| The Guide to local arts and crafts
Vendors are needed for the fifth annual Pampered Woman Show in March. The show is offered by the Hammond Parks and Recreation Department 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 24 and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 25 at Jean Shepherd Community Center, 3031 J.F. Mahoney Drive. Vendors may secure a booth to promote a business specializing in products and services geared toward women. The application deadline is today. Applications can be had by phone or by visiting www.gohammond.com and clicking on Document Central, Parks and Recreation.FYI: (219) 853-6378CRAFTERS WANTED | HighlandThe School Town of Highland Band Boosters Association Inc. will host its annual Spring Arts & Crafts Show at Highland Middle School, 2941 41st St., 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. March 10 and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 11. Crafters are wanted. The booth fee is $55.
'Origami' lens to transform camera phone technology?
Engineers at University of California, San Diego, have built a powerful yet ultra-thin digital camera by folding up the telephoto lens in a manner reminiscent of origami paper folding. The team is led by Eric Tremblay, an electrical and computer engineering Ph.D. candidate at UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering, and overseen by professor of electrical and computer engineering Joseph Ford. They feel that the technology may result in lightweight, ultra-thin, high-resolution miniature cameras for unmanned surveillance aircraft, infrared night vision application and cell phones. Our imager is about seven times more powerful than a conventional lens of the same depth said Tremblay. This type of miniature camera is very promising for application where you want high resolution images and a short exposure time.
First Fridays in Kansas City's Crossroads Arts District for ...
Kansas City, Mo - infoZine - After more than twenty years on the Kansas City art scene, the Society for Contemporary Photography (520 Avenida Cesar E Chavez; www.scponline.org) is closing down. When the SCP opened in 1984, most established art museums and galleries in Kansas City did not take photography seriously as a fine art. Since then, photography is far more accepted and, in fact, opportunities for photographers to exhibit their work in Kansas City have flourished. Following the resignation of director-curator Kathy Aron Dowell last fall, the SCP's board of directors decided that the organization had fulfilled its mission. Stop by this Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. to say goodbye. Keith Davis, long-time curator of the Hallmark photography collection and now curator of photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum, will offer comments at 7 p.m.
Graham Nash doing his best in both music and photography
Graham Nash is well-known throughout the world for the music he's made with the Hollies and Crosby, Stills & Nash. But music isn't his only artistic outlet -- he is also deeply into photography and imaging. That side of his life in on display in the book Nash Editions: Photography And The Art Of Digital Printing, a new book that explores what goes into fine-art digital printing and his company Nash Editions, which he founded in 1991. The work of Nash Editions is so well-regarded that the first printing press he bought for the company is now on display in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.Nash told us that he's just doing what he can, whether it's in music of photography: "I don't think in terms of magnificent shots, or... I'm just trying to do the best I can. So when people ask me what kind of images I shoot, what kind of music I write, I don't have a clue -- I'm just writing music, and I'm just taking pictures.
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