgiving Day of 1995. Looking back we will see that before Andrew began to write in the immigration really uncommon poetry (2000) and music (2004-05), he had already shown quite unusual attitude in several, more “habitual life” issues.
In 1970s he read uninterruptedly most important masterpieces of Western literature (from Homer to Anthony Burgess) in chronological order for three-four years to “live through” the history of the Western Civilization. This was, probably, major influence, which had shaped Andrew’s personality. (This confession will, probably, excuse his often referring to the experiment as to the "supercourse.")
In early 1980s he hitchhiked through the most of the former Soviet Union (about 6,400 km in a bit more than two weeks), what was absolutely unknown “sport” in the country. The Hippie movement practically did not touch the country. It was totally tourist, maybe "extreme tourist" deed.
In 1986 he had written what he calls "Chernobyl Chronicles."
In 1988-89 he published two scientific articles on Solid Modeling what is area of Computer Graphics at conferences IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing). Strictly professional achievement.
From 1971 to 1988 Andrew Praiseword had written more than three hundred and fifty songs and poems in Russian and Ukrainian.
Contact (publishing, recording, or employment proposals only, please): andriypo "at" gmail.com .
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Time Line
1955 Andrew was born in Kyiv (Ukraine).
1962 Andrew had entered junior school in Kyiv.
1971-72 Andrew had written his first complete song, included music and lyrics.
1972 Andrew had graduated from the school with advanced learning of Mathematics and Physics and entered a faculty of, what may be called, “the faculty of Automatics and Computers” of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute (equivalent of Western University).
1974 In the fall Andrew had painted Blue Rock, Kara-Dag by memory at home after return from the Black Sea. When several years later he decided to quit painting, this work reminded him about magical attraction of this sorcery and about his not exposed potential, what supported his comeback to Art about 20 years later, already in Canada.
1975 Andrew had “assigned” to himself 3-4 years long “diving” into cultural history–-intensive reading of, pre-eminently, Western literature such as fiction, theatre plays, poetry, and some books on Art in chronological order, supported by browsing through literature criticism and texts on history.
1978 Andrew had graduated from the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute and was hired as an engineer (entry level standard) at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Academy of Science.
1980-83 Andrew had studied a full-time post graduate course on a branch of Computer Science at the Institute of Cybernetics.
1986 During Chernobyl catastrophe Andrew wrote the short daily chronicles about ordinary life in Kyiv in the first weeks of the “Chernobyl.” There were mostly details of Andrew’s personal life, nothing special. Andrew was not, in any way, affected by the radiation. First – he (even after heavy partying, as it shown in the notes) was able to execute all the recommendations, second – Kyiv, eventually, almost was not affected.
1986 Andrew defended his dissertation of equivalent of Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science. (Confirmed by the Supreme Attestation Commission under the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union on... December 9, 1987.)
About 1990 Andrew, born simultaneously with Rock-and-Roll and since his early years “mad” about what eventually became called Rock music, decided to start project of publishing of world rock encyclopedia in Russian language. This, unusual for a scientist move, was inspired by appearance of Capitalism during so-called “Perestroika” and on the ruins of the USSR, and… alas, by financial difficulties with funding science at the period of economic transition. Though the manuscript, influenced by the “iron cotton” era informational gaps and attitude was finished, Andrew had never published the book. The company was officially closed in the corresponding state board. (See also the “Announcement” and “More detailes on the downfall of the Rock Encyclopedia project” in the section “Infoboard.”)1993-4 Andrew executed some real estate assistance for the most of the diplomatic and business Western communities in Kyiv. It was his personal initiative dictated, again, by survival necessities. He only searched the market for matching options and provided reasonable assistance in reaching agreements between the tenants and lardlords. He had no relations to any of the sides, did not know their details under the board, or even possibilities of their existance if any, then--he did not accept any responsibilities.
October 14, 1995 Andrew had landed as an immigrant in Toronto, Canada.
Edited on December 15, 2010
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