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</description><title>Chakora</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @chakora)</generator><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>A gorbeh eating in a restaurant.</title><description>&lt;img src="http://3.media.tumblr.com/ISalllK8Sf1i81ylIQ0CMV0to1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;A gorbeh eating in a restaurant.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/54440307</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/54440307</guid><pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:13:29 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Sophia Loren</title><description>&lt;img src="http://10.media.tumblr.com/ISalllK8Seqxe6rot1eXCiXZo1_250.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sophia Loren&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/53329724</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/53329724</guid><pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:32:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Lately I've been...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Enjoying my paradise, reading about stuff like this:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/20/10720-004-DB57B829.jpg" src="http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/20/10720-004-DB57B829.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Max Jacob by Pablo Picasso,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="http://www.designmuseum.org/media/item/4893/-1/107_12.jpg" src="http://www.designmuseum.org/media/item/4893/-1/107_12.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christian Dior sketching,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: -moz-zoom-in;" alt="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1393/1403453451_588ca960f3.jpg?v=0" src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1393/1403453451_588ca960f3.jpg?v=0" height="416" width="333"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Erik Satie in a corner&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(before I forget, check &lt;a href="http://www.fondation-pb-ysl.net/site/The_foundation-291.html"&gt;this&lt;/a&gt; out)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Christian Bérard and others from that set.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/51321020</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/51321020</guid><pubDate>Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:58:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>And yet another year passes, but at least there is this...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style="cursor: -moz-zoom-in;" alt="http://www.luciferlighting.com/gallery/images/gallery_lever02.jpg" src="http://www.luciferlighting.com/gallery/images/gallery_lever02.jpg" height="559" width="561"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;…dinner with gorbat at the splended &lt;a href="http://www.leverhouse.com/"&gt;Lever House&lt;/a&gt;, NYC. Pictures of birthday cake to follow later.  After a month at work in the sculpture and printmaking barns in Pennsylvania, it was quite a surprise: an extravangancy…to find myself seated in a pod booth drinking various beverages containing elderflower and fresh pressed concord grapes.  It was a lovely place indeed, thanks to my gorbeh:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/bwsideicon-1.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/49984627</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/49984627</guid><pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 08:28:53 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>another day at the opera...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/2388876374_93d2ba354a_o.jpg" height="480" width="493"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/2388876232_3299831cb8_o.jpg" height="480" width="508"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/2388046491_9d3d7e755d_o.jpg" height="480" width="485"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/2388046389_fa249f638c_o.jpg" height="480" width="477"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/0000074091-190572-7257381-.jpg" height="480" width="380"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I was on my &lt;a href="http://ana-lee.livejournal.com/"&gt;tricycle&lt;/a&gt; and almost ran over a squirrel!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47801292</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47801292</guid><pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:50:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Sundari Pandit   {her 1st day at school}</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/0827080939a.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Girl Author, YSL Totem bag,  ‘89 Crown Vic&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47693649</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47693649</guid><pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:18:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>say what</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://tallahasseetumblingtots.org/Photos/1976_Beam_Montreal.jpg" height="748" width="576"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/illust/02-58.jpg" height="364" width="714"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/online/chauvire48.jpg" height="350" width="226"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/online/danilova56.jpg" height="350" width="277"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/online/derman61.jpg" height="292" width="350"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/online/elvin70.jpg" height="350" width="226"/&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/online/fonteyn76.jpg" height="350" width="265"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.rgrossmusicautograph.com/online/fracci79.jpg" height="350" width="250"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This weekend I was chillin, Baltimore-side, when my lady bought me a necklace in gold, bejeweled  with two golden ice-cream cones.  Probably ‘cause they call me Twice-as-Nice.  Feelin straight gangstrid.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47512537</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47512537</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:45:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Steve Reich - from Piano Phase

You can download some of his...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://chakora.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/47511000/ISalllK8Sd4illlf4YfrPPZV&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Steve Reich - from &lt;i&gt;Piano Phase&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.sequenza21.com/uploaded_images/reich-741499.jpg" height="458" width="344"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can download some of his early works at the Singer-Saints blog here &lt;a href="http://singersaintsrecords.blogspot.com/2008/08/steve-reich-early-works.html"&gt;{&lt;i&gt;click&lt;/i&gt;}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;And here is another great dowload from Singer-Saints, more&lt;i&gt; Moondog. &lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://singersaintsrecords.blogspot.com/2008/08/moondog-more-moondog.html"&gt;{&lt;i&gt;click&lt;/i&gt;}&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This site is def worth exploring.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47511000</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/47511000</guid><pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:27:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Dark Day - Nudes In the Forest
You can dowload a Dark Day...</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://chakora.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/45953047/ISalllK8Scn1jok8HVvprymM&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dark Day - &lt;i&gt;Nudes In the Forest&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;You can dowload a Dark Day anthology as well as some of their other albums from the blog, &lt;i&gt;majorbonobo&lt;/i&gt;, here: &lt;a href="http://majorbonobo.blogspot.com/search/label/Dark%20Day"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://majorbonobo.blogspot.com/search/label/Dark%20Day"&gt;{&lt;i&gt;click&lt;/i&gt;}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/2051632114_37c7b3af53.jpg?v=0" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2253/2051632114_37c7b3af53.jpg?v=0"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45953047</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45953047</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:58:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>get your hood on</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/illust/12-245-b.jpg" src="http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/42-mpd/illust/12-245-b.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;If you happen to find yourself in the quaint countryside you might notice that the temperature is dropping. So draft yourself a hood.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week I am sampling the passionate fragrance &lt;a href="http://www.artisanparfumeur.us/store/product_info.php?cPath=1_4_30&amp;products_id=158"&gt;Poivre Piquant&lt;/a&gt; by, of course, L’Artisan.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I feel like pulling up to a drive-in by way of an ‘89 Crown Vic.  Curious, I must say.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pbase.com/spydr/ir"&gt; &lt;img class="display" src="http://i.pbase.com/u37/spydr/medium/39445359.StoneChurch1.jpg" alt="Stone-Church-1" border="0" height="400" width="267"/&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.pbase.com/spydr/ir"&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45952125</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45952125</guid><pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 10:46:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Your Eye Like Juan Gris Cubist Guitar by Pascal Comelade
</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://chakora.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/45537783/ISalllK8Scipo7ueaIe39LMh&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;Your Eye Like Juan Gris Cubist Guitar&lt;/i&gt; by Pascal Comelade&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img alt="http://a625.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/l_46e950bf38c3896bd0e2f1095e095510.jpg" src="http://a625.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/25/l_46e950bf38c3896bd0e2f1095e095510.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45537783</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45537783</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 10:14:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Scriabin - Etude Op.8 No.12 [ALTERNATE SECOND VERSION</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/DF0Ha2rLSwY&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/DF0Ha2rLSwY&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Scriabin - Etude Op.8 No.12 [ALTERNATE SECOND VERSION&lt;img alt="The image “http://www.rhianellis.com/images/rellis-340-Scriabin.jpg” cannot be displayed, because it contains errors." src="http://www.rhianellis.com/images/rellis-340-Scriabin.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45535935</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45535935</guid><pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:58:55 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>have you seen my shoes?</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img width="240" src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/67_womensshoes.jpg" height="272"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/sophia_loren.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45233196</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45233196</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:51:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>For a Nice Weekend Drive</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://i310.photobucket.com/albums/kk437/brianandrewfrank/pattern.gif"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luminous-lint.com/imagevault/html_5001_5500/5326_thm.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/Dorian_Leigh_for_Jacques_Heim.jpg/435px-Dorian_Leigh_for_Jacques_Heim.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45218638</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45218638</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:29:40 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>
Paavoharju - Italialaisella Laivalla</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://chakora.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/45206320/ISalllK8ScegqmwivPya09vP&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.awesomeavenue.biz/Images/Music-Videos-Rocumentary-Movies-DVD/Nico-All-Tomorrows-Parties-Nico-Live-DVD-md.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Paavoharju - Italialaisella Laivalla&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45206320</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45206320</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:53:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>a smart town dress</title><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://vintagesewing.info/1940s/4x-lgcm/illust/118.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A minimal dress that would be nice in a light summer fabric.  I would suggest a different neck line.  Have fun! &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45118431</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45118431</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 17:19:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title> Hans-Joachim Roedelius &amp; Tim Story - House of Glances
</title><description>&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://chakora.tumblr.com/swf/audio_player.swf?audio_file=http://www.tumblr.com/audio_file/45115034/ISalllK8Scde0vxsevZwllc4&amp;color=FFFFFF" height="27" width="207" quality="best"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt; Hans-Joachim Roedelius &amp; Tim Story - &lt;i&gt;House of Glances&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.starsend.org/graphics/roed97.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45115034</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45115034</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:50:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.virtue.to/articles/images/1130_real_sleeves_draw.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45111468</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45111468</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:09:21 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>György Sándor Ligeti - Lux aeterna</title><description>&lt;object width="400" height="336"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ez3mFUutz0M&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="wmode" value="transparent"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Ez3mFUutz0M&amp;rel=0&amp;egm=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="336" allowFullScreen="true" wmode="transparent"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;György Sándor Ligeti - Lux aeterna&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45108568</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45108568</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:54:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Giuseppe Tartini

download the follwing here {click}
1-3) La Sonata del Diavolo in G minor...</title><description>&lt;p&gt;Giuseppe Tartini&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.8notes.com/images/artists/tartini.jpg"/&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;download the follwing here &lt;a href="http://www.badongo.com/file/556058"&gt;{click}&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1-3) La Sonata del Diavolo in G minor (19:00)&lt;br/&gt;4-13) Fourteen variations from Corelli’s “L’arte del arco” (12:12)&lt;br/&gt;14-23) Sonata in A minor (23:40)&lt;br/&gt;24-26) Pastorale for Violin in Scordatura (13:29)&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45102881</link><guid>http://chakora.tumblr.com/post/45102881</guid><pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:21:00 -0400</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
