SFist Tonight

Seeing beyond Sight
What happens when you give visually impaired children cameras and ask them to capture their everyday life? Come find out at this exhibit for a new book by Tony Deifell, Seeing Beyond Sight: Photography by Blind Teenagers. Accompanying the revelatory photographs is commentary and reflections by the artists. If you can't make it tonight, the show runs until May 12 but stop by around 6 until 8pm to catch a glimpse of the photographs in the book, meet the author and see clips from an upcoming documentary film. SF Camerawork, 657 Mission St.

Sf Beta
Part of a start-up or thinking of cranking one out? Drop by to meet with your peoples at San Francisco's largest Web 2.0 mixer – mingle with the designers, investors, bloggers and developers of start-ups from Techdirt, bub.blicio.us , Laughing Squid and more. The tickets for the demos and live music in the chic space of Soma's 111 Minna will run you $10-$20 but who can put a price on networking? Oh and did we mention the eats? Worth it alone -- tasty snacks provided by Sauce [link: www.saucesf.com] in Hayes Valley, from 6-9pm at 111 Minna.

The Bizzaro "American Idol"
We've seen signs for this all over the place and we think it's positvely brilliant: it's the Miss American Fido at the Darkroom. The Miss American Fido contest is a search for not the best artist, but the worst artist. Tonight is a contest to find the Worst Word Spoken Wordist (isn't that redundant?). If you wanna perform, sign up at 7:30. If you want to revel in the badness, get there at 8.

By Jenna W., contributing