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		<title>Charity begins…on Oxford Street?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 20:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MelissaFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The thing that annoys me most about Oxford Street is this: not the tourists, who wander at snails pace along London&#8217;s busiest shopping stretch and then stop, abruptly, in great swarming packs to take a picture of each and every tube station sign from the middle of the pavement. Its not the &#8216;model scouts&#8217; who offer me, at too regular an interval for me to even have the time to be naively flattered, the chance to be pampered, preened and photographed for &#8220;just £49.99, when as a regular package these components would cost you over £500!!&#8221; Its not the mothers, with their pushchairs, trying &#8211; and failing &#8211; to negotiate their way around the tightly packed rails in Topshop, inevitably running over my already weary feet at least twice in each manoeuvre. What annoys me most are the cheerful chaps in their brightly coloured tshirts and high vis satchels asking me to donate to charity. Its not that I&#8217;m against charity, or that I don&#8217;t have enough spare change in the bottom of my (not so charitably priced) Longchamp bag to donate, I just object to the way in which their volunteers approach and accost people on a daily basis, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artist Interview – Vinothini Satchithananthan</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VictoriaH</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Emily Carr]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Name: Vinothini Satchithananthan Location: California Brief artists statement: I find drawing as a powerful tool to express and calm my inner self. Drawing is a way for me to have access to something that has no welcoming through any other process. It could grant access to a fragment of my history, my ever-changing state of liveliness or a secret that I&#8217;ve never told anyone before. My drawings are very intuitive. I come to the paper without any conceived ideas beforehand. The paper invites me and scares me at the same time. Drawing is one of the things that I am passionate about. How did you become an artist? Did you always dream of a life in the art-world? I am not a professional artist. Though I was drawing occasionally in the past using cheap watercolors, it was a later discovery in my life. Drawing is one of the things in my life that I cannot live without. It helps me to express and heal. Do you work as an artist full-time? Describe your typical day. Do you have a routine? I am not a full-time artist. My typical day usually starts with an hour and a half of Yoga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be part of the 90 paintings in 90 days project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flaneur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alicia Araya is an artist living in Marshall, USA. She is seeking funding for an Epic Painting project through the site Kickstarter. She picks up the story&#8230; I propose to paint 90 landscape paintings in 90 days. I&#8217;m basing them on a book titled Turner at the Tate which shows all the Turner pieces in the collection at the Tate Britain  in London. His work has always inspired me, both technically and artistically, and I have found his beautiful paintings work well when reproduced on weathered and river-beaten wood boards we find on local walks. The marriage of old British seascapes and landscapes with the natural beauty of Appalachia will hopefully emerge in my pieces, once I complete this project. It&#8217;s one thing to find three or four, or even fifteen pieces of driftwood to gesso over and turn into art &#8211; and another indeed to find 90! Similarly, oil paints are not cheap to come by and I estimate that, a third through the process, my already-depleted supply of materials would give out altogether. For these and other reasons associated with subsidizing this project, I am seeking $3,200 from the general public, so as to paint 90 small to medium traditional oil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When you think that you’re about to die</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mugren Ohaly</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you are faced with death, people say that your life flashes right before your eyes. But, that’s not true. You are consumed by nothingness. Everything and nothing happens at the same time. Your body is aware of what’s happening around you, while your brain shuts down. Your vision is gone and all you see is black nothingness. You start to wonder if this is what your life has lead up to. All the images and thoughts bounce around in your head, but you can’t process them. You are temporarily brain dead. It’s like a flashback, only that it went forward and you feel that you’ve skipped a part of your life. The pain from the burn in your left arm triggers some sort of switch as you remember the instant that you lost control. After that, it’s just black. Nothing makes sense. Physics seems to be the only thing that holds any truth. For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Some of you might argue that that is called karma.]]></description>
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		<title>Cocktails Inspired by Meryl Streep Performances: ‘The Iron Lady’</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LindsayP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meryl Thatcher, Gin Gimlet Snatcher   4 oz. Beefeater Gin 1 oz. Fresh Lime Juice Splash of soda water, if you please Garnish with lime wedge and mint leaves &#160; Hide your milk and get out the gin because it’s time to (pre-maturely, but appropriate nevertheless) toast Oscar Gold—and in 2012, awards season is spelled S-T-R-E-E-P. It’s time… it’s time for Thatcher, it is. Nun, war-wife, fashion editor, Orchid enthusiast, Ethel Rosenberg, divorcee, expert violinist, Woody Allen’s ex-wife (gross)—Streep it is. But now, it is time&#8230; and as we find ourselves the final month of Award Season consideration, Streep’s highly anticipated portrayal of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was released a la &#8220;The Iron Lady&#8221;. This film was not only the deciding factor of scheduling holiday travel plans (sorry Mum) but also the most highly anticipated performance of the year. While my internet soapbox for Meryl support can be, dare I say, excessive, aggressive, and other violent adjectives related to being incessantly berated at, let me say this with the utmost conviction— if there is one truth I know, it is that the hour and forty minutes Meryl graces the screen, the performance is stunning. Absolutely stunning. Above all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York’s ‘Walking Dead’</title>
		<link>http://flaneur.me.uk/01/new-yorks-walking-dead/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:21:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JoseF-T</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having taken a wrong turn on the lower West Side, off Broadway, I blink twice. Firstly because of the dimness of the alley and secondly, because I cannot believe my eyes! Confronting me is the sight of five limp bodies, their eyes popping. As if in worship, they carefully pass around a vial of smoky liquid. No this isn’t an excerpt from the TV series; ‘The Walking Dead’, but a crack den, one of the many alternative attractions in New York. A quick about turn out of the alley into the August heat and the seething streets ofManhattan, with its rushing yellow cabs. There are street vendors everywhere, selling roasted pretzels the size of your hand, hot dogs and giro’s (kebabs but much nicer.) African’s in long robes sell scented oils and Gucci rip-offs of watches and handbags. On hearing my accent, New Yorkers coo loudly, “Are you from London” (pronounced Lon-den) and the ubiquitous statement, “have a nice day,” is the mainstay of the language. New York has a rubbish problem. Bin liners, line the streets everywhere. You cannot leave a drugstore (corner shop), candy store (sweet shop), or street vendor, without them supplying you with a brown bag, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Haigh’s Weekend &amp; McQueen’s Shame: Film Reviews</title>
		<link>http://flaneur.me.uk/01/haighs-weekend-mcqueens-shame-film-reviews/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kylan Luke-McKeen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEEKEND 96 mins MA rating Director: Andrew Haigh Distributor: Rialto Cast: Tom Cullen &#38; Chris New I don’t even know where to begin with this film. Some movies just leave you so affected that it’s all you think about for week after seeing it. Weekend for me wasn’t just a film, it was a story so intricate, not only to my life, but to many gay men in this world. Weekend is a film about Russell (Tom Cullen) who meets Glenn (Chris New) in a bar. They hook up and then spend the weekend together in pubs and bedrooms, taking drugs, getting drunk and discovering each other intimately. The synopsis may not sound overly exciting but I bet it does sound familiar. And that is what makes this movie so great. The plot is very familiar and, in particular, familiar to gay men. The way the two guys talk to each other and interact with honest natural portrayals, and also how their ideas and opinions are very central to how they operate are incredibly recognizable. Director Andrew Haigh directs and writes a love story involved with the possibility of meeting someone new. All that excitement and fear is superbly demonstrated by the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Broken?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:08:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>ClaireO</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are We Broken? I walked down the street the other day I noticed a man with one arm in a wheelchair struggling up a hill. A while later I saw a mother with a child handout pleading. Carrying on looking straight ahead I was stopped by a girl selling a magazine. Refusing I walked on. At home I watched the news. Two murders Three deaths A car crash And an accident! I switched it off not fazed, no feelings stirred, no empathy. A shocking revelation? No! Just a normal day&#8230; What kind of society are we living in? Are WE broken?]]></description>
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		<title>Never Standing Still: Zbigniew Rybczynski and Gábor, Berlin Bódy</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:48:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Flaneur</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The exhibition “The State of Images” courageously presents two Eastern European media pioneers: Zbigniew Rybczynski and Gábor Bódy by Christiane Lötsch Would you have known? The development of electronic images and sound started in Eastern Europe as early as the 1970s. Zbigniew Rybczynski (*1949, Poland) and Gábor Bódy (*1946-1985, Hungary), overcoming the artistic restrictions of the Eastern Block, were two of the pioneers who discovered new media technologies and used them in their innovative artworks. The travelling exhibition “The State of Images”, held in the Academy of the Arts, Berlin and in ZKM Karlsruhe presents both artists, whose works anticipate the possibilities of digital art and culture. &#160; A blue room with three doors and a window. Tango music is playing when a ball is suddenly thrown into the room and a boy climbs through the window to get it back. A woman carrying a baby comes through the door, feeds her baby, and lays it down to sleep and exits. Following the scene with the boy and the mother is one with a thief who steals a bag, a husband who comes back home from a trip, a schoolgirl who does her homework – 36 characters keep repeating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>United, We Type</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 13:41:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aidan Moore</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You bust throught the door and create a diversion. They all turn and aim at you. You try to sweet talk them out of blowing your brains out, while I sneak around back, bust in, and *really* surprise &#8216;em.&#8221; A while ago I wrote an article about Interactive Literature that concerned namely the popular 1970&#8242;s Role Playing Game Dungeons &#38; Dragons. I have always been an avid D&#38;D player myself, but that has lead to my downfall at times when technology outsmarts the Pen &#38; Paper Role Player. That is to say, now whenever you want to play a game with someone, you can simply boot up a game and find someone waiting for you online. Oh the convenience! However, when you want to play a good old fashion game of slaying monsters by the might of your dice, you have to know people. In the short-term, it means it is harder to play because it is a feat of organization to find the one day of the month anyone isn&#8217;t busy, but in the long-run playing the game amounts to more than casual, online encounters do. It develops fellowship and dependence as players become accustomed to their own weaknesses and how [...]]]></description>
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