iOS Photography App – Impossible Project – Major Update
As you all know we’re working much closer with the Imposible Project team and we’re delighted to inform our readers of their first major update to their app. Designed in collaboration with Berlin-based developers, nxtbgthng, the free iOS app enables users to transform any digital photo stored on an iPod Touch and iPhone 4s, 5, 5s and 5c into a Polaroid-type analog instant picture via the new Impossible Instant Lab.
But it also offers so much more, not least that there will soon also be an Android version – due for release mid 2014.
Here are 6 things you probably didn’t know about the Impossible Project app:
It Puts An Impossible Shop in Your Pocket…
The in-app shop allows you to browse and purchase directly from your phone Impossible’s entire range of instant films for Polaroid-type SX-70, 600, Spectra/Image and 8 x 10, as well as the classic, refurbished Polaroid cameras and their own Impossible Instant Lab, no matter where you are.
… And The Impossible Gallery Too
Impossible’s entire global community, along with your own Impossible Gallery, is now at your fingertips. You can upload and share your instant photos, as well as discover, ‘like’, and comment on images from users around the world. Thanks to improvements in the design, the Gallery is more fluid, intuitive and fun experience, and interaction with others is easier than ever.
It Brings Your Impossible Profile to Life
With Impossible’s push notifications. you won’t miss another ‘like’, comment, upcoming event or news from a friend, follower or the wider Impossible world. You can browse data about followers and their photos (and your own).
It’s A Portable Scanner
No time to digitise your instant photographs on a bulky desktop scanner? The app’s Scanner function means you can scan and crop your images perfectly with your phone.
It Puts Impossible’s Online Competitions in Your Pocket
Each month, Impossible run international instant photography competitions that offer a range of exciting prizes. The app makes them easy to enter.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
