that was before i'd seen this, a recreation of the mona lisa using paint (edition 3rd grade):
http://tv.mofile.com/cn/videoplay/fullscreennew.htm?QKGBST2I&undefined
"Superduper! Superduper! That's nice. Way to go! Neato..."
Paint, actually an amazing program.
random other note: I went to an indie music fest in Beijing yesterday, mainly to people watch and check out how an event like that would compare to that in the U.S. The Yeah Yeah Yeahs actually headline the event, but pretty much all of the other bands were Chinese, and I'll be gone when the yeah yeah yeahs play anyway. The big Chinese act at the festival is an anti-establishment band called Re-TROS, and I read this interesting article about how they have to get their lyrics approved ( http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12847366). Their solution is foolproof: just lie when translating the English lyrics for the government (..."hang the police" becomes "the police are laughing"...). Chinese indie rockers look a lot like American ones, just with spikier hair, if that mean's anything. Seriously, the same clothes, same attitude... I got to check out this one piano rock band with a female lead which was pretty good. Probably would have been better had I understood more words than the Mandarin "THANK YOU! thank you!" she offered at the end of each song, like any other music act you've ever seen. The music was good though. We left when an American hip hop act took over, as I've seen that before...
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Paint rules!
Awesome about the Re-TROS. I listened to that interview on NPR about a month ago, and you actually saw them... whoa!
NPR=extremely hip.
NPR did a story on economic mini trends in the West Village yesterday. NPR couldn't be more awesome.
I never read the comments on your blog because I get them emailed to me. Maybe it's time to change this.
it's never too late to change jen. that whole "original sin" thing was to make money.
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