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	<description>do computers dream of electric sheep?</description>
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		<title>Exergian</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/03/15/exergian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/03/15/exergian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:18:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Created out of a love for posters, modernism and television.&#8221;.
The TV shows poster series by Albert Exergian.
Also available for sale at Blanka.
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		<title>Grickle</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/03/08/grickle/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/03/08/grickle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:40:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illustration]]></category>

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&#8220;Just north of where I grew up there was an awesome bay on Lake Superior called Batchawana Bay.
You could walk out for what felt like a mile and the water would still only be up to your knees.
The water was warm and the sand was perfect.
I miss that place.&#8221;. 
(Graham Annable)


Grickle. Illustrations and animations by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trololololololololololo</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/03/07/trololololololololololo/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/03/07/trololololololololololo/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 00:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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&#8220;The number was not conceived out of some desire to cater to the so-bad-it&#8217;s-good tastes of the Western YouTube generation, but in fact was meant to please Soviet audiences, who were capable of placing this routine, this man, and this song into a familiar context.&#8221;.
(Justin E.H. Smith)



Trololololololololololo. This should be the new Rick Roll.
Above: Eduard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bersarin Quartett</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/22/bersarin-quartett/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/22/bersarin-quartett/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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&#8220;Imaginary fictional filmscores&#8221;.
Bersarin Quartett: the solo project of Thomas Bücker. Electronic/Experimental.
Debut album re-release on 23th of March 2010.
Listen: Oktober and St. Petersburg.
Above: album cover, detail.
Requires Flash Player
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		<title>Agosto</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/21/agosto/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/21/agosto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 16:57:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[



August
is the coldest month of the year
winter moves six months forward
and this is not the South Pole
here is not the South Pole
August
The alarm clock breaks the silence
Someone is on vacation
and she sounds for hours
How cold it is
August
you look out on a sick heart
five o&#8217;clock in the evening
and it&#8217;s already pitch dark
winter in August
The ice
settles and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ignore Everybody</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/16/ignore-everybody/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/16/ignore-everybody/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[books]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[illustration]]></category>

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&#8220;So you want to be more creative, in art, in business, whatever.
Here are some tips that have worked for me over the years.&#8221;.


1.
Ignore everybody.

2.
The idea doesn’t have to be big. It just has to be yours.

28.
Power is never given. Power is taken.

37.
 When your dreams become reality, they are no longer your dreams.

Gapingvoid: &#8220;cartoons drawn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Girl&#8217;s Guide to Homelessness</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/13/the-girls-guide-to-homelessness/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/13/the-girls-guide-to-homelessness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 22:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have never been homeless before, but I plan to face this with humor and dignity. I am just like you, except without the convenience of a permanent address.
<strong>The Girl's Guide to Homelessness</strong>. A true story by <b>Brianna Karp</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Everything Will Be OK</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/10/everything-will-be-ok/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/10/everything-will-be-ok/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>

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&#8220;After another two days
they concluded Bill was not going to die,
so his mother had all the flowers
removed from his room.
She also had to have his casket returned
at greater expense and inconvenience.
Bill had to go back to work the following thursday.
It rained for the entire bus ride.&#8221;.


Everything Will Be OK. A short film by Don Hertzfeldt.
First [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stephane Halleux</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/09/stephane-halleux/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/09/stephane-halleux/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 23:18:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>

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&#8220;I am always fascinated by robotics, its benefits and its contradictions. Who has never dreamed of owning a robot for make all the dirty work?&#8221;.


&#8220;But what is the border?
How far the robot is there to serve man?
That is what I want to make: caricatures of robots that have exceeded this border, all bathed in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Dollar Redesign Project</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/07/the-dollar-redesign-project/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/02/07/the-dollar-redesign-project/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1577</guid>
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&#8220;My design features: a vertical orientation, because it&#8217;s how I handle money; American artists, we&#8217;re a culture, not just a government;
corresponding geographical scenes; and a complementary color scheme, with bold, high-contrast numbers.&#8221;.
(Dean Potter)


The Dollar ReDe$ign Project: &#8220;It&#8217;s time to rebrand the buck.&#8221;. By Richard Smith.
]]></description>
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		<title>The Oatmeal</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/30/the-oatmeal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/30/the-oatmeal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:56:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illustration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1547</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Either printer ink is made from unicorn blood or we&#8217;re all getting screwed.&#8221;.
(Why I believe printers were sent from hell to make us miserable)

&#8220;Once you fix something, they&#8217;ll forever regard you as the Computer genius.
If it reaches this point, you&#8217;re pretty much screwed.&#8221;.
(Why it&#8217;s better to pretend you don&#8217;t know anything about computers)
The Oatmeal: written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beatriz Martin Vidal</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/17/beatriz-martin-vidal/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/17/beatriz-martin-vidal/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[illustration]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1497</guid>
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Beatriz Martin Vidal, illustrator.
See also her work on deaviantART.


Above: Little Red Riding Hood, watercolor. (from Carbonmade)
]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Noorda</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/15/bob-noorda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/15/bob-noorda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 23:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[design]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1450</guid>
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&#8220;The history of the Milan subway signs was very interesting, because the subway was completely new.
Usually the architect designed the furnishings and then say, &#8220;now you have to put the signals&#8221;.
Instead we created a new system, the famous red band on the M1 line , for the signals.
Before then, the station&#8217;s name appeared only once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Loudness War</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/11/the-loudness-war/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/11/the-loudness-war/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 21:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[music]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1438</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;You listen to these modern records,
they&#8217;re atrocious, they have sound all over them.
There&#8217;s no definition of nothing, no vocal, no nothing, just like … static.&#8221;.
(Bob Dylan, interviewed by Rolling Stone, 1996)

The Loudness War, or &#8220;the practice of digitally mastering albums with progressively increasing levels of loudness and reduced dynamic range.&#8221;.
]]></description>
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		<title>Keep Calm and Carry On</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/10/keep-calm-and-carry-on/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2010/01/10/keep-calm-and-carry-on/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jan 2010 22:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[phenomena]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1424</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

&#8220;Keep Calm and Carry On was a motivational poster produced by the British government in 1939 during the beginning of World War II, but never used.
In 2000, a copy of the poster was rediscovered in Barter Books.
Since the image is now in the public domain, the store&#8217;s owners were able to reprint copies at customers&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cashless man</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/12/08/the-cashless-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/12/08/the-cashless-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:19:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The morning I finally decided to give up using cash, the whole world changed.&#8221;.
&#8220;While feeding the stove with broken-up old vegetable boxes, I would watch the moon rise in winter and the sun set in summer for the time it took to prepare my evening&#8217;s repast.
Birds in the trees around my kitchen became my new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion Face</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/16/fashion-face/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/16/fashion-face/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[phenomena]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1394</guid>
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&#8220;Samantha Chapman is an accomplished make-up artist.
Along with her sister Nicola she runs fashionface.tv, a unique website which shows how to create fashion forward looks as well as vintage classics. 
To date the site and accompanying YouTube page has had over one million hits.&#8221;.
(From samanthachapman.com)


Above: Nicola Chapman in Smokey Blue Eyes Tutorial. 
Requires Flash Player [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gustavus</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/12/gustavus/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/12/gustavus/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1373</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[

&#8220;Sharply written, an astute view on life and its pitfalls.&#8221;.
(Ian Lumsden)
See:
Gustavus and a long life
Gustavus interiority complex
Gustavus car



Gustavus (Dargay-Nepp-Jankovics, Pannonia Film Studios, 1964)
Above: Gustavus and alienation.
Requires Flash Player
]]></description>
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		<title>Bank Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/07/bank-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/07/bank-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:10:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[online culture]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1365</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Robbing a bank is as simple as putting pen to paper.
Here are actual demand notes used in successful and unsuccessful unarmed bank robberies, accompanied by a photo of each robber and appended with details about the robbery itself.&#8221;.
Bank Notes: a collection of bank robbery notes. By Ken Habarta.
]]></description>
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		<title>Straw man</title>
		<link>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/04/straw-man/</link>
		<comments>http://www.pacquola.org/2009/11/04/straw-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:39:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pacquo</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.pacquola.org/?p=1355</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;A straw man is a fallacy in which an irrelevant topic is presented in order to divert attention from the original issue.
The straw man fallacy occurs in the following pattern:

Topic A is under discussion.
Topic B is introduced under guise of being equivalent to topic A.
A participant (usually the one who introduced B) attacks B, as [...]]]></description>
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