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	<title>f o c a l m a t t e r &#187; people</title>
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		<title>the internet is for scorn</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/the-internet-is-for-scorn/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/07/the-internet-is-for-scorn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[engagement shoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[experts]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[internet]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet forums are interesting places.  There are few other places, either real or online, that are as effective at gathering like-minded individuals into one place to discuss everything from the brilliant to the banal.  It's like being in a college classroom with thousands of other people from all over the world, all different walks of life. One of the biggest perks about internet forums is that they're a great place to go to for free advice from experts who are there because they love to share knowledge. The downside, of course, is that on the internet, everyone's an expert.]]></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>ounce of prevention</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/ounce-of-prevention/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/ounce-of-prevention/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 03:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[guests]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lightroom]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[portfolio]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=830</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Updates have been few and far between lately on account of me still wrestling with my library of over 36,000 photos.  I'm hoping to use "this photography thing" to help supplement my main income, or at the very least bring in enough money to pay for itself.  God knows photography is no cheap endeavor, and it'd be nice if it pulled its own weight once in a while.]]></description>
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		<title>legacy</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/legacy/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/legacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 22:07:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[preservation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=782</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The main reason for my return to the Philippines was to pick up my grandmother, who has been living in Cebu for the last year or so.  We had sent her back from the States to escape the Winter, and illness had prevented us from bringing her home sooner.  Said picking up has hit a bit of a snag, as apparently her being in the Philippines for over a year (due to aforementioned illness) resulted in her Green Card being invalidated. ]]></description>
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		<title>neil and kayen</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/neil-and-kayen/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/neil-and-kayen/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:30:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[engagement shoot]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[couple]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[romance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two old and dear friends recently asked me if I could reshoot their engagement photos.  They had tragically lost them in a hard drive crash (protip: it's not enough to back up, you gotta do it often) and were hoping to have new ones for their upcoming vow renewals.]]></description>
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		<title>cliché</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cliche/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cliche/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 03:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirror]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflection]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the office]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=683</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I don't know what it is about "shooting reflection" self-portraits that make them such a popular cliché. They're pretty much the one-man version of the "taking a picture of someone taking a picture of you" cliché that we all love so much. ]]></description>
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		<title>from the hip</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/from-the-hip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 03:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[shooting from the hip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=677</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've been playing with shooting from the hip again lately. It's a bit of an art, because not only do you have to properly frame and compose the shot, but you have to keep the camera still, which is tougher than you'd think because you also have to shoot clandestinely. Well, maybe not "have to," but it's part of the fun of shooting from the hip--capturing people when they don't realize they're being captured.]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=667</guid>
		<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>sesame skid row</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/sesame-skid-row/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/sesame-skid-row/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 06:19:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[muppet]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tempest]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=659</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is Rick. My sister took me to FAO Schwartz to put him together, a birthday gift months in the making. Like me, he enjoys a good Irish whiskey from time to time. Perhaps too much.]]></description>
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		<title>epic beard man</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/epic-beard-man/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/epic-beard-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 03:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beard man]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[penn station]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=638</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's update will be little more than this shot of a random traveler spotted in Penn Station. He's not the real Epic Beard Man, but as the original is more of a Beard Man who happens to be Epic and this guy is more of a Man who happens to have an Epic Beard, I figure the distinction is enough to let it pass.]]></description>
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		<title>rest in peace</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/rest-in-peace/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/rest-in-peace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 04:17:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[astoria]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memorial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=626</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I die, I hope they use the photo from my "About Me" page, or something similarly silly. I don't take myself seriously in life, I'd hate to start after I was dead.]]></description>
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		<title>the chase</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-chase/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/02/the-chase/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:16:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[exercise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[running]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[snow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[winter]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=623</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Winter runners always make me feel especially lazy. I can't be bothered to run when it's nice out, and these guys are running in cold winter weather.]]></description>
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		<title>how i spent my bummer vacation</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/how-i-spent-my-bummer-vacation/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/how-i-spent-my-bummer-vacation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 08:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dexter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hibernation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sloth]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=600</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This has been my view for much of the three-day weekend. I wish I could blame my sloth on illness or other, but I got over my cold sometime on Thursday or Friday. It has been raining, though. That miserable, cold, chilling rain. It's a pity, too, because it's "warmed up some" and actually hit the mid-40s this weekend. If not for the rain, I might've been incensed to go out and do something.]]></description>
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		<title>tas shooting</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/tas-shooting/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/tas-shooting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 07:21:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chocolate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[max brenner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=597</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My buddy Tas, shooting some of the chocolate on display at Max Brenner in Union Square. I've eaten at that restaurant far too many times for someone who doesn't have a crack-like addiction to chocolate.]]></description>
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		<title>escalaternity</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/escalaternity/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/01/escalaternity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 09:47:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[digital cleanse]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eternity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mirrors]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reno]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-portrait]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I've always dug the effect caused by parallel mirrors. It was this odd eternity that stretched on, but you could never quite see it.]]></description>
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		<title>london, bridged</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/london-bridged/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/london-bridged/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 06:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[call of the wild]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jack london]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oakland]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=579</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Right beside the cabin is Heinold's First and Last Chance, a bar frequented by London himself, back when he used to live here.  From the look of it, not much has changed since the Call of the Wild author's days. ]]></description>
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		<title>no checks</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/no-checks/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/12/no-checks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 20:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[barbershop]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[san francisco]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sf]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=576</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of my first stops after I got back was to my favorite barbershop, just down the street from work. It's about as classic a barbershop as you can get without fabricating one. ]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[fashion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[misc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[autumn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[central park]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[danielle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leaves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sly]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sunglasses]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=522</guid>
		<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>zero sum game</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/zero-sum-game/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/zero-sum-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 06:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-portraits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[clone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[game]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[me]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ping pong]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Of course, while my table tennis nemesis and I tend to play on an almost-daily basis, there are times when he's either too tired or too busy or just not around to play. It's times like those that I break out my handy cloning machine and make myself another evenly-matched opponent.]]></description>
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		<title>sushi</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/sushi/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/11/sushi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:20:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[chef]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[japanese]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[restaurant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seafood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sushi]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=456</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Apparently growing up in an island country means I'm expected to eat seafood. I wonder if vegetarians from Texas are met with the same incredulity.]]></description>
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		<title>silly puppets</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/10/silly-puppets/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2009/10/silly-puppets/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 07:11:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=412</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We seem to have this obsession with anthropomorphizing the things around us. We name our cars. We talk to (okay, yell at) our computers. We feel bad for old lamps when they are left on curbsides. ]]></description>
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		<title>fashion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[<a href="http://focalmatter.com/2009/10/fashion/" title="fashion"><img src="http://focalmatter.com/blah/wp-content/uploads/yapb_cache/2009_10_09_fashion.c83z8bfk23cccs8gcwskk4gco.a9sxxja1njksswcs400wcc4cg.th.jpeg" width="180" height="270" alt="fashion" style="float:left;padding:0 10px 10px 0;" ></a>I had a fashion shoot the other night. A friend (by way of being my cousin's fianceé) is a partner at a fashion label and they needed to update their website photos. This was a detail shot for one of their cardigans. I've always noticed how photography seems to have more misconceptions about it than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>colin trinity</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/10/colin-trinity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:39:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=405</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Another photo from the Colin Hay show I caught while still in San Francisco. I've been spending a lot of my free time these past couple of weeks catching up on photo work that had fallen to the wayside and the shots from the show were among them.]]></description>
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		<title>lookie loos</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/10/lookie-loos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=395</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The store had filled up fairly quickly as the show went on and since there was decent foot traffic on the sidewalk outside, more than a few passers-by would hear the music, see the crowd, and stop to check out the fuss.]]></description>
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		<title>invisible cities</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2009/10/invisible-cities/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2009 05:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/blog/?p=392</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sadie and Han, of The Invisible Cities, playing at Giant Robot NYC. They're on the last leg of their Follow Your Whim tour with Goh Nakamura, who's also one of their members.]]></description>
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