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	<title>mike ricca photography &#187; etc</title>
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		<title>The benefits of black &amp; white</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2012/01/the-benefits-of-black-white/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 07:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[black & white]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=2126</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent conversation with photographer buddies made me realize that there are a number of photographers out there that don't work in black &#038; white at all. A number, I'm sure, that's rapidly growing.

However just because you're not familiar with (or even like) black &#038; white photography, it still pays to dabble in it every now and then, for a number of reasons. Not only will it be good for your photographs, it'll be good for your photography.]]></description>
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		<title>The Easy Button</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/11/the-easy-button/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/11/the-easy-button/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 04:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[photoshop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[plugin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pskiss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=2055</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ Overnight, Lightroom became king and Photoshop became the tool I brought out once in a while for more involved retouching. I even avoided taking images into Photoshop after developing them in Lightroom (a common process) simply because Lightroom's simplicity made Photoshop look positively arcane.

At least, it did. I may be rethinking my stance after playing with the PSKiss Toolkits.]]></description>
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		<title>trick or freeze</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/10/trick-or-freeze/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/10/trick-or-freeze/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 07:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[holidays]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new york]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=2044</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It snowed today, the earliest New York has received at least an inch of snow <em>in recorded weather history</em>. I'd write more but honestly, not much else really need be said. Besides, after a night out (like a little bit of snow is gonna stop anyone) I'm in dire need of some thawing out.]]></description>
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		<title>The Good Kind of Profiling</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/good-kind-profiling/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/good-kind-profiling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 00:56:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camera profiles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[presets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pskiss]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1867</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently got my hands on a copy of the PSKiss Skin &#038; Scenery Color profile and preset pack, and while I'm not much of a preset kinda guy (aside from a few home-cooked ones and a small handful of black &#038; white presets), I was impressed enough with the camera profiles that I figured I'd talk about it some.]]></description>
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		<title>Edumacation</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/edumacation/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/edumacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jul 2011 17:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1816</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[While sorting through photos from a recent road trip through the Southwest a couple of weeks ago, I came across a photo that wasn't good enough to keep but made a perfect candidate for a quick demo of the salvaging power of RAW images. I cooked up a quick before/after shot (not unlike the one above) and shared it on Reddit.]]></description>
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		<title>500px is worth a thousand words</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/500px-worth-thousand-words/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/07/500px-worth-thousand-words/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 17:20:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[words]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[500px]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[review]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1812</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For those not yet familiar with it, 500px is a relatively new photo sharing site that... okay, yes. I know. Another one? But this one is a little different. Whereas Flickr is meant as a sort of "socially-oriented photodump" and SmugMug is meant as a sort of "pro-oriented photodump," 500px is more of a "pro-oriented online portfolio" than anything else.]]></description>
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		<title>natures in man</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/05/natures-in-man/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/05/natures-in-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 May 2011 04:09:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[duality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the met]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1730</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It was gorgeous out on the last weekend before I left for Boston (in case you were wondering why I haven't updated in a while) so naturally I decided to spend that day indoors at The Met. While wandering the floors of the museum, I happened upon The American Wing which. As I stepped out into the open square where most of the statues were standing, I noticed something that hadn't registered with me before.]]></description>
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		<title>And we&#8217;re back!</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/and-were-back/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/04/and-were-back/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 07:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[news]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overhaul]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[revamp]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[update]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A rare, text-only news item just to point out the obvious: I&#8217;ve updated the site. In the five (!) years since I started this blog, my photography&#8217;s grown a fair bit as have my needs from a website. When I first started, the &#8220;blog&#8221; was all of a series of single-image entries with maybe a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>the luck of the dice</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/the-luck-of-the-dice/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2011/01/the-luck-of-the-dice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Jan 2011 04:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dungeons & dragons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[roleplaying]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[stigma]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Growing up on a tiny island in the middle of the Philippines meant that, for the most part, we were fairly behind on the States when it came to new fads, TV shows, fashion, or other pop culture. While normally an annoyance, it worked in my favor when, in 1985, my best friend came over with this game his dad had brought back from Japan, Dungeons &#038; Dragons.]]></description>
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		<title>snow time like the present</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/12/snow-time-like-the-present/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/12/snow-time-like-the-present/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 05:52:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[blizzard]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snopocalypto]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I learned that there are essentially two types of people that will venture out into a blizzard-thunderstorm in the middle of the night: dog owners, who gladly brave the cold so that their pooches can do their dirty sinful business, and nutcases who look at the snow pouring down and think "I bet that'd make a pretty picture!"]]></description>
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		<title>eric + christine</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/11/eric-christine/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/11/eric-christine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 06:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[weddings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[big band]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hollywood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reception]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wedding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The very first leg of my three-week trip back to the West Coast was to visit L.A. and see a good friend of mine get married to a stellar gal. Eric and I go back a few years, and having bonded in part over the fact that we were both single guys dealing with those crazy dames, it was especially heartening to see him find a dame crazy enough to take him in.]]></description>
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		<title>jiggety jig</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/11/jiggety-jig/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/11/jiggety-jig/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 17:06:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[farm]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[safari]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=1008</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Home again, home again, after a good three weeks or so back in California.  As much as I love traveling it pretty much hobbles much of my updating.  Since my laptop has a glossy screen, photos I edit on it usually wind up a lot darker than they seem at the time.  As such, I tend to shy away from photo work on the road.]]></description>
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		<title>nycc / nyaf 2010</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/nycc-nyaf-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/nycc-nyaf-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Oct 2010 03:32:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[etc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[comiccon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[j-rock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyaf]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=981</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past Saturday I accompanied my buddy Tas  to the 2010 New York ComicCon / New York Anime Festival.  Geek mecca, basically, drawing in geeks, nerds, otaku, cosplayers, and dorks alike for hundreds of miles.]]></description>
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		<title>Look, ma! No desktop!</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/look-ma-no-desktop/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/look-ma-no-desktop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 01:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[best camera]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chase jarvis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lost cat]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/2010/10/look-ma-no-desktop/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently there's a Wordpress app for Android. This I'd especially fortuitous because just today I resolved to do a lot more shooting. Lately it seems like the only shooting I do anymore is for jobs or friends. I hardly ever shoot for me anymore.]]></description>
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		<title>lex and tina get married</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/09/lex-and-tina-get-married/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/09/lex-and-tina-get-married/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Sep 2010 05:06:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[weddings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goodfellas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyack]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[russian wedding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vogue]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=960</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Has it really been a month already? This may be the longest I've gone between updates. In fairness, though, it's been a helluva month. I finally moved into Manhattan at the end of August, no small feat in and of itself, and then had a wedding to shoot not four days later (see above). Then came the post-production, not to mention all the work on the apartment itself, and time just did what it always does and slipped through my fingers. But I'm back, more or less, so at least there's that.]]></description>
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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>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[4th of july]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fireworks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[skyline]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=905</guid>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[mta]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=893</guid>
		<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>
				<category><![CDATA[events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[empire state building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement party]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rooftop]]></category>

		<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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 22:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[dichotomy]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social structure]]></category>

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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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>
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		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
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		<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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