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		<title>Storm Floods my Street</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 18:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been wanting to test out the video capture on my new phone. It rained pretty hard today so I shot some footage from the front porch. The road was totally flooded; probably had a good two inches of water flowing down it. Mt. Lookout Community Council is having renovations done on the square and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Le Thermogène</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Oct 2010 18:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Vintage Poster Bank opened a shop just up the street from my house a few years ago. They have this great corner-angle building (sort of like a mini Flat-Iron Building) on Delta that has long, open window spaces where they display all these awesome old advertising posters. It&#8217;s a great place to find inspiration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ohayocon Pics</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 17:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Event]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photo Gallery]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anime conventions are great places to people-watch. You see so many interesting, funny or just downright weird things. A few weeks ago I went to Ohayocon up in Columbus, OH with Ricky Henry. He dressed up as Speed Racer. I dressed up as me. We met some furries. The dealer room smelled funny.]]></description>
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		<title>E-Marketing = Anime?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:05:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Color]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Illustration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Manga]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What the hell. This is a real textbook. A real textbook that costs $90 dollars. Seriously, anime? This isn&#8217;t an isolated incident either; there&#8217;s also The Manga Guide to Calculus and The Manga Guide to Molecular Biology, among other choice selections for the discriminating Japanophile who cannot function unless absorbing information via Japanese comic art. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only You Can Prevent Pixellation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 02:20:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Humor]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Popped into my head from out of nowhere a few days ago and I just had to make it. Figured out the Futura Condensed Extra Bold is the font of the original Smokey the Bear poster by running it through WhatTheFont. Took a headshot of ol&#8217; Smokey into Photoshop, reduced it down to about 20 pixels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Street Fighter Silhouettes</title>
		<link>http://brake-down.com/street-fighter-4-duotone-silhouettes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:35:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Games]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preview of a series in progress. I&#8217;m taking the official Street Fighter 4 artwork and making vector duotone silhouettes from them. Each character&#8217;s form is done in black and then an accent is added, matching the character&#8217;s main signature color and attack. The process of vectorizing is simplified with live-trace, but I&#8217;m still doing a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Better MySpace</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CSS]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a client approach me and ask if I knew how to customize MySpace. I replied &#8220;Sure can!&#8221; thinking that it couldn&#8217;t possibly be that difficult. Oh sweet merciful Jesus was I ever wrong. Instead of elegant semantic code full of classes to hook into, MySpace is a horrible mishmash of tables, divs, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busywork</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Design]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Card]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been pretty busy this week. Set the axe to the grindstone and finished the site layout for MB Design. Had it go live on Sunday, so now I can FINALLY put together business cards to hand out. It&#8217;s still a work in progress, as I&#8217;m not entirely happy with the copy, but I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Donatos New Logo Sucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 04:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Logo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[New &#038; Busted Old Hotness Though La Rosa&#8217;s is a far superior pizza (with full emphasis on the Cincinnati hometown bias), I&#8217;m no stranger to Donatos; a pizza chain started in Columbus, OH in 1963. Back in February Donatos]]></description>
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		<title>Cutting Room Floor</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Matt Beischel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[After being linked to this article about online portfolios, and a short but informative chat with someone in the design industry, I&#8217;ve decided to remove the portfolio section from my blog. This isn&#8217;t the right place for me to showcase my work to potential employers. I hadn&#8217;t considered looking at my portfolio from an employers [...]]]></description>
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