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	<title>Artconduit is Brian Alves: artist, designer, thinker, professor</title>
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		<title>Alien Technology</title>
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Ridley Scott&#8217;s 1979 film Alien stands out for many reasons. Aside from its amazing moody minimalism, I continue to be fascinated by its portrayal of flight navigation technology. Last week, I watched yet again. I began to wonder how a film now more than 30 years old still maintains a uniformly  modern feeling.

Though the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Better Hatters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just returned from director Tim Burton&#8217;s hyped-up &#8220;Alice In Wonderland&#8221; flick, I needed to reflect for a moment. I am an avid ABC &#8220;video-on-demand&#8221; viewer &#38;  in the last few weeks I have been pummeled with the endless Alice trailers. Though still nursing a grudge against Burton for his shamefully overdone redux of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Textbook Inspiration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I lose creative  inspiration, I grab one of the &#8220;outdated&#8221; textbooks I have collected over the years. Found on a dusty &#8220;antique&#8221; store shelve, in a small back room of Good Will or Salvation Army, on the sidewalk in my neighbor&#8217;s trash. More than a few wonderful texts have been found at unannounced library book sales [...]]]></description>
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