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Parade without a permit Saturday night

Politics

I forgot to mention this when I posted yesterday about events going on this week. The parade assembles in Washington Square Park at 7 pm this Saturday, September 29, at the edge of the central fountain.

So much going on this week!

Art

One of my favorite art fairs starts Thursday:

The NY Art Book Fair

It’s free except for the benefit preview!

FAIR HOURS
Friday/Saturday, September 28/29, 2007, 11am – 7pm
Sunday, September 30, 2007, 11am – 5pm

BENEFIT PREVIEW
Thursday, September 27, 2007, benefiting Printed Matter, Inc.
6 – 7 pm, early admission to preview
7 – 9 pm, general admission to preview

BENEFIT PREVIEW TICKETS
· Price on Request (early admission to preview plus
Ed Ruscha edition Little Mexican Church on a Windowsill & David Shrigley ticket edition)
· $150 (general admission to preview plus
Josephine Meckseper edition Untitled (%) Shelf [Detail] & David Shrigley ticket edition)
· $150 (general admission to preview plus
Josephine Meckseper edition Untitled (March…) & David Shrigley ticket edition)
· $20 (general admission plus David Shrigley ticket edition Fucking Ace)

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Pool Art Fair at the Hotel Chelsea, Friday and Saturday 12-8PM, with a benefit preview Thursday 6PM-?

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FREE SHOW, a series of interactive works taking place in the corner windows of an apartment building at 304 West 10th Street (near the water, corner of Weehawken) kicks off Saturday with a performance by our friend Nancy Hwang on Saturday, 1-6PM.

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I’m sure there is more going on, but I’m running out to a tech seminar. Here’s an inside tip: Soon you will be able to check the new ArtCal Zine for special events like these. Look for it next week.

ArtCal now using Amazon S3 for image hosting

Technology

Here’s a post for my geek readers. ArtCal now uses Amazon S3 for all of the exhibition images. That means we don’t have to worry about storage space as we continue to add shows, and that images should load more quickly.

Quite of the few of the ads are served that way too. We just DNS magic to make it appear that they’re coming from hosts with names like adimages.tristanmedia.com and static.artcat.com.

Swiss Firemen rap video

Video

 

Cute Swiss firemen from Geneva, rapping in French:

“118, au cas ou tu flippes/ 118, inscrit-le dans ton slip” (118, in case you freak out/118, write it in your undies)

A group of young Geneva firefighters decided to film the clip to end public confusion between their number, 118, and new directory assistance hotlines. Here is the story on BBC News.

Linkage

Linkage

We used to call that garbage

NYC

When I took yesterday’s photo, many people on 23rd Street were waiting to be allowed to go east while the police had the area around 23rd and Seventh blocked off for a bomb scare. It’s the second time this has happened in 23rd Street this month. The last one was west of Eighth Avenue. I love this comment on a blogchelsea post about yesterday:

We live in an age of paranoia. Suspicious package? We used to call that “garbage.”