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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:

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.

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!)