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Sausage iPhone stylus shipping to US —

You may have seen the “Sausage Finger” iPhone photos making the rounds early last month. I could have sworn we posted it but I can’t seem to find it. Anyhoo, it was a photo of two guys on a South Korean subway car using little sausages to manipulate their iPhones while wearing gloves. Everyone had a chuckle and then we all moved on—UNTIL NOW!

You can get your very own “iPhone Sausage Screen Stylus” for 99 cents, plus around five bucks for shipping. The product is “not for consumption” but is compatible with all versions of the iPhone and, therefore, the iPod Touch as well.

You could also pick up some sausages at your local grocery store every week to avoid the shipping charges and the whole “not for consumption” rule.

iPhone Sausage Screen Stylus [CaseCrown.com via OhGizmo!]

6 Tips for Writing an Artist’s Statement —

A Guest Post by Chris Folsom.

Recent talks with a local shop have prompted one of my least favorite tasks… writing an artist’s statement. It is an incredibly difficult task to describe your own work without sounding arrogant or self-absorbed. Worse yet, if your images span a variety of subjects and styles (as mine often to), trying to sum up the collection in a paragraph or two may seem impossible.

Here are some tips I go by when writing an artist statement for a shop or gallery that will be displaying my work:

1. Start with the basics

Jot down some basic information about the photos included in this collection. Are they color? Do they have a common theme? Were they all taken in a similar location? Having a short list of details will help later when you are trying to tie everything together.

2. Try not to get too technical

Nobody reading the statement will care if you shot with a Canon 5D or if Photoshop is your post-processing software of choice. If there are some truly unique elements involved in the work (printed on a special material or you shot through a hand-crafted lens, for example), feel free to include that information. Otherwise, leave out the details about your gear.

3. What would you like someone else to say of this work?

This is possibly the best way to get to the heart of why you took these photos. If you would love for someone to say “these photos bring sunshine to my home”, then you already have a pretty good starting point for your statement. Lead off with something like “I have done my job as an artist if these photos bring happiness and warmth to your home”.

4. Share your background and history

All too often, artist’s statements are all about the art and don’t go into any detail about the artist. How long have you been doing this kind of art? Why did you start? Why do you enjoy it?

5. Try not to pat yourself on the back too much

It is fine to say you are proud of this body of work, but try not to go overboard with the self praise. I have seen statements that say things like “an expert of her craft, this photographer captures beauty in a way that nobody else has”. I understand the value of confidence and selling yourself, but these kinds of descriptions will be a turnoff to a lot of people.

6. Does it have to be a traditional artist’s statement?

A friend once suggested that I do a haiku for my statement, which I thought was a genius idea. Different venues will have their own requirements, but take the opportunity to do something out of the norm if you can.

And if you would like an example of an Artist’s Statement, this is the one I went with for that local shop:

If these photos have a mission, it is this: capture rarely viewed scenes and environments and present them in an interesting way.

It may be a lonesome tree on an isolated hill or the dark interior of an abandoned building. Whatever the locale, on the best of days these images will stir up unexpected feelings and thoughts in the viewer.

Studio Tempura is based out of Baltimore, MD and has been creating photographs for over a decade.

Chris Folsom is a photographer based in Baltimore, MD. You can view more of his photos at Flickr or follow his photographic endeavors on Twitter.

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6 Tips for Writing an Artist’s Statement

2010 Geneva Auto Show Girls — It’s not just new and exotic cars what we found at the Geneva Auto Show 2010. As usual there were plenty of girls to accompany the cars during the day. Enjoy our photos:

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Giant Squid Turned Into Plastinated Taxidermy Exhibit [Monsters Among Us] —

A kraken of the deep is going Beverly Hills. Celebrity taxidermist Gunther von Hagens has plastinated two giant squids. One of these silicon-enhanced squids is slated to tour with von Hagen's Body Worlds exhibit.

In 2004, von Hagens acquired two specimens of Architeuthis dux to fill with silicone. One of these squids will travel with von Hagens' Body Worlds tour; the other will presumably take the world of necrotic cephalopod modeling by storm. More photos of the preserved squids are available via New Scientist.

Lunchwalla: Getting Together for Lunch Just Got Easier —

Making breakfast, lunch or dinner plans for any group that involves more than two people can quickly become a chore. Lunchwalla, which launched earlier today, wants to make this task a bit easier by providing you with a web service that allows you to avoid long email chains and back-and-forth phone calls. You simply pick a time, choose a few restaurant options and a list of friends you want to invite. Lunchwalla will email your contacts and they can then RSVP and vote for the restaurant they prefer.

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What makes Lunchwalla unique is that it brings together Yelp reviews, OpenTable reservations, menus and local coupons. This makes it different from similar scheduling services like Evite, Tungle.me, Presdo or Doodle.

Not Just for Lunch

While the name implies that Lunchwalla is only focused on getting people together for lunch, the site won't stop you from organizing breakfast, brunch, dinner or happy hour get-togethers.

After you have sent out your invitations, you contacts can vote for different restaurants right in their email clients. Once everybody has voted (or decided not to attend), you can make the final decision and your contacts will get one more email with the finalized details. After the event is over, you can also upload photos from the meal and share them with your friends.

One nice aspect of the site is that it allows you to pick a set of favorite restaurants, so if you decide to use the service regularly, you won't have to pick and choose the same restaurants again. You can also group your contacts into lists.

Privacy

One aspect of the site that not everybody will appreciate, however, is that - by default - all your invitations, comments and events are public and will appear on your profile page. If you want to keep your lunch plans private, make sure that you change the privacy settings for your profile. Even then, though, the event page remains visible to anybody who has access to the URL.

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Kobayashi Beats Meatball-Eating Record —

Right now history is going down (one man's throat) at Fulton Ferry Landing, as champion eater Takeru Kobayashi attempts to break the world record in meatball eating. How many meatballs can one human eat in one minute? Until now that answer has been 26. Our man Tien Mao is on the scene and we'll update as soon as we hear where the new record stands, that is, if Kobayashi doesn't buckle under the pressure of television cameras (it's being filmed).

UPDATE: Kobayashi has done it! 29 MEATBALLS. Stay tuned for more photos and video...

Microvision sets price, release date for miniature projector — Microvision has been touting its miniature pico projector for months now. But until today, it was unclear when the SHOWWX would be available in the U.S. and how much it would cost. The Redmond company announced that the 4.3 ounce projector -- designed to share movies, photos and presentations on the go -- will go on sale at 9 a.m. on March 24th. The cost is $549.

What Underwater Point-and-Shoot Camera Should I Get? —
A reader asks: I'm interested in a waterproof camera for an upcoming trip but can't decide between the various point-and-shoot models. I've read that some leak, or simply don't take great pictures. I know you can buy waterproof camera housings but wonder if I can get away with one camera that just does it all. So, just tell me what to get!

Dear Reader: We totally agree. In our perfect world, every camera would be waterproof, shockproof, scratch-proof, lightweight and be able to snap perfect photos without a fuss. Encouragingly, several camera companies are taking steps in the right direction with moderately priced waterproof/ruggedized models already available from Canon, Fujifilm, Olympus, Pentax and Sony, among others. Less encouraging is that virtually all of them have some hiccup that leaves us wanting.

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T-Mobile HD2 spotted —

As March 24th slowly gets closer, the anticipated T-Mobile HD2 release date, we are now seeing images of this new Windows Phone. TmoNews has captured a series of photos of the HD2, complete with T-Mobile branding, and they look good.  Sporting Sense 2.5, you can see the Blockbuster and Transformer movie shortcuts that are a part of T-Mobile's mobile entertainment package.

Upgradable or not to Windows Phone 7 Series, the HD2 is an impressive piece of equipment and is sure to attract its fair share of customers to T-Mobile. One can only hope that other carriers will spread the joy and offer the HD2.

Read: tmonews.com

Sigma SD15 DSLR: hands-on photos! —

The Sigma SD15 DSLR was revealed at the PMA tradeshow in California last month, but we just stumbled across it here in the UK locked away in a cabinet at the Focus On Imaging show in Birmingham. We pestered and pleaded for a hands-on, and a hands-on we got: read on to see the photos of this beautiful new shooter.

Sigma tends to concentrate more on lenses than camera bodies, but when it does venture into the latter, you can always count on something a bit special. The Sigma SD15 promises just that, with a 14 megapixel Foveon X3 image sensor, and although we couldn’t test this prototype out, you can already see it’s got the form factor nailed. The perfectly moulded Sigma SD15 body is a thing of beauty to behold, and we can’t wait to see what shots it’ll eventually churn out.

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Sadly though, when the Sigma SD15 DSLR might actually be released is still uncertain: the company wouldn’t tell us, and it’s been toting it around tradeshows in one form or another since 2008.

Still, with the big launch at PMA last month, we should hopefully see a commercial release for the Sigma SD15D DSLR some time soon, so check it out here before hand in our hands-on gallery.

Out TBC | £TBC | Sigma

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Fujifilm HS10 HD video compact handled up close! —

The Fujifilm HS10 is one of a few new super zoom cameras we caught lounging on the show floor at Focus On Imaging today, threatening all those budget DSLRs with their ease of use and low price tag. We grabbed it for a quick hands-on: see the photos here.

In case you missed the Fujifilm HS10 back at launch last month, it’s one of a new breed of chunky compact cameras filled to the brim with quality tech, with Olympus and Nikon also getting in on the game. The Fujifilm HS10 packs a 10 megapixel sensor and the ability to shoot in full HD 1080p video at a smooth 30 frames per second.

The Fujifilm HS10 will also shoot in RAW, giving you greater scope to tweak your snaps in Photoshop afterwards, but it’s the enormous 30x optical zoom that makes this stand out – it’s even longer than the 26x monster on the end of the Nikon Coolpix P100.

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Fujifilm HS10 unveiled

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While we like the rock solid build of the Fujifilm HS10, we’re not won over by the zoom mechanism, which compared to the P100 feels cheap and more breakable.

But hey, until now Nikon’s not exactly been streaks ahead in the HD video department, so the Fujifilm HS10 could well go toe to toe with it still. We’ll have to wait for review units to make final judgement, but the Fujifilm HS10 is defintely one to keep an eye on.

The Fujifilm HS10 will ship in 6 to 8 weeks, we’re told, so look for it at the back end of April or early May.

Out April | £399 | Fujfilm

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When the Power Goes Out At Google — 1sockchuck writes "What happens when the power goes out in one of Google's mighty data centers? The company has issued an incident report on a Feb. 24 outage for Google App Engine, which went offline when an entire data center lost power. The post-mortem outlines what went wrong and why, lessons learned and steps taken, which include additional training and documentation for staff and new datastore configurations for App Engine. Google is earning strong reviews for its openness, which is being hailed as an excellent model for industry outage reports. At the other end of the spectrum is Australian host Datacom, where executives are denying that a Melbourne data center experienced water damage during weekend flooding, forcing tech media to document the outage via photos, user stories and emails from the NOC."

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Chile, nine days later —

Heart Headphone Splitter: Totally Geeky or Geek Chic? —

In theory, the Tunes For 2 Headphone Splitter from Fred Flare is cute. It plugs into the top of your MP3 player (or any other gadget with a headphone jack) to split two pairs of headphones so you and a loved one can listen to the same music, soundtrack, audio book, whatever. The only thing I can't decide is whether seeing a cute couple sharing this bright red headphone splitter on the bus would be totally cringe-worthy. What do you think?

[Sponsor] DailyDeeds —

DailyDeeds is the simplest new way to keep laser focused on your everyday goals. Launch DailyDeeds on your iPhone or iPod Touch and set some new habits for yourself: 30 minutes sketching, take 10 photos, practice guitar, you name it. Things you tend not to do, but things you want to do — and do often.

Each day you pull off a task, just tap the box and over time DailyDeeds conjures up a visual history for you. No fuss, hands down the easiest solution ever for everyday diary keeping. For more details stop by our site or click through to the App Store for an instant download.

Scenes from a Pizzeria: Antonio Starita's One-Night-Only 'Secret Show' at Kesté —

From Slice

VIEW SLIDESHOW: Scenes from a Pizzeria: Antonio Starita's One-Night-Only 'Secret Show' at Kesté

It was late in the day on Friday when Slice learned that Antonio Starita of Naples's Pizzeria Starita would be in town making pizzas at Kesté Pizza & Vino for one night only.

Starita is an instructor at the Associazione Pizzaiuoli Napoletani, the Naples-based governing body that both teaches pizza-making and certifies pizza-makers as adhering to authentic Neapolitan ways.

Why Kesté? Among Starita's protegés is Kesté's Roberto Caporuscio, who now works as head pizzaiolo at Kesté and who teaches and certifies aspiring pizza-makers on this side of the Atlantic for the APN.

Starita was on his way back to Naples from the International Pizza Expo in Las Vegas and decided at the last minute to work the dough alongside Caporuscio in a sort of one-night-only pizza supergroup secret show. Here are photos from the evening.

Nikon Coolpix P100 super zoom camera: up close photos! —

The Nikon Coolpix P100 was one of a batch of impressive bridge cameras with immense optical zoom lenses unveiled last month, and now it’s finally landed on UK shores. We grabbed one for a hands-on, pronto, so read on for all the photos.

If you’re looking to make a step up from a compact camera, but don’t fancy the cost or hassle of lugging different lenses around, the 10.3 megapixel Nikon Coolpix P100 might just be what the doctor ordered. The tilting screen with live view will have newbies framing shots like a pro, and it even shoots full HD video.

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But there’s no ignoring that zoom on the Nikon Coolpix P100. At 26x, it’ll let you snatch shots from an absurd distance. We couldn’t test the resulting image quality here at the Focus On Imaging show in Birmingham sadly, but we’ll testify to the Nikon Coolpix P100’s solid build and impressive array of functions for something so cheap.

Take a look at the Nikon Coolpix P100 up close in our gallery, and if you like what you see, you’ll be able to grab one of your very own later this month when the Nikon Coolpix P100 ships.

Out March | £349.99 | Nikon

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Lamborghini Gallardo Crashes Nose First Into London Tree [Car Crashes] —

This Lamborghini Gallardo owner must have crossed paths with an unladen African swallow because there are no tire marks or other explanations for how he crashed his car into a tree in London's Shepherd Bush. The onlookers need no explanation.

These photos of a smashed up silver Lambo with black wheels come via Jalopnik reader Pete, who was kind enough to share them with us after spotting the crunched exotic. Such a crash obviously draws a big crowd and, in this case, everyone seems to be having a great time. Everyone but the owner.

Photos of T-Mobile's HTC HD2 Emerge — Wireless carrier T-Mobile USA is set to soon deliver to its users yet another highly-appealing handset, the HTC HD2, and now we can have a closer look at this mobile phone courtesy of live photos with it. The HD2 is one of the hottest devices launched on the market last year, and it is expected to arrive on T-Mobile's airwaves as soon as this month, while in... (read more)