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		<title>ben van leeuwen, artisanal ice cream maker/\/\on cinnamon</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/06/21/ben-van-leeuwen-artisanal-ice-cream-maker-on-cinnamon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 16:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>krupnick krupnick</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben Van Leeuwen is an artisanal ice cream maker based in Brooklyn, New York. He specializes in simple flavors with extremely high-quality ingredients. His ice cream has a nuance and texture that is unlike anyone else&#8217;s. One of Van Leeuwen&#8217;s favorite ingredients (and flavors) is cinnamon. Behold. film by: krupnick~krupnick music by: black bear big thanks to: ben van leeuwen]]></description>
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		<title>commodity fetishism gone right\/\/english kills and factory fresh\/\/bushwick open studios</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/06/17/commodity-fetishism-gone-right-english-kills-and-factory-fresh-bushwick-open-studios/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 21:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If New York has played a definitive role in the evolution of art, so too has the artistic community transformed the city. In search for cheap studio space in one of the world&#8217;s most expensive metropolises, artists have historically flocked to Gotham&#8217;s most underdeveloped areas. Artists colonized the ghettos south of 14th Street in the last century, setting in motion a process of gentrification that would ironically displace them. Priced out of Manhattan, artists relocated to Brooklyn, pushing their way further and further east in the borough on their quest for an affordable pied-à-terre. Bushwick is the most notable recent stop on that migration. Like so many other artist hubs of the past, Bushwick has a turbulent history.  Hit especially hard by the loss of manufacturing jobs and the New York City fiscal crisis of the 1970s, Bushwick underwent a dramatic economic decline that quickly plunged the majority of its households below the poverty line. During the infamous city blackout of 1977, the neighborhood erupted in race riots, looting, and the worst fires to blaze in the entire city, dealing a final blow to the once bustling, family-oriented community. Within a few short years, the heroin and crack trade on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ bushwick print lab, brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/03/20/commodity-fetishism-gone-right-bushwick-print-lab-brooklyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2010 14:26:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Printed matter was my first fetish. Having spent my childhood as an indefatigable reader, I quickly exhausted the contents of both the local library and bookstore, then descended on my family&#8217;s home collection, tearing through everything from my mother&#8217;s old medical school textbooks to her copy of 70s sex manual The Sensuous Woman and old issues of Parenting magazine. Not surprisingly, I began to collect old books, magazines, and graphic printed t-shirts during adolescence, and wrote for both the newspaper and literary magazine all through high school. Printing sui generis wasn&#8217;t what was so sexy to me, rather its potential to streamline the distribution of information on a mass scale, so the internet has steadily usurped that commitment to communication. All of what I write or edit is now published exclusively on the web, and as a reader, the internet is my first, last, and only source of news, music, or visual art on most days. And this is coming from a journalist who once had seven newspaper and magazine subscriptions. But no matter how much news there is available to us on the internet, web technology can&#8217;t entirely replace printing in the same way that photography hasn&#8217;t done away [...]]]></description>
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		<title>commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ banzai!!!!! &#124; brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/02/27/commodity-fetishism-gone-right-banzai-brooklyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 14:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[These days, Brooklyn is the destination where art comes to be born and to die. After all, this is still New York City, the global center for commercial art distribution. But beyond that, Brooklyn is home to the overwhelming majority of studios, ateliers, and actual artists in New York City. Soho and Chelsea obviously still have the monopoly on key galleries, but fuck that! Brooklyn is where this shit is being made. It was really, really nice to hear that a contemporary dream team was going to bring a full-on art spectacular back home to its outer-borough roots. Banzai!!!!! is the brain child of self-proclaimed &#8220;art terrorist&#8221; Muffinhead and locally-renowned art promoter Eric Schmalenberger, who pooled the talent of over 50 emerging artists in order to showcase a diverse range of both visual art and performance. Tired of the exhausting commutes to buttoned-up galleries in Manhattan and the repetitive debauchery at most nightlife events, the pair envisioned a space where independent art could finally become a recreational extravaganza. &#8220;[Muffinhead and I] are truly blessed to know so many wonderful creative people, but New York can sometimes be a little cliquish,&#8221; explains Schmalenberger. &#8220;We wanted to address the relative lack of compelling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>commodity fetishism gone right \/\/ sweet virginia, brooklyn</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2010/01/02/commodity-fetishism-gone-right-sweet-virginia-brooklyn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jan 2010 14:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rachel simhon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Like so many others, I have often fallen prey to the trap of appearance obsession. I&#8217;ve fought with the angles of my features, the changing shape of my body, and the MasterCard statements showcasing the perils of too-frequent visits to Sephora. Working at a New York City fashion office for the last six months doesn&#8217;t help. It&#8217;s difficult to put appearance into perspective with fear and insecurity in the driver&#8217;s seat, so I&#8217;ve gradually come to the realization that the glass can be half-full: instead of worrying that I might not measure up, I can genuinely take pleasure in the pursuit of looking good.  Though she&#8217;s pushing ninety and in a wheelchair now, my Cuban grandmother is my style icon: she celebrated the finer points of fashion and beauty every chance she got. My beloved Abuela was born into the golden age ruled by glamour queens a-la-Ava Gardner, so in her heyday, she was all lace shifts, pin curls, Anais Anais perfume, and long strands of pearls. Upon her exile to New York City in the 60s she worked as a lingerie garment inspector, and later in her days as a Miami retiree pored over La Perla catalogs I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>still life with karen genetta</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2008/11/20/still-life-with-karen-genetta/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avant ORB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Fashion photographer Karen Genetta jerryrigged her first studio in her parent&#8217;s basement as a teenager and hasn&#8217;t put the camera down since.  She describes her style as OCD meets minimalism plus a dash of goth, which seems apt, as her work is still, sculptural, and sometimes a little dark. You can see evidence of her idols in her work: the stark obsessiveness of Guy Bourdin and the provocative daring of Erwin Olaf.  The traces of them are there, but what you won&#8217;t find is direct imitation.  Genetta says, &#8220;I reject alot of outside influence, and when it comes to magazines my only and holy subscription is Numéro.  I think I&#8217;ve developed a style of my own.&#8221; Genetta is originally from London, went to school for graphic design in Miami, and now lives and works in New York.  You can see her work at www.karengenetta.com.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Desira Pesta: Hidden Among The Folds</title>
		<link>http://theavantguardian.org/2008/11/17/desira-pesta-hidden-among-the-folds/</link>
		<comments>http://theavantguardian.org/2008/11/17/desira-pesta-hidden-among-the-folds/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:02:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>avant ORB</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[  Tucked away in a far little corner of Red Hook, there is a gem of an atelier. Inside you will find the semi-structured, semi-precious, and completely swoon-worthy fall/winter 08 collection by Desira Pesta.  The collection is called Fela Sig., meaning to hide oneself.  This tongue-in-cheek witticism is typical of Desira, who is equal parts artist, designer, and pioneer.  The line itself is inspired by silent films, architecture, and whatever else falls under her radar.  If asked to name a centerpiece of the Fela Sig collection, I would say that her architecture dress fits the bill. The dress is made of a lovely soft white organic cotton, hand silkscreened with print of abstracted buildings by Robert Daurio.  Black piping completes every seam. The combination of the high-necked bow and the complex print in another designer&#8217;s hands would come off as frumpy, but here the effect is part intelligentsia, part pretty party dress.  Desira says of this collaboration with Daurio (who has also made prints for Prada), &#8220;Most of my good friends are architects and filmmakers and musicians, so we often collaborate.  I often have close ties to the non-fashion influences I utilize.  I am a close friend of Robert Daurio&#8217;s. [...]]]></description>
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