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From Ashes to Art: Supporting Roger Guetta
We’ve just received the heartbreaking news that award-winning mobile artist Roger Guetta has lost his home and all of his belongings in a devastating fire. Thankfully, Roger is safe, but all of his artwork, furniture, and personal possessions have been destroyed. A friend has set up a fundraiser to help him get back on his feet. If you’re in a position to offer support, please consider donating via this link.
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What Apps Are We Using This Month? with Roger Guetta
Welcome to TheAppWhisperer’s new section, “what apps are we using this month” series, where we discover which apps you are particularly enjoying. Kicking us off today is non-other than Award Winning Mobile Artist, Roger Guetta from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. “After almost four decades of teaching, I am now happily retired. After experimenting with a few blending apps, I have settled for using Image Blender to super impose and mask my images. I use it in tandem with Snapseed to render and mostly complete. So most of my work is a matter of jumping back and forth with with these two apps. I use Stackables and Formulas to add texture at times. In conclusion, I…
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Mobile Photography / Art – The Pocket Laboratory Manifesto with Roger Guetta and Bonobo Stone
I am very excited to reveal a new column here at TheAppWhisperer entitled ‘The Pocket Laboratory Manifesto’ this will be edited by two highly accomplished mobile photographers/artists, Roger Guetta and Bonobo Stone. In their own words they explain: “We both live in Montreal but only sometimes bump into each other at a coffee joint we both frequent. It took a distance of 2,500 miles for us to collaborate on this document. The pocket laboratory manifesto is an absurdist’s interpretation of digital art contrived by us both and inspired by a text chat on Facebook that was both irrational and profound, this tiny manifesto is a digital artist call to arms.…
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Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview “What do you think Makes a Good Mobile Photograph?” with Roger Guetta from Canada
TrueView Interviews, it’s where we ask one singular question and it is captured to video. This time we asked Roger Guetta from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, ‘What do you think makes a good Mobile Photograph?’. Many artists are working on their videos right now and each video is as unique and individual as each artist. We are fully conscious and respectful that you are all capturing a part of yourself and sharing it with us and we love it. Thank you. If you would like to view our previous TrueView Interviews, please go here. Roger Guetta Contact Details: Website Flickr Facebook
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Tremble’ by Major Jackson with Roger Guetta
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Tremble’ and is by Major Jackson. “Major Jackson’s books of poems are Holding Company (2010, Norton) and Hoops (2006, Norton), both finalists for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literature-Poetry, and Leaving Saturn (2002, University of Georgia Press), which was awarded the Cave Canem Poetry Prize for a first book of poems and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in poetry. He is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award and has been honored by the Pew Fellowship in the Arts and the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress. Jackson is the Richard Dennis Green and…
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Showering of Love – Appstracts Mobile Art Group with Roger Guetta
Recently the Mobile Art Facebook Group Appstracts hosted on Facebook and run by one of our very own Columnists Roger Guetta, hosted a very touching mobile art challenge. The Challenge was for all the artists within this group to show their love for me by creating a unique image. The results are true testament to the tenderness and ability of our community of mobile artists and photographers and also the love story that we all share. The meticulous detail and thought that each and every mobile artist has put into this challenge sweeps me away. Your love beseeches me to revere your mobile art that awakens, sustains and nourishes all…
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‘Brought To Light’ – Mobile Photography / Art Interview with Roger Guetta (Draman)
There is something intensely romantic about Roger Guetta and his imagery. One of the finest mobile artists in the world today, Guetta is a painter of the mysteries of perception and being. His vision, accurately understood, is one of the most liberating ever created in mobile art. This is our new interview section for mobile photographers and mobile artists and we hope to be filling it very soon with vast explosions of thought and imagery. These questions are designed to explore the artist behind the work, to get to know them a little more intimately. We recently published our first ‘Brought to Light’ Interview with Andrea Bigiarini, Founder of the…
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TrueView Interviews – “What does your Work say about Mobile Photography?” with Roger Guetta
Today, we are publishing a brand new TrueView Interview video, this time with the truly wonderful and talented Mobile Photographer and artist, Roger Guetta. We asked him, “What does your Work say about Mobile Photography?” – please watch the video and enjoy his answer… This is a new section to TheAppWhisperer, we are so proud of all the wonderful artists who are contributing to our new section, ‘TrueView Interviews‘ is where we ask one singular question ‘What does your work say about Mobile Photography and/or Art?’ and it’s captured to video. This is such an exciting area, so many of you are working on your videos right now, we all…
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Portrait of an Artist Interview with Roger Guetta by Jennifer Bracewell
We are delighted to publish our sixth Portrait of an Artist interview to this very special column, edited by Jennifer Bracewell. This week Jennifer has interviewed Roger Guetta who is not only one of our wonderful Columnists, see here but also a wonderful artist and Professor of Theatre Arts in Montreal, where he has worked for 30 years. Prior to that Roger spent many years in the field running his own theatre, painting and experimenting in photographic techniques. He has also been involved in the film business as screenwriter and producer. His works during that period where shown in both Montreal and Toronto galleries. Over to you Jen, (foreword by…
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The Guetta Fringe – Art’s Purpose – By Roger Guetta
We’re delighted to publish Roger Guetta’s latest article to his ‘The Guetta Fringe’ Column with us. This time Roger delves into the very depths of the meaning of art. We have created a video showcase of Roger’s images as well as including each one separately below too. Don’t miss this… over to you Roger (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I sometimes ask myself: “Roger, why do you produce art?” Mick Jagger once said: “What else would I be doing in this life, meditate on a mountain?” Bob Dylan once said: “I do it for one reason or another, but I can’t remember what the reason is anymore.” Jasper Johns…
