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	<title>Beyond the Picture</title>
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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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		<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 &#8217;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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		<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 that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Miami Artist, Jen Stark</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2009/03/13/miami-artist-jen-stark/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:32:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<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:

She discusses in a video on her site how she got started with the 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>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 05:56:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mind the gap]]></category>
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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 one of [...]]]></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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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>no matter where you go, there you are</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/28/no-matter-where-you-go-there-you-are/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Boston Symphony Hall]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[

I think a lot about the concept of placeness, and what differentiates one location on the planet from another, beyond what you can see. Isn&#8217;t it interesting that in certain places you can sense stories humming in undertones? And that the spaces in which we move, physically, effect our activities and emotions and aspirations in [...]]]></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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/22/where-do-birds-go-to-die/</guid>
		<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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		<title>Tundric adventure</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/19/tundric-adventure/</link>
		<comments>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/19/tundric-adventure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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Morningside Park. 
On Friday, I had to get from the upper west side of Manhattan down to the UN, over to Brooklyn, and back, and happened to pick a miserable, urban ice storm in which to do it. In addition to subways, that&#8217;s about 40 blocks of outdoor walking. I had not come to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s new, Lash LaRue?</title>
		<link>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/10/look-out-lash-larue/</link>
		<comments>http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/10/look-out-lash-larue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2007 04:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>leili</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://leili.org/blog/2007/03/10/look-out-lash-larue/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[So, lucky me! Lash came to visit.

It was great to see him, though surreal, because it&#8217;s been months, and many farewells, and thousands of miles, and &#8230; thousands of degrees, besides. We walked around Boston in freezing ridiculous weather, and snapped some photos.

The light was very New England &#8211; I would even venture to say [...]]]></description>
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