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Boycott the Internet Wizzler Party Documentation Video

rejon — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:29:01 +0000

Thanks to JingJing for making this video. I wish the audio had the mixing I did on the Laoban 1.0s instead or just no music. Regardless, great work documenting the Ai Weiwei boycott the internet day.

Free Ai Weiwei Party Day Follow-Up Press Hits + Laoban Soundsystem 1.0

rejon — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 07:18:09 +0000

[ End of the day photo by Shasha Liu ]

The event went quite well. Even before, the Chinese government delayed the requirement for all computers sold after July 1 to install this spyware, green dam youth escort.

The party started at 9 AM on July 1 with a mass amount of journalists interviewing Ai Weiwei. Various summer fun activities continued all day. Matt, Phil, Yang Tao, and I brought out the speakers after lunch and began mixing it up until the night. Massive fun! Great connections and drinking all around.

Here are some links connected to this big press hit:

Free Ai Weiwei Party Day on July 1 with Laoban Soundsystem

rejon — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:38:13 +0000

[Link to the SVG file]

We will bring our Laoban 1.0 Soundsystem with its new shiny grillz tomorrow. To all DJs and musicians out there (especially good ones!), this is an open call to come on out and plug-in to the speakers. We need you to come out and make some sound, art, and have a big ole green day brainstorm. The whole day is free and open! The entire day is to boycott the Chinese Internet.

To all our Internets Massive! To all Twitteronians, Identicators, Free and Open Source, Creative Commons’d out people in Beijing, or those who just want to have fun, please come out tomorrow for the full day or even just part of it. Matt Hope, Jon Phillips (rejon), Robin, Phil Dunn and so many more will most definitely be on hand to mix, make some projects in realtime and collectively boycott the Internet.

Party Day — See You in Caochangdi

WEDNESDAY 2009 1 July 9:00 AM to 11:30 PM, all day beer and chatting.

Blog friends, food friends, all are welcome. There will be gifts.

Phone: 010-8456-4194
Email: xuesheng512@gmail.com

Address: Beijing, Chaoyang District, Airport Service Road, Caochangdi No. 258 FAKE Studios

Breakfast menu: soy milk, gruel, youtiao, dumplings, four types of pickled vegetables, fried eggs, ham, tea eggs, fruit platter

Lunch menu: cinnamon lotus root, village style fungus mushrooms, seafood hot and sour soup, marinated duck, oyster sauce beef, fried fresh vegetables, Yangzhou fried rice, fried noodles, seasonal fruit

Dinner menu: cucumber, fish and egg soup, barbecue chicken, fish steaks, gulao pork, hot and spicy tofu, black peppercorn beefsteak, fried dishes, assorted mushrooms, udon, lotus fried rice, seasonal fruit

Midnight snack menu: cabbage hearts, spicy dried tofu, peanuts, fried broad noodles, gruel, fried bread with dipping sauce, garlicky vegetables, season fruit, four types of pickled vegetables

Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and midnight snack. Coke, Sprite, Fanta, orange juice, plum juice, lemon tea, Tsingtao, all kinds of beverages.

Guests can hang out in the lobby our outside eating and doing whatever they feel like.

Thanks to our great friend Robin Peckham for the realtime translation of the original post by the Wizzler.

UPDATE: Looks like Chinese government has delayed Green Dam Youth Escort. Regardless, the party goes on more in celebration mode!

Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 Naked in the Studio: Almost Done!

rejon — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 06:29:46 +0000

Matt and Lujia are down in Guangzhou checking out the progress of Laoban. The project is almost complete. It really just needs the final sponsors to come through, get the lovely chinese broken ice grills, then it will be on a shipment up to Beijing!

The following image is a bit big, but shows the size of half of the stack. Note, there are two columns to the Laoban 2.0. We can of course make more on-demand.

Remember the original plans.

You can see that the images above are only half of the full stack, and that stack doesn’t have the grillz on the front of the case.

This project in distance fabrication has gone quite well. All the sponsors I think will be quite happy, especially once we start doing events with the Laoban. New sponsors and event promoters please do contact us.

ResourceSpace Plug-ins for EyeCandyNYC

rejon — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 09:27:01 +0000

We did some fun work for EyeBallNYC, a motion graphics house in New York, on an Open Source project called ResourceSpace. Even cooler, is that EyeCandyNYC contributed the code back into the community so others can use it, build upon it, etc. We were the vessel moving this forward. Thanks EyeBallNYC and ResourceSpace!

Here is the text to announce to the ResourceSpace community list:

Hi all, I made some quick infrastructure and plugins for http://eyecandynyc.com
who is using resourcespace internally to manage some client assets.
They wanted to have the default video be quicktime and at the size of
the video they upload since their main clients need high quality video
to see their motion graphics.

Here is an updated plugin set that works quite well and is built for
future extensibility.

http://svn.fabricatorz.com/fab_public/trunk/projects/eyeballnyc/resourcespace/players

It also has a companion plugin which is useful for making the previews
directly show video rather than just the image thumbnail.

Oh, these are built off the work initially discussed here:

http://groups.google.com/group/resourcespace/browse_thread/thread/9186136c388f8321/cd7bacf18748afb2?lnk=gst&q=quicktime#cd7bacf18748afb2

http://groups.google.com/group/resourcespace/browse_thread/thread/25908a59144b0e48/dc4b57535b288c24?lnk=gst&q=quicktime#dc4b57535b288c24

I’m not sure if there is a better place to put my code, or to alert
people about this. I released under GNU LGPL and hope others will use,
add to, send patches, fixes and/or more…thanks to Eyecandy who said
they wanted to give back to the community for this great piece of
software!

Also, I will have another patch to the saved searches to make them a
bit more friendly to appear at least like collections within
collections. Anyone interested in that???

Jon

RMBCity Website Relaunched

rejon — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 06:37:35 +0000

RMBCity.com hired us to retrofit their old site with some funky internals. We rebuilt the site with wordpress, kept the look and feel of the original site mostly, connected up analytics, and generally made the site more web-functional for the future. Check it out! We can do the same for you — hire us!

Laoban Speaker Boxes

rejon — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 06:43:20 +0000

If you aren’t following @rejon on twitter or identi.ca, then you might have missed the most recent pictures of Laoban 2.0 from the factory in Guangzhou. Here is a sampling:

From Drop Box

Check out more images at picasa and don’t forget, not too late to get in on the sponsorship action.

Beijing Interesting Photos Spring 2009

rejon — Mon, 25 May 2009 13:44:37 +0000

Beijing Interesting Photos Spring 2009

Originally uploaded by rejon

We’ve been taking many photos of time spent in Beijing and Guangzhou. While you wait for news about Laoban and other projects, check out the photos!

老板赞助级别 (Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 Sponsorship in Chinese)

rejon — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:00:10 +0000

Thanks to Shasha Liu and Lu Jia, here are Chinese translations of the Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 Sponsorship blog post and main PDF.

Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 Infodoc Chinese Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 Infodoc Chinese Jon Phillips This is the Chinese translation of this document. Laoban Soundsystem is an open sound system. The plans for all speakers are available on-line. The events the soundsystem participates in are media events that generate further media. Anyone who attends the events, creates the speakers, or produces content for them, please tag your work with laoban. The Laoban Soundsystem events are a new type of media event where all are welcome to join, bring media, laptops, video players, cameras, and other recording devices. The goal is to mix media, explore what artists, DJs, musicians, designers, and architects are working on RIGHT NOW — successes, failures, and rough edges are welcome at Laoban events! The ultimate plan is for consumers to be producers by both mixing media, and by tagging any recordings they have with “laoban” when posting onto twitter.com, flickr.com, or other places.

Publish at Scribd or explore others: Brochures & Catalogs audio pattern

Fabricatorz的 “老板”音响系统2.0正式登陆中国。
支持我们的系统，拓宽你们的音乐。

“老板”音响系统2.0系统现在正在中国广州专业音响加工基地进行加工制作。此系统将在夏天在中国范围内这种活动中使用。“老板”2.0是特制的中国音响系统，也是一个研究计划，同时还是一个连接赞助商、音乐人、艺术人、多媒体设计师及网络文化潮人的的桥梁。我们将让每一次活动都转化成一个多媒体盛宴，通过现实与虚拟世界的同时传播得到最大的影响聚爆。

我们正在为此而努力，希望得到你们的支持与赞助！

赞助级别：

－ 迷你赞助商（250美元）
标志／图像＋赞助商网站主页链接
对外公布为赞助商

－尊贵赞助商（500美元）
标志／图像＋赞助商网站主页链接
向所有媒体对外公布为赞助商
受邀参加特别活动

－ 超级赞助商（1000美元）
将获得一对第一版制作限量88对的小板DJ／桌上音箱
标志／图像＋赞助商网站主页链接
向所有媒体对外公布为赞助商
受邀参加特别活动

联系我们，成为赞助商，让我们一同建造这个计划！

关于老板音响系统

老板音响系统活动是一个新型的媒体活动，活动鼓励大家来积极参与，并带来多媒体，笔记本电脑，各种视频播放器，相机和其他纪录工具。其目标就是混合各种媒体，去探索艺术家，DJ，音乐家，设计师和建筑师现在所做的事情——成功，失败和未完成的计划在老板活动中都会受到欢迎！最终计划就是通过混合多媒体和使人群通过他们的纪录在twitter.com, flickr.com和其他地方上圈出“老板”，从而让消费者转变为制作人。

Laoban Soundsystem Summer Planning Friday Event

rejon — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:24:34 +0000

Come out tomorrow afternoon and evening, Friday, May 1 at CCD300 for a last minute event tomorrow in Cao Chang Di for the Qianti 2009 Performance Art Festival. Matt and I are setting up the upgraded Laoban Soundsystem 1.0 and will use the new Xiaoban Baby Speaker Samples we have in the stack for the event to start at 2 PM on May Day (May 1) and will last for a few hours. If you are hardcore, come out from the start. My guess is the best time to come after the performance art is at 5:30 PM and we will keep the bass and dubstep going for as long as people are on the scene. There is cheap drinks and food all around the space, so all is well on that front.

UPDATE: Ok, confirmed details. There are performances and a couple of bands from 2 - 6. Then after 6 PM, the big party starts and goes until late. There is free bbq and beers the entire day from 2 until whenever…so this is really about who comes out now, and who is mixing.

We will be mixing some drum n bass, dubstep, dirty south beats, and getting some friends to mix as well, all around the theme of planning for summer events like Laoban Tour, CaoChangDi.org, and other projects in anticipation of Laoban Soundsystem 2.0 arriving soon.

DJS: If you are a DJ, please come out and mix some cutting edge music. Its all about the battle of best music on an open soundsystem.

Stay posted to this blog and rejon on twitter for more details about the event. Here are the details on the Qianti 2009 Performance Art Festival:

Qianti 2009 Performance Art Festival

策展人：王军
Curator: Wang Jun

学术支持：袁霆轩
Academic Support: Yuan Tingxuan

视觉统筹：赵乐娟
Visual Organizer/ Curator: Zhao Lejuan

特邀嘉宾：艾未未，何云昌，王庆松，余心樵
Special Guests: Ai Weiwei, He Yunchang, Wang Qingsong, Yu Xinqiao

开幕酒会：2009年5月1日下午2点
Opening Party: 2pm, 1May, 2009

活动时间：2009年5月1－3日
Exhibition Time: 1-3 May, 2009

地点: 北京草场地CCD300艺术空间
Venue: CCD 300 Space, Caochangdi, Beijing

接待电话： 138 1084 6594
Reception Number: 138-1084-6594

协办单位：CCD300当代艺术空间，易品名堂高端室内设计机构，左映像图片工作室，第八天云南餐厅，韩摄影工作室
Supporting Group: CCD300

特邀媒体：99艺术网

There is loads of artwork and performances at CCD300, a studio in the corner opposite Ai Wei Wei’s big studio. You’ll hear the music since the event is outdoors. If it rains, there is an indoor space, so come anyway! Come on out, lets have some drinks to celebrate May Day, talk about the summer, and figure out ways to plug into the entire Laoban Project. We still need sponsors and are planning for a full summer of events.

Here is a map to the space on Google Maps in China. If you get lost or something, or want to know what is happening, you can text or call me (Jon Phillips) at: 132-6817-8381

Thanks to Venus Lau for translating this quickly

UPDATE: Check out the facebook event.

Laoban Summer Planning LOGO as SVG vector file all outlines