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		<title>Brian DePalma filmed in my apartment?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2011 I watched a movie on cable TV called Sisters. It’s a very early (1973) Brian DePalma thriller/murder-mystery about a local Staten Island journalist (played by Jennifer Salt) who sees a murder from her apartment window—my apartment window! Well, my apartment window or the window of one of the other five apartments directly above [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=841&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Skin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just seen the 2008 movie “Skin,” based on the life of South African Sandra Laing. And what a life she has lived! Born in 1955 to two apparently Caucasian parents in Apartheid South Africa, Sandra has decidedly non-white features and a skin color several shades darker than her Afrikaner parents. At a time when [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=1175&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Transformers</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:26:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New York artists Barbara Lubliner, Bernard Klavickas, Shari Mendelson, Janet Nolan, Olivia Kaufman-Rovira, Ilene Sunshine and Tyrome Tripoli are upcyclers. They turn garbage into art. Upcycling, according to wikipedia, is &#8220;the process of converting waste materials&#8230;into new materials or products of better quality or a higher environmental value.&#8221; The term is on everyone&#8217;s lips these [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=1108&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Etsy: Art for You! And You! And You!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Dec 2010 17:22:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy news! Artists and the people who love them meet at last, on mutual ground. No more stark, unfriendly gallery spaces where some intern behind the front desk refuses to acknowledge your arrival. No more standing around at openings with a plastic cup of lousy wine in one hand and a gussied-up Ritz cracker in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=1079&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mouna Andraos: Electronic Quilts</title>
		<link>http://bordertalksblog.com/2010/12/18/mouna-andraos-electronic-quilts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Dec 2010 22:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I posted my enthusiasm for the Gees Bend quilts and their makers. Working with their families&#8217; old work clothes, and influenced by their faith and surroundings, the Gees Bend quilters created astonishingly beautiful designs that rival the New York School artists celebrated in our art history books. Now comes 21st century quilting, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=1028&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Mobile Garden Grows&#8230;Everywhere</title>
		<link>http://bordertalksblog.com/2010/05/30/a-mobile-garden-grows-everywhere/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 May 2010 20:31:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mobile gardens are here, there and everywhere! On Staten Island, artist activist Tattfoo Tan is hosting a mobile garden “expo” where people can bring their mobile gardens to “ooooh” and “ahhhh” at the ingenuity and beauty of each other&#8217;s work, and then wheel their creations a few blocks to the St. George Ferry Terminal where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=1006&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Empty Lot</title>
		<link>http://bordertalksblog.com/2009/11/07/the-empty-lot/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 12:33:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live across the street from an empty lot—two, actually. The first (let&#8217;s call it &#8220;Lot A&#8221;) is directly across the street and faces the front entrance to my apartment building. For twenty years it has been advertised as the site of a new coop building project. The ramshackle and weather-beaten plywood barrier that fronts [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=983&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Sounds of 4th of July</title>
		<link>http://bordertalksblog.com/2009/07/06/the-sounds-of-4th-of-july/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bordertalksblog.com/?p=971</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds carry historical and political significance, even when they are intended as pure entertainment. Alternative meanings shimmer just beneath the surface as accepted meanings—safer meanings—give way to the attentive listener. Consider the sound of fireworks. According to Wikipedia, fireworks &#8220;were originally invented in ancient China in the 12th century to scare away evil spirits, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=971&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sebastian Brajkovic: Digital Furniture</title>
		<link>http://bordertalksblog.com/2009/05/07/sebastian-brajkovic-digital-furniture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 19:29:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The digital world and the actual world can bleed into each other in mind-bending ways. A recent example: the furniture sculpture of Sebastian Brajkovic. His chairs are planted solidly in the physical world yet appear to morph, at light speed, into virtual objects. In some ways this blurring / merging / mashing of staticness with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=940&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Cupcake Cutie.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 13:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin Locke Monda</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A commercial display of baked goods is an art form built on the strategic use of separation. Example: We step from the mean streets of our little town or big city into a store scented with vanilla, cinnamon and coffee, pull a tiny paper ticket from a stingy red dispenser and read the number that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=bordertalksblog.com&#038;blog=3271979&#038;post=914&#038;subd=bordertalks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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