| Wesfoto struggles to stay afloat
If you were looking for a photo club a couple of years ago, you would have been hard-pressed to find one, or even the remnants of one. According to current Wesfoto co-President Lirra Schiebler '07, the photography club had essentially died until Schiebler and co-President Simone Collins '07 re-started the club in the fall of 2004. "I started asking around about the existence of a photo club at the very beginning of sophomore year, and no one really knew anything," Schiebler said. When Schiebler heard that Collins was also looking around for a photo club, she contacted Collins, and the two began planning. "The next seven months were spent actually jumping through enough bureaucratic obstacles to get a new darkroom built and the supplies purchased," Schiebler said. The darkroom was then moved from the basement of the Butterfields to its current home, the basement of the Science Center.
Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day to be Celebrated April 29, 2007
[Feb 01, 2007] Trento, Italia, January 19, 2007 - Worldwide Pinhole Photography Day (WPPD), a global event celebrating the fantasy, art, fun and experience of lensless photography, will occur on April 29, 2007. All photographers around the world will be invited to take a picture with a pinhole camera during the 24 hours of Sunday April 29 and upload it to http://www.pinholeday.org. A photo by each artist will become part of the international Web gallery on the WPPD site. The event is open to all photographers throughout the world, to every no-lens photography aficionado and to those who have never practised this creative and fun technique before. Pinhole photos are taken without any lens but simply through a small hole, about the size of the period at the end of a sentence. Photos can be made using cameras made from ordinary stuff such as shoeboxes, peeled tomato cans or tea boxes.
Shiny product launch: Sony Ericsson W610 camera/MP3 phone
Sony Ericsson launched a number of phones today, including the W610. This is aimed at those people who want an MP3 player and a decent camera on their phone. The camera element incorporates a 2 megapixel camera, autofocus and easy uploading to Blogger blogs. The MP3 player has track ID, 512 MB of memory bundled and ease of use. Came straight to this page? Visit www.ShinyShiny.tv for all the latest news. .
Finding a job for free beats paying an exorbitant non-refundable fee with no guarantee
Wednesday night, our undercover camera showed a consultant saying, in order to get a job at one of its contracted employers, you had to go through Virginia Personnel. That turned out not to be true, and some of the stated salary levels were wrong. The deal is "Virginia Personnel" charges $365 for what the company calls employment personnel services. But what exactly is Virginia Personnel doing for you to get a job, and could you do the same thing on your own for free. The answer is yes you can. It's clear 10 On Your Side is not welcomed at Virginia Personnel. This after our undercover investigation with Arzanna and Mike Ward who paid $730 to Virginia Personnel to find them a job. "It's deceiving and misleading. They don't deliver what they tell you," Mike told us.
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