Monday, April 27, 2009

Using the Flash Audio Player on Blogger

I have figured out how to place this nifty flash audio player on Blogger but WordPress won't let me do it! GRRR... But check this out!









Also you can change your wav files to mp3 using ITunes. Here's how:
Go to Itunes menu> Preferences > Advanced and choose Import using MP3 encoder.

Now when you open a wav or aiff file in Itunes, select it, right click to convert to MP3.

Try it. If you still don't get it, come and do it with me.

Friday, April 10, 2009

Rome in a Day at the New Museum

Chester Higgins Jr./The New York Times
Liz Glynn’s installation “The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project” before it was destroyed. A video of the project is part of the New Museum triennial.

Monday, April 6, 2009

The rat, the rabbit and Yves St Laurent

"...two Qianlong bronze heads, of a rat and a rabbit, were looted from the Yuanming Yuan Summer Palace in Beijing by Franco-British forces in 1860 during the Opium Wars. They were two of 12 heads which adorned a Zodiac fountain, five of which have never resurfaced." more from Artworld Salon.
Have a look at the auction page from Christie's devoted to these sculptures.

Check this out. "Now Jackie Chan has added his two cents worth, according to Charles Bremner, the London Times’ Paris correspondent.

“ ‘They remain looted items, no matter whom they were sold to. Whoever took it out [of China] is himself a thief,’ he said in Hong Kong. ‘It was looting yesterday. It is still looting today.
The star of Shanghai Knights and Rush Hour accused Western countries of stealing cultural relics from nations with ancient heritage such as China, Egypt and Cambodia and yet insisting they were doing so only to preserve them.
Chan said that he is planning a film about the search for and return of some of China’s stolen national treasures from the palace with filming scheduled to start next year.” From the National Post.