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I really like @piterpasma 's work. It took a bit to get Geomorphism #125 to plot. Used nearly all of the ink in the pen, about 1.5km of ink. Ran it slow to get great line quality so it took 48 hours of plotting.

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Spent some time twiddling the parameters on a @zancan ticket I picked up on @fx_hash_ Very happy.

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Delightful evening last night in the Harold Cohen show at the @whitneymuseum showing the @bantamtools ArtFrame Art Machine System for the first time drawing Aaron drawings. So many great conversations.

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Inspired by the @zancan show at @artmatrco I acquired . Will plot after I figure out svg export.

Charcoal Seeds #260 — zancan

As a fundamental element derived from organic matter, charcoal happens to be at the core of all life forms. It is also the tool for artists that dates back to the most ancient times. By using charcoa

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So in prep for my talk about art and machines with @artmatrco today, I'm going to share some past work in this thread. My work falls into two categories... 1 is art making and 2 is art infrastructure making. Let's do art making first and then infrastructure second.

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A pleasure to be on my favorite podcast where I promote fxhash and tezos among other things. Have a listen and feel free to disagree with me!

Waiting To Be Signed

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Thrilled to share this interview with @bre today! It's been a while since we have had a collector interview and this was such a fun & surprising conversation. A great listen for any that are gearing up to travel for the holidays!

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Plotted my Charcoal Seeds #243 by @zancan . My plotter is optimized for G2 pens and I used silver for the charcoal lines and blue for the white lines. I need creamier paper and try again because white ink on white paper made them invisible. Dimensions are 6”x6”.

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@bantamtools @WilliamOsman Bre here, Bantam Tools CEO. We’ve reached out to William to try to make things right. There’s been a lot of attention on this. I didn’t really understand the event or how we would fit into it, so I sent an employee. We finished a prototype and were excited to share it and at that

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At the @whitneymuseum checking in on the @bantamtools Art Frame Art Machine Systems. The larger of the two has made 1289 drawings so far. I estimate there is an average of 5 meters of drawing in each one so we are at more than 6 kilometers of drawing so far.

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Looong plot going. Ran out of ink. @piterpasma

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More large format plotter madness with this beautiful exploding donut volcano by @monokai

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About 4 hours into this plot from artwork of @piterpasma

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Hanging out with @larswander and @_C00TE showing them the speed of the Bantam Tools Pen Plotter. #abmarfa23

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My son watching the plotter plot at my pen studio event in Peekskill.

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Thank you @JoanieLemercier , these came very safely packaged. Can’t wait to frame them.

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If you are an artist at #abmarfa23 and have svg files to plot, come on over to the artblocks gallery and we will plot them on the high speed Bantam Tools Pen Plotter Prototype.

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Excited to announce this! We've been working on this art machine system for the Harold Cohen Exhibition at @whitneymuseum for over a year.

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Press Release: The Bantam Tools New ArtFrame Art System brings AI Art to Life at Whitney Museum of American Art Harold Cohen Exhibition

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Very excited for @EMSL to be joining forces with @bantamtools .

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Announcing the acquisition of Evil Mad Scientist by Bantam Tools. Dr. Windell Oskay & Lenore Edman will be joining as CTO & COO of Bantam Tools in Peekskill NY. Pen plotter enthusiasts can look forward to a new generation of art machines in Spring 2024.

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Throw Back Thursday: checking on some files with my friend @arambartholl for his dead drop installation at the old MakerBot offices.

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When launching a product, it's important to have photos that show how big the product is in relationship to a person. Here are @1lenore , Onell Guichardo, and @oskay with the Bantam Tools NextDraw™ 8511, 1117, and 2234 models.

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In @piterpasma ’s universal rayhatcher you can go into params and change the line width and it adds exceptional details and changes the perspective resulting in unexpected compositions like this one with these amazing details that look like flowing water.

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Are You An Art Machine Obsessive?

Warning! Art machines are an exciting and innovative development that allow for immense amounts of artistic expression in ways that have…

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Love the new @_GenArtworks_ tshirt!

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Very happy about getting this done and looking forward to finding a good place locally for this to live with other artists artwork included too.

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coin-op plot by @bre presented at todays #plotterstudysession

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Art Show! I will be participating in the Peekskill Open Studios June 3-4 and showcasing the work I’ve been doing with pen plotters utilizing an AI GAN trained to make new work based on my own blind contour drawings from 2002.

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In progress:

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One of the conversations that came up during our plotter study session was that p5js doesn’t have an easy svg output for artists like processing does. I’d like to support that endeavor.

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Excited for this show by artists who use machines to make art. Mark your calendar for June 17 in Peekskill New York.

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My favorite photo from this launch is @oskay holding the megalodon of pen plotters, the new @bantamtools NextDraw 2234.

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New series I’ve created using a GAN based on a dataset of my 2002 machine drawings and have been plotting during the open studios exhibition: Backyard Spaceships.

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My plots are still running out of ink. Need larger capacity pens. @piterpasma

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Compliments to the @sqfmi team. Watchy is really well executed!

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My art practice is an arc of spaceships made for species facing extinction to backyard homemade spaceships to (now) astronauts in space hugging.

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Sad to hear of Vera Molnar’s passing. She was full of delight and joy and her work was from the heart.

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Doing research on the different approaches to CoreXY implementation & gotta give a shoutout to the @Voron_Design team who have done an exceptional job of creating an awesome build manual. Their designs are ultra creative and their manual is lighthearted and playful.

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Very excited to announce this partnership. This is the best solution for training up and learning the industry standard Fanuc controls and not having to deal with the giant footprint of industrial machinery. Bonus is that the Bantam Tools Desktop CNC is running Fanuc High Power

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Robot arm kept running out of paint pen ink. Need to mod these paint pens to hold more ink and have a consistent flow.

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At @bantamtools we announced a 3 part tutorial series we called Squiggle University. Go check it out!

Squiggle – Bantam Tools

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Introducing the New MakerBot Replicator™ http://t.co/aWW0ceTI

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PS. I'm really excited about a community that is coalescing around the Center For Machine Arts in Peekskill.

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Really like the fade and bleeds on this plot from my Backyard Spaceship series.

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New art (digital and made physical) by @HeliodoroSantos . Beautiful and exceptionally well packed.

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Bantam Tools PlotterFest24. I already miss it.

Bantam Tools PlotterFest

This last weekend the team at Bantam Tools hosted Bantam Tools PlotterFest24. A big thank you to all the invited artists who came and…

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Was very impressed by the epic amount of detail in the dead ringers set.

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Love this plotter print of one of @dmitricherniak ’s Dead Ringers that @bre made for me! Now to get it framed correctly…

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I’m in Marfa with the @artblocks_io crew. Big sky, space, dogs and a super-not-secret-anymore @bantamtools Pen Plotter. AMA

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In this delightful @whitneymuseum video, you can see some beautiful glamour shots of the @BantamTools ArtFrame Art Machine System creating artworks manifested by Harold Cohen’s AI named Aaron.

Harold Cohen: AARON — Discussing the Earliest Artificial Intelligence...

Christiane Paul, Curator of Digital Art, and David Lisbon, Curatorial Assistant, the curatorial team behind Harold Cohen: AARON, share insights in this conve...

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Flowers plotting today about 20x30”

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Bugged Forest #27 made it all the way through. @zancan

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About 6 hours in.

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@artmatrco Here are some abstract works I created at that time as well. I developed a way with @lasern to use G2 pens in the old plotters but they required that I run the pens down to fit. These works were created as abstract works that would also run the ink out.

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80% of robotics is making cable harnesses.

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@artmatrco Here are some plotter portraits I made of friends. The process is that I scan them, clean them up in meshmixer, position and light them in Blender, output all the creases and edges and assemble them in Inkscape. They are plotted on HP 7550 plotters.

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I'm now on @zero________one and published my first piece. I got it set up with particle and am not really understanding the wallet mechanics, but full speed ahead. Also this is a PNG. Plottable SVGs were not allowed for uploading.

Astronaut Intimacy 1 | zeroone

With the realities of a post human world looming, I make images of astronauts off world having connected moments.

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This little video represents the art I made by training runwayml and stabile diffusion on my own art and then prompting it to make new art. For example, I made it make spaceships but it only had my drawings of construction equipment for reference and then I plotted it on a

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Come see my daffodil scan-ography and plotter drawings this weekend June 3-4 12-6pm at 189 N Water St. Peekskill NY 10520

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Today's Daffodil Celebration 8 was created in the field with the flowers still in the ground. The background is blown out because of sunlight. The stalks are glitching out. NFT in comments.

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Man Ray

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After obsessing over @JoanieLemercier clouds I am now seeing clouds differently… in that I notice them more. Here is a stunner from today.

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@artmatrco @lasern Now I'm deep into large format plotting. I've put together a generative adversarial network drawing on my own dataset of my blind contour drawings from 2002 of naked people and heavy machinery. It's fun having computer make new drawings in my own style.

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I love @piterpasma 's yip & yap series. Click "open" under any one of the artworks and you add &lw=.1 to the end of the url, it will change it from a postcard drawing to a poster sized drawing. I can watch these artworks render for hours. (plottable too!)

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One of the nice things about sxswi back in the day before social media marketing swept over it, was that it was the gathering point of lots of the creative people on the internet. Here is a bunch of videobloggers charging up. Every one of these folks was at the edge and continued

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Been thinking about style and taste development. I’m on my second iteration of training AI on my own drawings and then having it make more drawings like my own. Here is a plot of one of my original drawings of a farm all tractor.

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@artmatrco @lasern Theme: I met artist Vera Molnar a few years ago and she talked about creating art to surprise and delight yourself. I am most attracted to art that has clear intention without outcome. I think I am most attracted to people who have clear intentions without attachment to outcome.

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A pleasure to connect!

Shunsuke Takawo 🐌

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今回の旅行でとても驚く出来事が．個人用3Dプリンタの先駆け，Makerbot創業者の . @bre Bre Pettisさんに偶然テキサスのマーファで会えました！彼が現在取り組んでいるプロッタ .＠bantamtools でお互いのスケッチを出力して交換しました！ものづくりを続ける彼の姿勢に直に触れて感動しました！

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I've struggled with programming generative art the way I see it in my head because I've never been able to get over the hump with programming. I worked with ChatGPT to make the scribbles inspired by my child's drawings and I'm very pleased with the results.

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Excited to add this brilliant piece to my collection both physically and digitally.

Helio Santos

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So happy and honored!!! This landscape painted by machines was collected by @bre TYSM. 🔥🤖❤️ Mountains, bushes and clouds AI landscape painted in a pen plotter with oil and graphite / paper. 20 x 20 cm.

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@artmatrco @lasern To wrap this up I'm going back to what Doranne said, "If you find yourself a flower, be the flower."

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Harold Cohen have this lecture in 1980. He described his journey from 1972 to 1980 of making paintings and then drawings with a computer. As an artist and collector of computer art, it is very inspiring.

The Program and Art Behind the Museum's Murals, lecture by Harold...

Recorded: September 23, 1980Harold Cohen, a classically-trained artist turned artificial intelligence researcher and professor, created drawing “turtles” and...

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If you haven't seen @toThePixel 's wonderful slider to plotter interface, you have a inspiring and refreshing read ahead of you.

Building an interactive plotter art installation

Building an interactive art installation requires careful planning and application architecture. In this post, I will explain my decisions and how I arrived at them.

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The third drawing from my Astronaut Intimacy Series on @zero________one . I like this platform. You contribute art to get credits to get art. New images made with machine learning trained on a dataset of blind contour figure drawings I made in 2002.

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More faves at the met:

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I’m 2008 we couldn’t get into the google party so we put the word out about a fake Altavista relaunch party. It ended up getting packed. There were speeches made. @ScottBeale @johannes_mono #sxsw2008

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@artmatrco @lasern Theme: Watching others use your infrastructure for their own success is deeply rewarding. I suspect that in every industry there are infrastructure builders. Who are the infrastructure builders in your neighborhood? In your industry?

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@artmatrco @lasern This spring I went deep on Daffodils and NFTs creating portraits of flowers using a flatbed scanner.

Daffodil Celebration Portraits

Here is a drop “Daffodils4444ever” of 40 flatbed scanner daffodil images and these are one of ones. That means only one person can own each…

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@piterpasma Detail:

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RT @ian_crowther : Total lifetime cost of space shuttle program was $196 billion. Pretty good deal, when AIG bailout alone cost $182 billion.

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I’ll be out and about in NYC this week with physical manifestations (aka photos) of the Daffodil Celebrations project. If you see me and you’ve collected them I’ll give you one!

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Cover art plotted by Arno Beck. That Night - MI-8400

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What is the cost to the city for each OWS arrest? Can OWS movement DDOS the police arresting system through mass arrests?

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Thank you for letting me buy it. Very happy. My family makes stone circles so this one spoke to me.

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Wow… well, what a way to end the longest day! I received an offer of 256 #tezos on ‘Summer Solstice 21st June 2023’ and it now has a new owner… @bre Thank you 🙏 although it pains me to see a new name against it… 😬 🌗

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Started printing these stls that I collected from @greweb

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Marius making tools for drawing is a GREAT thing for the plotter community. Give this a peep!

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Updated stl-to-svg to make it more usable, probably last edit for a while. It now supports OBJ, basic axis corrections and a quick hack to get rid of smallest faces in the mesh. Camera navigation still clunky and specific to my use case, sorry. 😅

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Great #MakerBot diagram in the nytimes today that gives you a peek at the MK7 we are launching today. http://t.co/EkqCbN3B

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You should download and read the book @astera , @johl and I started in 2008. HackerSpaces: The Beginning. http://t.co/Uao7HD4

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Little video of the scene at @whitneymuseum art party last night.

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Great day @ctr4machinearts with the @bantamtools crew making art during #peekskillopenstudios .

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Is @fx_hash_ the garage of the generative Tezos NFT ecosystem?

The Garage

Is fx(hash) the garage of the generative Tezos NFT ecosystem?

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Sad to hear of Roman Verostko’s passing. His works are inspiring and powerful and elegant. I wish I had been able to meet him.

Roman Verostko - Wikipedia

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Important video by @jeriellsworth about how to live life (and learn almost anything) Must watch! http://youtu.be/xhQ7d3BK3KQ

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I wrote a thing about my experience creating Pink Bunny and Friends NFTs. Check it out.

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If you're obsessed with design, you know about Dieter Rams: http://youtu.be/ncw3f4jgNP4 I love the simplicity.

Dieter Rams, designer - Cold War Modern

50 years ago, record players didn't look like machines. They looked like old-fashioned, brown wood furniture. But in 1956, Dieter Rams's SK4 record player, n...

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This is my favorite article about the Harold Cohen: Aaron show because it puts Harold Cohen’s AI in context and while contrasting and connecting to the issues surrounding contemporary art AI. So good. Well done Sarp Karem Yavuz.

Harold Cohen's pioneering AI works provide essential context for conversations about generative art

The Whitney Museum of American Art is spotlighting the late art and technology innovator's prescient "AARON" series

www.theartnewspaper.com

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Arduino: The Documentary - Looks great!!!!! (I was the laser operator on the opening sequence) http://bit.ly/c7ekBz

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Favorite art at the Met? Here are two of mine:

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Very good advice about getting things built. Via GianPablo! http://bit.ly/cSTTOr

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Beer bread: mix 3 cups flour, 3 tblsp sugar, & add can of beer. Put in breadpan & pour 1/2 stick melted butter over the top & bake. Mm!

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It's GTA in Google Maps with great audio! http://codewelt.com/gcar Play!

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@artmatrco @lasern Theme: Creativity helps us discover ourselves. Rooted in my teaching days, I saw students express themselves to explore who they are by what they create. We need more self discovery in the world & I believe art making & creative expression is the best way to discover ourselves.

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It didn’t take much research to find out the oil industry is behind misinformation campaigns to defund sustainable energy.

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