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Is the future of photography painted in Kubrick white? It is if you believe Nikon and Canon. We’ve seen the latter’s concept in much more detail, and now a handful of pics from the Nikon Sapporo Showroom have surfaced, showcasing at least one similarly unpigmented design. The other two models, snapped and found via burner-images, look like more run-of-the-mill DSLRs, but the one that’s causing a stir online is the all-white model that originated from DCHome forums. The original poster chimes in to say it might be the EVIL camera, but we’re not exactly convinced. For starters, the body doesn’t look much smaller or different than the rest of its lineup — not exactly what we’d expect for a “new market” product, as the company reportedly wants its mirrorless shooter to be. Additionally, as noted by a number of Nikon Rumors commenters, that apparently 18-55mm lens implies it’s rocking an APS-C sensor. Of course, if we saw the other side, we could see whether or not it had a viewfinder, which does narrow down the possibilities. So in conclusion, we still don’t know what it is, or if we ever will with any certainty, but we’re making an educated guess as to what it isn’t. Got that? Good.

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Twitter might just be way to send messages to friends for some people but of course it is also a way for celebrities to communicate with fans, for companies to do marketing, and even for whole literature movements to develop.

It is also a way to recruit thespians. Theater group twigeki (literally “Twitter theater”) used the service to find the entire cast and crew of its show Fukenzen that opens this week in Tokyo.

All right, it’s not exactly Broadway but the leader of the group, K Kataoka, claims this is a world-first. Using Twitter he put out calls for actors’ auditions, for logo designs, reception staff, stagehands…everyone and everything. Of course, no one has seen the results yet!

Can the connections provided by social media create great art as well? Not sure, but twigeki certainly generated a lot of publicity through the stunt.