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Renault's low-cost Romanian brand Dacia has released the first limited edition version of its new small SUV model, called the Duster ecole de Ski Francais [ESF], which translates to French Skiing School. Event though parent company Renault has not offered details about how many units of this series Dacia will produce, the Duster special could become one of the rarest sights on French streets since it can only be bought by ESF skiing instructors.

Priced at €18,990 ($26,900), the Duster ESF marks the extension of Renault Group's 10-year partnership with the ecole de Ski Francais. Based on the Laureate 4x4 version, the Duster ESF is powered by a 110HP 1.5-liter diesel engine and is available only in Glacier White paint.

The car features some distinctive styling and practical details such as the ESF badging on the front doors, a strengthened aluminum sump guard and transverse roof bars with a ski rack that can accommodate four pairs of skis.

The Duster ESF comes with equipped with standard foglamps, electrically-adjustable heated exterior mirrors, manual air conditioning system, radio-CD with MP3 compatibility, four tray-type rubber mats, 16-inch alloy wheels and a set of four additional wheels fitted with Continental winter tyres.

Optional extras include the ESP + ASR traction control system for €300 ($425) and the Platine Grey body color for €450 ($637).

They put in cameras, a qwerty keyboard, GPS and even before we could wonder what's next, there's now a mobile phone that's packing a projector.

Now, it may seem like the latest from Beijing in Indian markets but this 'gimmick' may have just changed the way we perceive the devices.

For starters, a projector phone has now increased the number of people hooked on to one single mobile phone. Earlier, you couldn't have more than three, or four, friends peeking into your phone for the latest YouTube hit. And with a maximum number of four, there was always pushing and shoving.

But now, all you need is a wall!

And what about the immense business possibilities. The qwerty keyboard was one of the first steps towards bringing phones closer to the banker. And then there were spreadsheet applications, text editors and the kind of software you find inside any one of those computers inside a cubicle. But just imagine a presentation using only a mobile phone. No more waiting for the boardroom to free up, all you need again, is a wall.

So, what's the big deal? For years, manufacturers have been trying to get an alternate display into a mobile phone. They experimented with holograms (pictured on the right), 3D, but almost everything fell short of expectations. Now, however, they seem to have succeeded with a little yellow device that's generating considerable interest in the market.

And because we can't name brands here, all we can tell you is that it's yellow and not by a company you'd expect to find inside most pockets. But how did such important tech land in the hands of a small-time firm?

We can debate for hours with many saying the projector phone is just a gimmick, while others may maintain that it's a milestone for the little gadgets. We, take the latter argument. With a projector, the mobile phone has now become the source of a second physical display.

It's a futuristic prospect that you won't mind paying for because it's an ACTUAL step — instead of just tinkering around that adds further price to the product.

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It was getting tiresome with mobile phone makers claiming ‘that little button on the left makes all the difference between their previous model and the successor'. The line between innovation and marketing was blurring and the world was beginning to see all mobile phones as one — like our cars of today.

But now, this little yellow device seems to have brought in a much-needed relief for connoisseurs of innovation and tech.

And if you're still thinking projection technology on mobile phones and other devices is simply a gimmick, here's something else.

Canon, one of the world's largest imaging companies, is now packing projector tech into their latest range of digital cameras — all you need is a wall!

Zipgoods ever release a projector phone, that model is a phone with a projector. And

today, Zipgoods launch a projector, specially for iphone 4, and iphone 3Gs.

When we ask Steve, the product manager, why zipgoods release this model, Steve

said:"as many people own their iphone now, and they usually like to store videos in

their iphone and share with their friends, but how? Only using a tiny iphone screen?

This is really a problem in daily, so zipgoods release this iphone projector to

solve this problem."

Breaking away iPhone tiny screen, this iphone projector can gives you a bright and

clear image up to 40 inches on any flat surface. Also this model has 1 Watt speaker.

So you can share your videos, movies and other interesting things in your iphone to

your friends. " this iphone projector built in a battery, which can last to 120

minutes of continuous player, or you can use power supply for unlimited use" side

Steve, and it is also give answers to most customers' questions on battery.

" Zipgoods also fully consider the expansibility of this projector." Said Steve. "

customers can use this projector fr portable gaming systems, portable DVD players

and other devices with the A/V cables included" furthermore, you can insert SD card

to store multi-media files. So you can take this projector anywhere to entertain

your friends.

" Zipgoods will design and release more and more novelty gadgets in the further, and

we are sure these electronics products will make our customers' life more easier!"

said Steve.

Kevin Lewis Fougerousse's new series, Memoirs, is an intimate look at the artist's thoughts

on life, spirituality, love and loss. We are given a rare look inside the heart of poet that

stripped down and bared his soul for all of us to witness.

After leaving his rock star life and modeling career in California, he traveled to his

abandoned childhood home for a year.


Isolated, with only a box of painting supplies and a case of booze to comfort him,

Fougerousse began to paint his heart out.

The product of this self imposed isolation is a group of figurative paintings that really

affected me in a significant way. I was drawn to the figurative subject matter, and the

painter kept me close to the work with scribbled words, snippets of poems , and the

unmistakable evidence of a painted broken heart.
It Is Written by Kevin Lewis Fougerousse

It Is Written by Kevin Lewis Fougerousse

Fougerousse puts the conflicting functions of portraiture and death on frank display.

Portraiture momentarily captures a mysterious whole, freezing a life, a face in time. When

coupled with indications of death with skulls and painted dark surfaces, the impermanent and

the eternal are held in uneasy tension.

The self portrait, It Is Written, features a chiseled male torso and a skull for a head. He

is holding a monocle in one hand and the book of life in the other.

His strong faith in God is represented by the eagle atop a bookcase as well as other objects

found within the painting. Below the bookcase are scribbled writings in yellow oil paint

stating, "and the promise she bound in chains, the dance we'd share when it rains", from a

poem he wrote about an on-again-off-again relationship he was trying to overcome. A lady love

whom he shared his life with for nine years.

As you spend time with the art, it's very intensity consumes your attention, forcing you to

witness his confessional.

The painting, Village Idiot, portrays Fougerousse on his birthday, naked and alone. He has

the mask of clown, and large clumsy hands that are holding a lit cigarette. The face is

almost ghostly and crossed over; not a happy sort of clown face. An unfinished bottle of wine

with a scroll carefully placed inside that is another reference to spirituality and belief in

God.

The name of the painting references a bar where he met another lady love. You feel his sense

of give up and surrender, in his hunched over pose as he is looking back with at you with

"only you" written in his eye.

One of my favorite pieces was not featured in the main lobby of Aloft due to the nude subject

matter. You had to go to a room off the side hallway where a sign, "PLEASE BE ADVISED, Some

material beyond this point may be for mature audiences only", invited me to come inside.

Torrent is a 50×50 stunning oil painting of a beautiful woman who is only wearing her

panties on a black background with white line drawings on one side and a lady killer on the

other. The woman is holding a cigarette in one hand and her other hand tucked inside the hip

of her panty. Fougerousse's light strokes in her silhouette set a passionate tone. The dark

colors and detached look on her face illustrate a sense of danger that is waiting to be

indulged.

I sat down with artist representative Jordan Roth from Ro2 Art to talk about Fougerousse's

work. Jordan was raised around figurative art and in discussing Fougerousse's work he

commented, "I had gotten so accustomed to abstract art lately that it feels good to be around

the figurative work again. We haven't really worked with too many artists that are painting

bodies and things so it feels very comfortable, that is for sure."

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artist representation, sales, marketing, consultation, curatorial, and events management. Ro2

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This series by Kevin Lewis Fougerousse is poetic, compelling and present. The show is up

until March 29, 2011, at Aloft, 1033 Young St., Dallas, Texas.

VICTORIA'S biggest heist isn't by Underbelly types in balaclavas.

The wanted poster would show faces you know - friends, colleagues, and probably the face in the mirror.

If four Eiffel Towers vanished, the outcry would be incredible.

Each year, though, that's the weight of stuff plundered from hard rubbish collection piles.

Research shows that while four out of five households contribute to hard rubbish at least every two years, two in five make a withdrawal.

Parents with young children are either the worst offenders or the best recyclers.

Monash University lecturer Dr Ruth Lane has spent several years poring over hard rubbish.

She says rubbish raiding is an urban culture, an environmental statement and, for some, a business operating on the grey fringes of the law.

"Whole student households get furnished with hard rubbish and collectors go out for it," she said.

"We recruited 69 households who agreed to monitor what happened to their own hard rubbish piles.

"Something like 35 per cent of all the material was scavenged before the council pick-up."

On 2006-07 figures, the most recent available, more than 63,000 tonnes was left after the scavengers had been. About 35,000 tonnes, presumably, was long gone.

"Nearly half of the furniture items put out were scavenged," Ms Lane said

"A lot of children's toys get picked up. It could be kids. It could be those stay-at-home parents."

The idea of a new home for a once-loved plaything is so heartwarming it has sparked three Toy Story movies, but the hard-rubbish hunt isn't all child's play. Some play rough.

When China was booming a couple of years ago, scrap metal brought premium prices.

Professional scroungers numbered in the hundreds then and as metals prices pick up, Ms Lane expects they will be back.

"There were real turf wars going on," she says.

"There's a bit of violence out there, around the edge of it all. There was some waste management contractor who did get knifed at some point."

Municipal Association of Victoria president Cr Bill McArthur says there is a move away from all-in hard collection to curb illegal dumping, scavenging, mess and growing costs.

"Councils are offering residents alternatives such as free on-call pick-up services and vouchers for free hard rubbish disposal at local tips," he said.