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Hey it's free... so if you enjoy a good community lo-fi sci-fi show, take a peak tonight at 20h00 at the park with no name in Mile-End (Clark/Arcade).

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For those who don't know about the idea, Guerilla Drive-In is about showing movies in a flashmob fashion. People get an address or GPS coordinate and they show up for a projection.

Anybody is aware of a group doing this in Montreal? :)

(P.S. Sorry for not posting more often, damn new job ;-)

It's interesting to find some people with somewhat similar projects, though I find the idea of a suitcase to be somewhat of a drag if your plan to use mobility as a factor. Leaving this out this seems to be a really nice setup for local street interventions and I'm very curious to see what will come out of it. We seem to be trailing behind on the prototyping of the backpack project, I guess it will give us a little boost to get things going.

Though I do not intend to give a precise definition right now, I just wanted to comment on a definition on which I stumbled upon. Here goes:

Guerilla art is a fun and insidious way of sharing your vision with the world. It is a method of art making which entails leaving anonymous art pieces in public places. It can be done for a variety of reasons, to make a statement, to share your ideas, to send out good karma, or just for fun. My current fascination with it stems from a belief in the importance of making art without attachment to the outcome. To do something that has nothing to do with making money, or listening to the ego.

So what solutions shall we try?
We'd like to develop a wearable setup which is as efficient, cheap, light and small as possible with commercially available products so it can be easily cloned and replicated. We want it to be as simple as possible but as complete too while being easy to maintain over time. The design should really be about open standards, free softwares and general purpose computers with enough extra room (CPU, RAM, disks) for easy extensions.

Another important goal is to put as much control in the hand of the user. We realized that most needs for this project exist at least partially in some form or another and we think that with some glue with could try and make them all fit together for an interesting result. It would be impossible for us to reinvent the wheel and therefore a solid base of well known free software should be the basis for most of our requirements.