[ 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:

• http://government.zdnet.com/?p=5018
  
• http://www.nowpublic.com/tech-biz/chinese-protest-censorship-july-internet-boycott-green-tsunami
  
• http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-china-greendam1-2009jul01,0,3453969.story
  
• http://technews.am/conversations/mashable/china_gives_up_on_green_dam_people_celebrate
  
• http://www.chinadigitaltimes.net/china/ai-weiwei/
  
• http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article6554801.ece
  
• http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSTRE55L0YD20090622
  
• http://mashable.com/2009/07/01/china-green-dam-celebration/
  
• http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/green-dam-net-filter-hurts-media-like-cancer--612649?src=rss&attr=all
  
• http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2349625,00.asp
  
• http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/01/china.filtering.software/index.html
  
• http://www.crn.com/software/218100514;jsessionid=LKBTTEVTW400KQSNDLOSKHSCJUNN2JVN
  
• http://twitter.com/rmack/statuses/2290583077
  
• http://www.digiactive.org/topic/green-dam/
  
• http://www.digiactive.org/2009/06/25/action-of-omission-to-protest-chinese-censorship/
  
• http://www.nydailynews.com/tech_guide/2009/06/22/2009-06-22_web_protest_planned_as_chinese_government_introduces_green_dam_filtering_program.html
  
• http://www.chinalyst.net/node/71453
  
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/30/censorship-china-internet-software
  
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/libertycentral/2009/jun/25/china-censorship-green-dam-internet-boycott
  
• http://www.pcworld.com/article/145302/has_chinas_green_dam_burst.html
  
• http://shanghaiist.com/2009/06/23/ai_weiwei_protesting_green_dam_with.php
  
• http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/744ae9be-6639-11de-a034-00144feabdc0.html
  
• http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/07/02/2009070200228.html
  
• http://edition.cnn.com/2009/BUSINESS/07/01/china.green.dam.business/
  
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/30/AR2009063001047.html
  
• http://www.ictmag.info/politics/china-thinks-twice-on-green-dam/
  
• http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31840/chinese-artist-ai-weiwei-calls-for-web-boycott/
  
• http://opennet.net/chinas-green-dam-the-implications-government-control-encroaching-home-pc

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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!

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