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		<title>life begins at 234</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/life-begins-at-234/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/life-begins-at-234/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 04:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[4th of july]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fireworks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the 4th of July, my first since moving to New York. Naturally, we decided to do it up right—by going to Jersey.]]></description>
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		<title>saturday in the park</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/saturday-in-the-park/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/saturday-in-the-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 05:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Fourth of July weekend is upon us, and for some reason that made me feel extra-compelled to go out and do something than any other Saturday. Go figure. In any case, I promptly hopped on my trusty steed (the Manhattan-bound N Train) and galloped (commuted) my way into town,]]></description>
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		<title>the air up there</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/the-air-up-there/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/the-air-up-there/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 03:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[empire state building]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=846</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Shot an engagement party for a lovely couple on Friday night.  It was held on the rooftop of a building in the Lower Midtown/Koreatown area.  The shot above is the view from the south side of the rooftop.  You can actually see the Brooklyn Bridge, a good three miles away.  I can't begin to imagine what it'd be like to have that view waiting for you every morning.]]></description>
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		<title>old school</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/oldschool/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/oldschool/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[photowalks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[scott kelby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[washington dc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=818</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Just before the weekend, Scott Kelby—photo guru, Photoshop whiz extraordinaire, and all-around swell fella—posed a photo challenge: spend the weekend shooting like it was 1999. In a nutshell, go out and shoot with your digital camera like it was a film camera: no reviewing shots on the LCD, no more than 24 or 36 shots for the whole weekend, no looking at any of the shots until the day after you "finish the roll."]]></description>
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		<title>bay to breakers</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/bay-to-breakers/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/bay-to-breakers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 21:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bay to breakers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[costumes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san francisco]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the eight years I lived in the Bay Area—three of which spent living in the heart of downtown San Francisco—I never once attended Bay to Breakers.  Friends and coworkers often participated, to the point of thinking up fun and crazy costumes (usually group-themed), but I never did.  I wish I could provide some valid excuse but really it just boiled down to laziness.  Weekends were my sleep-in days, Sunday the holiest of holy Days of Sloth, and I'd be damned if anyone was gonna get me out of bed before ten or eleven in the morning, let alone at seven o'clock.]]></description>
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		<title>the other half</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-other-half/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-other-half/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dichotomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social structure]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=705</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today presented an interesting situational dichotomy as I spent it hanging out with different friends. In the morning, I met up with a good friend of mine, Iñigo (in whose spare bedroom I'm crashing while in Manila) and some of his friends for lunch. We ate at a nice upscale Japanese restaurant before retiring to one of the friends' houses for sangrias.]]></description>
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		<title>Hit the road, Jack</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/hit-the-road-jack/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/hit-the-road-jack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 03:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[homecoming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photography]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=695</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow begins my sojourn back to the Philippines, the first in almost a decade. Half the time, I can hardly believe it.

As much as I hate the term "Developing Nation" (there's nothing wrong with calling it a Third World Country), the moniker is incredibly apt. Metro Manila has been developing at a near-exponential rate, and in the past nine years, the topography of the cities has changed drastically. It will be a homecoming to an unfamiliar place.]]></description>
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		<title>Have we reached the end of the era of &#8220;iconic photojournalism&#8221;?</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/have-we-reached-the-end-of-the-era-of-iconic-photojournalism/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/have-we-reached-the-end-of-the-era-of-iconic-photojournalism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[afghan girl]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photojournalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tank man]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can't help but wonder if, just as we will never again see another band like The Beatles, does the saturation of images brought on by the dSLR revolution and the fragmentation of major news outlets mean we will likewise never again see images with the global and cultural resonance of Afghan Girl or Tank Man? If there is more wheat now than there was chaff yesterday, has it become nigh-impossible for any single image to make a meaningful impact? Have we reached the end of iconic documentary images?]]></description>
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		<title>jonny</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/jonny/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/jonny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:34:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rome]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Last night was the Natuzzi event I mentioned in my last entry. For some reason, I always find myself best connecting with and having most fun with the people behind-the-scenes than anyone else. Which isn't to say that the partygoers aren't nice enough people, just that I seem to have more in common with the salt of the earth than the crème de la crème.]]></description>
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		<title>natuzzi</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/natuzzi/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/natuzzi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Mar 2010 06:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interiors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[alliteration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[event]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[natuzzi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[soho]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was recently approached to cover an upcoming event at Natuzzi SoHo, a showroom for what is apparently the largest leather furniture manufacturer in the world. I stopped by earlier tonight to scout the location and get the lowdown on the location, layout, and lighting (alliteration in the house, what up). ]]></description>
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		<title>ravens wood</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/ravens-wood/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/ravens-wood/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 09:10:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[flying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[karaoke]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wifi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=595</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The shot above was taken while on a karaoke outing with some coworkers the day before last. We had a private room and a lot to drink -- the perfect recipe for fun karaoke times.]]></description>
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		<title>cycled</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/cycled/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/cycled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fernicide]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[holiday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tree]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[yule]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=593</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ I've been trying to convince my mom to replace the rotting cherry tree on the front lawn with an evergreen. Then she could just dress it every Christmas and not have to slaughter an innocent tree.]]></description>
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		<title>Day Two</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/day-two/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/day-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:36:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[defrag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital cleanse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[log]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-improvement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=587</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So I'm a good day or so into the 'cleanse' and it's going well so far. It's actually a little scary how much more time I have in the day, just from cutting out twitter, facebook, and other "distraction" websites.]]></description>
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		<title>Digital Cleanse</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/digital-cleanse/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/digital-cleanse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 00:06:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[defrag]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital cleanse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john mayer]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-improvement]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day, John Mayer (yes, that John Mayer) put forth a challenge for people to go on a "Digital Cleanse," the goal of which to 'defragment' our brains from all the inundation of little bits of chatter we're filling it with constantly.

I decided to take him up on it.]]></description>
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		<title>santa&#8217;s slayed</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/santas-slayed/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/santas-slayed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[decapitation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[san francisco]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=573</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've seen a lot of Christmas decorations in my time, but this has got to be one of the more macabre ones to date. It reminds me of those witch doctors' shrunken heads you'd see in cartoons and comics. The only things that are missing are lifeless eyes and sewn-shut lips.]]></description>
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		<title>effigy whiz</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/effigy-whiz/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/effigy-whiz/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 09:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concertinapieces]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[critters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[crotchet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doppelganger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[etsy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=565</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine makes little creatures. More to the point, she crochets little critters into being. She makes other things, too, like clothes and jewelry, but really it's the critters you keep coming back for. She also makes little tiny versions of people, usually to order.]]></description>
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		<title>santa&#8217;s workshop</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/santas-workshop/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/santas-workshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 08:21:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[christmas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[display]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[window]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[xmas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=562</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've spent Christmas in a lot of different cities across two countries, and I can honestly say that none of them come even remotely close to New York in terms of sheer magic in the air. ]]></description>
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		<title>hobbled</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/hobbled/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/hobbled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hansom carriage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[horses]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Carriage horses always make me sad. Whenever I think about horses, I think wide open spaces. I think herds of wild horses, thundering across the plains. I don't think of bridles and saddles and pulling carriages of fat tourists through a paved park.]]></description>
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		<title>ronald</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/ronald/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/ronald/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:39:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[mcdonald]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=527</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Went to my first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade since I was five years old.

I remembered the floats being a lot bigger.]]></description>
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		<title>danielle, sly</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/danielle-sly/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/danielle-sly/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:02:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did a test shoot on Saturday with a friend-of-a-friend (see if you can guess her name), who was a dream to work with. I wish all my subjects were this easy to work with.]]></description>
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		<title>whiffle</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/whiffle/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/whiffle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:15:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[pets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grass]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[whiffle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=520</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I'd always taken denial somewhat literally. When I'd think of denial, I'd think of someone consciously rejecting the truth. Someone making a concerted effort to pretend something.]]></description>
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		<title>gussy-poo</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/gussy-poo/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/gussy-poo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[dogs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guss]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[gustafson]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[That's what my sister called him. She'd brought him with her to San Francisco from Savannah when she moved in 2001, and for as long as I can remember, that's been her name for him.]]></description>
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		<title>View Full Size</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/view-full-size/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/view-full-size/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[feature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[slimbox]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After some fiddling and tinkering, I finally managed to get a simple lightbox installed to let you view the images full-size. ]]></description>
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		<title>old school</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/old-school/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/old-school/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[classic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[escalator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gershwin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[macy's]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mad men]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[o henry]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=493</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Macy's in Midtown still has its original escalators in use, complete with grills an inch deep and monstrous teeth at the top that will eat you if an errant shoelace manages to get caught.]]></description>
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		<title>avant garde</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/09/avant-garde/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/09/avant-garde/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[avant garde]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[calvin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hobbes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[paul richard]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://focalmatter.com/2009/09/avant-garde/" title="avant garde"><img src="http://focalmatter.com/blah/wp-content/uploads/yapb_cache/2009_09_28_avant_garde.dj2d809mhxc0css8coc4oswcg.a9sxxja1njksswcs400wcc4cg.th.jpeg" width="180" height="270" alt="avant garde" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>There is an old Calvin &#38; Hobbes strip whose punchline reads "The problem with being avant garde is knowing who's putting on who." I came across this little gem the other day while crossing Spring in SoHo the other day. A little bit of internet research later and I discovered that this was by far [...]]]></description>
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