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Follow the SI's travels this summer from Book Launches to brutal blimp derbies...

kicking off the summer with a very well attended book launch at the SI HQ this May,
featuring a cut-throat race by Momoyo Torimitsu's toy businessman protoypes and a hip hip performance by Jah-Jah.

On to London, Marc-Olivier stakes our claim on posh Savile row for our London launch, attended by, among others, Christian Jankowski and London artist, Alexander Costello.
     
On to a few good spots in Venice...Swiss Artists Gerda Steiner and Joerg Lenzlinger at San Stae; the Japanese Pavillion and our boys MOW and Becket talk with Matthieu Mercier at the Venice Launch outside the Swiss Pavillion.
     
The best of Basel: Gianni Motti stages a Raelian seance at Ars Futura's booth at the Messe.
French folks persusing the goods at the
launch at the Palais de Tokyo Bookshop.
   

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Olav Westphalen's First Long Island City Blimp Derby-
Team SI showed much promise,
but in the end we had to accept defeat..