| E for All's Into the Pixel features video game art
While the main focus of this week's E for All Expo in Los Angeles is to let gamers get their hands on hot new console and PC games, there's a different exhibit on the show floor that appeals to art fans. Called Into the Pixel, the exhibit features fine art created by artists who work in game design. Into the Pixel — an annual fixture at past E3 Expo events — is here at E for All, featuring 16 inductees selected by a panel of jurors. It's already been shown at the E3 Media & Business Summit in Santa Monica earlier this year as well as the Toronto International Film Festival. The artwork runs the gamut from Half-Life 2 Episode 2 to 300: March to Glory, Rayman's Raving Rabbids to EVE Online. For the most part, these aren't screenshots — this is fine art created by the same game designers who create the environments and characters that populate popular video games.
Web Scammer Targets Senior U.S. Executives
MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. -- For months, a sophisticated hacker has been stealing the personal data of American corporate executives. Hot on the hacker's trail is Joe Stewart. The former bass-guitarist-turned-cyber-sleuth stumbled onto the case in February. Since then, the 36-year-old Mr. Stewart has spent weeks in his office, in a nondescript building next to a half-abandoned strip mall here, virtually chasing the mysterious perpetrator across several continents. Mr. Stewart early on thought he had traced the scammer to China, then realized it was a false lead. Only when the perpetrator stumbled did Mr. Stewart get a break in the case. Mr. Stewart, a top researcher for Atlanta-based Internet security firm SecureWorks Inc., says most of the scammed executives declined requests to discuss their experience.
Uneasy Black-Latino Ties a Factor in Calif. Primary
On his popular morning radio show, Sotelo convinced Obama to sing in Spanish. It was not the first time Obama used Spanish to reach potential voters. Standing in front of crowds of Latino workers, Obama has been known to chant the traditional Chicano rallying cry, "Si se puede!" Obama has his own endorsements from Latino leaders. And Latino voters have shown their enthusiasm in innovative ways — in one case, remixing a reggaeton song in his honor. Still, Obama may face a barrier in California beyond name recognition: the sometimes uneasy relations between Latinos and blacks. It's an attitude of distrust expressed bluntly in Los Angeles by one caller to NPR member station KPCC. "I've had friends, individuals [who are] blacks, and we've gotten along fine.
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