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		<title>GLOW</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A collaborative proposal between myself and classmate Nova Jiang has been accepted to the GLOW festival in Santa Monica, which will be happening this summer. The event is a dusk-till-dawn party on Santa Monica Pier and Beach, inspired by events like Nuit Blanche in Paris. From the website: With the historic Santa Monica Pier and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=56&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s going to happen:</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:04:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part of the reason it&#8217;s so difficult to update is that, when enough time goes by I feel like I have to catch up on previous things before I can move on to new stuff. As though things need to be kept in chronological order. Well, if there&#8217;s one thing Michel Foucault has taught me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=55&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mike is a Barbarian&#8230; Kind of</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 19:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this is pretty fresh news but looks like i&#8217;ll be doing some work with the Barbarian Group this summer. They&#8217;re a pretty well established interaction company, with a history in innovative interactive website work, but now doing commissioned installations, independent projects and even gallery art work, occasionally. They just finished working on the Photoshop [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=54&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much is that Grad Student in the window? The one with the waggely tail.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Mar 2008 00:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will update soon. Lots to talk about. Just listen to this song over and over in the meanwhile. I will let Rick Astley speak on my behalf. Stuff to talk about (more for me, so I don&#8217;t forget) Latest Critiques &#38; New work Dinner with Craig Baldwin Kara Walker Q&#38;A Grizzly Bear and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=53&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections on the first half of this quarter</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 17:19:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll do another post soon on new themes / ideas. Plus info on show&#8217;s i&#8217;ve seen. For now, I&#8217;d just like to update. It&#8217;s been a really challenging quarter. Largely in the sense of defining my own work schedule intelligently (which I&#8217;ve been failing at) and balancing reading theory and producing work (also failing at). [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=52&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Film Review: &#8220;Fantasic Planet&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fantastic Planet is a French sci-fi animation (1973) directed by Rene Laloux. Humans are called &#8220;Oms&#8221; and, newly imported, are kept as pets for giant blue humanoid aliens called &#8220;Traags&#8221;. I had to watch it twice because it&#8217;s short and incredibly beautiful. The sound design is unique and the environment of the film is incredibly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=50&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Book Report: &#8220;The Laws of Simplicity&#8221; (Maeda)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 01:40:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just finished reading Maeda&#8217;s new book, The Laws of Simplicity. It was a quick, easy read and very enjoyable. Basically, the book is about life, organization, design and business, and the ways that simplicity (and often even complexity) can be adopted into working methodologies to make life easier and better. It&#8217;s full of funny and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=49&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Greetings from San Francisco!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:59:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hope everybody had a safe and happy New Year celebration, and is enjoying the first week of 2008! I&#8217;ve spent the past week here at Tammy&#8217;s apartment in the Mission. The experience has been different from the usual visit, because much of the beginning of it involved moving/cleaning. But overall it&#8217;s been really enjoyable. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=48&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A list of Awesome things that happened in the Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 02:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trip to Carlson (Christian Moeller&#8217;s Fabricators, in the Valley. They also fabricate the work of other famous artists there, like Jeff Koons.) Trip to Vasa&#8217;s Studio Trip to Bermant Foundation (They are major donors to our department and have one of the largest private collections of classic Kinetic art. We got to play hands-on with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=45&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back from the Dead!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Holidays to all! If anyone is still reading, I wish you all a good holiday season and a pleasant, restful break. So, my first quarter at UCLA, D&#124;MA flew by in a blur of sleepless nights, presentations and critiques. I&#8217;ve been on a short break in Philadelphia most recently, visting family and enjoying some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=tryitforfour.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1437850&amp;post=44&amp;subd=tryitforfour&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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