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Isaac Mao has a great post about the Olympic torch:
It’s really bizarre recently after a series of blocking and un-blocking by the censorship system in China(GFW):
- Youtube was blocked after 3/14 tibet riot
- Youtube was released two weeks later
- English BBC News released 25th,Mar.
- Wikipedia English site found unblocked on 1st, April (not April Fool), including https://secure.wikimedia.org
- Wikipedia https://secure.wikimedia.org blocked again two days ago on 6th, April, because Chinese version of Wikipedia can be accessed via this channel
- Flickr picture farm1, farm2 found unblocked yesterday (7th, April)
Etc.How do you think if the Olympic Torches behave the same?
In Amsterdam last week, Paul Keller, Jamie King and I came up with many great ideas such as the Don’t Drop the Olympic Torch video game. The objective is to not let the olympic torch hit the ground through crazy levels like the streets of Paris with mad beret wearing beats all around, Folsom street in San Francisco with tons of protesters in their hippy-outfits flanking, all the way to more advanced levels like Tibetan rioters vs Chinese Han. Of course, the final level would be bringing the torch all the way to Beijing and directly into the Olympic Flame. Who wants to fund this idea? 
I tried to convince Ton and the Blender guys to make this into their next Open Project…come on guys!
I have some other big ideas with olympic torches 2.0 whereby there are many copies of the torch so that torhces don’t get dropped. If lost, they only get rerouted Haven’t we learned anything as a society &mdash 911/WTC?
Also, note to self, pick up tons of fake Olympics memorabilia for future projects:
Hey, why does that bad knock-off Fuwa have a mic! Gotta catch them all!
<sarcasm>
Eureka! I have it! The Dalai Lama’s followers should clone him so that he can’t be stopped and once one is removed, then it is reincarnated further into more Dalai Lama’s, whatever form they take. What a nightmare for the Chinese leaders if this happens, or is it? The fake copies of the Dalai Lama would probably get out of hand by all the pirate copiers…
</sarcasm>
If this is not ridiculous enough, check out this awesome thing Paul Keller, myself, David Bollier and Meika saw in Amsterdam at a bar:
Here is my slideshow under CC Attribution license. Use it or DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I’m presenting about Overlap.org, Fabricatorz.com and the soon to be updated Scalejournal.org under the umbrella, “Models of Collaborative Art Production, or Dispelling the Myths of Sole Authorship”.
Tomorrow I’m presenting about, Making Creative Commons Common in Asia: Effectively scaling Creative Commons community and business development strategies internationally in 2008 at ACIA: Asia and Commons in the Information Age at Academia Sinica in Taipei. Come on out if you are in the area! The entire conference will be brilliant. Tyng-Ruey never dissappoints.
Lu posted on here blog here about Taipei Tomorrow! 台北，明天出发！:
We are heading to Taipei tomorrow. In this five days trip, we will attend ACIA (Internationl Workshop on Asia and Commons in the Information Age) 資訊時代之亞洲與公眾創用國際研討會. On Friday night January 18, Jon Phillips, Christopher Adams, Wang Chunyan and I will be hosting Media Exchange 2 at VT Art Salon. Media Exchange 1 took place last winter, with a big group of artists and students lead by our artist friend Huang Xiaopeng in the new mega university town of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts campus. The initiative of the event was to present and discuss projects. Now it’s already one year! So to me it will be an “annual report” on my work.
Here is more information on Media Exchange 2. Sorry it’s a last minute call. But if you are in Taipei. Show up with your friends or your work!
Media Exchange 2: Open Call
Location: VT Art Salon
Address: Yitong St., #47, B1
Map: googlemaps , vtartsalon
Time: January 18, 2007 Friday 9:00 - 11:00 PM
Contact: christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com
Tel: 09-53-036-630Open Call to Exchange Media: come and present your project this Friday at VT Art Salon in Taipei. Media Exchange 2 is a night of presentations about art projects, models of art practice and art communities. The set presenters of the night are Christopher Adams, writer and critic based in Taipei; Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org), Open Source Developer and artist from San Francisco; Deer Fang (www.deerfang.org), media and video artist from Guangzhou and San Francisco; and, Wang Chunyan, project Lead for Creative Commons China, and a Professor at Renmin University of China Law School.
If not presenting, come to have a drink and discuss the topics throughout the night. And, if you want to present, contact us as soon as possible. Otherwise, show-up the night of and we’ll have a projector and sound system to plug you in. （Email: christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com, Tel: 09-53-036-630)
Christopher Adams - CRUFT: The generative and procedural artwork of Robert Spahr (digital images)
Jon Phillips - Collaborative art models with Overlap.org and Fabricatorz
Deer Fang - Straight Outta HK and Panda Express. (video screenings)
Wang Chunyan - CC Photo Contest in China媒體互換 2：公開召集
地點：非常廊
地址：伊通街47號B1
地圖： googlemaps , vtartsalon
時間： 2007.1.18 星期五 晚上九時到十一時
联系：christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com
电话： 09-53-036-630“媒體互換 2”公開召集：我們邀請您這個星期五來 “非常廊” 展示您的作品和項目。“媒體互換 2” 是一次展示藝術作品，藝術工作和藝術團體模式的活動。預定展示者包括Christopher Adams， 駐台北的作家和評論家；方力中Jon Phillips (www.rejon.org)， 來自舊金山的開放源發展者和藝術工作者；方鹿 (www.deerfang.org)， 廣州和舊金山的媒體和影像藝術工作者；和王春燕，中國人民大學法學院教授和創意共同體中國大陸項目主任。
如果您不打算展示作品，請來一起參加我們的討論。如果您希望參加展示，請盡快和我們聯繫。（christopher.lee.adams@gmail.com， 09-53-036-630）
Christopher Adams － CRUFT: Robert Spahr 的生成和程序式的藝術作品(數碼圖片）
方力中－ 合作性藝術模式（Overlap.org和Fabricatorz)
方鹿－ “直出香港”和”熊貓快遞” (錄像播映）
王春燕 － 中國CC攝影比賽
Here is a dumb patch for Overlap.org to add post_tags to the list of categories which allows you to control what level of user can use certain tags:
--- level2categories.php 2007-12-12 00:16:22.000000000 -0800
+++ level2categories.php.new 2007-12-13 00:59:14.000000000 -0800
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
< ?
$l2c_category_table=$table_prefix."term_taxonomy";
$l2c_category_table_name=$table_prefix."terms";
- $query=mysql_query("SELECT $l2c_category_table.term_taxonomy_id, $l2c_category_table_name.name FROM $l2c_category_table INNER JOIN $l2c_category_table_name ON term_taxonomy_id = $l2c_category_table_name.term_id WHERE $l2c_category_table.taxonomy = 'category' ");
+ $query=mysql_query("SELECT $l2c_category_table.term_taxonomy_id, $l2c_category_table_name.name FROM $l2c_category_table INNER JOIN $l2c_category_table_name ON term_taxonomy_id = $l2c_category_table_name.term_id WHERE $l2c_category_table.taxonomy = 'category' or wp_term_taxonomy.taxonomy = 'post_tag' ");
$cat_total=mysql_num_rows($query);
if ($cat_total > 0) {
the text file with the patch is here: Patch to add post_tags
Why are these images so cool?
I totally found these images randomly, but I really enjoy them for some reason. In addition to offering a business around allowing people to pay a nominal fee to be a demolition team to destroy old houses, etc, I had the idea of offering tours at factories to show how everyday consumables are manufactured. I think its important to see these processes that are often forgotten.
Anyway, I just like these images aesthetically…they remind me of the ole compaction project.
I wrote before about the Show Some Color 2 project put on by Fabricatorz.com (company Lu and I started). Please head over there and vote, vote, vote!
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
SHOW SOME COLOR 2
HTTP://FABRICATORZ.COM
Six women were invited to perform their racial identities and video makers were invited to put their own spin on the women’s performances, live at the public media event, Show Some Color 2. Thanks to everyone who came that evening and now’s your chance to vote on your favorite performance and video clip submitted from the event and from online submissions.
Winning performer gets $150. Winning video maker gets $100
Voting ends Wed, November 28. Winner announced Thurs, November 29.
Voting and full length videos at http://fabricatorz.com
PLUS!
Don’t miss Show Some Color 2 on TV!
Accessf, Chanel 29 will air all the videos and clips, this Sun, November 18 at 3PM
Show Some Color 2 is sponsored by Southern Exposure. Thanks to Sarah for the text above.
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