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No blogging from me until at least Monday. Road Runner knocked us off the internet Friday night, and they hope to give us a connection again by end of day Monday.

ArtCat's first bilingual site

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My college French got a bit of a workout with ArtCat’s latest client: the New Galerie de France. It’s our first client in Paris, and the first one with a bilingual site. We now have clients in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, and Berlin. Los Angeles should happen soon, but nothing is live yet.

Trevor Paglen on The Colbert Report Monday April 7

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Clockwise from top left: Ghost Squadron. For search and rescue; National Reconnaissance Office. Dragon is code for infrared imaging on advanced KH-11 satellites; Desert Prowler. May represent Groom Lake, Nev., a k a Area 51; Special Projects Office. Oversaw F-117A stealth fighter support; 4451st Test Squadron. Stealth fighters; 413th Flight Test Squadron. Possibly referring to simulated or real electronic threats against aircraft. [From the NY Times, image and caption provided to them by Trevor Paglen]

Set your recorders. The artist Trevor Paglen will be on The Colbert Report Monday night to talk about his new book titled I Could Tell You But Then You Would Have to be Destroyed by Me: Emblems from the Pentagon’s Black World. It’s an exploration of the patches and emblems created by various “secret” organizations funded by the confidential $32 billion portion of the Defense Department’s annual budget.

Visit this New York Times article for more on the subject.

Related: James’s post on Trevor Paglen’s solo show at Bellwether in November 2006.