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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 28 February 2021
‘Revelations‘ by Mark Stevens and Annalyn Swan, is a new biography on Francis Bacon. Following his death in 1992, an abundance of books, mostly including personal accounts from his friends, were produced and thus contained an abundance of revelations, but just when you think you’ve read and know it it all, can there be anything left to say? Yes, there is actually. This book is much more focused on his early life and career, which were initially quite mundane. But that soon changed, as he fled to London aged 17, escaping his imperceivable father, with an allowance from his mother and accompanied by his nanny, who actually accompanied everywhere until…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 21 February 2021
With incredulous timing, Robin Dunbar’s latest book ‘Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships‘ has been published, when so many of us are experiencing acute loneliness. In the United Kingdom, we are still under the strictest lockdown rules and many of us are shielding too, signifying we cannot leave our properties, at all. We are craving human contact with our friends and families and we worry if they or ourselves will end up being just another sad statistic on the news. Dunbar’s book helps us to understand how physical friendships, whether romantic or platonic activate our endorphin system, nourishing our bodies and our brains. Without its release, we…
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4 Ways Businesses Can Stay Ahead of the Technology Trends
When it comes to keeping up, a book is not going to do it. You need news. The most up-to-date possible news. Search engines like Google and Bing can be set up to send you alerts right to your email box when there is something new that occurs in your industry that you should know about. Be sure to hit the feature in Google first as they are the indisputable champion when it comes to search engines. Hail Marys sometimes work. Industries such as construction often benefit from streamlined services like construction site debris removal to maintain efficiency and safety on-site, therefore utilizing alerts and the latest news allows your…
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Google News Showcase is launching in the U.K.
Today, Google have announced News Showcase, their new product experience and licensing program for news, will begin rolling out with local, national and independent publishers in the U.K. As part of their licensing agreements with publishers, they’re also launching the ability for readers to access select paywall content. This feature will give readers the opportunity to read more of a publisher’s content than they would otherwise have access to, while enabling publishers to encourage readers to become a subscriber. In the U.K, Google has signed partnerships with publishers such as Archant, DC Thomson, Evening Standard, The Financial Times, Iliffe Media, The Independent, Midland News Association, New Statesman, Newsquest, JPI Media,…
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HONOR Partners with Affinity to Empower Productivity and Creativity
Global technology brand HONOR has partnered with creative software provider Affinity to provide HONOR MagicBook customers an exclusive 50% discount across Affinity’s suite of professional and creative apps including Affinity Photo, Affinity Designer and Affinity Publisher in the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Italy, France and Czech Republic. Get Inspired with HONOR MagicBook Pro and Affinity From the smoothest, fastest photo editing and graphic design software to the most powerful publishing software, the Affinity creative suite push the boundaries of what’s possible with creative technology. Paired with the HONOR MagicBook, students will be able to boost their creativity and enhance their content to a professional standard. To demonstrate how technology can…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 23 January 2021
In Ways of Seeing, John Berger discusses Rembrandt’s self portrait painting when he was aged 58 and contrasts this with an earlier self portrait painting when he was 28 – thirty years apart, explaining that the latter portrait only reveals ‘an advertisement for the sitter’s good fortune, prestige and wealth’. It was painted in 1634, in the year of Rembrandt’s first marriage. He is flamboyantly showing off his bride, not knowing that withing six years she will be dead. The painting is cited to sum up the happy period of his life. It was also during this period of history that oil painting was betoken to be ‘a celebration of…
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How to Create Story Ideas That Appeal to Newsmakers
People don’t create news, not in the traditional sense. Instead, stories happen and we manage to collect what has occurred and transform it into something. This story takes on a spin, or new meaning, or a new life. Whatever the event in question is, or the report, or the opinion, it takes on a meaning that is given to it by the person who is responsible for transforming it into something that people want to engage with. Making engaging news stories is also not easy, because a news story has to be an event in question that is already something worth talking about, worth investing time in, or worth keeping…
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Assignment ‘Deadpan’ – Result and Eighth Essay with Glenn Homann for our Forthcoming Book – Away with Words
I am truly delighted to publish our eighth essay for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words‘. Our chapter this time was entitled ‘Deadpan‘ and we received a vast array of submissions. Eventually, we settled on this image by Glenn Homann, we feel it fulfilled the brief for Deadpan, generally meaning devoid of emotion. It is a subject that exists but it seems empty. There is no happiness and there’s no sorrow. It is honest work, it is detached art. It asks more questions than it answers. Many congratulations to Glenn and I hope you all enjoy reading my essay. Please note that this section is not a ‘typical challenge’ section,…
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Mobile Photography / Art New Year Resolutions 2021 From Artists Throughout The World
2020 has been an unstable and blistering year and the idea of making New Year Resolutions for 2021 seems overwhelming. Susan Rennie, an Award Winning Mobile Artist from California, expressed it so well, she wants “to slough off the pandemic carapace of terror, debilitation and devitalisation and recover my pre-pandemic eagerness, energy, enjoyments, explorations in creativity”. And Award Winning artist Lisa Cirenza, who managed to relocate from the UK to France during the pandemic expressed “at one point during my battle with C-Beast, I found I really didn’t think I’d ever have the energy to accept and reflect, to lead a creative life again full of roads unknown“. For Kate…
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Harbortouch Elite Review
Overview Harbortouch is a low-cost POS solution that specifically targets small to medium businesses. Its solutions are specially designed for restaurants, saloons, small retail shops, bars, and delivery services. Unlike many other POS providers, Harbotouch POS does not require any upfront payment, but users must use the system for at least three years. The POS solution is cloud-based, which allows access from different locations, and it has tailor-made software for different business categories. The merchant offers two POS plans – Harbotouch Echo and Harbotouch Elite. Harbortouch Echo is for small businesses, while the Elite targets bigger establishments. This review will focus on Harbortouch Elite. Features Harbortouch Elite has many exciting…
