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		<title>Baggage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo via: Richard Carter Sometimes I find it comforting to to know My problems will follow me wherever I go.]]></description>
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<div class="img-credit">photo via: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/gruts/6021552548/lightbox/">Richard Carter</a></div>
<p>Sometimes I find it comforting to to know<br />
My problems will follow me wherever I go.</p>
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		<title>Thinking about the beauty of old faded VHS tapes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 06:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fragments]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bad]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[photo via: Anil Bawa-Cavia Bad information is sometimes good information&#8230;.i.e. there is an aesthetic value to bad information that can exceed the practical value of good information.]]></description>
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<div class="img-credit">photo via: <a href="http://www.quotesque.net/archives/2006/05/noise_video.html">Anil Bawa-Cavia</a></div>
<p>Bad information is sometimes good information&#8230;.i.e. there is an aesthetic value to bad information that can exceed the practical value of good information.</p>
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		<title>New baggy jeans design concept I am working on.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[branding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[ASSA Jeans. I&#8217;m thinking this could be really big. As in, &#8220;One small butt for man, one giant ASSA for mankind&#8221; big.]]></description>
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<p>ASSA Jeans.  I&#8217;m thinking this could be really big.  As in, &#8220;One small butt for man, one giant ASSA for mankind&#8221; big.</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:37:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jaques Lacan interrupted by a young revolutionary.]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://youtu.be/iL6rkBSHS4A">Jaques Lacan interrupted by a young revolutionary.</a></p>
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		<title>Holiday Haikus</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 20:13:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fragments]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So far I&#8217;ve written two: I just found out that I have to waste Friday night at a dumb party No one told me that I&#8217;d have to be a part of this stupid event &#160;]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So far I&#8217;ve written two:</p>
<p>I just found out that<br />
I have to waste Friday night<br />
at a dumb party</p>
<p>No one told me that<br />
I&#8217;d have to be a part of<br />
this stupid event</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>The Music of Drawing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:35:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Observations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brody neuenschwander]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Calligraphy by Brody Neuenschwander Calligraphy often strikes me as one of the most musical of visual arts &#8211; the linear rhythms making solid structures for the swooping thinning and thickening lines that form such lovely and compelling visual melodies.  Mr. Neuenschwander&#8217;s work seems particularly exuberant in this regard.]]></description>
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<div class="img-credit">Calligraphy by <a href="http://calligraphy-expo.com/eng/Personalities/Participants/Brody_Neuenschwander/Work.aspx?ItemID=874">Brody Neuenschwander</a></div>
<p>Calligraphy often strikes me as one of the most musical of visual arts &#8211; the linear rhythms making solid structures for the swooping thinning and thickening lines that form such lovely and compelling visual melodies.  Mr. Neuenschwander&#8217;s work seems particularly exuberant in this regard.</p>
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		<title>I know what I know and I know where to go</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 18:35:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask me a question I almost never know but I almost always know where to go to know.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ask me a question I almost never know but I almost always know where to go to know.</p>
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		<title>Epiphany</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 02:55:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[aphorism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I understood the moment I understood I wouldn&#8217;t understand. I was happy to have this thought. Because it was true, because it accurately described a moment that I had. An experience. It also had kind of a ring to it. A little bit of poetry. Whenever I come up with a phrase like this &#8211; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h3><strong>I understood the moment I understood I wouldn&#8217;t understand.</strong></h3>
<p>I was happy to have this thought. Because it was true, because it accurately described a moment that I had. An experience. It also had kind of a ring to it. A little bit of poetry.</p>
<p>Whenever I come up with a phrase like this &#8211; I call them fragments &#8211; I give them a quick Google to see who else has said the same thing. For someone, somewhere has ALWAYS said the same thing.</p>
<p>But this time, nothing.</p>
<p><a href="http://plasticarmy.com/notes/epiphany/i-understood-copy/" rel="attachment wp-att-457"><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-457" title="i understood copy" src="http://plasticarmy.com/notes/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/i-understood-copy-620x234.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="234" /></a></p>
<p>So, that&#8217;s it suckers, you were too late.  I said it first. Give me the credit, put it on my gravestone, quote it in my bio. Google that shit.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>Oh Shit, I just did it again, said something that Google says was never said before.  I am on a roll.  look out plagiarists and copiers, I am the true OG (ori-ginator)</p>
<p><a href="http://plasticarmy.com/notes/epiphany/now-that-i-finished-the-hard-part/" rel="attachment wp-att-466"><img class="alignleft size-large wp-image-466" title="now that i finished the  hard part" src="http://plasticarmy.com/notes/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/now-that-i-finished-the-hard-part-620x357.jpg" alt="" width="620" height="357" /></a></p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
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		<title>Who is Aryan?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ideology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's hard to make the right call when the differences are so subtle  - trying to figure out just how close a mosque can get to ground zero, or at just what point a largish nose starts to be a Semitic one.  Thankfully there will always be experts to help us make these tough calls]]></description>
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<div class="img-credit">photo via: <a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/2003.308">met museum</a></div>
<p>It&#8217;s hard to make the right call when the differences are so subtle  &#8211; trying to figure out just how close a mosque can get to ground zero, or at just what point a largish nose starts to be a Semitic one.  Thankfully there will always be <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/12/08/world/europe/AP-EU-Czech-Gay-Test.html?hp">experts</a> to help us make these tough calls.  </p>
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		<title>The State of The Union &#8211; In Alphabetical Order</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 13:04:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>james</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[george bush]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Artist <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.co.uk/portfolio.php">Lenka Clayton</a> made this excellent video (excerpted above) where she took George Bush's 2002 State of the Union address, and re-editted the entire speech in alphabetical order.]]></description>
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<p>Artist <a href="http://www.lenkaclayton.co.uk/portfolio.php">Lenka Clayton</a> made this excellent video (excerpted above) where she took George Bush&#8217;s 2002 State of the Union address, and re-editted the entire speech in alphabetical order.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s bizarre, surreal, and disturbingly communicative and expressive  &#8211; a very interesting exercise in finding hidden meaning in the most public of spaces.</p>
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