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Ai WeiWei is an extremely famous contemporary Chinese artist who engages in installation, curating, film, photography, sculpture, and social, political, and cultural criticism. The artistic consultant on the Beijing National Stadium for the past 2008 Olympics, Ai collaborated closely with the Swiss architects Herzog and de Meuron. Ai has investigated government corruption extensively, particularly the Sichuan schools corruption scandals which followed the collapse of the “tofu-skin schools” during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake.

Ai Wei Wei has surely filled a great quantity of sdxc cards in his time as he has taken a great deal of photographs and still continues to. A political activist, Ai WeiWei had been openly critical of the state of democracy and human rights under the Chinese Government. On April 3rd 2011, Ai WeiWei was arrested at Beijing airport and held under house arrest for over two months though no official charges were filed. ArtReview named Ai WeiWei as one of the top most powerful individuals in the world in October 2011. Liu Weimin, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, disliked this choice, asserting that China boasted many exceptional artists and that the magazine had chosen Ai WeiWei on purely political motives.

The Devil Wears Prada was a film made in 2006, starring Anne Hathaway as Andy Sachs, an aspirational young journalist who takes a job with New York's premier fashion magazine, Runway. As you'd expect, she's all principled about it and starts off hating everyone and everything, including her terrifyingly scary boss, Miranda Priestly. Apparently based on Anna Wintour, and played brilliantly by Meryl Streep, she's the boss from hell who eventually turns out to have a nugget of gold buried somewhere deep in her heart. My friend's in a similar situation, so we're hoping the nugget will appear sometime soon, ...

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There are so many light bulb jokes, there is sure to be one that makes you laugh! Read below for some examples: Q: How many Irishmen does it take to change a light bulb? A: Three, one to hold the light bulb and the other two to turn the ladder round and round! Q: How many Waiters does it take to change a light bulb? A: None at all, even a burned out bulb can't catch a waiter’s eye. Q: How many Thought Police does it take to change a light bulb? A: None at all as there never was ...

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Alfred Stieglitz (1st January 1864 – 13th July 1946) was an American modern art advocate and photographer who was pivotal for making photography an accepted form of art. Stieglitz introduced many European avant-garde artists to the U.S. through his New York art galleries which he presided over in the early 20th century. If there were np-bn1 chargers in his day, you can be sure he would not be the type of man to forget his and leave his camera uncharged! A quote of his which well represents his feelings on art is; "Photography is not an art. Neither is painting, ...

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Twelfth Night is a comedic play written by William Shakespeare during the years 1601 to 1602. The first recorded performance of the play was on 2 February 1602 at the formal end of Christmastide in the year’s calendar (Candlemas). The play was not published however until it was included in the 1623 First Folio. The play has a jovial feel of festivities comprising of dance, drink and general self-indulgence, appropriate for the time of year it was written for. The real Elizabethan festival of Twelfth Night celebrated licensed disorder. A Lord of Misrule would demand entertainment, mummery and songs; the ...

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