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The Cantocore Import Opening went quite well as Lu blogged about on the Cantocore site, primarily in Chinese.

Her photos also unveiled my installation, Artonomics #11: Special Economic Zone, which uses 24, 7 meter pieces of bamboo, constructed into a tower to hold a 1.6 meter by 1 meter LED sign, as often found in Chinese hospitals and government buildings, which displays common economic data that reigns down upon Chinese (and global) citizens about the direction of the new superpower.

Artonomics #11, Special Economic Zone by Jon Phillips

I’m not sure if the installation I made is more interesting than the process of constructing it, as shown below. This involved finding bamboo, trying to get it far across the massive city of Guangzhou (which this fella did by three-wheeled bicycle), hire carpenters to construct it, re-do it to make it stronger, and then put the big LED sign atop the solid structure. Getting the LED screen happened to be the simplest part.

Misako Inaoka, who had a detailed installation with a zen garden, and her hybrid toy creations from Chinese toys (not the poisonous kind!), has also posted her photos up showing off the space and some great highlights of the installation (I’m waiting on the go ahed to post her photos up after she CC licenses them

Above are a couple of my good friends, Hu Xiangqian and Lu Jun, from Guangzhou who are both Lang Zai (pretty boyyyyz).

I’m still pulling together my thoughts from the show right now. I really needed to do something completely different than my gig at Creative Commons, and spending a good solid month on making this show happen successfully really took tons of energy. All the hard work paid off IMO, and I’m hopeful to get some other reviews of the show here shortly to highlight the work.

UPDATE: I just wrote an post on the cantocore.com website about the Cantocore Export opening and updated text on the website. And, Justin just posted a bunch of his photos as well. Here is a sampling:

We are trying to raise USD$ 20,000 in the next 16 days before Friday, April 18th in order to support the conference and travel from so many Free and Open Source software developers to attend the 3rd Annual Libre Graphics Meeting (LGM) conference in Wrocław, Poland May 8 - 11 - the premiere event bringing together free and open source creative software application developers for a productive international conference (emphasis on productivity!).

This is really a big community drive for all you users, supporters, and companies to donate money so that all us free and open source developers may get together to have a productive face to face meeting. The last two LGM’s have been invaluable to coordinate, consolidate and create the future in a free and open source way.

For the next 16 days, we want all the supporting projects to put a note about this pledge drive right on their front page of their website! You can use the badge below as well to help us raise money!

You can also help by spreading the url to our pledgie campaign: http://pledgie.com/campaigns/613

And, don’t forget to digg this story: http://digg.com/linux_unix/Support_the_Libre_Graphics_Meeting_2008

More from the Pledgie.com page:

What is the Libre Graphics Meeting?

The Libre Graphics Meeting brings together developers and users of free software graphics applications, such as the GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus, Blender, Krita, the Open Clipart Library and more.

In its third edition, the organization needs your help! You can support your favorite graphics application, and ensure that the travel costs of as many volunteer developers as possible are paid to ensure that this edition of the conference is more successful that its predecessors.

Where will the money go?

We have kept costs associated with infrastructure to a minimum. Over 80% of the conference budget will be spent on subsidizing travel and accommodation costs for developers.

A non-profit organization

All donations will be made to the conference organizers via the GNOME Foundation, a 501(c)3 tax exempt US-based non-profit, so donations will be tax deductible for US taxpayers. We would like to thank the GNOME Foundation for their support.

Photo by Joi Ito @ iSummit 2007 in Dubrovnik

This is the CLEARING OLD DRAFTS (whether they are done or not).

I’ve been putting all my slideshows up on slideshare.net. Its a totally great service that supports Creative Commons licenses. Here are my slides that setup a Building Community panel at conf. in Croatia a few months ago:

Also, check out the presentation I gave at the webvideosummit (thanks to Cameron Parkins for putting this up!)