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		<title>Beautiful Boulder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 14:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Fall I had the fortune to travel twice to Boulder for weddings. September is a great month along the Front Range. I took a few photos that I that captures the peaceful mood of the place that makes it so appealing to me. Places to Visit in Boulder Tee &#038; Cakes 1932 14th Street,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Places and Pathways</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2013/05/07/places-and-pathways/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 21:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul San Gemino</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He who knows, without seeing, does not understand the mystery. Even should every detail of beauty be accounted for by the intellect, does such a tabulation lead to beauty? Is the beaut that can be neatly reckoned really profound? The scholar of aesthetics tends to base his ideas on knowledge – or rather, he tries&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Save the American Folk Art Museum</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2013/04/16/save-the-american-folk-art-museum/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 17:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The former American Folk Art Museum is one of the finest buildings in the United States and a masterpiece by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien Architects. Sold to the Museum of Modern Art due to financial difficulty, the new owners plan to demolish the building because it contrasts with their adjacent facility. The AFAM is&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Heavens</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2013/02/01/heavens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2013 08:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<title>A Poem is a City</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2013/01/04/a-poem-is-a-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 14:00:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[a poem is a city filled with streets and sewers filled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen, filled with banality and booze, filled with rain and thunder and periods of drought, a poem is a city at war, a poem is a city asking a clock why, a poem is a city burning, a poem is&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Happy New Year</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2013/01/01/happy-new-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jan 2013 08:01:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Another fresh new year is here . . . another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, to love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me to live each day with zest . . . to daily grow and try to be my highest and my best! I have&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Merry Christmas 2012</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/12/25/merry-christmas-2012/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the drafting room to your living room, we wish you the best however you choose to celebrate the holidays. To great times with friends and family, peace on earth and beautiful spaces to live in! + Petite URL for this page – http://m-o.mobi/lyvgx]]></description>
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		<title>Timeless</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/11/24/timeless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:21:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THE KERNEL OF THE WAY And yet the timeless way is not complete, and will not fully generate the quality without a name, until we leave the gate behind. Indeed this ageless character has nothing, in the end, to do with language. The language, and the processes which stem from it, merely release thr fundamental&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Our Lady of the Angels</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/11/15/our-lady-of-the-angels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 19:43:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I visited the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles. The original name of LA was Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula which translates as Our Lady the Queen of the Angels of the Porciúncula River. The &#8220;river&#8221; that the cathedral now&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>La Journée Solaire</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/10/10/la-journee-solaire/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Oct 2012 05:23:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There was a great celebration on the Marseilles roof when the building &#8220;officially&#8221; opened, at a CIAM party on a summer evening in 1953. Architects from every part of the world attended, including Corbu&#8217;s old associate from the days in Behrens&#8217;s office, Walter Gropius, who had by this time become the principle apostle of Machine&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/10/04/anatomy-of-los-angeles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 01:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-R1b2Tz9fY The people of Los Angeles love to think that they live in the city of the future but it is rather a city of the present incarnation of past times and as a consequence the very thing that unknowingly empties our cities once the outskirts begin to grow. If you would like to know&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Quiet Hounds &amp; The Pitch</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/09/30/quiet-hounds-the-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 04:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few Sundays ago my good friend Ryan Lee of The Pitch hosted a show at his house in Hermosa Beach for the band Quiet Hounds. Ryan met some of the hounds while in college in Atlanta, Georgia where he simultaneously got straight A&#8217;s in Civil Engineering, skateboarded everyday, wrote and performed his own music&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Design Process &#8211; Cloud Horse Art Institute</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/09/23/design-process-cloud-horse-art-institute-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of the development of the design for the Art Studio building at the Cloud Horse Art Institute in South Dakota, I am doing studies on various materials for the exterior surface of the building. This video documents the tests I did using a small propane torch to burn the surface cedar wood and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Pitch</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/09/21/the-pitch/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Sep 2012 05:06:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I ever get another moment&#8217;s notice, I&#8217;d admire the color of your eyes A project from several years back, but an album that continues to inspire me. The Pitch &#8211; The Back of My Burning Hand]]></description>
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		<title>Global Citizen &#8211; Part 2</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/09/19/global-citizen-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 13:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another one of my submitted photos was featured in the #WearApolis campaign, this time appearing on the Facebook page. That&#8217;s me in the lower left hand corner. This Global Citizen is wearing the French Linen Work Jacket, the Washed Japanese Oxford Button Down in Vintage Red, Standard Issue Selvedge Denim Pants and carrying the Filson&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Rocky Mountain National Park</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/09/18/rocky-mountain-national-park/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems no trip to Colorado is complete without some time spent in the wilderness, even if that means only being a few hundred yards from the parking lot at a scenic overlook. Serious outdoor enthusiasts might scoff at this, but for someone who spends almost all of their time in the urban metropolis, a&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Design Process &#8211; Cloud Horse Art Institute</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/09/08/design-process-cloud-horse-art-institute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2012 03:30:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Even the daytime becomes a part of the dreamscape when you attain that state where you&#8217;re nothing but an eyeball in tune with cloud and light, a being of pure sensation. Phillip Connors Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout]]></description>
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		<title>Global Citizen</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/09/04/global-citizen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:30:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My submitted photo for the #WearApolis campaign on Twitter was recently featured on their Facebook page. This Global Citizen was wearing the Washed Japanese Oxford Button Down in Vintage Red on the Expo Line of the Los Angeles Metro system. Follow Apolis on Facebook and Twitter.]]></description>
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		<title>Officiel Masion Orion</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/08/27/officiel-masion-orion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2012 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maison Orion has a new page on Facebook. &#8220;Like&#8221; it at http://facebook.com/officiel.masion.orion Thanks for your continued support.]]></description>
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		<title>Saluting Sabato Rodia</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/08/25/saluting-sabato-rodia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Aug 2012 15:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I had in my mind I&#8217;m gonna do something, something big.&#8221; Simon Rodia Last Friday afternoon I took the Metro Blue Line down to Watts to see the famous Towers of Simon Rodia. I&#8217;d been there before when my artist and architect friends would visit Los Angeles, but I hadn&#8217;t been there for about 7&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Design &amp; Thinking</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/08/14/design-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Design Picnic LA is hosting an outdoor picnic alongside a screening of the documentary Design &#038; Thinking with a panel discussion this Saturday, August 18, 2012. The screening will take place at the Los Angeles State Historic Park in Chinatown. Visit the Design Picnic LA Facebook page for all the details. Scott M B Gustafson,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>The Protective Hand</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/08/10/the-protective-hand/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 13:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The hamsa (Arabic: خمسة) has been a symbol of protection for several thousand years. Hamsa is the Arabic word for the number five. The open hand with the magical eye is used as a protective amulet in Jewish, Christian and Muslim faiths &#8211; a very rare holy trifecta! Thanks to Marc Jacobs for creating this&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Heaven at the edge of the Continent</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/08/06/heaven-at-the-edge-of-the-continent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Aug 2012 05:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday July 27th I spent the day at my favorite beach. I brought a few books, my watercolor painting kit, snacks, drinks and not enough sunscreen. It was wonderful. The wind is a horse: hear how he runs through the sea, through the sky. He wants to take me: listen how he roves the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Night Sounds</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/04/27/night-sounds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An ecletic mix by Scott M B Gustafson under the DJ moniker of Emmfour. Recorded live from vinyl nearly a decade ago live on AZSessions.com, the premier electronic music collective in the southwestern United States, this sonic journey crosses musical genres to create an moody atmosphere that collects the complex emotional experiences of urban life.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Herman&#8217;s House</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/03/16/hermans-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 23:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The world premier of Herman&#8217;s House is taking place at the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival which runs from April 12 &#8211; 15, 2012 at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. This film by Angad Bhalla details the intense collaboration between prisoner Herman Wallace and artist Jackie Summell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjd1smWtf7k A synopsis by the filmmaker: The&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Apolis: Common Gallery</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/03/08/apolis-common-gallery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 03:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott M B Gustafson &#8220;Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action, and what happens in space.&#8221; Bernard Tschumi The work of MAISON ORION was featured recently on the Apolis website with a Journal entry regarding their flaship store in Los Angeles, the Apolis: Common Gallery. One of the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Call Now</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/02/23/call-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[323-638-9514 Call now, our operators are standing by.]]></description>
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		<title>Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/01/25/reyner-banham-loves-los-angeles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlZ0NbC-YDo By Scott M B Gustafson Welcome to Los Angeles. Supercity of the Future. Metropolis of Southern California. Architectural critic Reyner Banham explores Los Angeles in this 1972 BBC documentary. This film is a great compliment to his book &#8220;Los Angeles : The Architecture of Four Ecologies.&#8221; From Watts to Beverly Hills, Hollywood to the&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Restoring the Balance</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/01/20/restoring-the-balance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott M B Gustafson Los Angeles is famously a car city, and driving all around the place is a reality of my life here. I do take the bus and the subway from time to time, but its current routes do not always lead to the destinations I am heading to. In order to&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Dispatches From The Drafting Room</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/01/07/dispatches-from-the-drafting-room-8/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dispatch #008 has now been published. Read it here and sign up for future newsletters.]]></description>
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		<title>Apartamento Magazine</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2012/01/03/apartamento-magazine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 03:15:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott M B Gustafson For the last several months I have been reading Apartamento magazine, picking it up wherever I can find it around Los Angeles. It fullfills its mission of being an everyday life interiors magazine. It focuses on the relationships people have that get nurtured in the homes they spend time in.&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Ice Cube Celebrates the Eames</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/12/20/ice-cube-celebrates-the-eames/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 17:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FRWatw_ZEQI &#8220;This is going green 1949 style, bitch!&#8221; Learn more about this major celebration of Los Angeles Art and Design at Pacific Standard Time. PS &#8211; We&#8217;ll hire Ice Cube as a draftsman anytime!]]></description>
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		<title>Where the Deer and Antelope play</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/12/11/where-the-deer-and-antelope-play/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 18:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sagethicket. Vamanos, amigos, he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintscraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight. Eli Cash By Scott M B Gustafson Yesterday I decided to get out of the city and spend&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>International Interchangeable Generic Landscape</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/12/10/international-interchangeable-generic-landscape/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 14:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This image was designed about a decade ago in response to my frustration with the homogenization of the development landscape. There wasn&#8217;t much I could do at that time, so young in my career, to affect change in the projects I was working on. Luckily now I have the opportunities to work with clients who&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Design Process &#8211; Cloud Horse Art Institute</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/12/04/design-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 05:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott M B Gustafson Design is a process of analyzing facts, mentally processing concepts and working through solutions by hand. Well, this tends to be my process. Design ideas are always further refined with the benefit of the computer and the precision it brings, but a hybrid analog / digital approach seems to work&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Vision of the Future</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/12/01/vision-of-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 07:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwj2s_5e12U By Scott M B Gustafson I came across this video today that was put together by a think tank within Microsoft. It showcases some emerging communication technologies with smart networked devices. The main characters in this video are all eco-conscious architects, so it also highlights some gorgeous updates to design software as well as&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Apolis Common Gallery &#8211; Design Process</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/11/04/apolis-common-gallery-design-process/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:15:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apolis Common Gallery &#8211; Los Angeles, CA USA By Scott M B Gustafson &#8230;we founded Apolis with a simple idea that people can live better lives if they are given equal access to opportunity. Our travels abroad immersed us in personal stories of struggle and survival that inspired us to create a business model that&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Apolis Common Gallery &#8211; Behind the Scenes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 07:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This film was created by Apolis Global,]]></description>
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		<title>Vast and Endless</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/10/03/vast-and-endless/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 13:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought for the week. “Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large.&#8221; &#8220;If you want to build a ship, don&#8217;t drum up the men to gather wood, divide&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>No Ego</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/09/26/no-ego/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought for the week. “It&#8217;s a combination of doing something that people need, balanced with creating design that has no ego. With no ego, there is nothing to prove and no one to persuade. Perhaps that is what design once was.” Sam Hecht, discussing his work for Muji Source: Dwell Magazine // Posted from&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Circuits</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You move me You move me With your buildings and your eyes Autumn woods and winter skies You move me You move me Open sea and city lights Busy streets and dizzy heights You call me You call me Rush &#8220;The Analog Kid&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Heal The City</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/09/16/heal-the-city/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<title>At the base of the Black Hill</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/09/14/at-the-base-of-the-black-hill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Sep 2011 13:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The MAISON ORION office will be closed from September 14 until September 21 during a fall trip to the Old Pueblo of Tucson, AZ. I haven&#8217;t been in the city of nearly 3 years. I look forward to visiting some of my favorite locations such as the Hotel Congress, Mission San Xavier del Bac, Nogales,&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Wilderness</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/09/12/wilderness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 13:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought for the week. “You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you&#8217;ll discover will be wonderful. What you&#8217;ll discover will be yourself.” Alan Alda Source: Values.com Posted by Scott M B Gustafson]]></description>
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		<title>Possession</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/09/04/possession/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We should all be humble before the sun, which gives us such beautiful light.&#8221; Paul Cézanne By Scott M B Gustafson In mid-June while visiting Sonoma, CA for a wedding, I had the great fortune to pick up a wonderful book for $2.00. &#8220;The Splendor of France&#8221; by Robert Payne is a compelling history lesson&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Strange Truths</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/09/02/strange-truths/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Sep 2011 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Scott M B Gustafson I don&#8217;t know if the sky in Los Angeles really looked that color in 1962, but thankfully it doesn&#8217;t have that much pollution anymore. No wonder people thought the world was on the verge of nuclear destruction; the atmosphere alone seemed to signaling pain and devastation. While the world is&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Aesthetics As A Way Of Life</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/09/01/aesthetics-as-a-way-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Are you a modern architect?&#8221; &#8220;No more modern than I should be.&#8221; Stourley Kracklite, The Belly of an Architect. By Scott M B Gustafson Aesthetics is a branch of philosophy concerned with beauty, art, and taste. The notion of beauty perhaps been always problematic, but it keeps getting more and more complex as creative hybrids&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Harvest</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/08/29/harvest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Aug 2011 13:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought for the week. “Striving for success without hard work is like trying to harvest where you haven&#8217;t planted.” David Bly Source: Values.com Posted by Scott M B Gustafson]]></description>
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		<title>Forest Of Angels</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/08/24/forest-of-angels/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 11:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[En route from O&#8217;Hare airport to LAX, I had a layover at San Francisco International Airport on Monday evening. I picked up two magazines, Boom and Tricycle. Boom is &#8220;A Journal of California&#8221; published by the University of California Press and Tricycle is &#8220;The Buddhist Review&#8221;. The current issue is their 20th anniversary issue and&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Attachment</title>
		<link>http://maison-orion.com/2011/08/22/attachment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 13:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott M B Gustafson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A thought for the week. “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.” John Muir Source: Values.com Posted by Scott M B Gustafson]]></description>
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