Aram Bartholl – Blog

I have that feeling 2008 (or 2007 already) is the year of the speech bubble. I keep seeing them everywhere …

I enjoyed my Shanghai-CN trip a lot and I took many many pictures. A lot of them are suitable for my ‘pic of the day‘ series and although I am already back in Berlin they will pop up here once in a while.

This one was taken by Kuch (Thx!) and is showing a sign you would see while you were entering one of the touristic towers at new Pudong Shanghai. Check point nr.1. It’s neither a joke nor photoshop!

While I was still in Shanghai (eARTS festival) our Firefox add-on ChinaChannel went finally online. Being in China this tool is kind of useless because the web there is just like that. It feels kind of normal and sometimes slow but it is very hard to tell the difference between ‘real’ or censored timeouts while you surf on political limits.

But after 10 days of Shanghai I recommend everybody not just to take a virtual but a real trip to China. It is kind of easy to sit in Europe/America and to discuss the problems of Asia/China without having experienced these countries. There is a lot to talk about. Go there and take a look.

The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China. Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry (supported by western companies). It’s open source, free and easy.

Become a Chinese Internet tourist:
http://chinachannel.hk

A new project by Evan, Tobi and myself, with input from Michael, and Jamie.

There is almost no graffiti at all in Shanghai but stencils advertising all kinds of services by private people are very common. This is a grey market one. Somebody offers diplomas, papers or visa for money.

First speech bubble test run during “Urbans Space. Time to play” at eARTS Shanghai was great fun. Public performance on Wednesday 22th of Oct. 3 p.m. at South Railwaystation

I’ll be be part of the workshop “Urban Space. Time to Play” 19th – 22th Oct. next week at eARTS Shanghai. I am looking forward to it and I am curious to test China for some paper based realtime urban adventure action. Stay tuned! More info

Old skool animated GIFs rule! Why do we need fancy (and slow) photo flash plugins? Nice collection of shoes Tobi-X. Who is that girl in Singapore? ;-)

The Machine from mudlevel on Vimeo.

via rebelart

There are many many ‘neo analogue’ screen projects out there. bit.fall by Julius Popp I do like a lot.

Check the movie.