http://fabricatorz.com Media Production Company Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:29:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://fabricatorz.com/2009/07/boycott-the-internet-wizzler-party-documentation-video/ [ 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 ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/07/free-ai-weiwei-party-day-follow-up-press-hits-laoban-soundsystem-10/ [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 ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/06/free-ai-weiwei-party-day-on-july-1-with-laoban-soundsystem/ 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 ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/06/laoban-soundsystem-20-naked-in-the-studio-almost-done/ 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 ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/06/resourcespace-plug-ins-for-eyecandynyc/ 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 ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/06/rmbcity-website-relaunched/ 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 From Drop Box Check out more images at picasa and don't forget, not too late to get in on the ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/06/laoban-speaker-boxes/ 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! http://fabricatorz.com/2009/05/beijing-interesting-photos-spring-2009/ 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 ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/05/%e8%80%81%e6%9d%bf-%e8%b5%9e%e5%8a%a9%e7%ba%a7%e5%88%ab-laoban-soundsystem-20-sponsorship-in-chinese/ 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 ... http://fabricatorz.com/2009/04/laoban-soundsystem-summer-planning-friday-event/