Tickle Your Fancy – A New Section!
Taking a leaf out of Gigaom’s recent post, we’re introducing a new section for your perusal on Saturday mornings. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ will include a roundup of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art.
Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt this would make a great title for this section of the site.
Take a look at our selections for this weekends reading session, hope you enjoy this.
The Art Of The Phony
A fabulous read by Charles Hope where he reviews three forged art books and discusses the history of forgery in ernest, not just from an art point of view but comparing it with other counterfeit forgeries of modern times and noting how obviously drugs and banknotes are of course criminal offenses (as is art) but reviewing the changing attitudes towards it within the art world – a great read – go here.
Bigshot Camera
A great idea to educate young children to the dynamics of photography. Essentially it’s a kit cam and includes video tutorials to help you put it together. Once complete the 3-megapixel shooter produces ‘fair’ images but it’s the science and learning process that we love about this project – find out more here.
Pixel Cheat Sheet
An interesting article over on our linked site dpreview connect, explains LunaMetrics useful cheat sheet showing the pixel dimensions of ‘about every component’ on the major social networking sites. So, if you want your images to look their best on Facebook for example, this cheat sheet will give you the precise pixel dimensions – go here to find out more.
Using Smartphones To Cure Diseases While You Sleep
Bloomberg published an interesting article relating to a new Android app, Bonic that was recently released allowing the user to select from a list of project to donate their smartphone’s processing power to. Fascinating read.
Julianne Moore: ‘Can we talk about something else now?’
A wonderful interview with Julianne Moore discussing her latest film, ‘What Maisie Knew’. It’s bursting with fabulous art and talent and unusually for Moore, no sex. In the past Moore has played junkies, porn stars and alcoholics, this new film is different but still very emotive. I really enjoyed this interview, she has an uncanny way of acting incredibly naturally in sex scenes and Simon Hattenstone doesn’t hold back in asking her how she manages to do that. Read more here.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
3 Comments
Lola Mitchell
Joanne! what a wonderful new column!
Stef LP
Yes! Great new column. Are you open to suggestions?
Joanne Carter
Of course, please send anything through to me at my email address – Joanne@theappwhisperer.com, thanks so much.