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	<title>f o c a l m a t t e r &#187; places</title>
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	<description>photos that aren&#039;t entirely crap</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>

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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>endtimes square</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/endtimes-square/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/06/endtimes-square/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[key to the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[times square]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think I'll never be a "real New Yorker" because I actually kinda like Times Square.  It seems that more often than not, simply mentioning the words "Times Square" to a New Yorker will elicit responses of "Dear god, why?" (a coworker actually said that to me once) and a disdain normally reserved for Hoboken, L.A., and the Red Sox.]]></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>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>there and back again</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/there-and-back-again/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/there-and-back-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 00:01:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[memories]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moments]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's funny how the brain, out of its need for order and structure, "compartmentalizes" our lives.  You can spend five weeks in a place, working, sleeping, socializing, and otherwise maintaining the semblance of a normal life, then the second you leave that place, it all disappears into the ether.  One minute you're on a plane and still in that sort of "limbo" between lives; and then as soon as you step off the plane, everything that came before feels like it was in another life, almost as though it never really happened.]]></description>
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		<title>the streets of makati</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/the-streets-of-makati/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/05/the-streets-of-makati/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 10:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[makati]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[regrets]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=797</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On the home stretch of the trip.  Hard to believe I've been here almost five (!) weeks already.  Despite spending most of my time here either working during the night, sleeping during the day, or running around in-between, I managed to snag a fair number of photos.  Just under six thousand at last count, though of them maybe only a quarter made the cut.  Still, I'm happy with those numbers.]]></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>pilipinas kong minumutya</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/pilipinas-kong-minumutya/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/pilipinas-kong-minumutya/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:24:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[history]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[intramuros]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=772</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Being back these past few weeks has been a bit of an experience for me.  Some of the things, I expected; the thrill of seeing old friends again, the nostalgia of revisiting my old haunts, the surprise to see how much everything had changed.  What I hadn't expected, however, was how much I'd realized I've missed this place.]]></description>
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		<title>boracay</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/boracay/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/boracay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Apr 2010 15:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[beach]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boracay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[paradise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=755</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In all the years I lived in the Philippines, I'd never been to Boracay—considered by many to be one of the most beautiful beaches in the Philippines. Between the airfare to get there and the cost of lodging and food for your stay (plus other things), I never really had the money for it.]]></description>
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		<title>the campaign trail</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-campaign-trail/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-campaign-trail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 03:50:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[balayan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elections]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As though in testament to just how small Manila really is and how bizarrely interconnected Manileños tend to be, the brother-in-law of my good friend and stalwart traveling companion, Iñigo, is running for president.

Of the Philippines.]]></description>
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		<title>the look</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-look/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/the-look/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 03:38:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quiapo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[staring]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=734</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing I'd forgotten about  the Philippines is that many people—especially<em> </em>the<em> masa</em>, those below the poverty line—aren't self-conscious about staring. In fact many will continue to do it even after you meet their gaze (which is usually the point where even the most brazen starer will turn away).]]></description>
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		<title>quiapo</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/quiapo/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/quiapo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 22:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidalgo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[manila]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[markets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[quiapo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tiangge]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=711</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I found myself with some downtime earlier today and took the opportunity to visit Quiapo, known for its sprawling markets and back-alley bazaars, and explore Hidalgo street, itself known for having a ton of camera stores and bargains galore.]]></description>
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		<title>adjustments</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/adjustments/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/adjustments/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[changes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture shock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pasig]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=703</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Day One of my trip is officially over, and I think I'm no less thrown for a loop for it. Partly because, as expected, the landscape has changed so dramatically in the last decade, but more because I have. I've been gone so long, I've forgotten all about what it's like to live here. ]]></description>
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		<title>homecoming</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/homecoming/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/04/homecoming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Apr 2010 15:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[travel]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philippines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[returning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[tourist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=698</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A little over an hour or so until we reach NAIA; part of me still hasn't fully grasped that I'm on my way home. I know it, of course, the same way you know that the childhood home you revisit isn't going to be a hundred feet tall. But you don't really know it until you actually see it and your brain finally puts it all together.]]></description>
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		<title>conEd</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/coned/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/coned/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:05:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[night]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[smoke]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=692</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No accompanying text tonight. I've had the longest day in recent memory and I just want to go to sleep.]]></description>
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		<title>cinderella</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cinderella/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/cinderella/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 06:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cinderella]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[subway]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=689</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in New York, a princess is missing her slipper.]]></description>
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		<title>tandem</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/tandem/</link>
		<comments>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/tandem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Mar 2010 04:38:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love my GF1 a little more each day. I was able to get down nice and low for this shot thanks to the electronic viewfinder, that can angle up at 90º. Even if I had shot this using the main LCD--which grants some level of leeway when it comes to shooting angles--I still would've had to position myself awkwardly to get the capture.]]></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>
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		<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>donebrella</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/donebrella/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the city]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[nyc]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rain]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[umbrellas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=675</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[New Yorkers don't seem to like umbrellas very much. Or perhaps they just don't like owning or carrying them. Whenever a decent amount of rainfall hits, they all buy cheap $5 street corner umbrellas, use them for a day, then toss them into trash cans when it stops raining. I call them "donebrellas." ]]></description>
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		<title>the beautiful people</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/the-beautiful-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[street shooting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=672</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I always found it interesting that companies (especially, though not limited to, clothing companies) would market their wares to the entire world by showcasing them on people who probably fall into the top 1% of the global beauty scale.]]></description>
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		<title>all they surveyed</title>
		<link>http://focalmatter.com/2010/03/all-they-surveyed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2010 02:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>mike</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[places]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the country]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[camping]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[west virginia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[wilderness]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://focalmatter.com/?p=669</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An older photo, stumbled upon while working on my portfolio. It was taken on the same camping trip that this photo came from. In fact, that cross was only a hundred or so feet away from where we were standing.]]></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>
		<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>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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