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	<title>It Cannot Be Trivial</title>
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		<title>Lane Security</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/08/24/lane-security/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 16:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On March 2, 1991, shortly after midnight, awakened by police sirens and a helicopter, George Holliday stepped out onto his second floor balcony to see what was going on. He saw a white car that had been stopped by police cars. He saw a black man who was spread-eagle on the hood of the car. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Please Keep Art Safe</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/07/29/please-keep-art-safe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 19:31:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On the October 3, 1992 live broadcast of Saturday Night Live, Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O&#8217;Connor was the evening&#8217;s musical guest. She performed an a capella version of Bob Marley&#8217;s War, changing the lyric of &#8220;racism&#8221; to &#8220;child abuse.&#8221; And while singing the final lyric &#8220;evil,&#8221; O&#8217;Connor held up a photograph of Pope John Paul II, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redirect the Flow of Art</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/07/12/redirect-the-flow-of-art/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Artist's Book]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mpaa rating]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometime around 1992 I was reading the summary reviews of movies playing in the area in my local paper the Hartford Courant. Each review listed the film rating – G, PG, PG-13, or R – but what struck me was how each assigned rating gave additional clarification. &#8220;R, with tame and randy bedroom scenes, lots [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transport</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/07/06/transport/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asexual]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[body language]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[lifesaving]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I feel lucky that in the four summers I was a lifeguard I only had to make one save. And it was an easy save. While guarding the pool known as the &#8220;middle pool&#8221; – primarily for 4-6 year olds and running only two to three feet deep – a girl was bouncing along toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Physical Chemistry</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/30/physical-chemistry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:26:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Only two electrons can occupy an orbital.&#8221; Sounds like advice a marriage counselor might give to a couple after having finished reading a biography of physicist Niels Bohr. How about if the counselor continued to say, &#8220;It is impossible to simultaneously, with arbitrary precision, specify the position and momentum of a particle.&#8221; Wait you lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cross Symmetry</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/14/cross-symmetry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 01:42:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drawing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[My mother would implore me to hold the cross higher, &#8220;You&#8217;re so tall, you can hold the cross higher than anyone else. Use your height.&#8221; I was an acolyte for an Episcopalian church for a number of years. I started as a torch bearer for the youth procession after Sunday school. Three of us would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moment Study</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/10/moment-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:48:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Collage]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Memory]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[spectroscopy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the summer of 1996 I was returning from Lake Lanier in Georgia where the Olympic Rowing Trials for the 1996 Olympics were hosted. I had competed in the single scull, finishing 7th,  after disappointingly not making a two person boat which had a real shot at making the US Team. It had been a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>They Shall Cover the Ground, So That the Ground Itself Will Not Be Visible</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/07/they-shall-cover-the-ground-so-that-the-ground-itself-will-not-be-visible/</link>
		<comments>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/07/they-shall-cover-the-ground-so-that-the-ground-itself-will-not-be-visible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:23:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Installation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sculpture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bible]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environmentalism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Exodus]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It was supposed to be a commentary on overpopulation and global warming. Exodus 10:5, &#8220;They shall cover the ground so the ground itself will not be visible,&#8221; is the eighth ultimatum Moses delivers to Pharoah to describe a plague of locusts.  The resulting plague, &#8220;Ate all the vegetation in the land&#8230;Nothing green was left on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PSI, Ѱ</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/04/psi/</link>
		<comments>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/04/psi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jun 2010 15:50:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Installation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[organic chemistry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[relief painting]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Oh that&#8217;s interesting. So what are you going to do? Illustrate science textbooks or something?&#8221; This was a typical response to my choice to major in chemistry and fine art. My answer varied from, &#8220;Yes. &#8221; (easiest and least confrontational) to &#8220;No&#8221; (not in the mood and likely off-putting) to the truthful &#8220;I&#8217;m not really [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It Cannot Be Trivial</title>
		<link>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/01/it-cannot-be-trivial/</link>
		<comments>http://nottrivial.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2010/06/01/it-cannot-be-trivial/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 20:09:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Branson Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Print]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rules]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trash can]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It resulted from an argument I had with a Jesuit Priest. &#8220;Michael, art cannot be trivial. You cannot make art from trivia. Art cannot be a trash can.&#8221; This was how Father William O&#8217;Halloran let me know that my proposed sculpture installation for Swords Hall would not be allowed. Fr. O&#8217;Halloran was Vice President of [...]]]></description>
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