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		<title>Finding arty gems in the haystack</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we all know, the web provides a great array of wonderful stuff, but it is a challenge to sift the good from the indifferent and downright bad. But now an initiative based on a philosophy of collaboration in the arts community is beginning to bear fruit.  Chris Follows, of the University of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Ben works</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ben Robinson, OCA Photography student, has agreed that we can show this short (soundless) video that shows how he builds up his knowledge and adds to his learning log.  Its a really good insight into working methods, so worth a minute or two of your ]]></description>
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		<title>Shall we get Facebook &#8216;friendly squares&#8217; and wear them with pride?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fotografiska, the Swedish photography museum,  has self censored images on its Facebook pages to avoid them being deleted by Facebook for contravening its rules on nudity.  The museum currently has a show of around 200 Robert Mapplethorpe images.  Th]]></description>
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		<title>Too e-asy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

Let’s start with the assumption that writers want to see their work in print. For poets, novelists, biographers and writers of memoirs, the lure of type on a page, their name as author stated boldly on a cover designed by some-one who understan]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weareoca.com/creative_writing/too-e-asy/</link>
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		<title>One person’s redundant technology is another’s hobby</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an OCA tutor I spend a lot of time waiting for parcels to arrive in the post. The small heavy package that arrived last week was not a student assignment but a brand new metal casting of Rockwell 30pt. Like a growing band of typography and letterp]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weareoca.com/fine_art/one-person%e2%80%99s-redundant-technology-is-another%e2%80%99s-hobby/</link>
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		<title>They Rule</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first came across the group of artists and designers called Futurefarmers at a conference at the University of Montreal in 2001. They were there to talk about the development of one of their projects called They Rule. A blend of internet software w]]></description>
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		<title>Are limited editions dishonest?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Are limited editions about making money?  Milking the value of whatever you have produced?  My view on limited editions for anything other than fine art printmaking has just changed. Why?  A result of a conversation with a photographer yesterday. An]]></description>
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		<title>17 museums, 9 countries, 486 artists</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This great new resource, the Google Art Project, launched yesterday, captures work from 17 museums, 9 countries, 385 gallery rooms, 1,000 high-resolution artworks (7 to 14 billion pixels), and 486 artists.



Google have used similar software to ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.weareoca.com/uncategorized/17-museums-9-countries-486-artists/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s complicated being artistic &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A recent piece in the magazine Frieze about the concerns contemporary artists have caught my attention, and made me wonder what preoccupies those OCA students who are striving to be better artists?

The article contends that artists' main preoccupa]]></description>
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