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	<title>Cracked Window &#187; Recommended art</title>
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	<description>what passes as light</description>
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		<title>New Natural History</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:13:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Stein]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[coyote]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Howl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland International Airport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Our near-downtown neighborhood buzzed all summer about the coyote. Facebook and blogs noted its daily (and nightly) moves with awe and fear. TV stations joined the chorus. It was if an alien had landed in our midst. The sightings advanced closer to our house, and one night my wife and I heard unfamiliar sounds growing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art on the streets</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:28:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[graffiti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Despite Portland&#8217;s reputation for attracting artists, I&#8217;ve yet to encounter an abundance of street art depicting this level of flair and creativity. Maybe I don&#8217;t get around enough, but I mostly encounter incomprehensible graffiti. Much is gang messaging, a defacement uglier and longer lasting than cats peeing to mark their territory. Some people are trying, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Picture Behind the Picture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Jun 2009 00:48:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Isn&#8217;t the appeal of this photo the immediate emotional response it triggers? And that response, different for every viewer, likely has nothing to do with the moment captured or starkly beautiful landscape or its inhabitants. I guess that&#8217;s why it ranked first in this contest.]]></description>
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		<title>Blood Puddle Pillow</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 18:02:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Memories]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Suzame]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blood Puddle Pillow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keetra Dean Dixon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When my wife and I were dating, I went to her apartment. She greeted me with an enigmatic smile. Smelling faintly of perfume, she led me upstairs to the bedroom. On the floor was a chalk outline, like those drawn around a dead body at a crime scene. It was me, she said. Today I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Meters of Existence</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:21:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Simon HÃ¸gsberg]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t stop looking at photos of 178 people taken during 20 days from the same spot on a Berlin railroad bridge. The image of disconnected lives artistically stitched together into a very long, single picture is called &#8220;We&#8217;re All Gonna Die &#8212; 100 meters of existence.&#8221; Scrolling through this gaggle of humanity is strangely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lofty Views of Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:34:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Recommended art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Antarctica]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Las Vegas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[NASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[satellite photographs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How to feel insignificant and awed at the same time: 23 stunning satellite photographs of Earth, courtesy NASA&#8217;s huge archive. Las Vegas looks more inhospitable than Antarctica. How would my city, Portland, fare from this lofty perspective?]]></description>
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		<title>Obama in the Window</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:44:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benjamin Alexander Clark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My artist friend Benjamin Alexander Clark churned out twenty paintings of Barack Obama in three days this week. An amazing feat by any standard, though I&#8217;m not surprised given Benjamin&#8217;s talents and energy. As of this afternoon, four had sold &#8212; the fourth to me. The Obama paintings are prominently displayed at Cannibals on NW [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Art after death</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/art-after-death/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Aging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Maisel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Insane, abandoned, and anonymous. This describes many people who lived out there lives at the Oregon State Hospital in Salem, starting in 1883 and into the 1970s. Their cremated remains were put in numbered copper canisters and stored. But time and chemical reactions have turned them into art after death, art challenging perceptions of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing the Steampunk light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jul 2008 00:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Portland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geekery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photoshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steampunk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m hardly an art critic. And I don&#8217;t abide by the clichÃ©, &#8220;I know good art when I see it.&#8221; Like many people, I gravitate to images that trigger an emotional and visceral reaction that lingers. That&#8217;s the experience I had last night, stumbling upon Steampunk wallpapers while cruising boingboing. The wallpapers are creations of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boy and the bug</title>
		<link>http://michaelbales.com/boy-and-the-bug/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 03:54:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atticus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gardening]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Recommended art]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This morning at breakfast, my little boy Atticus freaked out when a big fly buzzed on a window near him. It seemed like an overreaction for someone who dug worms and fed them to the goldfish in our little pond before he could walk. (Easy for me to judge.) Maybe this stunning photo will make [...]]]></description>
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