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	<title>digital disco inferno.</title>
	<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog</link>
	<description>THE WORK AND RAMBLINGS OF FRANCIS DELAPENA - PHOTOGRAPHER / GRAPHIC DESIGNER / WEBSITE DEVELOPER</description>
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		<title>a decade bash</title>
		<description><![CDATA[M****** kinda talked me into designing a flyer and I put a disco ball on it.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2009/05/06/a-decade-bash/</link>
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		<title>distracted</title>
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I&#8217;ve been working on my new website really dilligently for the past few months and was making great progress&#8230; but then I got distracted. Big time. As of late, above is a very rough draft of how I&#8217;ve been wasting my time until 2 or 3 in the morning, learning a new program and pulling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2009/04/15/distracted/</link>
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		<title>3999*20+105</title>
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2009/01/30/math/</link>
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		<title>The Buddie x Jason</title>
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2009/01/30/the-buddie-x-jason/</link>
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		<title>dog gone wild</title>
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/12/14/dog-gone-wild/</link>
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		<title>under the sea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
From the laundry room.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/12/14/under-the-sea/</link>
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		<title>*-***** and the black sheep</title>
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/12/13/and-the-black-sheep/</link>
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		<title>a new website and a new game</title>
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I started playing this new game with The Buddie. It&#8217;s called, &#8220;Take the Decoy Pants off.&#8221;
The rules and objectives are as follows:
MY GOAL: Fashion the Decoy Pants around The Buddie w/out him being able to take it off.
THE BUDDIE&#8217;S GOAL: Take the Decoy Pants off.
RULE #1: I can&#8217;t tie it the same way twice.
RULE #2: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/12/13/a-new-website-and-a-new-game/</link>
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		<title>Esterlyn, We All Need</title>
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I don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve ever posted this on here. This was a music video I helped film last year for the band Esterlyn. I was behind the lens for most of the indoor shots, in the room with the green shelves. It was definitely one of the more fun shoots I&#8217;ve been involved with.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/12/11/esterlyn-we-all-need/</link>
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		<title>I knocked my head loose in LA</title>
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Myth: Keep someone awake who has had a recent concussion.Fact: A person who has had a concussion may sleep through the night.You do not need to keep awake a person with a recent concussion. This was recommended for years to observe a person for any changes after a concussion. People worried that the person may [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/12/06/i-knocked-my-head-loose-in-la/</link>
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		<title>drawings at the coffee house</title>
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I found these the other nite. When I worked at the coffee house, I always had some time to kill and I sometimes did it through silly doodles. The first one happened when I was contemplating getting a full sleeve of tattoos, designed to purposely look like sharpie drawings. The second drawing was done in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/12/02/drawings-at-the-coffee-house/</link>
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		<title>Matt Kollar and the angry mob</title>
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Matt Kollar and the angry mob
10 reasons why I like this band: megaphone, accordion, banjo, robots on the cd case,
drawings on the cd label, marakas, plaids, vests, good sounds and lyrics.

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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/23/matt-kollar-and-the-angry-mob/</link>
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		<title>this camera takes photos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Alternate Title: This camera steals souls.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/23/this-camera-takes-photos/</link>
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		<title>the buddie icon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

297.9&#8230; B free
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/18/the-buddie-icon/</link>
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		<title>Barack Obama</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Boise Weekly - 11.05.08: Obama Time
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/07/barack-obama/</link>
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		<title>Interview at BMXUnion.com</title>
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Photo by Kyle Elliot.

I meant to send this photo as my &#8216;mugshot&#8217; but screwed up and sent the top one instead.
I basically met Kurt Hohberger when I was sitting at a roulette table in Vegas (during Interbike week) and while we were hangin&#8217; out in the parking lot, he asked if I&#8217;d do an interview [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/07/interview-at-bmxunioncom/</link>
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		<title>skids and curbs</title>
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I haven’t edited a video in almost a year, so it was fun playing around with this. I’m not a pro at it but I like to pretend. This video in particular was self-filmed in Long Beach, over the span of three days and edited in one. I tend to lean more towards the self-filmed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/02/skids-and-curbs/</link>
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		<title>existential anxiety</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I miss having a wall I can staple stuff to.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/01/existential-anxiety/</link>
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		<title>Rocker, down</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t think these have made it up here, yet
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/11/01/rocker-down/</link>
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		<title>two headed monster</title>
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8 legs. 2 wheels. No brakes.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/10/24/two-headed-monster/</link>
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		<title>out the window</title>
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I feel like I need to put something on top of one of these roofs so I have something to stare at.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/10/21/out-the-window/</link>
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		<title>the big boy bmx bike</title>
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I really want to try monster trucking this bike down a set of stairs.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/10/21/the-big-boy-bmx-bike/</link>
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		<title>the waiting room</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I was looking for some BMX photos and came across this&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/10/08/the-waiting-room/</link>
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		<title>cut up socks, poorly disguised as elbow pads</title>
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Fast-forward to the 4:20 mark. I’m the asian kid in the red shirt and Bauer’s my supervisor at Odyssey. He does huge 360s over rails and once picked me up at the Hard Rock Casino… where I was detained for being much too intoxicated to walk back to the hotel. Miles, the guy that edited [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/10/08/cut-up-socks-poorly-disguised-as-elbow-pads/</link>
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		<title>Cru Jones</title>
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Cru Jones, from the movie RAD.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/29/cru-jones/</link>
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		<title>Interbike 2008 - VEGAS!</title>
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I&#8217;ll be in Vegas for the rest of the week, cranking out updates out of the Odyssey booth. There are a lot of kooky spandex going on in this annual bike convention known as Interbike. Fortunately, they all stay away from the BMX section and I only encounter it when I leach internet on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/24/interbike-2008-vegas/</link>
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		<title>P ( o Y o ) L S</title>
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Ryan Fudger and Paul Alessio let me tag along on a pool riding expedition last week. We rode a handful of pools that day, which is a very rare thing since they&#8217;re usually pretty hard to come by. Anyway, Fudger wrote up a little blog post about it on the Ride site. Read about how [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/24/p-o-y-o-l-s/</link>
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		<title>mad dog</title>
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After I knocked my teeth out, I went to the bathroom to rinse out my mouth and wash my face. As I was doing so, the man behind S&#38;M Bikes walked in and started taking a piss in the urinal. I remember talking with him but I don&#8217;t remember what was said. I was still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/18/mad-dog/</link>
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		<title>it&#8217;s the silly things that get me.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I thought I was going to fall doing this&#8230; something else happened instead.Watch the video at the very bottom of this post.
&#160;Oh and if you ride, don&#8217;t sleep on the Odyssey Sticker Contest.








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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/18/its-the-silly-things-that-get-me/</link>
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		<title>stars, tunnel vision and broken teeth</title>
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there might be a video some time later this week&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/17/stars-tunnel-vision-and-broken-teeth/</link>
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		<title>The Buddie likes the Bush</title>
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He likes to straddle them when he goes poo. What an odd little mutt.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/16/the-buddie-likes-the-bush/</link>
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		<title>wild orchids</title>
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I get questions every now and then asking me about these film scans. They&#8217;re scratched, gritty, have light leaks and sometimes look like they have some kind of chemical residue on them (there&#8217;s a proper term for it but I&#8217;m too lazy to Google at the moment). Anyway, they&#8217;re purposely set up to accidentally turn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/15/wild-orchids/</link>
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		<title>dear kyle,</title>
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I&#8217;m still secretly hurt by you not choosing me to be one of the groom dudes at your wedding. Here are a few pictures though. Feel free to use them on your myspace.
Love,
Francis
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/15/dear-kyle/</link>
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		<title>falkor</title>
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I currently don&#8217;t have a life so I named my bike Falkor.
Here&#8217;s a shitty web-cam photo.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/06/falkor/</link>
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		<title>hey baby, you never felt this good&#8230;</title>
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/04/hey-baby-you-never-felt-this-good/</link>
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		<title>inhaling paint fumes</title>
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and using old journal entries as guards.
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I bet you&#8217;re going to try to read this.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/09/02/inhaling-paint-fumes/</link>
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		<title>odyssey press</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess I should start providing links on here whenever things I develop gets mentioned in the media. Here&#8217;s a short list to get things started:
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&#8220;&#8230;insanely awesome.&#8221;
BNQT &#62; News &#62; Re: Website
 http://www.bnqt.com/article.php?id=8348
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 &#8220;&#8230;it rocks: fresh, original and filled with great content&#8221;
EXPN &#62; The Endo &#62; Re: Flipbook and Website
 http://expn.go.com/expn/blog/bmx?post=3556081
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&#8220;Wow, that was easy. Thanks [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/08/27/odyssey-press/</link>
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		<title>riding into the sun</title>
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I&#8217;m going to wake up early tomorrow so I can start going to bed early.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/08/27/riding-into-the-sun/</link>
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		<title>ODSY STFF</title>
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I&#8217;ve been developing a lot of fun stuff over at Odyssey lately.Read more to check out the other widgets.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/08/27/odsy-stff/</link>
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		<title>fuck4u</title>
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Courtesy of Myspace&#8217;s random captcha generator.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/08/08/fuck4u/</link>
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		<title>camping at wal-mart</title>
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The Buddie: Bummed.

The Buddie: Snorting a line of coke.

The Buddie: Stoked!
The key ring broke on my apartment keys and I ended up losing them. As a result, I&#8217;m currently locked out of my apartment for the evening and sleeping in a Wal-Mart parking lot. After taking a hobo-shower in the bathroom (ie. washing my face [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/08/07/camping-at-wal-mart/</link>
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		<title>self-addressed envelope</title>
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In school, when I was 14, I had to write a letter to the 17 year old version of me. I came across it again while packing this evening. 10 years later and it still has some good advice - excluding the part where I told myself to stop masturbating. Yeah, right.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/07/23/self-addressed-envelope/</link>
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		<title>packing</title>
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/07/22/packing/</link>
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		<title>OdysseyBMX.com</title>
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We just launched the new Odyssey Website.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/07/19/odysseybmxcom/</link>
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		<title>the buddie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I CAN TAKE HIM WITH ME IN MY NEW APARTMENT!
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/07/14/the-buddie/</link>
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		<title>late night walks beneath the la sky</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in LA right now and have been living in a hotel for the past week. I have another 5 days to go. I spent most of Friday night driving around the greater Los Angeles area, checking out neighborhoods to see whether or not they&#8217;re fit to move into. I&#8217;ve developed this great test for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/07/13/late-night-walks-beneath-the-la-sky/</link>
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		<title>Steve Schneer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Boise Weekly - 07.02.08: Lifers
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/07/07/steve-schneer/</link>
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		<title>my first new car.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Somewhere in Oregon.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/07/07/no-zoom-zoom/</link>
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		<title>aiming for the street&#8230;</title>
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Photo by Richae Swanbeck.
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/06/27/aiming-for-the-street/</link>
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		<title>Art Hodge</title>
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Boise Weekly - 06.25.08: Digital Jockeys and Vinyl Vanguards
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		<link>http://www.francisdelapena.com/blog/2008/06/25/art-hodge/</link>
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