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I work as a translator and enjoy it greatly. But (I will admit) I also enjoy Google Translate. It's a fast way to get the gist of something. Since my wine stains are now popping up on international sites, I'm enjoying Google translating comments or checking if anyone is getting creative in their translations with the mostly copied & pasted text from This Is Colossal.

So far, I've found translations in Hungarian, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Romanian, German, Greek, Korean & Chinese. 

Of course, translation between English and Chinese is always fun. So, courtesy of Google Translate, I give you this:

On the site to see pictures of this one, really lamented, too creative, and see the beach before paint, did not think there is actually painting with wine. For everyone to enjoy, lamented about the art of charm.

Can not drink wine painting. American artist Amelia Harnas wine poured in cotton or paper to paint vividportraits created out of life.

Oh yeah - and then some very clever people figured out how to use Google translate to beatbox. I like this one.

My rule for sketchbooking while I was in Europe was to always sketch directly in pen. No pencil allowed. This meant that any mistakes would present the challenge of creative correction: how do I save the drawing despite error?

I started this page on the second day in the Prado and finished it during my fourth day in the Louvre. The top right hand drawing went terribly, so to cover up my mangled drawing of a mouth, I resorted to big guns (my black copic calligraphy pen) and added the black background. But then that looked pretty cool, so I went with it, drawing with the idea of black entering into the composition.... and I'm quite pleased with the results!