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[Carrie McLaren <carrie AT stayfreemagazine.org>]

Stay Free! is please to announce the fifth installment of the Illegal 
Art Exhibit, which hits Philadelphia this Friday. Thanks to Inja 
Coates at Media Tank.org for organizing this round. I'll be down for 
the opening and the panel this weekend, and there are gobs of film 
screenings, workshops, and other festivities throughout the month so 
check it out:

http://www.illegal-art.org
http://mediatank.org/conference.html

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IN OTHER NEWS

You gotta love new technologies that erode the line between yuppies 
and crazy people. Here in Brooklyn, I often walk by people talking to 
themselves and it's not always easy to tell the cell phone ear budded 
execs from the homeless schizophrenics -- at least not from their 
conversations. Still, there are a couple of new inventions in the 
works I'm decidedly less thrilled about. One promises to give 
advertisers the ability to beam soundwaves to, say, grocery store 
shoppers. The audio equivalent of laser beams, HyperSonic Sound can 
only be heard within a very limited range. Marketers hope to use it 
to send audio messages that only one or two people in a crowded aisle 
could hear. 
http://www.physics.cornell.edu/courses/p204/23SOUND.html

Now another company is claiming that it can project images into thin 
air. I don't mean onto buildings, sidewalks, or clouds -- I'm talking 
about supermodels and cola bottles floating in the air around your 
head!
http://www.io2technology.com 
(Thanks to Jean Lotus)

Pretty soon, it won't just be the Wall Streeters and fasionistas who 
resemble the mentally ill, it'll be all of us!

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"Branded anything but Unique"
http://www.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,7403152^401,00.html
(Thanks to Anita Serwacki)

An Australian newspaper reports on the ever-increasing trend in the 
U.S. of naming children after brands. We learn of a three-year old 
named Timberland ("The alternative was Reebok"), 11 Bentleys, five 
Jaguars, a Xerox, and a Bologna.

that's all for now,
carrie