ArtMetal

I recently finished my second blacksmithing seminar in Peru and wanted to share with you a video and photo album showing footage from the various workshops in Huancayo, Lima, and Piura. The video is also an educational video for beginning blacksmiths. It explains the processes I used to make the Nazca Lines Book Ends.

Note to Mac users: The new iLife '08 apps including iWeb and iMovie are great! iMovie makes it even easier to create videos and iWeb has a nicer interface for photo albums including a great slide show viewer.

Here are links to the various web pages:

3-Day 3-Week 3-Cities Blacksmith Workshops in Peru

Nazca Lines Workshop - Blacksmithing in Peru (best quality QuickTime streaming video 47 mg)

Nazca Lines Workshop - Blacksmithing in Peru (YouTube video for those who do not have QuickTime installed. Not as good quality but may be seen by most computers)

Photo Albums including album for the workshop. (note how thumbnails are shown while moving the mouse over the photo albums)

Update: I'm now trying to create my own Flash movies from the QuickTime originals because I hear that there are more folks using browsers which support flash movies than QuickTime. So this is my first attempt at generating the correct movie. I've also noticed that the size of download for the movie is almost half the size. However, I don't think the quality is quite as good as the QuickTime version. Cool thing though is the ability to embed the flash movie into iWeb and html documents using another web site called Video Code Maker to generate the code to display the movies.