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small WORLDS 2014, Annual Small Works Exhibition, March 2nd – 27th, 2014, The Plastic Club Art Studio and Gallery, 247 Camac Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107, 215-545-9324.

Artist Reception and Awards: Sunday, March 2nd, 2:00 – 5:00pm

Since 1897, The Plastic Club has been devoted to the promotion and preservation of the visual (plastic) arts in Philadelphia. The busy gallery schedule offers several annual exhibitions for members and non-members, as well as invited artists in solo and group exhibitions. Members include well-known Philadelphia artists.

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Plastic Club

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Sam Park, August Moon Hwatu Card, oil, $2200.00, Plastic Club New Members 2014

“Hwa-tu is the Korean version of the Japanese playing card game Hanafuda (花札^?) are playing cards of Japanese origin that are used to play a number of games. The name literally translates as “flower cards.”^[1]^[2] The name also refers to games played with those cards. There are twelve suits, representing months. Each is designated a flower, and each suit has four cards. Typically, each suit will have two normal cards and two special cards. The point values could be considered unnecessary and arbitrary, as the most popular games only concern themselves with certain combinations of taken cards.” – wikipedia

Sam Park‘s painting is large, the limited palette and geometric composition richly layered with oil paint and symbolism. The artist uses the symbolism of the card game to reflect on the idea of being a new player in an established group. Sam created this painting for the Plastic Club New Members 2014 show, he explained to me a few weeks ago how he was looking forward to adding the final symbol after developing the surface of the painting. The cosmological composition is more than geometry, it speaks about light and the combination of clues toward realization. Park is also a realist painter, his self portrait in oils in the Tea Room is sensual and sensitive.

Elke H. Muller, Bicycle, photograph, $85.00, Plastic Club New Members 2014

To become a member of the Plastic Club the artist has to be known by several members and present three artworks to be reviewed by the membership committee. At the Plastic Club the art of photography is held in high regard with a contemporary esthetic towards image making. Bicycle by Elke H. Muller is a complex composition with information rich shapes and planes. The vivid cyan blue print is artisanal and thought provoking, the composition is a deceptively simple descriptive urban landscape. This photo was made with tungsten film in daylight, hence the blue color.

Lauren Reed, Colors of the Sky, watercolor & ink, $60.00, Plastic Club New Members 2014

Colors of the Sky seems influenced by photography with the repeated patterns but the mix of watercolor and ink uses the natural fractals of the media to create a cosmic landscape. Like watching the night sky fade through the trees, the paintings have an animated relationship as they each speak about precious moments of nature.

Janice Balson, Rising Tide, oil, $485.00, Plastic Club New Members 2014

Janice Balson, River Walk, oil, $485.00, Plastic Club New Members 2014

Janice Balson’s, River Walk is a meditative and atmospheric landscape that looks a lot like Forbidden Drive along the Wissahickon River to me. The sense of solitude in nature and the solid painting style creates a grounded perspective with a subtle depth of field and informative liquid-y paint strokes. The hues of color offer so much data towards the narrative of the scene, there is a sense of temperature, the sun on your face, creating a familiar sensation of being outdoors in Winter, walking the path.

Roberta Gross, Vessels of Light, pastel, $1000.00, Glenn Benge, March on 6th Street, July 4, 2012, digital pigment print, $250.00, Louise Vinueza, Sun Sets, oil, $450.00, Plastic Club New Members 2014 through January 24th, 2014 at 247 South Camac Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107

The Plastic Club New Members 2014 includes twenty-two new member artists with 71 works of art spread throughout the galleries of the Plastic Club. New member committer chair Michael Guinn has introduced the Philadelphia arts community to wonderful artistic talents and terrific personalities, the more the merrier.

I personally am so grateful for the acceptance, camaraderie and inspiration the Plastic Club provides to me and the arts community. The outstanding art shows, informative salons, artist’s workshops, eclectic movie nights, delightful dinners, parties, barbeques and cocktail parties all make for an inclusive and supportive yet expressive environment for an aspiring artist.

Thank you so much to Cythia Arkin, Susan Stromquist, Bob Jackson, Alan Klawans, Mike Guinn, the board of the Plastic Club and the many enthusiastic volunteers for keeping the organization strong, resilient and relevant to the contemporary art scene. There may be an artistic renaissance happening in Philadelphia now, but the Plastic Club is the third oldest art club in the USA (established in 1897) and has been exhibiting contemporary art by Philadelphia regional artists all along.

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Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery

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Alice Gonglewski, Union #2-4, popsicle sticks and acrylic paint, $40.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

Coupling is the theme of the 9th Annual Juried Art Show at Off the Wall Gallery and artists took the concept into elusive yet eloquent mind spaces. Alice Gonglewski‘s Union series uses popsicle sticks to create a visual expression of family and home to it’s simplest symbols. The round and straight lines of the sticks, the black and white paint and the open and closed shapes evokes memories of home. I can almost hear the Mister Softee song, an ear worm that stirs memories of prosperity and poverty. The bare sticks represent food, comfort, safety and caring with minimal information and maximal content of narrative.

Laura Storck, Elvis Pelvis, cyanotype from digital negative, $200.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

The combination of different photography techniques makes Elvis Pelvis pop on a wall with fifty other cool artworks. Laura used an x-ray as the negative for the cyanotype print. Mildly photosensitive solution is applied to a as paper and allowed to dry in a dark place. When the paper is exposed to light the negative, in this case the x-ray, controls the amount of chemical reaction. By mixing technologies the piece couples a view of the interior of a body while exposing the lines of the exterior. The deep blue is rich with tone and texture, the lines are descriptive and articulated, almost holographic. The painterly strokes of the photo-sensitive solution add a sense of immediacy and urgency.

Laura Storck’s photography can currently be viewed as part of Philly Photo Day, in their gallery at North 3rd Street and on a billboard in West Philly. Her exploration into silver emulsion photography is included in a group show called Silver Emulsion Red Hook Coffee and Tea, 765 South 4th Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19147. Opening Reception: Friday December 20th, 2013, 6:00 – 9:00pm

Erica Harney, Rabbit/Credit Card, oil and mixed media on panel, $80.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

Erica Harney has been working on an art project which dove tailed perfectly with the theme of Coupling. By asking people to name two nouns, a Dadaist idea of Exquisite Corpse is created which is then painted as literally as possible. The paintings are refreshingly entertaining, the randomness of the combinations are like real life with problems, delights, challenges and comforts. There are four paintings in the show each coupling dual identities into one composition but Erica Harney has painted dozens of paintings using these restraints yet each painting stands on it’s own merits.

Karen Frank, Mutual Admiration, acrylic on board, $100.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

Coupling includes various media but the paintings are strong. It really feels like the paintings are active and intense paired with photography and mixed media. Karen Frank‘s seahorses, Mutual Admiration, combines the exotic and familiar with evocative marks and color ways. The piece is dreamy and child-like but the other-worldly context of life under water and the unintelligible form of communication between the beings feels empathic.

Jenn Warpole‘s paintings mix color, texture and surface to create evocations of emotion, experience and liveness. Abstracted yet anthropomorphic shapes create a visual dialog that speaks of love, despair, attraction and rejection. The small panels are powerful paintings with the atmospheric tones represented in washes of emotional color, a sensitive hand and restrained color palette design an emotional experience.

Jenn Warpole, Untitled #2, oil on panel, $265.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

Hashtags and Archetypes by John Baccile is absolutely contemporary, elevating the computer screen shot from a moment of too much information into a rich and eloquent story. The visual language with overlays and multiple conversations feels so modern – post, post, post modern. Would the couple in the picture ever imagine a future with automatic photograph face recognition, predictive social media penetration and internet fame? John Baccile used a lowly material, the facebook page, and manipulated the elements with a sophisticated info-graphic capturing the past, present and future of portraiture.

John Baccile, Hashtags and Archetypes, digitally altered screen grab, $100.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

The photograph John Baccile used is one hundred years old, the algorithms in facebook look for identity matches in the faces creating an overlay of information and possible matches, it really gives off a Minority Report vibe and how we willingly allow investigation of our history.

Bill Myers photograph documents a modern sensibility towards photography and image making. The composition, color and forms takes the concept of Coupling to an intense contemporary level. The balance of the two figures, each with an emotional openness, evokes an emotional response, an autonomous reflex, from the energetic image layering character studies with line, tone and light. I can think of several artist to compare Bill Myers to but he truly is his own authentic self with a defined vision.

Bill Myers, Standing Strong, digital photography, $50.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

Robert Yong Lee, Untitled (Ann Arbor, 2009), silver gelatin print, $150.00, Coupling at Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks

Bob Lee‘s black and white photograph examines the idea of Coupling in a composition filled with memes, matches and metaphors. The seated figure before the painting has a jacket draped over his arm like the figure in the painting, while the seated man is looking down, the painted man is looking into the distance. The standing man on the left is reading while the statue of the standing woman is straining to listen. The two tableaus are divided by architectural elements that themselves represent similar yet opposite forces. This is the kind of art you can really spend time with finding deep and elusive narratives.

Coupling will be on the wall at Off the Wall Gallery through December 27th, there is a holiday party at Dirty Franks, 13th and Pine Streets, tonight, December 20th. I have two photographs in the show, too, I wrote about them in My Photo Day on DoNArTNeWs. The whole experience of the Coupling show was wonderfully creative; I was inspired to make new work and I was part of the creative team behind the show. The art I’ve described in this post is just a sampling of the excellence in the show and the diversity of talent in the Philadelphia contemporary art scene.

The experience of watching people actually look at the art show and really spend time looking at the work is the most satisfying feeling of all. I know I keep talking about Social Practice but Off the Wall Gallery at Dirty Franks has truly integrated itself into the fabric of the community by being inclusive and relevant through art and communications that is fun, high art in a dive bar, yet the result is intellectually satisfying in a really authentic feeling of community.

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Written by DoN Brewer. Thank you to Togo Travalia for the photographs in this post and for the excellent advertising and promotion of the show and individual artists through print and social media. I know of no other gallery who promotes each artist with such care. I really appreciate the effort and the love.

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Social Media Salon

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The Plastic Club, an artist’s club, studio and gallery, in Center City Philadelphia holds regular art salons to discuss art, critique each others work and learn new techniques. DoN was invited to give a presentation about Social Media and how artists can start using various on-line platforms to promote their art. We began the two hour discussion with the basics of social interactions:

Elevator Pitch

An elevator pitch is a short, succinct description of you and your business. For example: “My name is DoN Brewer, I write an art blog called DoNArTNeWs about the Philadelphia art scene with photographs and art reviews, artist interviews and how-to reports. DoNArTNeWs is based on multiple on-line platforms and has reached over 750 thousand unique visitors this year.”

How would you describe your art and successes if you had someone’s undivided attention for one minute? By preparing your pitch in advance and practicing in the mirror or with friends you can be ready when the opportunity to introduce yourself arises. Put a smile on your face, make eye contact, shake hands and make a pitch that is fact filled and to the point.

Business Cards

I always carry business cards in my wallet, pocket or camera bag and give them away freely. Cards are inexpensive and a great way to make a lasting impression – but make sure it’s a good one. Overly colorful, shiny or too small fonts can get your card lost in the shuffle. Try to limit your palette to three colors, include important contact information and resist the urge to make both sides of the card glossy. Shiny cards are pretty but they are difficult to write on if the person your presenting the card to wants to jot down notes. An interesting logo, large fonts, nice card stock and simple colors makes a strong impression. I use www.overnightprints.com for my cards, they offer low prices and guarantee satisfaction. Their ad is in the DoNArTNeWs sidebar.

I’d Rather Be in the Studio: The Artist’s No-Excuse Guide to Self-Promotion

This how-to book by author Alyson Stanfield will teach you how to promote your art in the marketplace. DoNArTNeWs followed the tips in this easy to read, fact filled book and the step-by-step advice really works! Starting first as a newsletter and now as a multi-platform blog (an on-line magazine), DoNArTNeWs has reached millions of art enthusiasts since 2008. I’d Rather be in the Studio can help you develop a marketing strategy, create a database of clients, build confidence and promote a positive image.

Another book that I found very inspiring is Julia Cameron’s, The Artist’s Way Starter Kit. My biggest take-away from this popular book is making an ‘art date’ with myself. An art date means going out to visit other artists, art galleries and museums on a regular basis – even if I have to go alone. Visiting art galleries doesn’t have to be a team sport; if you can’t find friends to go with you, go by yourself and don’t stand yourself up. Committing to keeping a date with yourself is not just an exercise in seeing new art, it promotes self-reliance and confidence.

Website Search Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is the process of affecting the visibility of a website or a web page in a search engine‘s “natural” or un-paid (“organic“) search results. In general, the earlier (or higher ranked on the search results page), and more frequently a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine’s users. (Wikipedia) Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is vital to having your artist website appear at the top of search engine websites such as Google. If you don’t understand HTML, then find someone who does and make sure that the important ‘meta-tags’ are complete and accurate. Having your name is important in the title but what you do is more so. Are you an abstract expressionist? Do you paint portraits? Is watercolor landscapes your specialty? This information should be included in the ‘Title Tag’ with the first nine words of the title being the most important terms relating to your business. The title information appears in the bar at the top of your web browser window; if your website says “Home’ or “Index’ and does not show your name and business description then you will never show up in a web search.

Other important meta-tags are ‘Name’, ‘Copyright’, ‘Description’ and ‘Key Words’. By filling in the blanks with the terms most important to your business your website will appear high in search engines. Make sure everything is spelled correctly and avoid small words like ‘is’, ‘a’, ‘the’, ‘and’, ‘it’…use only important search terms. The grammar doesn’t have to make sense in the title as long as it includes the words that people may use to search for someone like you.

Blogging

A blog is a personal website or web page on which an individual records opinions, links to other sites, etc. on a regular basis. OK, let’s be frank. Blogging is easy but it takes time to learn. DoNArTNeWs is based on a WordPress platform which offers many benefits. You are looking at a website with the domain name of www.brewermultimedia.com hosted by www.1and1.com with a blog called DoNArTNeWs based on a template called Twenty-Twelve. There are zillions of templates to choose from, I like Twenty-Twelve because I can customize the header with my own logo image. Free blogs are available directly through WordPress but then their name will be part of you blog URL. You can also pay WordPress for a domain name.

The most important thing is creating good content. I attend art events and take photographs, interview artists or gallery owners on my smart phone and then try to write the post in a timely manner. Since I know Photoshop, I resize the photo to fit the width of the column and change it to a .gif which reduces the size of the image allowing it to load faster. Images can also be adjusted in WordPress, there are tutorials on-line and support forums. Images are uploaded to a ‘Media File’ and have titles, alt tags and descriptions that should be completed as fully as possible – always mention your own name in the description since it is relevant to search engines.

I use the recorded interview either as a way to compose my own review of the art or to share the conversation by transcribing into text. Important terms are highlighted with a link – the link button looks like a little chain on the toolbar at the top of the page you compose the blog post on. Links should usually direct to a new window so visitors don’t click off of your page.

The blog post is linked to categories relevant to the content such as art, painting, prints, etc and important keywords are noted as tags. I link to as many categories as possible, link the post to other posts I’ve written and copy-and-paste links each time the information is repeated.

Tumblr is a free and easy way to start a blog and reach a wide audience. The simplified dashboard and variety of templates let’s you be as creative as you want or just keep it simple. You can upload your own images, link from your website or share images from other blogs. Content can be text with links as well. Tumblr is very popular with artists and is a good way to share your ideas and see what other artists are creating

Facebook and Twitter

Facebook fan page is a public profile on Facebook for use by businesses, celebrities, etc. that allows your customers to follow you, and interact with you. A Facebook fan page is a way to advertise your art to people who are interested in what you’re about. Fan pages are easy to set up in a category relevant to what you do. The tag line is a great place to use your elevator pitch terms, a good header image and profile picture offers a quick insight into your business. When I write a blog post I click the title of the blog, copy the url and paste it into a status, write a short description and add hash tags (#tags). The link will bring up an image from the blog or you can upload a different image. Hash tags are links to topics. For example when I write a post I will add #art #Philadelphia #photography #artist etc. Also adding a link to your status by using the ‘@’ followed by your page name sets an additional link back to your page and highlights it on your fan’s newsfeed.

Build an audience by inviting your friends to ‘like’ the page, add links back to your Facebook page and Twitter handle. Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that enables users to send and read “tweets”, which are text messages limited to 140 characters. Registered users can read and post tweets but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through the website interface, SMS, or mobile device app. (Wikipedia) Twitter is a great way to reach a large targeted audience. You can communicate directly with people using short messages or link back to your blog and Facebook posts.

A good way to organize and automate your social media is through Hootsuite which enables a ‘tweet’ to automatically be sent when you post a status on your Facebook fan page. Following others on Facebook and Twitter, liking, sharing and adding comments will help build your audience. Hootsuite is a social media management system for brand management created by Ryan Holmes in 2008. The system’s user interface takes the form of a dashboard, and supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Foursquare, MySpace, WordPress…and more.

Instagram

Instagram is an online photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Flickr. Instagram is a smart phone camera app that can be set up to post to your Facebook fan page, send a Tweet and post to your Tumblr blog automatically. More than just a picture, it’s a way to share links and hash tags instantly.

PayPal

PayPal is a global e-commerce business allowing payments and money transfers to be made through the Internet. PayPal offers merchant services such as ‘buy buttons’ that can easily be embedded in your blog by copying and pasting the code into your post.

This is actually the bottom line of this tutorial. By using your website, a blog, Facebook and Twitter, Tumblr and Instgram you can let your fans know when you’re having an event, what’s new, what’s for sale and how to buy your art.

People ask me how much time I put into writing and posting? I do some or all of the above almost everyday. By sharing stories and pictures, linking to important information, leading fans to my sites with tweets and Facebook status updates I am able to maximize traffic to my website and blogs.

There are many other ways to promote your art on-line such as ebay, Etsy, redbubble, Saatchi Online and many, many more. It only takes time and research to learn how to use these tools to promote and sell your art.

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Three Perspectives

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Three Perspectives: Frank Rausch – Robert Reinhardt – Ed Snyder at The Plastic Club through October 27th, 2013. Closing reception Sunday, October 20th, 2:00 – 5:00pm.

Three accomplished photographers have taken over the historic galleries of The Plastic Club filling each room with a broad range of photographic art. Each photographer is known for their documentary work regarding cemeteries, in fact the trio have a show in the Free Library of Philadelphia on the Parkway focused on the historic cemeteries of Philadelphia: Mount Mariah Cemetery, Laurel Hill Cemetery and Woodlands Cemetery titled Sacred to the Memory.

Although the Three Perspectives show does include cemetery photographs, each artist is displaying a wide range of subjects from landscapes and still life to abstract and documentary images. The exhibit is beautifully displayed and offers each artist’s work a space of it’s own, hung gallery style as opposed to the salon-style exhibits of juried art shows for which The Plastic Club is recognized. Displayed throughout the Main Hall, the Tea Room, the Bob Jackson Gallery and the Sheikman Studio/Gallery the range and distinct styles is inspiring and often astonishing.

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club, Ed Snyder

“Using film, digital, and toy cameras, I create something out of nothing. The large part of my work, which utilizes cemetery statuary as subject, merges art and photography with society’s desire to come to terms with death and dying. It is an attempt to reacquaint us with Victorian mourning arts. My latest work is a bit lighter –images created with toy cameras. The creative processes of photography have always helped me deal with the world, with personal issues, and even to judge myself. In retrospect, psychiatry would’ve been cheaper. However, I believe that spending time in cemeteries has helped me to prepare myself for the loss of loved ones. Seeing others find meaning in the work is an unexpected gift.” Ed Snyder artist’s statement

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club, Robert Reinhardt

“The reason we exhibited together is because besides our obvious overlap with cemetery photography we share many of the same aesthetic concerns for the images within our photographs. The interesting part is how we mine it from our own creative expression. I felt that all three of us visually completes the sentence the other starts. Frank may be more painterly, Ed has solid documentation strength, and I hover over texture/surface/composition. I am honored to be the in same space as the other two.” – Robert Reinhardt

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club, Robert Reinhardt, photograph provided by the artist.

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club, Frank Rausch, Robert Reinhardt, Ed Snyder

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club, Frank Rausch, Ed Snyder

” Thanks to all who helped promote the ‘Three Perspectives’ Show. The support we received from family and friends on our opening reception was very humbling . Thanks to my friends Ed and Bob for putting up with my computer illiteracy this last couple of months. The best is yet to come , both the library show “Sacred To The Memory -Historic Cemeteries Of Philadelphia” and “Three Perspectives” at The Plastic Club are still going strong. Ed, Bob and I invite all to attend our second reception at The Plastic Club on October 20, 2013 from 2:00 – 5:00pm. Help us finish off our BEER and WINE ,see some great photography and better yet do some early holiday shopping and pick up some beautiful photos as gifts.” – Frank Rausch

Frank Rausch was born and raised in Connecticut. His love of nature and the outdoors was nurtured by his rural upbringing and from the many fishing and hunting excursions he took with his father and a neighborhood best friend.

His passion for photography blossomed later in life when he decided to capture some of the inspiring images through the lens of a camera. His use of color, composition, and light come from years of being a flower shop owner and designer. His photographic diversity is reflected in his choice of subjects- from landscape to abstract images where he captures different moods, textures and geometric designs. Being able to share with you through his photographic art those special moments in time is a privilege he hopes to continue for a long long time. – Frank Rausch bio

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club, Frank Rausch, Robert Reinhardt, Ed Snyder

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club, Ed Snyder

Three Perspectives at The Plastic Club is an opportunity to view photographic art by three of Philadelphia’s most dedicated and accomplished photographers. As well as their photography, the trio participates in Social Practice art activities such as restoring cemeteries. Ed has been leading the restoration efforts at Mount Mariah in Philadelphia, Robert travels to Edinburgh, Scotland to work on cemetery restoration and Frank was the former grounds foreman at Laurel Hill Cemetery and still resides in the grand entrance building.

Thank you to Frank Rausch, Robert Reinhardt, and Ed Snyder for providing images for this blog post.

The Plastic Club is located on the Avenue of the Artists at 247 South Camac Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107.

Frank Rausch:

http://www.photoartbyfrankrausch.com/

Robert Reinhardt:

Ed Snyder:

The Plastic Club‘s home is a historic double townhouse located on one of Philadelphia’s “little streets” in the heart of the city. Built in 1824, it houses the club’s spacious studio, gallery spaces, offices and dining facilities. The club purchased the property in 1909, and expanded it to include the house next door in 1910. In the past ten years the building has undergone many rennovations so that it now functions like a 21st century building, but still retains its 19th century charm. – The Plastic Club website

Written and photographed by DoN Brewer except where noted.

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