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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blogs.msdn.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>A View from Elsewhere : art</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/tags/art/default.aspx</link><description>Tags: art</description><dc:language>en-US</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)</generator><item><title>Art</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/2008/06/30/art.aspx</link><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:23:03 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:8663194</guid><dc:creator>johnmont</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/comments/8663194.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/commentrss.aspx?PostID=8663194</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;p&gt;One of my friends, and a former teammate, is &lt;a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/FlyoverCountry/~3/311298362/"&gt;Aaron Brethorst&lt;/a&gt;. For the longest time I thought of him as the amusing guy from VScore who attended shiproom. It was only later that I realized he was an &lt;a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aaronbrethorst/"&gt;accomplished photographer&lt;/a&gt;. The photograph below is of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Tower"&gt;Smith Tower&lt;/a&gt; in Seattle, one of my wife's favorite buildings. &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2373/2258626109_90452fda7b_b.jpg"&gt;&lt;img height="299" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2373/2258626109_90452fda7b_b.jpg" width="235" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;div class="wlWriterSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:c2dd8040-06d3-4726-8e9b-25a361979d6d" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"&gt;Technorati Tags: &lt;a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Brethorst" rel="tag"&gt;Brethorst&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8663194" width="1" height="1"&gt;</description><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/tags/Amusement/default.aspx">Amusement</category><category domain="http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/tags/art/default.aspx">art</category></item><item><title>We Bought a Pig</title><link>http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/archive/2007/10/13/we-bought-a-pig.aspx</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 Oct 2007 01:03:00 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">91d46819-8472-40ad-a661-2c78acb4018c:5446107</guid><dc:creator>johnmont</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/comments/5446107.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://blogs.msdn.com/johnmont/commentrss.aspx?PostID=5446107</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;TABLE class="" cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=2 width=1019 border=0 unselectable="on"&gt;
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&lt;P&gt;Yesterday, at the &lt;A class="" href="http://www.pigsonparade.org/" mce_href="http://www.pigsonparade.org/"&gt;Pigs on Parade auction&lt;/A&gt; we purchased a pig. If you've spent any time around downtown Seattle you've probably seen one of these illustrious beasts hanging around looking porcine. If you haven't spent any time around downtown Seattle, suffice it to say that the they are large (4-foot x 5-foot) fiberglass pigs that local artists have decorated in a variety of interesting ways. The auction was yesterday and, since my wife is a big fan of pigs (insert joke about yours truly here) we decided that we'd buy a pig. &lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Enter Puerco Vaca, a pig created by local artist Colin Reedy. It's... interesting. &lt;/P&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;
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