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		<title>On Open Letter on My Personal Transition</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2011/07/24/on-open-letter-on-my-personal-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 19:28:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been out of touch for quite a while now. For good reason. My whole life has been pretty much rearranged, and that takes some recovery time. To recap—I saw an opportunity and I took it, but I had to move fast to make it work. I saw on Orchid that James Binnion, the Master [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Still not up to speed in the cyber age&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2011/03/03/still-not-up-to-speed-in-the-cyber-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 15:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just spent half an hour trying to understand some of the arcane options behind the scenes in this blog. I feel a bit like someone who has plopped down in a Mazurati and just wants to turn on the lights. I feel sure there must be a way to put a permanent link in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Deciding What to Make</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2011/02/27/on-deciding-what-to-make/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 22:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before I get down to the real subject here, let me mention that I just finished my teapot&#8211; here&#8217;s a little video. Now. Since my most recent post, Musings on Working Hard, I’ve gotten some very great comments—it is very gratifying to know people read and respond to my writing and my artwork. So, thanks! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Musings on Working Hard</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2011/02/20/musings-on-working-hard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 01:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=134</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am finally spending a lot of time in my studio, and it’s been amazingly hard to get there. As you may know if you’ve read my previous posts, my life has been pretty disrupted for the last year or so. My husband and I are separated. I’ve moved from the inner burbs of Chicago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Images from my Titanium Lecture</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2011/02/03/images-from-my-titanium-lecture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I added a page about titanium coloration a while back. Just now, I loaded a Facebook album with most of the images I use when I give a talk about my work in general, and titanium coloration in particular. There are a lot of images of finished work, and several shots of the process. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Procrastination or Inspiration?</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2011/01/23/procrastination-or-inspiration/</link>
		<comments>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2011/01/23/procrastination-or-inspiration/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2011 20:39:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://noel.ganoksin.com/blogs/?p=115</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been working with renewed vigor on my art, lately, since I finally have a bit of time that isn&#8217;t all chopped up by the odds and ends of daily life. That’s good news, right? I’ve been looking forward to this for a very long time. The thing is, what I’m doing is not what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Theme Song for My Times—and Maybe Yours</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/10/07/theme-song-for-my-times%e2%80%94and-maybe-yours/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fixing the Holes&#8230; I tend to feel, no matter what I’m doing, that there is something different I ought to be doing. I’ve been talking to people, and as with a couple of things I’ve mentioned in earlier posts, I find that I am not alone in this. This is seldom helpful, except maybe if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What all Good Art has in Common</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/09/27/what-all-good-art-has-in-common/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[• An idea you may like, or you may reject First, let me say, I know this is going out on a limb, even concluding that there is something all good art has in common, let alone that I know what that is. So let’s start from the understanding that I am proposing this notion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four F&#8217;s&#8230; OK, Three F&#8217;s and a C</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/09/17/the-four-fs-ok-three-fs-and-a-c/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:33:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When things go wrong at the bench, it is almost always one or more of the four f’s: flame, flux, fit, and, um, fastidiousness. OK, cleanliness, but that doesn’t start with f, and four f’s sounds a lot better than 3 f’s and a c. • Flame means the amount of heat. Most people are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>If Pigs Had Wings&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/</link>
		<comments>http://ganoksin.com/blog/noel/2010/08/30/if-pigs-had-wings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 23:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>noelyovovich</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; they&#8217;d fly to the moon, or so the saying goes. Why would a pig even want to fly to the moon? Well, you don&#8217;t know til you try it. The winged pig is my emblem, these days. I have a beaded one hanging from the rearview mirror of my car, and a pair of [...]]]></description>
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