FLIPSIDE FASHION SHOW -- EMERGING TALENT

One of the more interesting events during Fashion Week is a show, open to the public, featuring emerging talent in the fashion industry.

It's today, Sunday, at 2:00 at Orchard St between Houston and Stanton.

The show, called "Fashion Flipside, Runway Fashion Show, Performances & Other Events," includes designers from FORWARD an organization set up to help designers, and simultaneously improve the business climate on the Lower East Side (LES).

Among the designers who will be showing are
-- Selma Karaca--Couture
-- SHILVY--Handbags, accessories and home decor
-- Milda Bublys--Clothing (cocktail, "after 5")
-- Maskara Coterie- Lingerie, sleep wear, casual
-- sQin--Leather earings
-- Harriets Alter Ego--Urban streetwear

Googling Selma Karaca suggests she is on the verge of breaking out as a real star.

We're planning personal previews of some of these emerging talents. Watch for them here.

FALL 4 NY 2005: FILM -- THE NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL

The New York Film Festival, now in its 43rd year, is always a major highlight of the year. They have the finest and most interesting films from around the world. And it is one of the most pleasant venues to see movies. It is a thrill every year to sit down for a festival film.

The film director and some cast members are very often on hand for the screening and will answer questions from the audience after the movie. These sessions can be extremely interesting.

The festival runs from September 23 - October 9, 2005 and begins with George Clooney's film Good Night, and Good Luck about the confrontation between Eugene McCarthy and Edward R Murrow (played by David Strathairn).

As always, the advance program describes the films in a cryptic manner that gives only a vague clue as to the nature of the film. To be fair, though, the current descriptions are transparent compared to the coded messages that passed for descriptions in the early years of the festival.

Many of the best films will be sold out before the public gets to buy films. Members of the Film Society get the first buying opportunities. It's important to go to the box office as early as possible to improve your chances for the best results. It's too late to join the Film Society in time to buy tickets for this year, but if you do not already belong and love the festival, you might want to join before it's too late for next year.

Some returned tickets are frequently available at the theater just before the show, so if you want to see a film you did not get advanced sale tickets for, go a little early to Lincoln Center and you may very well be able to get in.

NANO EXTENDS MEMORY > 200X WITH 3D VOLUMES

In a report from Imperial College, picked up by the Digital Media Wire, researchers from Imperial College London, Durham University and the University of Sheffield have used nanotechnology to create a 3D volume in which information can be stored. A storage vehicle like the surface of a disk is two dimentsional. By extending memory through a whole volume, you get the equivalent of many surfaces.

"The technology is based on the discovery by Professor Cowburn and colleagues that by using nanotechnology it is possible to reproduce the key functions of semiconductor electronics in microchips using only the 'spin' of electrons, which is responsible for magnetism, rather than the more conventional 'charge' that traditional microchips use."

"This has allowed them to construct a completely new architecture for electronics in three dimensions rather than the two dimensional flat structure of conventional microchips, an approach Professor Cowburn compares to using cupboards instead of table tops for storing goods."

They estimate it will take only a few years to bring this technology to market. However, of course, the actual time it takes depends on many factors beside technology, including (for example) the difficulty of manufacturing the technology cost effectively, and the time it takes to obtain marketing and licensing agreements.

They are concentrating on applications that can be used in phones to vastly extend their memory. This might, for example, enable phones to extend their video capture capabilities.