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SENT: All you need to know about America's first phonecam art show

[© SENT]

What is this?

1. This was one of the first photos on the SENT website demonstrating the very high and irresistible level of this contemporaneous approach to Big Bang art

2. Careful, these are a very expensive homegrown japanese vegetables, even more expensive than japanese Koi fishes

3. Heck, no, this is art

4. This pix recently achieved a Pulitzer Price and a World Press Photo Award in the category "arts and entertainment"

5. This pix was used by Alfred Adler to demonstrate the conditional branch of hypernervous anxiety in the space-time-continuum of the early austrian cognitive epistemology

6. This pix is a screenshot of the Stephen King film "The Mystery of the Secret Garden Monsters"

What qualifies Xeni Jardin to co-curate SENT?

1. She is the next generation of tech writers after handsome guys like Po Bronson

2. She knows more about wireless cameraphones than Alan Reiter

3. That´s why she doesn´t respond to his emails

4. She has been a highly recommended long term curator of over a dozens of very valuable art exhibitions writing history

5. She has a cameraphone (heck, no, she has two) and a Prada messenger bag, isn´t that enough?

6. She knows someone who knows someone who recently met someone else

7. She thinks these pix in red and yellow are real personality images and invented just casually, just incidentally the groundbreaking SARS art project

8. Moblogging is somehow involved into all that Next-Big-Thing stuff, so hell, there must be some money in it

9. She is a contributor to BoingBoing and they got over 3,5 mill. hits/month, so what do you want?

10. Hey, all these people who have previously worked for Venture/Silicon Alley Reporter have to pay bills, so why not hype the next hip hype again?

What qualifies Mark Cuban to participate as an "invited artist"?

1. His entire lift is totally dedicated to the arts

2. Sometimes he calls Cartier-Bresson to supervise him carefully

3. He has a "whatever-it-takes attitude"

4. He publishes a weblog

5. He has personally responded to thousands of emails

6. For Cuban the NBA is the "National Board of Artists" where he serves as the COO

7. He can smile

8. His SENT-pix show the distraction and diversity of life (his cat, his indoor slippers and his nail file)

9. None of this is true

10. He is a major contributor to Getty´s Photographers Choice with a proven track record

[Select the appropriate answers carefully. Please print out this form, fill it out and mail it to: Credit Suisse First Boston, One Cabot Square, London E14 4QJ, United Kingdom, or fax it to: 011 44 20 7888 1600. The last five transmittals will receive a free jpg-file of a Motorola or Nokia cameraphone. And don´t forget: Sony, Samsung, Siemens & all the others might soon initiate some other cameraphone exhibitions to report the latest developments in art, daily life of sport freaks, chimney-sweepers and homegrown japanese vegetables, so stay tuned!]

Live Report Day II from the CEPIC 2004 Freak Show, June 10 - 13(Updated irregularly)

[© CTI, "We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite"]

+++Update 7:34 a.m. (Message No. 4*) +++
Rumors has it that TheImageFile.com Ltd will take over Getty´s Photographers Choice+++That is about time+++New Statement from TheImageFile just aired+++States that "Theimagefile was created by photographers, for photographers. Our mission statement is that image creators should have the power and ability to keep control of their intellectual copyright, have the freedom to choose how to sell their images, and at what price"+++We are so sorry, Mark+++We can live without you+++But you cannot live without us+++"The ability of the system to grant the image creator complete control over pricing of copyright and licensing will revolutionise the entire sector", says TheImageFile+++Good bye+++[*!Caution!This message: Skit!*]

+++Update 06:47 p.m. (Message No. 5*) +++
Plenary session ("CHALLENGES for the Picture Industry in the 21st Century") started shortly after 09.30 a.m.+++Jeffrey Burke talked about the PLUS Coalition+++More later+++

+++Update 07:10 p.m. (Message No. 6*) +++
In the afternoon two good seminars (Keywording and Technology)+++Tomorrow morning a special semiar for Jason Calacanis (Copyright/Legal)+++"CopyCat or how to steal pictures pictures without infringing copyright"+++We have to leave this evening+++Good bye, Kopenhagen+++Cepic continues with "Friday Evening Cocktail"+++Tomorrow CEPIC Gala Dinner with dancing in Tivoli Park+++These people know how to party+++

["Faster Pussy Cat Kill! Kill!" (1965) © Russ Meyer in an early prediction of the CEPIC party]

Live Report Day I from the CEPIC 2004 Freak Show, June 10 - 13(Updated irregularly)

[© CTI, "We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite"]

+++Update 09.45 a.m. and 04.10 p.m.: (Message No. 2*) +++
+++Didn´t met Jonathan Klein after breakfast at the Smørum Golf Club this morning+++Unbelievable+++Getty announced yesterday that John had to stay at home+++He has to prepare his presentation at the Sixth Annual Thomas Weisel Partners Growth Forum conference on June 16, 2004 at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, CA+++Thomas Weisel Partners is a merchant bank focused exclusively on the growth sectors of the economy+++Klein will speak at 9:20 am Pacific Time+++That´s where the bucks come in+++So who cares what the CEPIC is+++Very disappointing experience+++Another spanish golf player tried to hack our cell phone with toothing+++We had to report this to the local authorities+++Caused quite an upset+++Police officer said: "We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite"+++Spanish golf player responded with Shaw: "I am green, you are blue. Our lifemates are insane"+++He went to prison+++And we to the bar to have a Gimlet+++

+++Update 11.10 p.m.: (Message No. 3*) +++
+++At the bar met one guy from a french agency with two bunnies from a british agency++Can´t name them+++Totally drunk+++CEPIC hasn´t even started+++After one hour nobody was playing golf anymore+++All drunk+++Annoying registration process+++Names on all our badges were misspelled+++Waiting for the event in the evening+++Hans Christian Andersen Parade+++Kinda danish dance group with cute WASPs+++”very danish, wonderful and just like a fairy tale coming true”+++Yippie+++

© Link: Cute WASPs of the Hans Christian Andersen Parade

+++”with its unique charm, a professional magnetism and, at the same time, its warm and spontaneous joy of acting”+++Howdidowdi+++Best Local Entertainment availabe!+++Unbelievable, these danish guys know how to party+++This is a CEPIC event!+++Sylvie, we love you!+++When will you ever learn not to mail us ten times if you only wanna tell us just one thing+++More tomorrow+++Good night+++

Coming Soon:Live Reports from the CEPIC 2004 Freak Show

Starting tomorrow we´ll begin to report from the CEPIC (Coordination of European Picture Agencies Press Stock Heritage) Congress 2004 Copenhagen, June 10 - 13. We cannot say "to blog live from the event" simply because we don´t know if we got enough time for real "live blogging" which -- as we estimate -- will unfortunately be the case. So it might be this intention ends up in smoke and all you´ll get to read is only the seminar program and some gossip. We´ll see. Different from the hotel room of Joi Ito (Park Lane Hotel on Piccadilly) our hotel rooms are equipped with bullet-proof windows and geeky underwater - WiFi - antennas for working in the bathtub. Simply "We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite".

[© CTI, "We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite" (Can someone explain what this is all about? Kinda Voodoo? Neoliberal mass hysteria?]

CEPIC states that with

over 600 delegates from 340 companies, 49 countries and five continents CEPIC has broken last year’s record again. Panama, Iceland and Estonia are new participating countries this year. Germany is sending the largest number of companies : 57 !

Holy Christ, this is pretty darn cute and unbelievable creditably. The final "Participants List" as of May 25 has some 13 pages -- and, as in previous years, all emailaddresses are listed. Initially we wanted to put this list only for information online, but we would encounter serious troubles in doing so. Maybe we put the list up for auction at Ebay -- starting bid around $ 25 cent or less.

[© World Meteorological Organization at the Fourteenth Congress where -- for whatever reasons -- all guys writing for this blog participated and can be seen standing and laughing in the fifth row; ugly image, uh? (This is not an official CEPIC image with all participants!)]





The CEPIC will start with the "GOLF First CEPIC Open" tomorrow at 09.30 at the Smørum Golf Club ("Fight for the PicScout Cup!"), giving a clear sign to which audience this event is targeted. It would take all knowledge, farsightedness and art of a Raymond Chandler, Ernest Hemingway and T.C. Boyle not to write an ironic essay with stings of some sarcastic remarks. Which, we admit, we do not have.