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	<title>Beyond the Picture &#187; pay attention</title>
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		<title>Are you stuck?</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2011/08/05/are-you-stuck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leili</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[People of the internet this is advice about what to do if you get one pot stuck in another]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day, I needed to ship an order overseas. I went to my storage shelves to retrieve the ceramic piece in question &#8211; a little verdigris green bowl with sliptrailed decoration &#8211; and was dismayed to discover that I had inadvertently stacked it inside another bowl. It was stuck. I mean, completely wedged in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening to Waves &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2010/07/07/listening-to-waves-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The heart-wrending photo I posted yesterday of an Alabaman wave polluted by the Gulf oil spill prompted me to share some work by artists who evidently love nature, and whose work, I find, deepens my own love for nature and beauty. Sakiyama Takayuchi is a Japanese ceramic artist who makes clay look like water and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Listening to Waves &#8211; Part 1</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2010/07/06/like-delicate-blown-glass-only-poisonous-and-devastating/</link>
		<comments>http://leili.org/blog/2010/07/06/like-delicate-blown-glass-only-poisonous-and-devastating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 20:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I first saw this photograph (by David Martin of the AP) in June: spilt oil forms a delicate pattern in waves hurtling toward the Alabama coastline: I have seen a number of photographs, all terrifying, of oil-covered pelicans and brown waterscapes in the Gulf region. More than others, however, this photo spoke volumes for me. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nothing Has a Final Shape</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2010/03/04/nothing-has-a-final-shape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 17:38:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some weeks ago, my sweet friend Shirin came over to purchase a wedding gift for her cousin (Congratulations Tekies!). I brought out a number of my ceramic pieces to the kitchen table (made of white Corian, about 6’ long) and let her choose. When she selected the piece she wanted, I went to the other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intention and Submission</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/10/22/intention-and-submission/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:39:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Michael Cardew]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Cardew, an English studio potter born in 1910, wrote, &#8220;Pottery is a fundamental craft and should be pursued in a fundamental way. Beware of all &#8216;short cuts&#8217;. Begin at the beginning. The simplest materials and the simplest methods are often the best. The most primitive work is often the most refined. Potters must be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fun Fiascoes</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/06/09/fun-fiascoes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://leili.org/blog/?p=75</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[How different is your inside from your outside? Your interior thoughts from your exterior presentation? Some people I know have very few filters; the distance traveled between their thoughts and actions seems &#8230; short. Others are enigmatic and full of surprises. Sometimes the unfiltered people and the inscrutable people change guises. Sometimes it is apparent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Artist, Jen Stark</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/03/13/miami-artist-jen-stark/</link>
		<comments>http://leili.org/blog/2009/03/13/miami-artist-jen-stark/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://leili.org/blog/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My ceramics colleague, Robert Boyer, shares my fascination with obsessive, repetitive patterns and textures. So I wasn&#8217;t surprised that he drew my attention to Jen Stark, the Miami-based paper/color/X-acto artist: In a video on her site, Stark discusses how she got started making obsessive paper sculptures. She went to Paris for a year-long art fellowship, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Aref-Adib&#8217;s Look Alikes</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/03/05/aref-adibs-look-alikes/</link>
		<comments>http://leili.org/blog/2009/03/05/aref-adibs-look-alikes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like people who see things others don&#8217;t. This guy collects on his blog images of people and objects that, well, look alike.  It&#8217;s not just the &#8220;Separated at Birth&#8221; concept, however. Aref-Adib has collected some unusual pairs, like this one (Banksy/calligraphy): Here&#8217;s a Mondrian/&#8221;Mind the gap&#8221; juxtaposition that I like a lot: There&#8217;s also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting Shame in Your Game</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2007/07/29/putting-shame-in-your-game/</link>
		<comments>http://leili.org/blog/2007/07/29/putting-shame-in-your-game/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jul 2007 23:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some years ago, my brother and I were playing Boggle with a friend. Boggle, for those who don’t know (and I don’t know if you deserve to be told if you don’t know, but I am in a munificent mood) is a word game consisting of a small plastic board, 16 letter cubes, and a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Where do birds go to die?</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/22/where-do-birds-go-to-die/</link>
		<comments>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/22/where-do-birds-go-to-die/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 01:55:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally uploaded by ardour. I find this picture by Yoav very beautiful. It reminds me of something that has bothered me for some time, and for which no one has yet supplied an answer that makes sense: Although we see and hear many birds each day, why do we almost never see dead birds? I [...]]]></description>
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