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		<title>PrettyLoaded &#8211; Cataloguing PreLoaders</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/prettyloaded-cataloguing-preloaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[animation]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1714</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never been fond of Flash but there&#8217;s no denying that it lets designers do some amazing effects. Where theres a lot of Flash code to load, the better designers usually provide a pre-loader; an animation usually showing a %loaded. That&#8217;s all this site does though they do let you filter by year and provide [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wide Screen Wallpapers</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/wide-screen-wallpapers/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/wide-screen-wallpapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=785</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Dual and even triple screen computers are fairly common place now and single screen wall papers just don&#8217;t cut the mustard. On Flickr.com, you can find a very nice selection of wide screen images, including the one pictured above at 5128 x 1604. I suspect you may need to be a paid up member (I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Movie Posters</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/movie-posters/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/movie-posters/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:22:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[film]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of film review websites but this one is about movie posters. It&#8217;s only been going for a few months and is really a blog but if you like films you will probably like this. It&#8217;s not just the individual posters, for example you can see several different posters for the 3rd Bourne [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Gritty Performance &#8211; Live Sand Artistry!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/a-gritty-performance-live-sand-artistry/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/a-gritty-performance-live-sand-artistry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:31:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[drawing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[visualisations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[video]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1844</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is not about building sand castles but is a remarkable video of a live performance on &#8220;Ukraine&#8217;s got talent&#8221;. An artist called Kseniya Simonova tells a tale of love in World War 2 using just sand and her fingers and artistic talent. She conjures up images in the sand with her fingers then wham [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New London Underground Maps</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/new-london-underground-maps/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/new-london-underground-maps/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[maps]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=578</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well London Underground (who receive over £1,200 a year from me!) have only themselves to blame after the earlier fiasco when they got heavy with one of their supporters over his anagram map. Ed Sanders, a Cambridge Uni Computer Science student (I guess) and Wikipedian sysop, together with JDFoster has put together individual maps of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Seconds- Bizarre Statues of the World</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-bizarre-statues-of-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/30-seconds-bizarre-statues-of-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 seconds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/09/27/30-seconds-bizarre-statues-of-the-world/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Some of these statues are very strange indeed. Some aren&#8217;t exactly statues- like the Mini parked up the wall but they are all all a bit odd. The rhino hanging in mid air is my favourite, followed closely by the women swinging the kid. Link Republished by Blog Post Promoter]]></description>
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		<title>Photographic Quality Ballpoint Pen Art</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/photographic-quality-ballpoint-pen-art/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/photographic-quality-ballpoint-pen-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1808</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I love it when you see somebody talented do something extraordinary with everyday objects. It gives me the hope that maybe, just maybe I could do that. Though deep in my heart I know I can&#8217;t and never will. A point in question, this photograph and many others (Link goes via Google.com translation as original [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mutating Pictures &#8211; Visual Genetic Algorithm?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/mutating-pictures-visual-genetic-algorithm/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/mutating-pictures-visual-genetic-algorithm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[pictures]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/02/mutating-pictures-visual-genetic-algorithm/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Something a little different. You are shown image after image and have to rate them for life likeness, on a scale of 0 to 10 where 10 is most like a face like and 0 isn&#8217;t anything like a face. I suspect this is some variation of a genetic algorithm. This is a way of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photographic Painting</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/photographic-painting/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/photographic-painting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[photos]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=220</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Duu Blair is an American artist, who (like Wayne Forrest) produces photographic quality images by hand. The photo shows his rendition of a model called Tica over a number of hours. You would swear it is a photograph not hand drawn. His work features aircraft and space technology and there is a good chance you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visualising Economics- US Income Distribution</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/visualising-economics-us-income-distribution/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/visualising-economics-us-income-distribution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/30/visualising-economics-us-income-distribution/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Catherine Mulbrandon is an Economics graduate and Masters in Interaction Design who is into visualising data (her job is an interaction designer/information architect) and creates posters about aspects of the US economy, particularly income distribution as a hobby. The segment shown is from one showing incomes levels for typical jobs from the year 2000. Depressingly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Museum of Bad Art!</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/museum-of-bad-art/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/museum-of-bad-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2011 01:47:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/10/museum-of-bad-art/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You have got to love anywhere that says &#8220;Come visit the &#8220;real&#8221; MOBA in the basement of the Dedham Community Theatre, conveniently located just outside the men&#8217;s room. The nearby flushing helps maintain a uniform humidity.&#8221; This is a real museum located in Dedham, Massachusetts, as well as the website. The examples shown on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kagen Schaefer Puzzle Boxes</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/kagen-schaefer-puzzle-boxes/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/kagen-schaefer-puzzle-boxes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:17:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[puzzle]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=1663</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These are quite wonderful, puzzle boxes and remind me of puzzles in films. You have to solve the puzzle to open the box. You can buy some, for example the snake box, which costs just under $700 has tessellations on the top. By moving pieces around, eventually you end up with a chessboard pattern and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>30 Seconds &#8211; Photos of Shadows Projected from Rubbish</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/30-seconds-photos-of-shadows-projected-from-rubbish/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/30-seconds-photos-of-shadows-projected-from-rubbish/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 08:08:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[30 seconds]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/12/10/30-seconds-photos-of-shadows-projected-from-rubbish/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve seen this effect used recently in an advert in a newspaper or magazine so I expect to see it happen more over the next 12-18 months before it becomes a clche and advertising agencies look for something else new and fresh. That said, it&#8217;s still pretty clever and must take a fair bit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statue Molesters &#8211; Photos of People &amp; Statues</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/statue-molesters-photos-of-people-statues/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/statue-molesters-photos-of-people-statues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 20:38:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/index.php/2007/10/15/statue-molesters-photos-of-people-statues/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Well there are high-brow websites and cultural ones but then you get something a little less intellectual like this one. The title may be a clue: statue molesters. It&#8217;s a fairly easy concept to explain. Take a statue- the ruder or sillier the better, have somebody pose near it, maybe holding their hands or posture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Photos or Photoshop?</title>
		<link>http://portent.org/photos-or-photoshop/</link>
		<comments>http://portent.org/photos-or-photoshop/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[technology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://portent.org/?p=719</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Canadian artist Wayne Forrest uses Adobe tools to draw photorealistic images. Yes that isn&#8217;t a photo of Angelina Jolie but a drawing. Warning some of these are slightly rude- one shows a woman smoking! He also does cars, sea views and photo restoration. These images are amazing- they look so lifelike that it&#8217;s hard to [...]]]></description>
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