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    <title type="text">michiko23 // designer // developer</title>
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    <updated>2010-07-01T04:33:19Z</updated>
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      <title>Rural Development Institue</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2010:comments/1.35</id>
      <published>2010-07-01T04:26:18Z</published>
      <updated>2010-07-01T04:33:19Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
      <category term="dev"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/dev/"
        label="dev" />
    
      <category term="UI/UX design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/ui_ux_design/"
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/rural_development_institue/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/rdiland.png" alt="Rural Development Institue" /></a>			  <p>A complete web site redesign for Seattle-based non-profit organization, Rural Development Institute.</p>

<p>The main feature includes a flash slideshow and a dynamic world map showing the regions that RDI has helped citizens gain land rights. This xml driven flash app is entirely managed through ExpressionEngine and is simple update without any technical knowledge.</p>

<p><i>tools: ExpressionEngine, jQuery, flash AS3, XML, XHTML/CSS</i>
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		<entry>
      <title>Savage Love App</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2010:comments/1.34</id>
      <published>2010-06-11T22:44:35Z</published>
      <updated>2010-06-11T22:45:36Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
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        label="design" />
    
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/ui_ux_design/"
        label="UI/UX design" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/savage_love_app/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/SavageLoveApp.jpg" alt="Savage Love App" /></a>			  ]]></content>
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		<entry>
      <title>TPM Polltracker</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2010:comments/1.33</id>
      <published>2010-03-15T06:11:04Z</published>
      <updated>2010-06-11T22:51:05Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
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      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/dev/"
        label="dev" />
    
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/ui_ux_design/"
        label="UI/UX design" />
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      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/tpm_polltracker/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/tpm_polltracker.jpg" alt="TPM Polltracker" /></a>			  <p>Talking Points Memo wanted a dynamic charting application that could read an xml file of poll results and display trend lines, averages, poll result data. They wanted to give the user the ability to filter candidates, poll types, and pollsters, as well as having a tactile ability to zoom in on date ranges. They also required that users were able to embed the charts in their blog with custom settings. This project was very challenging and really fun to work on. Al, the developer at TPM, learned ruby so that he could create the application that drives the TPM polltracker. Very impressive and you can learn more about his process <a href="http://www.shhhaw.com/" title="here">here</a>.</p>

<p>tools: flash as 3.0, xml
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		<entry>
      <title>StrangerMart</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2010:comments/1.32</id>
      <published>2010-03-15T06:05:25Z</published>
      <updated>2010-03-27T03:12:27Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
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      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
      <category term="logos"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/logos/"
        label="logos" />
    
      <category term="UI/UX design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/ui_ux_design/"
        label="UI/UX design" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/strangermart/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/strangermart.jpg" alt="StrangerMart" /></a>			  <p>The Stranger wanted a fun and cute look for their &#8216;half off&#8217; local business portal of their website. </p>

<p>logo, design, interface design
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	    <entry>
      <title>Bali</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2010:diversions/2.31</id>
      <published>2010-01-08T05:51:58Z</published>
      <updated>2010-01-08T01:53:59Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
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	  <tr valign="top"><td><a href="http://michiko23.com/diversions/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/diversions/bali.png" alt="Bali" /></a></td>
	  <td><p>Bali<br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/michiko23/sets/72157622873092893/" title="" target="_blank">the most beautiful place on earth</a></p></td>
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		<entry>
      <title>Sparrow Songs</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2010:comments/1.30</id>
      <published>2010-01-08T05:41:55Z</published>
      <updated>2010-01-08T01:48:56Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
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      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/dev/"
        label="dev" />
    
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/ui_ux_design/"
        label="UI/UX design" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/sparrow_songs/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/sparrowsongs.png" alt="Sparrow Songs" /></a>			  <p>Alex was starting and ambitious project with his friend Michael where they would make one short film a month, every month, for one year.</p>

<p>He wanted a site that was simple and elegant, where the videos were the main focus of the experience. This site is essentially one page and provides a great immersive experience for watching short films on line.</p>

<p>tools: textpattern, jquery, xhtml, css
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		<entry>
      <title>McGinn for Mayor</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.29</id>
      <published>2009-11-09T10:08:31Z</published>
      <updated>2010-01-08T01:40:32Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
      <category term="dev"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/dev/"
        label="dev" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/mcginn_for_mayor/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/mcginn.png" alt="McGinn for Mayor" /></a>			  <p>Working on a political campaign, especially one as important as the mayoral race, is a really exciting thing. But when you actually win (especially against all odds) WOW!</p>

<p>When Mike unexpectedly won the primary (seriously, there was not one news van at the primary party until <i>after</i> the returns), they asked me to redesign the site.</p>

<p>tools: wordpress, jquery, xhtml, css 
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		<entry>
      <title>myStrangerFace</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.28</id>
      <published>2009-10-11T09:58:33Z</published>
      <updated>2010-01-05T06:28:34Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/ui_ux_design/"
        label="UI/UX design" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/mystrangerface/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/strangerface.png" alt="myStrangerFace" /></a>			  <p><a href="http://thestranger.com" title="The Stranger">The Stranger</a> decided to step into the millenium and add a profile/social networking function to their site (actually, they were working on this for a <i>realllly</i> long time). As they were getting close to finishing the backend of this monster, they needed some help finessing the look and feel of myStrangerFace. You&#8217;ll need to create an account to get the full experience. </p>

<p>(note. Many features have yet to be deployed as of this post.)
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		<entry>
      <title>Stranger Ticketing Service</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.27</id>
      <published>2009-09-22T09:38:08Z</published>
      <updated>2010-01-05T05:51:09Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
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        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
      <category term="logos"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/logos/"
        label="logos" />
    
      <category term="UI/UX design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/ui_ux_design/"
        label="UI/UX design" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/stranger_ticketing_service/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/strangerticketing.png" alt="Stranger Ticketing Service" /></a>			  <p><a href="http://thestranger.com" title="The Stranger">The Stranger</a> was launching their own ticketing service for local venues. It needed to be easy to use and cheap unlike <a href="http://ticketmaster.com" title="wtf!? They fucking charge you to print your own tickets.">those other guys in the business</a>. I designed the logo, layout and user interface. Fun!
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		<entry>
      <title>Paul Rucker</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.26</id>
      <published>2009-09-10T12:12:13Z</published>
      <updated>2009-09-10T08:18:14Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
      <category term="dev"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/dev/"
        label="dev" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/paul_rucker/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/paulrucker.jpg" alt="Paul Rucker" /></a>			  <p>Paul Rucker is a Seattle based artist and musician. He finally wanted a proper site to display his large body of work. This site includes multiple slideshow galleries, video footages of past work, activism information, and the ability to listen to entire albums and download them in digital format for a donation amount of your choice.</p>

<p>tools: expressionengine, jquery, flash audio player, xhtml, css
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		<entry>
      <title>Three Dollar Bill Cinema</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://michiko23.com/comments/three_dollar_bill_cinema/" />
      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.25</id>
      <published>2009-08-28T07:30:08Z</published>
      <updated>2009-09-23T01:43:10Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="dev"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/dev/"
        label="dev" />
    
      <category term="sleepop"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/sleepop/"
        label="sleepop" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/three_dollar_bill_cinema/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/3billorg.jpg" alt="Three Dollar Bill Cinema" /></a>			  <p>Just completed the Three Dollar Bill Cinema organization site.</p>

<p>tools: expressionengine, jquery, xhtml, css<br />
another collaboration with <a href="http://sleepop.com" title="Sleep Op">Sleep Op</a>
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	    <entry>
      <title>DUG: First Friday at Lo&#45;Fi</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:diversions/2.24</id>
      <published>2009-08-08T19:39:18Z</published>
      <updated>2009-08-09T20:24:19Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
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	  <td><p>DUG: First Friday at Lo-Fi<br /><a href="http://www.myspace.com/dugdanceparty" title="The best and rarest cuts all on vinyl!" target="_blank">So much good music, I had to take notes!</a></p></td>
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      <title>Sketch: Diamond #2</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.23</id>
      <published>2009-08-02T23:38:05Z</published>
      <updated>2009-08-09T17:18:06Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
    
      <category term="paper cutting"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/paper_cutting/"
        label="paper cutting" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/sketch_diamond_2/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/diamonds_2.gif" alt="Sketch: Diamond #2" /></a>			  <p>I just completed the paper cut version of this sketch. This is a test for a larger multi-diamond idea I have.</p>

<p>dimensions: 13"x8&#8221;
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      <title>2001: A Space Odyssey</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:diversions/2.22</id>
      <published>2009-07-23T10:42:10Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-23T06:43:11Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
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	  <td><p>2001: A Space Odyssey<br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU4TQ1NTo50" title="you should watch it right now" target="_blank">still amazing</a></p></td>
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      <title>Brawley Banks Poster #2</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.20</id>
      <published>2009-07-20T08:34:39Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-20T04:40:40Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
        label="design" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/brawley_banks_poster_2/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/brawleybanks_neumos.gif" alt="Brawley Banks Poster #2" /></a>			  <p>Second Brawley Banks show, second poster. Designing the <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/brawley_banks_poster/" title="first one">first one</a> definitely made me more nauseous than this one. Maybe I&#8217;m just getting used to it.&nbsp; </p>

<p>BTW, the first show was !awesome! and <a href="http://cherrycanoe.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/grazin-in-the-grass-is-a-gas/" title="Cherry Canoe wrote a nice post about it">Cherry Canoe wrote a nice post about it</a>.
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	    <entry>
      <title>Otl Aicher</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:diversions/2.19</id>
      <published>2009-07-13T02:27:52Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-14T05:46:53Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[
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	  <td><p>Otl Aicher<br /><a href="http://www.1972municholympics.co.uk/Posters/Poster_Sport_Section.php" title="1972 Munich Olympics" target="_blank">i wish life actually looked like this.</a></p></td>
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	    <entry>
      <title>Kaufmann Desert House</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:diversions/2.15</id>
      <published>2009-07-08T03:39:14Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-07T23:47:15Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
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	  <td><p>Kaufmann Desert House<br /><a href="http://psmodcom.com/buildings.html" title="Palm Springs mid-century architecture" target="_blank">Salivate at amazing houses you can't afford from afar. </a></p></td>
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      <title>IQU Mastercard commercial</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.13</id>
      <published>2009-07-07T03:43:02Z</published>
      <updated>2009-09-10T08:21:03Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="IQU"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/iqu/"
        label="IQU" />
    
      <category term="music"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/music/"
        label="music" />
      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      		<a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/iqu_mastercard_commercial/"><img src="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qmHAHh5UyBg/0.jpg" alt="http://img.youtube.com/vi/qmHAHh5UyBg/0.jpg" /></a>			  <p>Mastercard licensed our song earlier this year for a tv commercial. I have to admit, I was a little bit anxious about how they were going to use our song. You just never know! Anyhoo, turns out the commercial IS the song. Or, the song is the commercial? Either way, it feels good to get paid to make music.
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		<entry>
      <title>Brawley Banks Poster</title>
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      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:comments/1.12</id>
      <published>2009-07-07T03:36:42Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-20T04:42:43Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
      <category term="design"
        scheme="http://michiko23.com/site/category/design/"
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      <content type="html"><![CDATA[<em>Latest project</em><br />
      <a href="http://michiko23.com/comment/brawley_banks_poster/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/projects/brawleybanks_warroom.jpg" alt="Brawley Banks Poster" /></a>			  <p>Justin (aka my boyfriend) from Brawley Banks asked me if I could design a poster for his band&#8217;s first show. 
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	    <entry>
      <title>Ten Films</title>
      <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://michiko23.com/diversions/" />
      <id>tag:michiko23.com,2009:diversions/2.5</id>
      <published>2009-06-25T06:37:41Z</published>
      <updated>2009-07-14T05:36:42Z</updated>
      <author>
            <name>michiko</name>
            <email>michiko@michiko23.com</email>
                  </author>
	
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	  <table><tr><td colspan="2"><em>Latest diversion</em></td></tr>
	  <tr valign="top"><td><a href="http://michiko23.com/diversions/"><img src="http://michiko23.com//images/uploads/diversions/oskar.jpg" alt="Ten Films" /></a></td>
	  <td><p>Ten Films<br /><a href="http://centerforvisualmusic.org/DVD.htm" title="Oskar Fischinger" target="_blank">OMG my most favorite animator ever.</a></p></td>
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