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Seventh Assignment Announced ‘Ladylike’ for our Forthcoming Book ‘Away with Words’
In January 2019, we announced a brand new Assignment section to TheAppWhisperer offering an opportunity for mobile photographers and artists to enter into a monthly assignment on a subject matter that we have individually crafted. This new section is another ground breaking topic within our community. Like so many of the sections within TheAppWhisperer, has not been done before, in this way. Today, we are announcing our seventh Assignment with the topic entitled ‘Lady Like’. We would like to see images thinking about body language, with gestural meanings, symbolism – all in relation to ‘ladylike’ – the female gaze. Photographic images have reflected and shaped culture since the inception of the medium…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,126) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and twenty six of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @martiloi – Martina Loiola with this image entitled ‘le nostre guerre perdute (our lost wars)‘. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To view more of her work, please go here
Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 6 October 2019
One of the treatments I have commenced at hospital this week, is to take part in a six week course of Chi Kung and I’ve been practising it at home ever since, much to the amusement of those who I share my life with. Chi is considered to be the flow of energy through the universe. It is said to flow through channels in the human body and if blocked can lead to poor health. Chi kung involves performing movements that stimulate the flow of chi through the body. As such, it is often referred to as “meditation in motion”. You don’t need to be fit or athletic to do…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,125) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and twenty five of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @nicolechristophe – Nicole Christophe with this image entitled ‘Try Again’. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To view more of her work, please go here
Mobile Photography & Art Saturday Poetry – ‘Self-Portrait with Weeping Woman’ by Deborah Paredez
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Self-Portrait with Weeping Woman’ by Deborah Paredez. “There is so much horror these days, but there’s a long history of terror thrust into the lives of brown folks and a long history of women standing on the shore raging against it. The sonnet is the envelope into which I’ve been folding my scrawled letters lately, and in this one I wanted to honor those women—mythic and real—whose refusal to relinquish their grief and rage catalysed epic transformations for them and offered me a way of knowing and moving through the world”, explains Paradez. Paredez received a PhD from Northwestern University.…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,124) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and twenty four of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @davidhappydog with this image entitled ‘divorce’, from his ‘Children of Divorce’ series. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To view more of his work, please go here
Mobile Photography & Art – ‘Intimate Interview’ with Phyllis Shenny from New Jersey, United States
Our sixty ninth interview in this new series of intimate interviews is with talented mobile photographer and artist Phyllis Shenny from New Jersey, United States. You may know her work from her popular Instagram account @phyllisshenny. Shenny’s interview is the terrain that awakens both the reader and viewer to the effects of sickness, health and above all, hope. It overflows its boundaries both with heartening art and with faith, in words and communication. Enjoy! To read the other published interviews in this series including artists, Adria Ellis, Rino Rossi, Mehmet Duyulmus, Alexis Rotella, Lou Ann Sanford Donahue, Irene Oleksiuk, Kerry Mitchell, Filiz Ak, Dale Botha, Lisa Mitchell, M. Cecilia Sao…
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Laphroaig Unveils Pop-up Smokehouse at London Cocktail Week
Wellllll, didn’t you know? It’s cocktail week in London next week, so what did you expect? It’s not all work and no play here at TheAppWhisperer HQ ,we are allowed out sometimes and it seems we won’t have long to wait. Laphroaig is launching a pop-up Smokehouse bar serving smoky cocktails at London Cocktail Week. Members of the public have the chance to choose exactly how smoky they want their drink from “Gently Smoked” through to the intense “Bonfire Bite”. I feel some great photography opportunities coming on, but really you don’t need to look for an ‘excuse’ to attend. Guests can choose exactly how smoky they would like their…
Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,123) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and twenty three of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. Today, we congratulate @guryanova_phone – Oxana Guryanova with this image entitled ‘Me. From Russia with…’. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag #theappwhisperer. To view more of her work, please go here
Building an Online Portfolio for Your Art: A Guide
An artist’s online portfolio is very much like their creative resume in the modern world and can open the door to earning an income as a result of their talent and passion. It’s often the first place someone will visit when they learn of your work before they decide whether or not they want to contact or buy from you and you will get paid from home for your art work. This should go without saying, but your portfolio should show your very best work in high quality images, i.e. without camera flash, odd backgrounds, shadows or poor lighting. Showcase work that tells visitors who you are as an artist…
