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On Taking Pictures — 373 episodes

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373: Uncertainty Within An Envelope

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372: Mental Proprioception

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371: Moon Joy

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370: Detritus of Life

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369: Digital Entitlement

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368: Everything Has Limits

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367: Offended By Extension

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366: A Big Fluffy Thing

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365: It Feels Different

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364: I Don’t Think It’s Gonna Work

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363: Not In My Vocabulary

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362: Motion Is The Hapiness

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361: Didn't Have Enough Power

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360: Toiled Away In Quiet Desperation

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359: Consistency is Hard

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358: Inverse of Social Media

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357: Knife Burrito

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356: Archaeological Remnants

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355: A World of Noise

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354: Effort as Currency

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353: We Need Another You

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352: There's Always Value In The Effort

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351 : Don’t Cater To The Camera

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350 : Creative Closure

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349 : Save The Clocktower

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348: We Turn Over The Soil

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347: Untied String

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346: Chase the Creative Dragon

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345: I’m Beholden to No One

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344: I See What You Mean

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343: The Difference Is What Makes It Yours

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342: It's Not The Photography

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341: Overcoming The Initial Inertia

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340: Hope Marketing Doesn’t Work

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339: Just Jump Into The Water

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338: Is The LED Still Lit?

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337: My Whole Life Is A Year of Sabbatical

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336: There Has To Be A Mythology

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335: The Lesson In This Season of My Life

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334: Nature of the MrBeast

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333: Answering The Call

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332: You Did That Wrong, Make It Right

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331: I Was On A Sofa

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330: Losing Your Bearings

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329: Interpretation At Every Step

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328: Between the Accolades

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327: Going Back To Move Forward

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326: Special Episode - Apple Announcement Oct 2018

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325: Closing The Loop

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324: Another Stick in the Spokes

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323: There’s No Control Group in Life

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322: Waiting For The Supersaturation Point

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321: And There It Hangs

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320: Put This Robe On And Come With Me

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319: Who Buys The Ink?

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318: You Have To Go Further Back To Go Forward

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317: You’re Gonna Need A Bigger SIM

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316: Nice Sallah There

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315: A New Branch On The Tree

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314: It’s Either Silence Or A Heart

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313: No One Wants To Be In A Cover Band Forever

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312: I’m Put Off By Such Comfort

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311: Poseidon Giveth and Poseidon Taketh Away

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310: Let Me Just Finish This Donut

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309: Giant Bags of Stuff in the Car

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308: Sixth Gen VHS Tape from a Prog Rock Convention

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307: We’re All in the Optometrist's Office

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306: The Venn Diagram of You and Me

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305: I Really Like The Deep Dives, Ted

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304: No Filters Named After Places

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303: Who The Hell Goes To Picasso’s House?

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302: The Audience Holds You Accountable

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301: It’s Like Amway With A Camera

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300: When The Spirit Moves Me

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299: Another Word For Failure

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298: Jeffery Drifting

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297: Dog On A Motorcycle

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296: Christmas Q&A 2017

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295: This Is Where I Was Right Here

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294: The Tide Went Out On My Skillset

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293: Trying To Hug A Cloud

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292: When You Cry Authenticity Wolf

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291: It’s All About The Torque

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290: That’s The Recipe For Me

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289: Brother Love Tut

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288: An Iterative Process Like Everything Else

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287: If It Sounds Good Now, It’ll Sound Good Later

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286: You Don’t Need To Make New Friends

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285: The Composition Within the Chaos

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284: Time Is Your Only Currency

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283: Somewhere To Get A Cleat In

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282: All Of This Shenanigans Over A Camera

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281: Hidden Under Hair and Self-Doubt

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280: Tacking Left And Right Into The Wind

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279: Letting It Go For A Better Offer

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278: One and A Quarter Step Forward

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277: We Both Work Great In Planned Chaos

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276: Gas Money and a New Alternator

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275: The Good, Fast, and Cheap of Photography

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274: The Unatographer

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273: Kenneth Is Funded With Advice

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272: If I Stand Still, That’s When the Cobwebs Grow

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271: Hanging Out With The Other Kids Drinking Cristal

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270: The Luster Dulls Over Time

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269: Breadcrumbs To Find Your Way Home

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268: The Similarities Are Too Similar

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267: What’s Left For Humans To Do?

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266: Dance Monkey, Dance

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265: Neuronic Connections

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264: Advice Needs To Be Calibrated

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263: If There’s A Listicle About It It’s Too Late

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262: No Whips Were Harmed In The Making of These Photographs

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261: Healing Salve On The Open Wound Of Doubt

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260: A Friendship Built On Skype

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259: Chasing Expertise, and Amy

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258: The Hottest Bell Pepper I’ve Ever Seen

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257: Turn the Hat Around

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256: Mash Potatoes In the Shape of the Hollywood Bowl

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255: If It Says VIP, It’s Not VIP

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254: Bob Ross on Mute

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253: Imagineers Are Never Gonna Do South Park

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252: That’s Not What Cameras And Books Were Made For

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251: I’m Just Gonna Shut Up And Sit Here

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250: Like the Whos in Whoville

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249: Ancillary Collaboration

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248: Albatross Is On The Move

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247: Keep the Nihilist in the Closet

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246: If I Start This, Then I’ll Have To Finish It

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245: A Higher Form of Noise

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244: That’s the Arrow That Got Through

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243: Can You Make the Logo Bigger?

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242: Lack of Stasis

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241: The Final Ten Percent Takes Ninety Percent of the Time

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240: The Reins Are Fear

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239: True to the Show

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238: There Will Always Be A Minority Report

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237: The Flow of the Slinky

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236: The Next Switchback on the Plateau

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235: Layering It Up Like a Cake

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234: Measure Twice, Cut Once

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233: Live Up To An Impossibility

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232: Solid Steel Walls of Reality

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231: I Look Forward to Looking Back

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230: Full-On Artistic Telephone

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229: Almost to the Shipping Point of Shipping

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228: The Giant Pachinko Game in the Sky

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227: Psychologize That Up The Wazoo

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226: You Want The Pixie Dust

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225: The Megapixel List of Life

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224: Blink Decision

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223: Driving Backwards is a Bad Idea

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222: Form of Stupidity, Shape of an Idiot

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221: All the Salt in the World

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220: They Want Paul Bunyan

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219: Bell Curve of Adoption

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218: Moon Rocks Down Here Cost a Lot of Money

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217: A Plus B Equals Jello

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216: Unintentionally Intentional

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215: Don’t Trust Experts

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214: The Oxygen and the Spark

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213: You’re Not About the Craft If You Use Laser Triggers

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212: Audience Inflation

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211: I Do Wanna Be A Person Eating Pancakes!

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210: I’m Over Here in Sharpshooter’s Corner

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209: Oddly Fascinating

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208: Echoes of Memories

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207: Emojis Don’t Count

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206: It’s Hard to Juggle Slowly

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205: Somebody Has To Be A Dictator

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204: Dog Paddle Motion in the Air

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203: Shrimp et tu, Brute?

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202: Jeffery and Bill Meet the Swamp Monster

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201: No Such Thing as Never or Always

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200: Learn To Do It Without the Crutch

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199: Claustrophobia In All the Control

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198: Ghost of Familiarity

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197: House Elf of Genius

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196: Mind-field of Obstacles

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195: Everybody’s Eating Oreos for Breakfast

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194: Asking for Real Estate

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193: Not Starting From Zero

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192: Find Another Cliff

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191: Gardiner Used All the Saturation

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190: One Big Bundle of Bias

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189: An Analytical Gamble

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188: A Facsimile of a Facsimile

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187: A Cultivated Fantasy

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186: Little Blips of Satisfaction

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185: What Keeps You Falling Back Into It?

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184: A Somewhat Liberal Political Predilection

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183: We’re Playing It Blue Today

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182: Trading on the Hype

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181: You’re Gonna Get Paid, Son

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180: Holding a Leica, In Her Underwear

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179: The Timeline of that Osmosis

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178: Circles for Sixty Years

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177: The Reflection Isn't Perfecto

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176: Creativity is a Line Item

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175: Very Little Time For the Present

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174: A Reality Distortion Field of Pixels

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173: Where Do You Put the Chisel?

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172: Creative Fiefdoms

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171: Big Subterranean Factor

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170: We All Want To Be Steve McCurry

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169: I’ll Make a Burger for the Next Guy

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168: This Is Not How We Play Bridge

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167: The Activity of Non-Activity

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166: Less Bill & Ted’s, More British

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165: Our Piece of Cheese Keeps Getting Smaller

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164: Photographic Baseball Cards

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163: A Generational Byproduct

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162: I Grow Chickens, The Chickens Lay the Eggs

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161: It’s Not Patrons, It’s Patronizing

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160: Each Generation Forgets

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159: It’s a Crowded Place, My Head

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158: The Mayor of Fujitown

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157: The Cossacks of Organization

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156: The Great Men Theory of Art

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155: It’s All a Barometer

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154: 500k Followers or 100 Followers

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153: The Community Is Getting Inside My Head

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152: The Stone is Noise

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151: Perfectly Punctuated Piece On Absolutely Nothing

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150: Who’s Pressing the Brakes

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149: It’s a Little Bit of a Ghost

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148: Idle Hands Problem

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147: Artistic Post-It Note

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146: Pattern Recognition Machine

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145: Priceless Gets A Price

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144: Ronin Photographers

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143: Set For Life

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142: Time Capsule Effect

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141: Frayved Peegan

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140: An Official Knock-off

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139: Nothing But A Mirror

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138: A Little Obsessive That Way

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137: Good is a Moving Target

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136: Destiny or Resignation

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135: No Touchdowns In Photography

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134: A Couple Dozen Eye Rolls

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133: No Way Out But Through

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132: Some Kind Of Sublimation

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131: Fuddy Duddy Hall of Fame

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130: So Many Topics, So Little Time

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129: Shake Some Streusel For Your Homie

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128: A Baked Aesthetic

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127: The Rabbit Always Moves

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126: Flying Trapeze

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125: Creative Swagger

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124: Just Another Point on the Curve

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123: The Weegee of the Modern World Doesn’t Exist

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122: Disrupting the Familiar

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121: Not Enough Room For Romance

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120: You’re Not Moving Cannonballs

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119: Glacial Evolution

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118: Savings Bond of Memories

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117: Reset The Mechanism

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116: Freefalling

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115: Doing It For Love Not Money

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114: Creativity On A Wire

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113: A Day Late & A Dollar Short

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112: You Wanted A Do-Over

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111: Desert Island Book Choices

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110: The ‘Why’ is Much More Interesting

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109: Cause and Effect Issue

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108: Capital “P” Picasso

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107: Backwards To Go Forwards

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106: The Story Is In The Risk

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105: More of the Crazy Juice

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104: Happy Doing What You’re Doing Right Now

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103: A Lifetime of Rehearsal

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102: Rigging the Roulette Wheel

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101: Cookie Cutter Wisdom

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100: Discovering Something New

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99: Authenticity Complex

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98: Signal to Noise

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97: The Best Version Of Me

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96: Pencil Marks

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95: Finding The New

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94: The Custodian Ideal

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93: Listen to Yourself

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92: The Analogy of the Sphere

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91: Isn’t That The Fun Of It?

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90: Uncharted Territory

285

89: 42 Puppies and a Snow Cone Machine

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88: Didn’t You Hear My Inner Monologue?

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87: I’m Wearing Tap Shoes?

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86: Sing Me What You’re Going To Play

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85: Good Art Doesn’t Have a Shelf Life

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84: Your Definition of Yourself

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83: It’s Not A Pendulum, It’s A Kaleidoscope

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82: Going ‘All In’ On Yourself

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81: An Artistic Vacation

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80: It’s Something To Take Seriously

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79: Photography Without A Net

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78: Shutter Priority on Glass Plate

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77: Knowing Which Mistakes To Keep

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76: Slamming Up Against the Walls (Like in an A-Ha Video)

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75: Film comes in a can. Like soup.

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74: Self-Deluding Defense Mechanism

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73: It's Not All Warm and Fuzzy

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72: Get Behind the Train and Push

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71: Disruption

304

70: The Gaia Argument

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69: Play With Your Deckled Edges

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68: An Incorrect Perspective

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67: Far Enough Along Your Curve

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66: You Don’t Want To See Me When I’m Bored

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65: Doing Nothing is the Enemy

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64: Goldilocks Camera Phenomenon

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63: The Core of the Struggle

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62: Artists Aren’t Plumbers

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61: Happenstance Threw It Over The Line

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60: The Problem is Always Me

315

59: Food Doesn’t Talk Back

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58: Art is Exposure

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57: A Big Pool of Hustle

318

56: Then It Becomes RoboCop

319

55: When Life Gives You Lemmings

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54: Where’s Joseph Campbell When You Need Him?

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53: Dig Down To Make More Room

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52: Backfill Reasoning

323

51: No Secret Sauce

324

50: Tortured Plateau

325

49: Happiness is an Inside Job

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48: $500 and a Lollipop

327

47: Inspiration Is Like Tinkerbell

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46: 151 Lights and a News Desk

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45: True North On Your Creative Compass

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44: Sensor Verite

331

43: Artistic Monkhood

332

42: That’s Just Going to the Driving Range

333

41: Our Microscopes Got More Powerful

334

40: I’m Buying a Smoke Machine

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39: The President and an Umbrella

336

38: Tug of War with the Muse

337

37: Jump in the River

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36: The Schrodinger Moment

339

35: Justification After the Fact

340

34: Learning Everything All the Time

341

33: Troubleshooting in Real Time

342

32: Screw Those People

343

31: Too Much Information

344

30: Entrances Confused with Dead Ends

345

29: Richard Scarry Book on Acid

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28: Ability to Recognize...Maybe

347

27: A Body of Work Only in Hindsight

348

26: Brain Calibration Issue

349

25: The Weather Is What You're Photographing

350

23: Everyone’s Job to be Everything

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22: Ann Curry is a Better Photographer than You

352

21: Vanity Fairy

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20: Moment Much Bigger than that Photograph

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18: Fifty Dollars and an Ice Cream Cone

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17: Still Lifes of People

356

16: Portraiture is a Dance

357

15: Salting the Steak

358

14: Creativity Comes From Doing

359

13: Hand Gestures & Credit Cards

360

12: Kaleidoscopic Changes

361

11: Workflow: From Camera to Paper

362

10: Feels Like a Sunday

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9: Making the Cut

364

8: The Amateur Professional

365

7: Creepy Kids at Retina Resolution

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5: Apple Software Exodus

367

4: Printing Objects

368

3: The Future of Film

369

2: 3.6 Million Dollar Photograph

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1: Falling Bears

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19: Bare with a Snoot

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24: Negative Space of Technique

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6: Inspiration & Criticism