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	<description>RESISTANCE VECTORS AND THE DAILY FABRIC</description>
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		<title>Cracks in the Sidewalk/Hope is a Verb</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A talk by Al Larsen at the Doe Bay Yoga Center, Olga, WA at 7:30 pm on July 29, 2009.

What sprouts in the wake of the financial crisis? A slideshow and talk about hope and opportunity: DIY public works projects, local food production, and guerilla urban renewal.

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		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=124</link>
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		<title>An Open Discussion on Making it Happen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An Open Discussion on Making it Happen
What the Heck Fest 2009
Sunday, July 19th 10:00 am
at the Croatian Club- 7th and N
Roll out early and join a discussion or two on creating events, running venues, and kick-starting special moments.
What works where you are?
What is happening elsewhere?
What kinds of face-to-face moments are important in a hyper-connected world?
How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=106</link>
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		<title>Over, Up, Down, or Through?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Saturday, April 18, 2009
5Pm @ Sugar City
“Over, Up, Down, or Through?”
A roundtable talk with participants in the Baltimore/Buffalo artist exchange program. (Organized by Al Larsen and Melissa Moore as part of  Be B In.)
Some topics to launch our discussion:

Arts Spaces and Organizations: What&#8217;s working now and where are you headed?


Economic Nosedive: How do you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=118</link>
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		<title>DIY as emergent system</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Timothy Radar: There is a great of talk in &#8220;modern academia&#8221; about emergent systems, but these talks usually end up talking about mass communication, the internet, software, ect. It seems to me that d.i.y. music and culture could be a system of emergence. For the longest time there is this idea that one great artist, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=99</link>
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		<title>birds on wires&#8230;</title>
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		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Another Record Store</title>
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Rubin Steiner &#8211; Another Record Story
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		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Al Larsen at What the Heck Fest 2008 pts 1 &amp; 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[THIS COULD BE THE LAST TIME WE ARE HERE TOGETHER

performance with rope, guitar, voice, custom electronics, amplifier, public address system

July 20, 2008
Department of Safety, Anacortes, WA
(as part of What The Heck Fest)


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		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=83</link>
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		<title>Showing and Sharing on a Saturday Night</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Showing and Sharing on a Saturday Night
Al Larsen
published in The Squealer, volume 18, issue 1, Spring/Summer 2008
The young woman sitting at the microphone abruptly stops strumming her guitar. &#8220;Oh my god,&#8221; she says, &#8220;I forgot the words. I never play in front of people &#8211; I can&#8217;t do this.&#8221; Her friends in the audience call [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=64</link>
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		<title>The Pirate&#8217;s Dilemma</title>
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The Pirate&#8217;s Dilemma: How Youth Culture is Reinventing Capitalism
&#8220;DIY is changing our labor markets, and creativity is becoming our most valuable currency.&#8221; (p 31)
This book is like the evil twin brother of Anne Elizabeth Moore&#8217;s Unmarketable. It too is about the relationship of underground culture to marketing, only rather than a critique it is more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=60</link>
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		<title>Unmarketable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unmarketable: Brandalism, Copyfighting, Mocketing, and the Erosion of Integrity &#8211; Anne Elizabeth Moore

Unmarketable is about the intersection of corporate marketing and DIY/underground culture.
Moore gives examples of instances when advertising agencies have created campaigns using graffiti (both legal and illegal), appropriated imagery and phrases from punk bands, and hired underground artists/writers/zine makers to create work or [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.propertyistheft.com/poppingtheseams/?p=72</link>
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