Jeff Bridges Boeken

The perfect gift for fans of The Big Lebowski, Jeff Bridges's "The Dude", and anyone who could use more Zen in their lives. Zen Master Bernie Glassman compares Jeff Bridges’s iconic role in The Big Lebowski to a Lamed-Vavnik: one of the men in Jewish mysticism who are “simple and unassuming,” and “so good that on account of them God lets the world go on.” Jeff puts it another way. “The wonderful thing about the Dude is that he’d always rather hug it out than slug it out.” For more than a decade, Academy Award-winning actor Jeff Bridges and his Buddhist teacher, renowned Roshi Bernie Glassman, have been close friends. Inspiring and often hilarious, The Dude and the Zen Master captures their freewheeling dialogue and remarkable humanism in a book that reminds us of the importance of doing good in a difficult world.

Ask any father, or any daughter--the relationship between dads and daughters is special, and vitally important. To a whole generation of filmgoers, Jeff Bridges is "the Dude," but to a more important group of people he is "Dad." The actor-musician-artist and one of his real-life daughters have teamed up to produce a book to inspire fathers and daughters--and whole families--to find the joy and closeness in their relationships. When Belle announces to Dad that this day is "Daddy Daughter Day," it sparks a series of adventures that turns the house and the backyard into a clay work shop, a beauty parlor, and even a circus, with Mom and little brother Sammie getting involved! Written by Isabelle Bridges-Boesch, and illustrated by Jeff himself, this is a book for daughters, fathers, and families to treasure all their lives!

First released in 1998, the Coen brothers' The Big Lebowski flopped at the box office. But over the past nine years the movie has developed a massive and passionate cult following, led by the creation of Lebowski Fest, a traveling festival of all things Lebowski. Held in a bowling alley, it features bowling, costume and trivia contests, live music, a screening of the movie, White Russians, and what-haveyou. Attendance has grown exponentially and the Fest has been featured in virtually every national media outlet, from NPR to the New York Times. The Associated Press called it "kind of a 'Star Trek' convention, but without all the geeks." The Wall Street Journal simply intoned: "One hell of a party!" Now, at last, comes the book that the legion of Lebowski fans (aka Achievers) has been waiting for. I'm a Lebowski, You're a Lebowski is a treasure trove of trivia and commentary, hilarious throughout and copiously illustrated, including stills from the film, as well as dozens of photos taken on the set by Jeff Bridges. It includes interviews with virtually every major and minor cast member, as well as the real-life individuals who served as inspiration for the characters in the movie. The book features a handy guide to speaking Achiever (example: in English you would say that a woman is "feminine, or ladylike"; an Achiever would call her "strongly vaginal"), tips on how to Dude-ify your car, office, and living space, Lebowski Fest highlights, and so much more.

Jeff Bridges uses his Widelux camera to take on-set photos from his filming experiences since the 1980s, offering commentary and photographs, providing an inside look, a static album of the diverse sets and celebrities from his dynamic motion "pictures."

“Galano set out on a journey…to show an unseen face of the homeless population in New York City. The thirty-two–year-old Italian photographer was convinced that people in America would be shocked if they saw what he saw on the city sidewalks…that the homeless were not so different from anyone that he knew.”—Lynda Richardson, The New York TimesFor five years, photographer Salvo Galano visited a park near the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen in New York. There, tens of thousands of homeless men, women, and children have gathered daily for food, friendship, and guidance since its inception in 1982. Galano set up a makeshift studio with a simple burlap backdrop and photographed the fascinating characters he encountered, documenting their stories of love, loss, and survival.Sidewalk Stories , Galano’s moving testimony to the power of the human spirit, showcases some of New York City’s most remarkable individuals—the homeless—and their integrity and courage despite the stigma of homelessness. Accompanied by mind-boggling, up-to-the-minute statistics on this dire situation, Sidewalk Stories illustrates that homelessness could happen to any of Naval Academy cadets, policemen, performers, inventors, grandmothers, families, and the disabled. But as Galano writes, “Homeless does not necessarily mean hopeless.”“How do we begin to address the crisis? Like Salvo, I believe it requires a new vision. In this vision, providing for America’s most vulnerable citizens becomes a personal and national priority. But to construct that vision we must first learn how to see the hungry, poor, and homeless as people like ourselves. Within the photographs that comprise Sidewalk Stories , we are given the cues for this kind of seeing.”—Jeff Bridges“Salvo Galano’s remarkable, moving photographs cut through the stereotypes, the hopelessness, the collective amnesia about our homeless neighbors. They make us look, make us really see these courageous, struggling individuals—not as statistics, not as myths.”—Patrick MarkeeProceeds from the sales of Sidewalk Stories will be donated to the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen.

Roshi Tetsugen Bernie Glassman - znany także jako rozmówca aktora Jeffa Bridgesa z książki „Koleś i mistrz zen”, uczy, jak dzięki transformacji duchowej, osiągniętej drogą tradycyjnej praktyki zen, uczynić swoje życie, działalność społeczną i biznesową właściwymi i mądrze wspierającymi innych. Sam był spadkobiercą Dharmy Roshiego Taizana Maezumiego, opatem m.in. Wspólnoty Zen w Nowym Jorku, ale i naukowcem, pracującym nad załogowymi misjami lotów na Marsa, a także założycielem Greyston Mandala, sieci firm i organizacji non-profit, działających na rzecz rozwoju najuboższej części społeczności Nowego Jorku, oraz odnoszącym duże sukcesy biznesmenem. Oto kilka opinii o tej niezwykle aktualnej w dzisiejszym świecie książce, którą oddajemy w ręce czytelników: „Książka Berniego Glassmana zawiera nauki, które są inspirujące i wnikliwe dlatego, że są dobrze ugruntowane w naukach Dogena Zenji i innych nauczycieli. Zawierają wyjątkowo praktyczne nauczanie, co więcej, wytyczają kierunek rozwoju zen społecznego działania” (Peter Matthiessen, pisarz, przyrodnik, uczeń i spadkobierca Dharmy Berniego Glassmana) „Recepty Autora na ubogacającą ucztę przytomnego, uważnego, wrażliwego, wartościowego i odpowiedzialnego życia są mocno zakorzenione w jego głębokim duchowym wglądzie i w bogatej praktyce społecznej” (Jacek Santorski, psycholog, psychoterapeuta, wydawca i adept zen) „Pięć dań mądrości” to doświadczenie drogi, po której powinna przejść każda organizacja, każda firma, by w pełni zrozumieć swoją odpowiedzialność. To przewodnik etycznej transformacji, który posłuży liderom odpowiedzialnego biznesu, przedsiębiorcom społecznym i założycielom startupów pozytywnego wpływu – dzisiejszym kucharzom zen – do lepszego wykorzystywania dostępnych zasobów” (Prof. Bolesław Rok, etyk biznesu w Akademii Leona Koźmińskiego)