Hard to keep up. For tens of thousands of years, we lived in caves, huts and shacks, bopping the nearest beast for meat and getting the latest news from around the evening campfire. Then, along comes the wheel, Thomas Edison, the power company, Alan Turing, the Lisa, the World Wide Web, Nokia and now, well, you've got a festival devoted to movies shot on mobile telephones. This from Yahoo News reminds you not to blink these days:

Portugal has held its first-ever film festival featuring short movies made with mobile telephones, which are growing more and more popular around the world. More than 30 international films ranging in length from 30 seconds to 10 minutes were shown on a normal screen along with regular movies as part of the three-day "Olhares" festival which wrapped up Sunday. Organizers of the fourth annual event said they decided to make room for movies filmed with camera-equipped mobiles, dubbed "pocket films," this year to showcase the emerging form and consider what effect it may have on cinema. One film examined the attachment Tokyo subway commuters have to their mobile phones, another took a close look at Paris rooftops while a third tracked the afternoon activities of an alcoholic

Hmmm, I'm thinking a gazz contest for mobile phone films. Someone send me a sample entry. Say, a close look at how you tie your shoelaces, or a close look at Bill Dunn's daily routine (he of 'Aqualung' street person fame in Charleston).