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		<title>The Kindness of Every Split-Second</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: display window of "mini-prints" taken with the Fujifilm Instax camera (originally from the Photojojo store). See note at bottom of post for more.] From whiskey river: You know what I believe? I remember in college I was taking this math class, this really great math class taught by this tiny old woman. She was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Absorbing and the Absorbed</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 16:40:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: a Menger sponge overgrown with vines, found here. Wikipedia explains how to construct a real Menger sponge, noting -- without elaboration -- that the resulting object "simultaneously exhibits an infinite surface area and encloses zero volume."*] From whiskey river: You know when you see something like a marvelous mountain against the blue sky, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Carved These Places, This Flower, This Bird&#8221;&#8230; with Gunpowder</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 22:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang: And then there was Black Ceremony, a recent daytime fireworks exhibition in the desert sky over Qatar, kicking off his exhibit at the Arab Museum of Modern Art:]]></description>
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		<title>The Chime of the Moment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 17:32:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: night view of House Attack, a 2006 installation by artist Erwin Wurm -- a real house, turned upside down and embedded in the roof at Vienna's Museum Moderner Kunst (MUMOK). See the daytime look here.] From whiskey river (which, I think, offered an especially rich selection this week): Everything That Acts Is Actual From the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liquid Assets, Compounded</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:06:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: "Butterfly Splash," by Alex Koloskov. For more information, including an "e-videobook" tutorial on creating this sort of effect, see the photographer's site, which is where I found it.] From whiskey river (italicized portion): Poem Holding Its Heart In One Fist Each pebble in this world keeps its own counsel. Certain words &#8212; these, for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Split and Crazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 16:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[For information about this image ("Mirror Mask"), see the artist's statement at the foot of this page. Clicking on the image above will enlarge it, if you want to experiment.] From whiskey river: This writing stuff saved me. It has become my way of responding to and dealing with things I find too disturbing or distressing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waking Up to the Unreal</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:59:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: promotional still from The Troll Hunter, a 2010 "mockumentary" from Norway about -- well, perhaps you can guess.] From whiskey river: Fairy tales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was real and as true as apples and stones. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Step by Step, and an Ounce at a Time</title>
		<link>http://johnesimpson.com/blog/2011/07/step-by-step-and-an-ounce-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 15:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: Beast of Burden, a sculpture by Sarah Perry. For more information, see the note at the foot of this post.] From whiskey river: Burlap Sack A person is full of sorrow the way a burlap sack is full of stones or sand. We say, &#8220;Hand me the sack,&#8221; but we get the weight. Heavier [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making an Illuminated Manuscript</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 14:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the category of &#8220;Things Our Ancestors Did to Humble Us,&#8221; this mini-documentary [UPDATE: a little over six minutes long] from the J. Paul Getty Museum: (If you go to the page at the ArtBabble site where I found this, you might also like some of the &#8220;related videos&#8221; in the right sidebar there.)]]></description>
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		<title>Knowing What You&#8217;re Looking At</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[Image: graffiti artist Bansky visited a subway archway in central London, adding a caption to a wall which just happens to fall within the view of a surveillance camera.] From whiskey river: All men, at one time or another, have fallen in love with the veiled Isis whom they call Truth. With most, this has [...]]]></description>
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