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	<title>Echo Bloom</title>
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		<title>Space is a Lonely Town &#8211; Designing the The American Astronaut website</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American Astronaut is a 2001 space/western noir musical, written, directed by, and starring Cory McAbee.  It&#8217;s a roller-coaster of a movie &#8211; intricate production design and campy dance sequences over a stark monochromatic backdrop of space bars, thieves, and asteroids.  The 10-year anniversary of the film was fast approaching, and I was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2010/04/13/space-is-a-lonely-town-designing-the-the-american-astronaut-website/</link>
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		<title>Ernst Haeckel, and the merging of digital and analog art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve recently become fascinated with the work of Ernst Haeckel, a German artist/biologist active around the turn of the century.  His book &#8216;Kunstformen der Natur&#8217; (German for &#8216;Art Forms of Nature&#8217;) contains a series of 100 lithographs, each arranging groups of disparate species into striking, unified compositions.  Each plate is laid out as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2010/02/23/ernst-haeckel-and-the-merging-of-digital-and-analog-art/</link>
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		<title>San Francisco Songwriters Collective</title>
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Open Mics &#8211; they&#8217;re a good way to practice performing, but let&#8217;s face it, the process blows.  You wait for a long time, perform to a bunch of people who are likely drunk or not listening, and get no useful feedback out of the process.  But &#8211; there&#8217;s a better way.
I&#8217;m forming a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2010/02/02/san-francisco-songwriters-collective/</link>
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		<title>Useful, Beautiful, and Lasting &#8211; Designing Better Bonus Material</title>
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I&#8217;ve been looking at the new Shearwater limited edition package (elements of which are depicted above) for their forthcoming record, and it got me thinking &#8211; what&#8217;s better than making money off of selling music?  Making more money off selling music.
It&#8217;s no surprise that deluxe packages are big business in music.  Take a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2010/01/14/useful-beautiful-and-lasting-designing-better-bonus-material/</link>
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		<title>Flex Tutorial &#8211; Custom Chrome on AIR Applications in Flex Builder 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Files needed for the tutorial

One of the coolest things about developing AIR applications is the complete control you have over the way the launched application is styled.  You can control everything &#8211; even down to the chrome (the window surrounding the application screen).  I recently did a project where the client requested a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2010/01/11/flex-tutorial-custom-chrome-on-air-applications-in-flex-builder-3/</link>
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		<title>Echo Bloom &#8211; now powered by Wordpress (still powered by burritos and Hank Williams&#8230;)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve done a lot of websites for bands, but no release has been as exciting as this.  Hyperbole you say?  I think not.  The reason this release is so exciting is that the echobloom.com has now moved to being completely Wordpress-powered.  Here&#8217;s what that means and how it happened.
For the non [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2010/01/06/echo-bloom-now-powered-by-wordpress-still-powered-by-burritos-and-hank-williams/</link>
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		<title>Food Flinger</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m happy to announce the most recent Echo Bloom code project &#8211; a flash game I wrote for Kid Bombay titled Food Flinger &#8211; is now live.  Here&#8217;s how the project came to life.
A detailed gameplay spec was provided by the client at the onset of the project, allowing us a nice framework to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2009/12/26/food-flinger/</link>
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		<title>Going deep or going fast &#8211; Bollywood Film Music and the benefits of being prolific</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I went to a wonderful lecture by Robin Sukhadia at LACMA this week on the history of Bollywood film music &#8211; a varied and rich tradition that I (and most Americans) know *nothing* about (my previous knowledge of Bollywood cinema was limited to the random glimpses I&#8217;d catch at Indian restaurants).  Robin&#8217;s lecture put [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2009/04/30/going-deep-or-going-fast-bollywood-film-music-and-the-benefits-of-being-prolific/</link>
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		<title>Promotion Part IX &#8211; Quote Sheets</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you&#8217;ve written your bio, done your song insights, and written your fact sheet &#8211; you&#8217;ve basically done everything you possibly can to tell somebody that your music is completely awesome.  But what if people don&#8217;t exactly find the praise you&#8217;ve lavished on yourself entirely objective?  Enter quote sheets.
You see this concept everywhere. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2009/01/23/promotion-part-ix-quote-sheets/</link>
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		<title>Promotion Part VIII &#8211; Press Releases</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of a press release is to whet the editorial appetites of the news media &#8211; tastemakers, journalists, upright bloggers, and anybody else you want interested in your material.  To do this, press releases have to be three things:


Interesting &#8211; Press releases should be written in a style that&#8217;s equal parts compelling and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.echobloom.com/2009/01/14/promotion-part-viii-press-releases/</link>
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