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NYC Conflux Festival

A Tribute to America in a Closet in Geneva

I'll be in NYC from September 16th through the 23rd for the awesome http://confluxfestival.org/ . Please come out and participate, at least for my stuff. I'll be doing two projects and a lecture for the festival at NYU's art department @ 34 Stuyvesant Street 10003.

1) September 19th 2:00 - 2:30 - Lecture "I Get Around" - Marc Horowitz will discuss three of his travel-based projects. The National Dinner Tour, The Signature Series, and Google Maps Road Trip.

2) September 19th (right after the lecture) 2:30 - 3:45 - Google Maps Road Trip NYC - Peter Baldes and Marc Horowitz will perform a live virtual trip of NYC, in the vain of their recent cross-county Google Maps Road Trip project. They will take suggestions from the audience on what to visit and do on this journey. They will utilize google maps to navigate around, ustream.tv to broadcast the event live on the internet, youtube to see various NYC videos, and flickr to explore still images of the city.

2) September 18th 12:00pm - 6:00pm (at noon gather at Rosenberg gallery and we'll leave from there) - NYCommercial - Marc Horowitz will lead a workshop that focuses on making a commercial for New York City. Marc and the group (you) will begin in the morning by brainstorming various ideas for the best commercial for NYC. The group will then shoot the commercial; later that day, edit it, and finally post it to several video sites and the conflux website.

You can go to the facebook invites at: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=122607937337 & http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=129456455799

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Google Maps Road Trip NPR FTW!

Dude in the back of a truck spotted on GMRT

Pete and I finished the first-ever virtual live-streaming broadcast cross-country road trip on August 18th. It took us 9 days and 40+ hours of driving on Google Maps to complete the trek. I got food poisoning from Burger King and Pete almost lost his mind, but we persevered and made it to Richmond, VA from LA.

Fancy us; we were interviewed by NPR Weekend edition for our "vacation." For the NPR audio interview go to http://bit.ly/GMRTNPRA. And for the NPR article see http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111921898.

You can see some vids over at www.googlemapsroadtrip.com, read a blurb on wiki if your heart so desires, and check out a hand full of screenshots on flickr.

We'll be back up this Friday, August 21st at 2pm PST to take a tour of Richmond, and we're slated to take a trip up to Maine soon. Stay tuned.

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