Comic-Con Stays In San Diego
September 30th, 2010 | 
Author: The Union-Tribune is reporting that Comic-Con International, the popular arts convention that takes place in San Diego every July, will remain here for another five years.
Other cities (Los Angeles and Anaheim) have been vying to host the convention after 2012, when the contract with the San Diego convention center expires. David Glanzer, spokesman for Comic-Con, told These Days back in April that it was a tough decision and would require time and deliberation.
One of the biggest concerns was the size of the San Diego convention center and whether it could continue to accommodate what has become San Diego’s largest convention with more than 130,000 attendees each year.
David Glanzer told the U-T: “We’ve always had a desire to stay in San Diego, and we had three amazing proposals. It was obviously a very difficult decision, one born out by the amount of time it’s taken to make that decision. But in the end San Diego was able to address a lot of our concerns. It’s never been a secret we’d hoped to stay here, but the real challenge was that those who want to attend the event can afford to attend, in terms of size and space and cost.”
The U-T says the final decision came after contracts were made with the 64 convention-block hotels locking in certain rates for Comic-Con attendees through 2015.
What do you think? Are you happy Comic-Con will remain in San Diego?
Were you frustrated by the long lines and crowds at Comic-Con over the last couple of years? A larger space would presumably help alleviate those frustrations. Are the lines worth it to keep Comic-Con in San Diego?
http://www.kpbs.org/news/2010/sep/30/comic-con-stays-san-diego/
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Sony unveils ultrathin rollable OLED
Sony on Wednesday unveiled a flexible OLED (organic light-emitting diode) display so thin it can wrap around a 4mm cylinder–roughly the diameter of the average pen or pencil.
The 80 micrometers-thick OLED display (about the width of a human hair) can continuously display moving images even while being rolled up, as Sony demonstrated in a video below.
The working flexibility is possible because engineers have managed to lose the rigid driver IC chips usually used in the substrate of a screen in exchange for a gate-driver circuit with OTFTs (organic thin-film transistors), according to Sony.
The 4.1-inch display, which has a resolution of 432×240 pixels (121 pixels per inch), is not for sale. It’s simply a research prototype Sony said it hopes to one day incorporate into products such as screens in mobile devices. Full demonstrations of the screen will be given this week at the SID (Society for Information Display) 2010 International Symposium in Seattle.
The consumer electronics giant has been at the forefront of this technology, showing one of the world’s first flexible OLEDs in existence at CES 2009, as CNET has reported. That screen was .2 millimeters thick.
Of course, Sony is not the only one experimenting with thin and flexible screens.
In April 2009, Dai Nippon garnered much attention with its flexible and seemingly animated posters for the Rakuten Eagles, a Japanese baseball team. The screens incorporated both energy-saving OLEDs and LEDs.
GE has also been working on ultrathin OLEDs, but in an effort to apply the technology to its lighting products. In March 2008, GE unveiled thin and flexible lighting OLEDs that can be manufactured in rolls akin to newspapers on a printing press.
Source : http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20006000-1.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Comic Art News: R.I.P. Frank Frazetta
Frank Frazetta, one of the most renowned fantasy illustrators of the 20th century whose stunning and energetic images influenced a generation, died this afternoon at a hospital near his home in Boca Grande, Florida. He was 82.
The cause of death was a stroke, said Rob Pistella and Steve Ferzoco his business managers.
Funeral arrangements will be announced shortly.
We’ve truly lost an artist whose contributions to this hobby are without measure. I’m going to spend the rest of today reflecting on how his work made such an impact on me by looking at the many pieces of art posted here at CAF.
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http://www.comicartfans.com/SubNewsDetails.asp?NID=219
Frank Frazetta Painting
Olivia Munn : Peta
From hosting G4’s Attack of the Show! to appearing in summer blockbusters Date Night and Iron Man 2, Olivia Munn is entertaining audiences all over the globe. Olivia also has a soft spot for animals and was shocked to learn that elephants used in circuses are torn from their mothers at birth and bound and electro-shocked as babies in order to break their spirits. They spend the rest of their lives performing silly, meaningless tricks out of constant fear of physical punishment, including beatings with bullhooks—sharp, metal-tipped implements that resemble fireplace pokers.
Olivia Munn for PETASince elephants are not naturally inclined to balance on balls, stand on their heads, or perform tricks, trainers use whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, bullhooks, and other painful tools to force them to perform these physically uncomfortable tasks. Elephants used by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus are beaten, hit, poked, prodded, and jabbed with sharp hooks, sometimes until bloody. When they are not performing, elephants—who walk up to 30 miles a day in their natural environment—spend their time in chains as the circus travels from city to city. Olivia Munn’s Exclusive Interview for PETA Share on Facebook | Embed | Viewing Options
Olivia explains, “When you look at something like the circus and everyone’s laughing and there’s color and there’s music and everything seems so great, but when you go right behind that door and they’re in these crates all day long and then they’re getting shocked and beat just so they can get up and dance around on a ball … it was just so sickening.” Please join Olivia in helping to stop cruelty under the big top and spread the word about this important issue to everyone you know!
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http://www.peta.org/FeatureOliviaMunn.asp
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