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	<title>Creative Cogitation &#187; Insane Imaginings</title>
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	<description>About art &#38; the art of Jake Beckman, painter of magical realism &#38; representational abstracts.  &#34;Currently I paint binary &#38; birds based on humorous observations of social media &#38; other forms of electronic communications. Alternatively I am exploring mathematical abstraction in my new non representational work.-Jake&#34;</description>
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		<title>Sharing the Road &amp; Real Laws of “Average”</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2011/07/14/sharing-the-road-real-laws-of-average/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[attribution of malice]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[changing your viewpoint]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, by the way, let me take this moment to thank anyone who has ever let me slide across their lane of traffic, just because I smiled and batted my eyes.  I know you thought I was a bimbo, and I was at that moment, but I am thankful for the courtesy nevertheless.]]></description>
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		<title>On Muses and Other Weird Little Creatures</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2011/06/14/on-muses-and-other-weird-little-creatures/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2011/06/14/on-muses-and-other-weird-little-creatures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jun 2011 21:53:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[muse]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Then there is my Muse, an annoying little fairy, who flits around and head butts me at the most inopportune of times, trying to get my attention, telling me she has this really cool idea and that I need to work on it now.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Us Verse Them, or Can’t We Just All Get Along?</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/06/09/us-verse-them-or-cant-we-just-all-get-alongjake/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/06/09/us-verse-them-or-cant-we-just-all-get-alongjake/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 21:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[can't we just get along]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[co-operation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[collaboration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[healthy debate]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[problem solving]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[us v them]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There have been several recent “events” that have me pondering this subject.  The first one is a law passed in my state by our legislators called SB1070; Joe average voter didn’t pass this law, our representatives did.  It has inflamed a lot of passion on both sides of the debate, which is fine.  However, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ASCII Binary &amp; What’s with all the 0s &amp; 1s in My Art</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/05/22/ascii-binary-whats-with-all-the-0s-1s-in-my-art/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/05/22/ascii-binary-whats-with-all-the-0s-1s-in-my-art/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 23:41:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[1 and 0]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[2-state system]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASCII]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Binary code]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jake beckman art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[messages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my current Series, Binary Birds, I am exploring social media in all of its variations.  But the thing about modern social interactions is that generally we are all communicating electronically, via cell phone, facebook, tweets, downloads, websites, emails, internet searches, etc.  as opposed to face-to-face.  In my paintings I have chosen to represent all this electronic [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2012 &amp; My Representation of the Mayan Calendar</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/05/18/2012-my-representation-of-the-mayan-calendar/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/05/18/2012-my-representation-of-the-mayan-calendar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 May 2010 20:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[b'aktun]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[base 20]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[base-10]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bases]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doomsday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hype]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jake beckman art]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[long count calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Mayan Calendar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[other number systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vegisimal]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Mayans actually had several calendars: a 52 “year” calendar round, broken into 20 day / 13 “month”  segments, a long-count calendar for tracing long periods of time, a calendar for tracking the phases of the moon, a calendar of the heliacal cycle of Venus etc.  Your average Mayan probably mostly paid attention to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>e-lation — Social Media Birds painting by Jake Beckman</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/03/02/e-lation-social-media-birds-painting-by-jake-beckman/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/03/02/e-lation-social-media-birds-painting-by-jake-beckman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ASCII binary]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[birds]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[canaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cyber relationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[e-lation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[elationship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jake beckman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[painting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Random Reverie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A friend recently twittered me, “Has technology progressed to the point that I can live out the remainder of my life without face to face contact?” I told him he still needed to get his car emissions tested in person.    But is does raise the question, are we heading for Isaac Asimov’s dystopia, Solaria? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Class Is Over Now The Real Work Begins</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/01/29/class-is-over-now-the-real-work-begins/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2010/01/29/class-is-over-now-the-real-work-begins/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[art is a real job]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[overwhelmed]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I finished up day 7 of the SmArtist Telesummit and I can tell you, brain full now. One thing made eminently clear to me as that I have to work on marketing myself.  So 2010 because the Year of Marketing for me.   I have made it my mission to deal with this deep dark hole [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Banishing Unproductive Ghosts &amp; Living Now</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2009/11/01/banishing-unproductive-ghosts-living-now/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2009/11/01/banishing-unproductive-ghosts-living-now/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[creative life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[existentialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[living in the now]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objectivism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[philosophical stand point]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda Today I have been reminded by someone very close to me about what he perceives to be all my failings to act in the past. I find the entire exercise unproductive. I am also finding it a negative experience as he goes on and on about it, which has been taking up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Numbers: The Golden Ratio</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2009/10/02/cool-numbers-the-golden-ratio/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2009/10/02/cool-numbers-the-golden-ratio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fibonacci numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golden angle]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golden mean]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[golden ratio]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transcendental numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[types of numbers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Numbers, there are many kinds of numbers: The Natural Numbers, 1, 2, 3… are counting numbers that a child can figure out with their fingers and toes etc.  Depending on who is doing the definitions the natural numbers may or may not include the number 0,. Natural numbers do NOT include numbers such as that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is P Verses NP?</title>
		<link>http://akajake.com/blog/2009/09/15/what-is-p-verses-np/</link>
		<comments>http://akajake.com/blog/2009/09/15/what-is-p-verses-np/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:25:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insane Imaginings]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[combinations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mathematics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[millennium prize problem]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[numbers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[P  verses NP]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So I admit it. I am a geek.  The beauty of the numbers has long fascinated me.   It is one of the reasons I wound up getting an advanced degree in physics.  I considered engineering,  mathematics, and even art as my college major, but physics won out on the fun factor.  Engineering was too pedestrian, [...]]]></description>
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