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Thaw #1

Finally. After five long months of frigid, often painfully cold temperatures and people, the first hints of spring are starting to tease Minneapolis. Like a cheap hooker that only shows you she’s a tranny after you’ve paid your $50, the cityscape is beginning to reveal all of its dirty little secrets. These include the usual [...]

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Vault Adventure

One of the many perks of my job is getting to go on random treks through the two buildings that make up the college. Yesterday I had the pleasure of traversing through the underground vaults of our building on Hennepin Avenue in MPLS. It was a very creepy and smelly place… but the abandoned bank [...]

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発売開始 ! In-Stock Now ! “New Wave” T-Shirt by Experimental Jetset | Publik:

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発売開始 ! In-Stock Now ! “New Wave” T-Shirt by Experimental Jetset | Publik:.

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More Desk Envy

From Herman Miller…. The “Envelop” Desk

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Unbridled Optimism

Flickr Photo Download: Exhibit at the First Symposium on Low Pollution Power Systems Development …, 10/1973.

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A Few Images

Via US National Archives via Flickr

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The Unbearable Lightness of the #18A Bus

Conversation overheard on the #18a bus this morning:

A woman in a puffy trashbag-like Northface winter coat is complaining that every artist (from “That Beyoncé” to the Jacksons) lip-syncs. She looks puzzled as she tries to explain her dislike of the practice of dubbing and lip-syncing live performances to the half-asleep, rapidly drying-out middle-aged woman next [...]

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December 13, 2009

As the slide into full-blown winter solidifies, the concepts of failure and reduction have taken over my thoughts. When one thinks of improvement, of being a “better person”, the tendency is to look at what we lack and emphasize what we can acquire. I feel like I have been caught in this quagmire of acquisition [...]

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TPTP Paris…

AH! Finally some exceptionally good news comes my way. I have been selected to participate in an exhibition at TPTP in Paris. It looks like an amazing, energetic, and fun gallery space and I am thrilled to break the spell of exhibition drought with this show. Thank you Phillip Tonda, for selecting my work!
I will [...]

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Les Portes Du Souvenir

As I was walking into work this morning, I realized that living in the far north of the continental US has its benefits. While I may complain that the city is often unpopulated and boring at times, it is almost always a great place to turn to for a healthy dose of surrealism. For example, [...]

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