| North County Community News briefs: Coaches' fundraiser is tonight
FALLBROOK ---- Fallbrook High School football coaches will be behind the counter from 5:30 to 9:30 tonight at Cold Stone Creamery at 925 S. Main St. selling ice cream to raise money for the football program.People can eat their ice cream there or take it to go. Flyers are mandatory for teams to earn credit. AAUW to hear program on global warming .
Lomography Fisheye camera - circular photography
Digital photography obviously dominates the leisure market, but if you are after something a little more quirky for very little outlay, take a look at the Lomography Fisheye camera. Rather than a traditional image, the Fisheye camera produces circular photography. Granted that's not everyone's cup of tea, but it does add a very different dimension to your photo album. The lens captures a 170-degree view on standard 35mm film, creating the circular image. And you can even pick up tools to easily cut round the circles for added impact. Two models are available - silver or black/white, both priced at just £26.86 for the basic kit. Find out more at the Lomography website Via Retro To Go More cameras Came straight to this page? Visit www.TechDigest.tv for all the latest news.
Photography exhibition displays heroic stories of disabled
An impressive collection of black-and-white photographs of disabled people, who posed for Serdar Bilgili's camera during a project aimed at raising public awareness about disabled people in Turkey, opened at Istanbul's Dolmabahe Palace on Monday. The exhibition titled Engellere Ramen (Despite the Barriers) and slated to run through Jan. 30, is part of a campaign that was launched last year by the weekly Tempo magazine to highlight the hardships disabled people suffer daily in Turkey. Turkey has been sharply criticized for not offering sufficient amenities for the handicapped. Bilgili, a businessman and former president of Beikta Football Club, has collaborated with Tempo in commissioning the collection that features 35 photos. Twenty-two successful people from diverse professions including swimmers, painters and singers posed for the photographs, which were also featured in the Nov.
Drawing on new technology
The seeds of artists' work show up in their sketchbooks. Notebooks can reveal how ideas are fleshed out. Printmaker Peter Scott uses his sketchbooks not just as a test run for his ideas, but as the source material itself. In his show at Gallery NAGA, he scans pages from his books into digital prints. The result is often a bit of a cheat. It's also still intriguing. Part of that is the illicit thrill of looking in someone's private notebooks. Yet Scott elevates process over content, which in turn heightens the viewer's awareness of the act of looking itself. He does this sometimes by drawing over the scans of his own sketches. In many cases, we see not just the drawing, but the book itself resting on the flatbed scanner. That is, we don't get as caught up in the sunny window scene "Sketchbook: At Marie's" because we see it's in a book.
Samsung Introduces an 'iPhone Killer'
With Apple's products garnering so much attention these days, the company's biggest competitors have been busily designing new gadgets to steal some of that limelight. Microsoft's Zune didn't turn out to be the iPod killer that some had predicted it would be, but Samsung is ready to launch a new smartphone that it hopes will turn out to be an iPhone killer. .
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