“SWAROVSKI FOR SAMSUNG” COLLECTION LAUNCHES ON SAMSUNG ONLINE STORE
Do we need crystals for our devices? Samsung seems to think so. I seem to remember receiving some for a very old LG camera phone (before they got smart), many moons ago. The “Swarovski for Samsung” collaboration follows a successful accessories partnership between the two brands at the recent Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week in New York. The collection marks the first time in over 100 years that Swarovski has partnered in a collaboration of this scale, fully integrating its branding into the Samsung collection. Here’s what they say: “With technology and fashion so deeply intertwined, we at Samsung want to support our customers in expressing themselves through technological innovation and great…
iPhone Art Book Now Available – ‘A Small Amount of Courage’ by Karen Divine
We’ve known about this upcoming book for sometime and it’s with great pleasure that we can announce the book is now available. It consists of ’64 images loosely based on the 64 Hexagrams of the iChing. Each image is created first, the understanding and insights followed’. Karen Divine explains, ‘As an artist, tapping into your own creative spirit is, first and foremost, a matter of developing awareness. This inner awareness allows you to quiet the senses and allows the unconscious to reveal rich imagery. As Rainer Maria Rilke expressed so beautifully in Letters to a Young Poet, “describe your sorrows and desires, the thoughts that pass through your mind and…
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day In The Life Of Jennifer A Thomas – A Highly Connected and Talented Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 111th installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Jennifer A Thomas originally from Melbourne in Australia. Thomas has a Fine Arts degree with majors in Sculpture and Printmaking. She has taught Art internationally for the past 12 years and has lived in Tokyo, Brussels and is…
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Cinamatic – New iOS Movie App from Hipstamatic!
Oh yes! Hipstamatic have released a brand new motion movie picture app! When Hipstamatic set out to reinvent photography, they looked at creating a tool that not only captured the pixels, but also captured the emotion of the photographer and the subject. In 2009 they introduced HIPSTAMATIC; focusing on the joy and celebration of analog photography, they created a new experience that inspired the world to fall in love with the square filtered image. Today, as photography has truly become the first and only democratized art medium, they look to the future of video, or as they refer to it, the motion picture. Moving images have been around for nearly…
The Lumen Prize Exhibition – Call For Entries
The Lumen Prize Exhibition, an international prize and global tour for digital fine art, has opened the call for entries for its 2014 prize. The 25 exhibition works, which will be selected by an eminent jury panel of art experts including Bruce Wands, the Founding Chair of BFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts, New York City and Doug Dodds, Senior Curator at the V&A, will travel to Cardiff, London, New York City, Athens and Amsterdam. All forms of digitally created art are welcome, and in the past Lumen has exhibited work ranging from photo-montage and manipulation, to iPad drawings, interactive art, web art, digital sculpture, animation…
VSCO Raises $40 Million From Accel Partners
We’ve all heard of VSCO in the mobile photography community, if nothing else for the #VSCO or #VSCOCam on Instagram. Yesterday the company announced a $40 million investment from Accel Partners, a venture firm, renown for its early investment in Facebook. VSCO; which says that it has a community “tens of millions of people” large — is more than just another app maker. VSCO also sells editing software that emulates the effects of classic analog film photography, which the company says has allowed it to be “cash-flow positive since Day 1,” when the company was founded in 2011. The company employs 43 people in Oakland, Calif., who help run the…
Mobile Photography Interview – A Day In The Life of Armineh Hovanesian – An Incredibly Expressive and Creative Photographer
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After two successful editions, the Unseen Dummy Award is back! Heikki Kaski’s ‘Tranquility’ was announced as the winner at Unseen 2013, and his book will be presented with a festive launch at Unseen 2014. This is fabulous and I know so many of you are working on your own photo books, I hope you submit your individual books to this. Unseen and Lecturis have designed a photobook dummy award to showcase the work of exceptional photographers and designers from around the world and to give them a chance to realise and publish their photobook dummy. The Unseen Dummy Award will give the winning photographer an entry into the international photography industry. An…
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iOS Photography App – Photobooth – Temporarily Free
Photobooth allows you to capture 1950’s vintage photobooth images, without actually being in one. Usually this app for $0.99/£0.69 but you can download it free here today.
