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		<title>Jeff Nishinaka’s paper sculpture</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 02:14:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Readers of MadSilence know how we love paper art!  Check out the paper sculptures of artist Jeff Nishinaka. Via dailyartmuse Jeff Nishinaka paper sculpture Filed under: Art, Culture, News Tagged: Jeff Nishinaka, paper art, paper sculptures<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7931&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Extraordinary secrets of everyday trees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Seeing Trees:Discover the Extraordinary Secrets of Everyday Trees]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I enjoy going out into nature, visiting our local parks, beaches, and arboretums.  Part of the appeal are the trees I experience.  Some are old friends, like a towering American beech I&#8217;ve known for over thirty years; others are mysterious strangers to be identified by leaf, bark, fruit or seed.  Not everyone can appreciate the affection I hold for my favorite trees.  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7893&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MadSilence in review 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 14:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for MadSilence. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about 130,000 times in 2011. If it were an exhibit at the Louvre Museum, it would take about 6 days for that many people to see it. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7841&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crafting for a Good Cause and the Knit for Japan Initiative</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 18:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m sure that many of you crafters out there have a problem similar to mine &#8211; you love making stuff, but as you build up your skills you might end up making a lot of the same type of object&#8230;. say, scarves for knitters or blankets for crocheters.  Making them is awesome, and it certainly [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7832&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Past Objects</title>
		<link>http://madsilence.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/past-objects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 23:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The majority of modern man-made artifacts have no intrinsic value.  Mostly mass-produced, ultimately discarded by their owners, they quickly disappeared from sight and memory.  And yet these objects were often imbued with significant meaning: first by those who designed and manufactured them; then by those who used them.  It’s the romance of these objects’ stories [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7808&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New Reading Material!</title>
		<link>http://madsilence.wordpress.com/2012/01/09/new-reading-material/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing the newest blog in the MadSilence family, meaningfulobjects! Meaningfulobjects is the baby of MadSilence the Older and Wiser, a separate place for him to explore the objects and art that are meaningful to him, and not specifically Asia- or craft-related, as many of the posts here at MS tend to be. &#8220;meaningful objects : [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7825&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Barbie The Museum Collection</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 14:22:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ok, so it&#8217;s not fine art, and it&#8217;s mass produced, and at $34.95 it&#8217;s pretty affordable.  So why not?    So some things just shouldn&#8217;t be for sale. If toys speak to a society&#8217;s values and beliefs, what do these dolls say about American society?  That we minimize the world&#8217;s greatest artistic creations?  Or mass produce them to share with all?  That [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7771&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Back to your regularly scheduled program&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://madsilence.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/back-to-your-regularly-scheduled-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:33:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hey all!  Hope you had an amazing holiday and New Year&#8217;s!  MadSilence will be back to its regularly scheduled program of interesting tidbits and articles this coming week! Filed under: Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7766&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Savage Beauty</title>
		<link>http://madsilence.wordpress.com/2011/12/30/savage-beauty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 03:19:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m an unabashed fan of American Arts Quarterly, a publication of the Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center.  The writings contained within the journal resonate strongly with my personal beliefs concerning the arts, their value to society, and the importance of beauty, good craftsmanship and taste.  The Center reflects these beliefs in its mission statement: The Center is dedicated to the principle that the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7740&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Giant Godzilla Christmas Tree</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 13:37:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Via Steve Levenstein of Japanorama at InventorSpot.com we have a Giant Godzilla Christmas Tree sprucing up a Tokyo mall: Filed under: Japan, Popular Culture Tagged: Christmas tree<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madsilence.wordpress.com&amp;blog=717516&amp;post=7729&amp;subd=madsilence&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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