<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248</id><updated>2011-09-20T06:22:40.788-07:00</updated><category term='music'/><category term='film'/><category term='art'/><category term='photography'/><category term='galleries'/><title type='text'>elephant balloon</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>14</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-5585880119144930651</id><published>2010-04-14T09:15:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-14T09:21:12.049-07:00</updated><title type='text'>beach house</title><content type='html'>&lt;object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=10,0,0,0" id="playerArteLiveWeb" width="450" height="255"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="quality" value="best"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=897&amp;amp;admin=false&amp;amp;mode=prod&amp;amp;priority=one&amp;amp;embed=true"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://liveweb.arte.tv/flash/player.swf?eventId=897&amp;amp;admin=false&amp;amp;mode=prod&amp;amp;priority=one&amp;amp;embed=true" width="450" height="255" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" name="playerArteLiveWeb" quality="best" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hoy, solo quiero estar en casa y escuchar a Beach House todo el dia y mas con este concierto del programa Soiree de Poche por LA BLOGOtheque.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-5585880119144930651?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/5585880119144930651/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2010/04/beach-house.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/5585880119144930651'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/5585880119144930651'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2010/04/beach-house.html' title='beach house'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-4648033549966750676</id><published>2010-04-12T14:58:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T15:01:07.798-07:00</updated><title type='text'>couch surfing can be pretty...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/S8OXrPQ4Q4I/AAAAAAAAANw/pEP4fKQPvQc/s1600/4482973193_57159ddfd8_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; 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is finally here! Those were the days where I would sit around reading the FANTASTIC MAN magazines at the Darin and Andrew household.  Informative and witty articles about wines from Chile, personal interviews and exceptional covers, all for men.  Now, we can rephrase: "There is a GENTLE woman behind a FANTASTIC man," but women are more than gentle. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Magazine description: The Gentlewoman is a new biannual style magazine for a new decade. Featuring inspirational, international women, it pairs ambitious journalism with a sartorial and intelligent perspective on fashion that is focused on personal style - the way women actually look, think and dress.  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-2342440726879260732?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/2342440726879260732/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2010/03/finally-gentlewoman.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/2342440726879260732'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' 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style="font-size:small;"&gt;"Congratulations and thank you for the delicious ice cream."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;This kid is magic, like another one I know. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-size:small;"&gt;A must have this summer: Paletas Michoacan.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(photos by: Mr. Andrew and Drytherain)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-4643701413430191358?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/4643701413430191358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-2929563563285729755</id><published>2010-03-24T19:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T20:13:39.296-07:00</updated><title type='text'>a nostalgic tuesday lunch...</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;with the blasting man.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;A week ago, I took the job to babysit my delightful 'niece', Astrid (baby daughter&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;of my good friend and shoe designer, &lt;a href="http://beatricevalenzuela.com/"&gt;Beatrice Valenzuela&lt;/a&gt;).  For Bea, it was &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;regular tuesdays of accordion class instructed by the talented Joshan Petrojvic&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;from &lt;a href="http://www.theblastingcompany.com/"&gt;The Blasting Company&lt;/a&gt;.  After class, we all gathered up in the kitchen for one of &lt;a href="http://beatricevalenzuela.blogspot.com/"&gt;Bea's delicious snacks&lt;/a&gt; and a refreshing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:'trebuchet ms';"&gt;tequila juice drink while Joshan serenaded us with his song about leaving France. Salud!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" white-space: pre; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;object width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/vYaYzQ7y5VM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/vYaYzQ7y5VM&amp;amp;hl=en_US&amp;amp;fs=1&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-2929563563285729755?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/2929563563285729755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2010/03/nostalgic-tuesday-lunch.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/2929563563285729755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/2929563563285729755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2010/03/nostalgic-tuesday-lunch.html' title='a nostalgic tuesday lunch...'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-3158103859395603042</id><published>2010-03-24T19:40:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-24T19:43:04.430-07:00</updated><title type='text'>porque...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/S6rNosMAkgI/AAAAAAAAAMw/px0pkoaWwnk/s1600/andywebsite.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 399px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/S6rNosMAkgI/AAAAAAAAAMw/px0pkoaWwnk/s400/andywebsite.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452396397825397250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"   style="  color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 14px; font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:11px;"&gt;Había una vez un chico...&lt;br /&gt;que nunca decía el porque.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Porque creo en la verdad.&lt;br /&gt;Porque siento el amor.&lt;br /&gt;Porque se vive, nada más.&lt;br /&gt;Porque esto no es arrebatado.&lt;br /&gt;Porque la distancia despierta.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"    style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" line-height: 14px;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"    style="font-family:'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;color:#333333;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style=" line-height: 14px;font-size:11px;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-3158103859395603042?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/3158103859395603042/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2010/03/porque.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/3158103859395603042'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/3158103859395603042'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2010/03/porque.html' title='porque...'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/S6rNosMAkgI/AAAAAAAAAMw/px0pkoaWwnk/s72-c/andywebsite.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-4455524166546542775</id><published>2009-11-30T16:44:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-30T17:13:14.379-08:00</updated><title type='text'>happy berday!</title><content type='html'>Been meaning to share this for a while:&lt;br /&gt;The BEST birthday video ever - all the way from Mexico City.&lt;br /&gt;xo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7301469&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ffffff&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7301469&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ffffff&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/7301469"&gt;Happy Birthday Daniela!&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user1499168"&gt;andrew gaines&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-4455524166546542775?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/4455524166546542775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-berday.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/4455524166546542775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/4455524166546542775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/11/happy-berday.html' title='happy berday!'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-7588413555769760583</id><published>2009-10-26T16:10:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-20T12:00:31.141-07:00</updated><title type='text'>introducing PJB...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/SuYspI3k4HI/AAAAAAAAAK0/BKGKKpvxw-s/s1600-h/97610025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 265px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/SuYspI3k4HI/AAAAAAAAAK0/BKGKKpvxw-s/s400/97610025.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5397050288716963954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="265"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7172227&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=7172227&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="265"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/7172227"&gt;PLASTICA #3- ZENITH PLIER STAPLERS&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/pjb"&gt;Peter J Brant&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;a &lt;i&gt;new friend.&lt;/i&gt;  Our lives crossed. Peter J. Brant (or, &lt;a href="http://www.g-rad.org/benandbruno/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;Ben and Bruno&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;) is calling Los Angeles his new home. He is a lively companion to converse with about the arts, our past and present romances, socially-awkward moments, and steak with &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://cervezatecate.com/"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF0000;"&gt;Uncle T&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, preferably. Plus, he makes music, videos, and interesting stapler crafts.  Bienvenido, amigo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;"&lt;a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Ben+and+Bruno/_/New+Friend+Song"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="color:#FF6600;"&gt;New Friend Song&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;"&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-7588413555769760583?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/7588413555769760583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-pjb.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/7588413555769760583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/7588413555769760583'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-pjb.html' title='introducing PJB...'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/SuYspI3k4HI/AAAAAAAAAK0/BKGKKpvxw-s/s72-c/97610025.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-7747024915731380062</id><published>2009-04-08T17:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-08T17:15:40.834-07:00</updated><title type='text'>la casa de las amigas.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07-i2dHeI/AAAAAAAAAJE/kPyQDYMFRyc/s1600-h/040809+067a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07-i2dHeI/AAAAAAAAAJE/kPyQDYMFRyc/s400/040809+067a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322476280314928610" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07xQb0x2I/AAAAAAAAAI8/2WnSlH2g9GQ/s1600-h/040809+058a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 263px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07xQb0x2I/AAAAAAAAAI8/2WnSlH2g9GQ/s400/040809+058a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322476052033095522" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07muUpRVI/AAAAAAAAAI0/lRCHGpijsTs/s1600-h/040809+023a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07muUpRVI/AAAAAAAAAI0/lRCHGpijsTs/s400/040809+023a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322475871077483858" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07dJjk3WI/AAAAAAAAAIs/kwgJ78lU43g/s1600-h/040809+048a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 268px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07dJjk3WI/AAAAAAAAAIs/kwgJ78lU43g/s400/040809+048a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322475706589175138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07SXObGpI/AAAAAAAAAIk/knsGeRsfxb0/s1600-h/040809+120a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 267px; height: 400px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07SXObGpI/AAAAAAAAAIk/knsGeRsfxb0/s400/040809+120a.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5322475521279990418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;this morning i woke up two of my roommates very early and took advantage of the wonderful natural light peeking in through our living room windows by taking &lt;a style="color: rgb(255, 153, 102);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/danielux/sets/72157616522156838/"&gt;photos&lt;/a&gt;.  a mini-shoot turned out to be a lot of fun and made us appreciate our house even more.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;la casa de las amigas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;el lugar donde:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; las cenas del domingo, las platicas sin final, los tés de manzanilla, los sueños ilimitados, los periódicos y libros tirados, y 'eternal sunshine of the spotless mind' al dormir&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt; nos hacen feliz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-7747024915731380062?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/7747024915731380062/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/04/la-casa-de-las-amigas.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/7747024915731380062'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/7747024915731380062'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/04/la-casa-de-las-amigas.html' title='la casa de las amigas.'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sd07-i2dHeI/AAAAAAAAAJE/kPyQDYMFRyc/s72-c/040809+067a.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-8061234540936449559</id><published>2009-03-28T14:36:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-29T17:34:06.680-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='film'/><title type='text'>la inocencia del ayer</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sc6cJ6PYbsI/AAAAAAAAAHs/ZK-pqJzChp4/s1600-h/kid+pics+1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sc6cJ6PYbsI/AAAAAAAAAHs/ZK-pqJzChp4/s400/kid+pics+1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318359904037662402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sc6cFnG-aEI/AAAAAAAAAHk/TkoIzW3EoBM/s1600-h/kid+pics+2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sc6cFnG-aEI/AAAAAAAAAHk/TkoIzW3EoBM/s400/kid+pics+2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318359830182651970" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sc6YZjkqBGI/AAAAAAAAAG8/D4iq-IaocQk/s1600-h/kid+pics+3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sc6YZjkqBGI/AAAAAAAAAG8/D4iq-IaocQk/s400/kid+pics+3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5318355774784275554" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;object width="400" height="165"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3867089&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=74d67c&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=3867089&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=74d67c&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="165"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After watching Spike Jonze's marvelous &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;Where The Wild Things Are&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt; trailer, I felt very nostalgic. Especially with Arcade Fire's poignant lyrics for the trailer's song &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Wake&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Up&lt;/span&gt;...&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 204, 0);"&gt;"Children wake up, hold your mistake up, before they turn the summer into dust."&lt;/span&gt; This made me browse through my laptop and found a few snaps of some of my friends at a tender age, where things are magical and imagination is a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;font-family:trebuchet ms;" &gt;wild thing&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 102, 204);font-size:85%;" &gt;photo 1: mayra guerra, gabe melton, me.&lt;br /&gt;photo 2: brooke perry, cristina b. allen, ian cox&lt;br /&gt;photo 3: james and mark batty, andy gaines, mayra and sandra guerra&lt;br /&gt;(click on images to make bigger)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-8061234540936449559?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/8061234540936449559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/after-watching-spike-jonzes-marvelous.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/8061234540936449559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/8061234540936449559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/after-watching-spike-jonzes-marvelous.html' title='la inocencia del ayer'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/Sc6cJ6PYbsI/AAAAAAAAAHs/ZK-pqJzChp4/s72-c/kid+pics+1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-9181447750223528199</id><published>2009-03-24T18:10:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-24T18:20:02.334-07:00</updated><title type='text'>so many...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScmFNzUQNsI/AAAAAAAAAGc/Xxb4MUuiTu4/s1600-h/yasmin+alishav+photography1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 246px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScmFNzUQNsI/AAAAAAAAAGc/Xxb4MUuiTu4/s400/yasmin+alishav+photography1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316927307247531714" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"&gt;things to share with you, but I'll leave you with this photo for now, taken by my roommate &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.yasminalishav.com/home.html"&gt;Yasmin Alishav &lt;/a&gt;student photographer at the Art Center. It was fun tossing my hair around a few times until we got this shot.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-9181447750223528199?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/9181447750223528199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-many.html#comment-form' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/9181447750223528199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/9181447750223528199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/so-many.html' title='so many...'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScmFNzUQNsI/AAAAAAAAAGc/Xxb4MUuiTu4/s72-c/yasmin+alishav+photography1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-6530239182600891145</id><published>2009-03-19T16:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-19T16:56:21.402-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='galleries'/><title type='text'>el rey (de un laberinto femenino)</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLYC11IF2I/AAAAAAAAAGU/KN4qzk5glHg/s1600-h/blog+cs11.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLYC11IF2I/AAAAAAAAAGU/KN4qzk5glHg/s400/blog+cs11.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315048053571852130" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLX9idb0tI/AAAAAAAAAGM/YQsdQS0U7gA/s1600-h/blog+cs3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLX9idb0tI/AAAAAAAAAGM/YQsdQS0U7gA/s400/blog+cs3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315047962472862418" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLX3xKiL9I/AAAAAAAAAGE/43P-Ln2oRhs/s1600-h/blog+cs4.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLX3xKiL9I/AAAAAAAAAGE/43P-Ln2oRhs/s400/blog+cs4.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315047863340904402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLXyTiirEI/AAAAAAAAAF8/27fVYSTCFQI/s1600-h/blog+cs2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLXyTiirEI/AAAAAAAAAF8/27fVYSTCFQI/s400/blog+cs2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315047769489189954" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLXsGQLpEI/AAAAAAAAAF0/l1UkOu7CAMg/s1600-h/blog+cs6.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLXsGQLpEI/AAAAAAAAAF0/l1UkOu7CAMg/s400/blog+cs6.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315047662843307074" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLXif--AzI/AAAAAAAAAFs/yyXUhRsTXDQ/s1600-h/blog+cs9.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLXif--AzI/AAAAAAAAAFs/yyXUhRsTXDQ/s400/blog+cs9.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315047497951740722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size:85%;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;Cuauhtémoc Suárez&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;One who doesn’t stop amazing me is my friend, &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/thekidsmakeout/"&gt;Cuauhtémoc Suarez.&lt;/a&gt; It is his effortless but yet delicate manner of capturing beautiful scenes of young women all over Mexico that keeps me coming back. He welcomes the world to moments of intimacy and innocence with the now overlooked magic of film. His work has been featured in magazines such as &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.pagethemagazine.com/06/"&gt;Page. The Magazine&lt;/a&gt; and galleries from Monterrey to Guadalajara, but I’m hoping to collaborate with him on a show here in Los Angeles this year. Crossing my fingers. So for now, enter this &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.c-suarez.com/"&gt;labyrinth&lt;/a&gt; of feminine mystique.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:130%;"  &gt;&lt;br /&gt;Temo, you need to visit LA soon.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-6530239182600891145?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/6530239182600891145/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/el-rey-de-un-laberinto-femenino_19.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/6530239182600891145'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/6530239182600891145'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/el-rey-de-un-laberinto-femenino_19.html' title='el rey (de un laberinto femenino)'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScLYC11IF2I/AAAAAAAAAGU/KN4qzk5glHg/s72-c/blog+cs11.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-4217753604443485072</id><published>2009-03-18T12:36:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-18T16:52:23.766-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='art'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='photography'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='galleries'/><title type='text'>in your face</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScFUCHdjlZI/AAAAAAAAACA/Q8ek0LIzvoY/s1600-h/blog+neil+krug.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 389px; height: 400px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScFUCHdjlZI/AAAAAAAAACA/Q8ek0LIzvoY/s400/blog+neil+krug.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314621430613382546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                    &lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;photo by neil krug&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScFTzjroP1I/AAAAAAAAAB4/3qmjrQ3bVME/s1600-h/blog+studio+visits.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 270px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScFTzjroP1I/AAAAAAAAAB4/3qmjrQ3bVME/s400/blog+studio+visits.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314621180490563410" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;evah fan's san francisco art studio&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScFTrXP1d-I/AAAAAAAAABw/81kGPudIxHw/s1600-h/blog+potd.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 400px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScFTrXP1d-I/AAAAAAAAABw/81kGPudIxHw/s400/blog+potd.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314621039713810402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                   &lt;span style=";font-family:trebuchet ms;font-size:85%;"  &gt;p.o.t.d (photo of the day)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FECALFACEDOTCOM&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;If you haven't heard about or visited &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php"&gt;FECALFACE.COM&lt;/a&gt;, I suggest you do. It has become my 'most frequently visited' website these past couple of months. The website is a basket full of artist interviews such as the young photographer &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilkrug/"&gt;Neil Krug&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:trebuchet ms;"&gt;, catchy blogs, podcasts, studio visits, calendars of gallery openings, etc.  All to expose art and music from LA, NY, SF and all over the world to us the blogger audience. Plus, you can contribute as well by tagging your &lt;a style="color: rgb(51, 153, 153);" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/fecalface"&gt;flickr&lt;/a&gt; photos FECALFACE and they may be shown on their website!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.fecalface.com/SF/index.php"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-4217753604443485072?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/4217753604443485072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/in-your-face.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/4217753604443485072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/4217753604443485072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/in-your-face.html' title='in your face'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_zzQ9CjJizrU/ScFUCHdjlZI/AAAAAAAAACA/Q8ek0LIzvoY/s72-c/blog+neil+krug.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3578764852665395248.post-8026351242180012519</id><published>2009-03-17T23:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-18T17:26:55.400-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='music'/><title type='text'>un, deux, trois...</title><content type='html'>Simply a perfect Tuesday night song to listen to.&lt;br /&gt;The album version is even better! It is so haunting.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/-Q5YVTgdKbc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/-Q5YVTgdKbc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NRUT5vjMiOc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NRUT5vjMiOc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/3578764852665395248-8026351242180012519?l=elephantballoon.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/feeds/8026351242180012519/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/window-blues.html#comment-form' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/8026351242180012519'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/3578764852665395248/posts/default/8026351242180012519'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://elephantballoon.blogspot.com/2009/03/window-blues.html' title='un, deux, trois...'/><author><name>DB</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
