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  • MySpace's Behind The Seams is a video program that highlights the "influencers" behind the

    Original Signal - The best of Web 2.0 2009

  • Doris Seams, who was rummaging through hand-painted porcelain concubines and mandarins costing $1 a piece, says surviving items from the collection will be treasured by her grandchildren as part of Houston's history.

    Chinese Takeout: Texans Buy Up Katy's 'Forbidden' Treasures Ángel González 2011

  • Morandi, I confess, I can take or leave, but — between appointments, and skirting the south side of the Capitol on foot, admiring the huge, glossy magnolias — Mark and I sought out Golden Seams, andI am hugely glad that we did.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Seams were sewn by hand, and yet even the poorest peasant women had beautiful swaths of cloth to wear as skirts and blouses and sashes and shawls.

    Sew Pink 2009

  • Seams between stages require extensive rework and are the source of production delays, surprises and cost overruns.

    A New DARPA « Beki's Blog (there's an original name) 2010

  • The "detective" comment is particularly interesting here, because I think there's a * strong* vein of contemporary strange fiction in the "infusion fantasy" mode (see the "Seams" post) where the warping of the worldscape is, like much SF, a metaphoric modeling of society (and (post) modernity), where the worldscape is not sympathetic or antipathetic but ... argued and arguable and in argument.

    A Theory of Modes and Modalities Hal Duncan 2009

  • Other techniques are available, though, in the remaining four stories that deserve attention: "Ataxia, the Wooden Continent" by Stepan Chapman, "Tales from the City of Seams" by Greg van Eekhout, "The Wings of Meister Wilhelm" by Theodora Goss, and "Three Days in a Border Town" by Jeff VanderMeer.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • So it's smart of the folks behind Afingo Fashion, the soi-disant "first online platform to merge social networking and fashion industry sourcing," to establish their presence with "Behind the Seams," a series of real-life panels on Friday to feature insiders like Steven Alan and Fern Mallis.

    Jenni Avins: Fashion, Journalism and Another Social Network Jenni Avins 2010

  • I hesitated about whether to keep "Tales from the City of Seams", because on a first reading the various little stories it includes didn't seem to add up to anything.

    Genre Fiction 2010

  • So it's smart of the folks behind Afingo Fashion, the soi-disant "first online platform to merge social networking and fashion industry sourcing," to establish their presence with "Behind the Seams," a series of real-life panels on Friday to feature insiders like Steven Alan and Fern Mallis.

    Jenni Avins: Fashion, Journalism and Another Social Network Jenni Avins 2010

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