The gap between the gaming industry and film is narrowing. Find out just how much at Bob Nicoll's lecture on "Cinematography in Game Design," from 1 to 3 p.m. today in Kopiko 202 at Kapi'olani Community College.

Aspiring game designers, filmmakers and technogeeks will want to be there. Nicoll is the senior director of worldwide graphics training for gaming giant Electronic Arts, and before that was at Sony Pictures ImageWorks, where he worked on such films as "Godzilla" and "Contact."

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'AFFECTS' OF SOUTH AFRICA

It's been 12 years since apartheid was abolished in South Africa — what is it like now? You can get a view at The Contemporary Museum exhibition "Personal Affects: Power and Poetics in Contemporary South African Art," which opens today.

Tomorrow at 2 p.m., sculptor and performance artist Samson Mudzunga includes his artwork — a ceremonial drum, pictured at left — in a live performance with his wife, Dorcas. Admission: $5. For information: 526-1322, www.tcmhi.com.

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FINAL WORD

"I read somewhere that you said, in addition to testing yourself against the best, winning a gold medal and competing in the Olympics would help you get 'so many babes,' which is pretty much what Baron Pierre de Coubertin had in mind when he founded the Olympic games."

Bob Costas | NBC sports commentator, on-air to U.S. Olympic snowboard gold-medal winner Shaun White