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		<title>Tuesday Tunes: A Sunny Day in Glasgow</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[a sunny day in glasgow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[johnny brendas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I am going to see A Sunny Day in Glasgow, a sibling band of warped but fluffy electronic sounds placed over ethereal voices. Some people describe it as ambient pop, some as shoegazer. I&#8217;m not really electronic enough to know what to call it.
Not for everyone&#8217;s taste, but tasty for those who enjoy these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=309&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monday Mentions</title>
		<link>http://fromsparktofire.wordpress.com/2009/12/14/diy_markets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 20:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Monday Mentions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[distro-y]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[DIY]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[TODAY&#8217;S MENTIONS: 
Boston&#8217;s Distro-y
Philadelphia&#8217;s Punk Rock Flea Market

This weekend I was in Boston and went to this great art fair&#8211;Mass Market&#8211; that reminded me a lot of Philly&#8217;s Punk Rock Flea Market coming up this Saturday.
Even if the buy local angle  isn&#8217;t your thing [insert ideological assertions about the importance of local economies here], it&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=304&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The RED Camera vs. Hermione Granger: or, How I&#8217;m Learning To Learn</title>
		<link>http://fromsparktofire.wordpress.com/2009/12/05/the-red-camera-vs-hermione-granger-or-how-im-learning-to-learn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Creative Process]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[independent film]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[RED camera]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Tomorrow I am volunteering on a friend&#8217;s film set as they test out the newish RED camera.
If you&#8217;re not familiar with the RED, it is part of a growing trend in the digital filmmaking world toward tapeless recording.
I haven&#8217;t been on a set in several years since I stopped taking classes for my MFA and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=299&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elizabeth Gilbert on Creativity and &#8220;Genius&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://fromsparktofire.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/elizabeth-gilbert-on-creativity-and-genius/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have some issue with Elizabeth Glibert/general western romanticization of India and the general trope of white people/westerners having to travel eastward to have a &#8220;spiritual&#8221; awakening.
(I mean really, if you want to see poverty and have a revelation about materialism and overconsumption and what&#8217;s meaningful you can go down the street and save the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=293&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not About Size: Austin, TX and its Film Venues</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other week I took my first real vacation (read: not for family, sweetie&#8217;s family, graduations/weddings/babies) in years.
I wanted to go somewhere I&#8217;d never been before, lounge all day, watch lots of independent films (and not feel obligated to call anyone&#8211;much love to the folks I know in Austin that I didn&#8217;t reach out to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=283&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Curating as Activism</title>
		<link>http://fromsparktofire.wordpress.com/2009/10/11/curating-as-activism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:16:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[flickering light film screening series]]></category>
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Here&#8217;s a little video (3min) a fellow Termite TV Collective Member Deb Rudman did on me and the Flickering Light about curating as a form of activism.
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		<title>Another Arguement Against Film School?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 14:53:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I went to a screening of Slingshot HipHop at the International House that was part of this great new series called Planet Rock .
The film is very strong in its production quality, use of animation and graphics as transitions, and its narrative focus on a few different artists and following their stories as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=263&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Approaching Job Searching Like Fundraising</title>
		<link>http://fromsparktofire.wordpress.com/2009/09/04/grassroots_jobsearching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Adventures in Entrepeneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grassroots fundraising]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[recession]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several of my friends have marveled recently at how lucky I am to have gotten so many jobs in a recession time. And not just any crap jobs, but really interesting ones that also allow me the flexibility I need.
I&#8217;ve been marveling at it everyday myself.
It occurred to me though that given my background and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=255&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nitty Gritty Sweaty Summer Night Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 02:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hate to say this outloud in the wide world web and somehow jinx it, but I can&#8217;t believe how good my life is right now.
By good, I don&#8217;t necessarily mean easy or constant pleasant sensations.
More just that I&#8217;m resisting myself less and less each month. In that mulchy, juicy process of abandoning words like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=244&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Practicing my face</title>
		<link>http://fromsparktofire.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/practicing-my-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:13:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Tonight, I find out if I won the business plan competition.
Oscars style, which I think is kinda horrible. Because it means that I have to practice my face. My if I win face, that won&#8217;t be too too excited so I don&#8217;t make the other three women feel too bad, and my if I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=fromsparktofire.wordpress.com&blog=2633447&post=241&subd=fromsparktofire&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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