Steve McDonald aka RamblinWorker "paints" with an old Singer sewing machine on gold canvas. Read the excellent interview on Razor Apple.
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#3875
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Juxtapoz has a great step by step article on Tara McPherson's latest print, in all its 18 layer glory. Sadly the entire print run sold out in less time it took to get to layer 3
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#3844
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A nice and very simple advertising idea for the Star Wars launch !
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#3835
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Get your fix of illustration and art on startdrawing.org the asian drawing portal. I'm adding this one to my inspiration bookmarks.
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#3802
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Erica Wakerly's House wallpaper, just one of her very cool wallpapers and fabrics. Check them out-her illustrations too!
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Dutch artist Harma Heikens sculptures are both adorable and highly disturbing.
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#3800
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Value Pack by Robert Bolesta is an alphabet entirely made of grade A ground beef. Probably good for tastespotting as well, but that was too long to spell...
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Love the design on the SUPPERCLUB signature vodka. Available in white, black, and clear.
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99 Rooms is a unique internet art project that interweaves wall painting, photography, animation and sound in a manner entirely unknown until now. TOTALLY COOL, click around...
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Wondering where the graphic design for Adobe's Acrobat packaging came from? Welcome to the wonderful world of CAMERATOSSING (yes it's exactly as it sounds...)
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Japanese artist Sayaka watercolors seem very romantic, until you notice some decidedly naughty details.
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small scale sculptures of a scarred world by LA based sculptor, Jeremy Mora, at the Mark Wolfe Contemporary Art Gallery in SF.
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The Chanel Football by Karl Lagerfeld. $195 at select Chanel boutiques; Jeffrey, 449 West 14th Street; and Maxfield, Los Angeles.
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Nathan Sawaya is a Certified LEGO Professional which means he builds things out of Lego for a living. Here's his lifesized Han Solo in Carbonite sculpture.
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a series of portraits by second-life photographers Eva and Franco Mattes.
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a miniature deserted island in the middle of your dining table. The art of Michael Samuels
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Plasticgod's limited edition architect series has I.M. Pei, Frank LLoyd Wright, Charles Eames, Frank Gehry and more!
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For the 10 year anniversary of Colette they come out with a 1000% Beabrick toy - featured on it are artists such as Kaws, Futura and James Jarvis.
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Thomas Allen makes dioramas from old pulp novel cutouts
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Random printing press art. These are setup sheets, which are used to test and tune printing presses. The resulting overlays of random images are fascinating
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Marjolijn Mandersloot's giant bobblehead dog sculptures are just some of her amazing public art works.
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Tortoise, my fav store on abbot kinney has this white rabbit and tree trunk in their shop window. Turns out it's made by japanese artist/designer GELCHOP
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Amy Crehore is only one of the many artists participating in the Painting By Numbers charity show. Don't miss the before and after pictures
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Another Gelaskin post, just because I knowAudrey Kawasaki is a NOTCOT fav...
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The Island of California and other cartographic oddities, real or imagined, can be found on Strange Maps
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KuKula's Sunday Morning Wounds exhibition opens this Saturday at Copro-Nason
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Plastique Monkey is Yuka Yamaguchi's art blog. I love this drawing called New Heartbeat
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The first Adidas Snowboard Boot based on the classic Forum, that was released in 1984. Limited to 50 pairs and only given to vips and friends of Adidas! A shame!
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Colette and Lacoste get together on a sneaker and 14 different polos. Both feature the already famous Colette icons Cap & Pep!!!
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Free Banksy Art now available!!! He goes against eBay piratry!! Nice!
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Now Uslu Airlines got together with the Berlin-based graffiti artist Emess, to create a series of t-shirts. The design is hot, hand sprayed on with the make-up colors and the Uslu Airlines airbrush.
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Kawsone just announced the OriginalFake Companion: Black Version, this Thursday January 4th, 2007. Available for sale starting 2pm EST.
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Japanese brand visvim now also got together with popular american artist Kaws to create these slip-ons!
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Frank Kozik creates a glow in the dark hoodie for Kidrobot! Great piece and only available in limited numbers as of end of this week!
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"A luminous interactive installation has transformed the V&A John Madejski Garden this winter. Volume is a sculpture of light and sound, an array of light columns positioned dramatically in the centre of the garden."
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Audrey Kawasaki has 2 new pieces at the Copro-Nason 15th anniversary show. sadly both are sold, but there are great pieces from some amazing artists.
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Wish I could go see Insa's sneaker fetish exhibition at Best (london). love the wireframe sneakers over bare feet.
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Jeronimo Lopez Ramirez aka DrLakra is a tattoo artist with a twist. his tattoos are drawn over illustrations from vintage pulp magazine covers.
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Morphing alien/architecture for YKK by Delta Inc. hypnotic
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The Design Disease. long but fascinating article on this very sad affliction
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Painter Hubert de Lartigue shows how to make an X-Wing fighter from a Parisian Metro Ticket
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Marjolijn Marndersloot's aluminium monkeys have invaded a school in the Netherlands
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a working harpsichord made entirely from Lego bricks?
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For your not quite starving artist friend, a real can of Campbell's Warhol Soup. $12 a can at Barney's
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Bert Simons paper clone was made using 3D CG techniques, then printed and glued together. (reminds me of #2020)
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The Strandbeests are these incredible wind-powered robotic sculptures by dutch artist/engineer Theo Jansen
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Graphic Designers have until Dec 1st to submit their design made from these shapes for the upcoming VORMATOR collaborative book.
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Core77 reminded me that I missed Sydney's Sculpture By The Sea this year. Love the melted ice-cream truck
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Copro-Nason has two new limited edition prints from Lori Earley
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Urban Medium's CheTrooper is now available as a limited edition bust
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Great article about BOTERO's paintings depicting the tortures in the Abu Ghraib prison
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NIKE Cosplay. Think Sony Bravia ad, but with superheroes instead of balls... and you can get your own cosplay outfit!!
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While most people take photographs of scupltures, Osang Gwon makes sculptures from photographs.
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#2020
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Badgemaker Deluxe are hand made vintage looking chrome emblems, for your custom hotrod or scooter
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#2008
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Sun7 etches graffiti with acid on glass and mirrors.
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#2006
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Fake Edo era woodcuts advertizing Honda helmets
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#1980
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amazing sculptures by a really talented artist, of other artists. this one of Tim Biskup is my favorite!
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#1978
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Fiona Zobole's puts the text back in textile (sorry, couldn't resist the pun)
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The surreal world of Jacek Yerka made me smile.
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Urinal Art by Clark Sorensen. I wonder what Marcel Duchamp would think of this.
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Brilliant public service campaign at the beach in Barcelona
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The Slobots are Art /Toy/Sculptures by M Heisler. I can't believe these two robots started their life as a Munny.
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Band-deck: Thinkmo decided to turn his skateboard into a band-aid.
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If you are in LA, Saturday is your last day to see The Blab! Show at CoproMason. My Favs were Amy Crehore and Ryan Heshka
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Mark Ryden has a gorgeous new limited edition gold leafed giclee print based on his "The Creatrix" painting.
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I want Luke Chueh's first limited edition skateboard deck.
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Working SteamPunk styled laptop by Ironworks.
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I saw Chairman Mickey Mao's bust at Munky King on Melrose today
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STAMPS , cool little mashup of a watch and a limited edition stamp. sold in packs of 2.
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Who needs drugs when you can have the wonderfully bizarre art of Naoto Hattori?
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Hussein Chalayan's robotic transformer dresses at the Paris Fashion Show
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Sometimes the simplest grafitti is the most effective.
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If you insist on hanging antlers on the wall, at least make sure that they are from Dr Seuss...
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Haaaaa! I swear I had nothing to do with this.
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I love the bottle of the new CORZO tequila. Designed by Fabien Baron (and the taste of the reposado is pretty smooth)
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Mr PICASSOHEAD. original artwork brought to you by Picass-oO
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Another sand sculpture, even more fantastically mechanical than #1245
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5x5 = 25 artist collaborate on a patchwork (seen at Drawn!)
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Walled Paper, blocks of concrete with wallpaper patterns embedded directly in the surface.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles illustrated by PenguinX
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Hommage to Dr Seuss by Mark Ryden and others, at M Modern Gallery this weekend
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I like the mathematical / organic feel of these ceramic sculptures by swedish artist EVA HILD
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On Good Design vs Bad Design, in the ethical, not esthetics sense. Great read.
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I Got Lucky by Mark Hobley, showing at the Applegate Gallery. Vegas, Baby, Vegas!
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1 letter illustration a week from Steve Mack's Alphabet Book. Oo is for Octopus
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Hikaru Dorodango (shiny balls of mud) something that all japanese schoolchildren do, madly sending each other their best mud balls using their cameraphones
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Hand made uchiwa fans coming to my favorite store in Venice.
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Sandi Calistro's Winter Hunt Munny, from the Summer Of Munny contest.
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The giant little girl and her time travelling elephant. This is absolutely amazing.
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Zilon has been Montreal's angry-punk-street-artists for more than 25 years. The old stuff is still all over the city, but I saw some of his recent work in a gallery in Vieux-Montreal today.
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And another from a different angle. 2500 hours of work by MG Vrbanus.
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Also from After5, and described as "Juvenile and Sophomoric"
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Kevin Dart has new prints available. I love his fake exploitation movie poster style. (He's also at ComiCon right now)
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Mazen Kerbaj decided to stay in beirut, and is blogging from there. It's harder to ignore a war when it becomes personal. I love his drawings
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Urban Chaos, also old news, but I still love his sticker set
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Mazda is sponsoring the picasso exhibition at the NGV gallery in Sydney
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KAWAII NOT by Meghan Murphy, starts of very cute, but with little bit of a mean streak. Made me (*_*)
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I've been up since 4AM because some penguins wouldn't render, and I'm currently finding this FOR DUMMIES generator funny. [Editor's Note - i should put this on the help page]
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14 Juillet, go (re)visit a french designer today.
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Wow! The famous little notebook has done it again with a brilliant mashup. Notebook + Maps = DIY City Guide. I want all of them.
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C'est fantastique! Tintin figurines from the classic early albums.
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I love the Yazuka table, with traditional japanese tattoos printed on the surface of the wood.
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Don't Wash Me!!! scott wade draws on dirty windshields.
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Simone Legno of tokidoki will be at KidRobot LA on July 13th (via fabulist)
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#670 and #667 reminded me of a another fantastic sculptor I saw in a robot book I got for my birthday last year. I just love how shiny and sleek his robots are.
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These are too good... just one more (THE MATRIX)
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Recent movies drawn like russian folk illustrations. This one is LOTR
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I didn't really like most of the other sculptures, but these remind me of game characters...
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After The Last Supper, 20736 spools of colored thread become Da Vinci's famous painting when viewed thru a crystal ball.
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I'm excited because my favorite graffiti artist FAFI is speaking at Semi-Permanent Sydney this weekend.
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TV5 just published all 50 episodes of cult italian cartoon LA LINEA.
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Handselecta works with famous graffiti artists to turn their signature calligraphy into fonts.
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The paper art of Peter Callesen. Cut from a single sheet of A4 paper, folded and glued.
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I have no ideas how recent this is, but kudos to my friends at PSYOP for another fantastic ad.
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If you are in LA from July 7-30 go see Yumiko Kayukawa @ LA LUZ DE JESUS.
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Cheshire Cats at Span of Sunset. get them while they're still grinning
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FAFI + Victoninox. Seems that everybody's getting into the art branding game, after sneakers and skateboards, the famous swiss knife
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#509 has nothing on these. a collection of Japanese Manhole covers, beautiful designs, enameled, no two are the same.
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LUVGALZ Worldwide Graphic Tribute to Girls is a sort of Suicide Girls of graphic design.
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#525
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British grafitti artist Banksy also makes interesting re-claimed paintings.
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#524
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I didn't even know there was such a thing as Arabic Zoomorphic Calligraphy. Nice.
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Subway Art and Architecture. This one is the stockholm metro, also called the longest art gallery in the world.
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Another one for the World Cup, a different football for each of the 32 qualified countries
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#359
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you are never more than two metres from a doodle.
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