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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 4 April 2021
“The feelings of desperation and unhappinness are more useful to an artist than the feeling of contentment, because desperation and unhappinness stretch your whole sensibility”. A quote by Francis Bacon but one I disagree with. Rufus Wainwright once admitted that he was terrified to settle down into a happy relationship, because without the emotional drama that came from all those dysfunctional love affairs, he was afraid of losing access to ‘that dark lake of pain’ he felt was critical to his music. I disagree that we should all be addicted to suffering, we need to be able to trust pleasure and utilise it to help create art. Too many artists…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 31 January 2021
There is an area of photography that really interests me, actually it’s a ‘technique’ rather than an ‘area’ and it is applied in combination with ‘co-counselling’. It is called ‘visual reframing’ and essentially one image is examined (at a time) and each person discusses what it represents to them and how they would like to ‘change it’. This is not to mean ‘change it’ in the sense of photo manipulation but therapeutically change the impression of what we think it is about. When you go through the process of ‘reframing’ you’re essentially, internally giving yourself permission to change, to let go, to move on. One thing it is not, is…
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Mobile Photography & Art Instagram Showcase – 16 August 2020
Walk with me.. I’ve been lecturing on Sophie Calle this week. Calle became known for creating emotional artwork from her own personal experiences. She once spontaneously followed and photographed a stranger, a man, all the way to Italy. Another time, she found a lost address book and interviewed and photographed everyone within it about the owner and then published the results in a French newspaper. One time, she chanced a job as a chambermaid in a Venetian hotel, just so she could photograph all the mess and details left behind. Even before my dear friend Tracey Emin portrayed her famous bed, Calle opened up her own bed and invited strangers…
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Mobile Photography – App of the Day – Video LUT iPhone App Giveaway Today – Worth $4.99
We curate mobile photography, art and video apps here at TheAppWhisperer with great care, only highlightlighting ones that are worthy of your time and experience allowing you to work at a more rewarding level. Today, we are offering promotional codes to another app from the developers of the fabulous app iColorama, called Video LUT worth $4.99. The developer of Video LUT Teresita Alonso Garit, explains,“it is like Lightroom, but with 1500 colour filters and some tools hard to find like Vectorscope and RGB Parade. LUTs are like Lightroom presets, in Video LUT you can import them (files ends in .cube) and apply to images and videos. Some people shots videos…
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,170) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and seventy 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 @remintrusions – Damian De Souza with this image entitled ‘the tilted head exposes the carotid artery on the side of the neck and may be a sign of submission and feelings of vulnerability‘. Follow him here
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,169) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and sixty nine 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 @diane.neubauer with this image entitled ‘waiting3‘. Follow her here
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,160) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and sixty 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 @jenburnett – with this stunning image, entitled ‘Sheikh Zayed Mosque’. To view more of her work, please go here.
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Mobile Photography Intimate Interview with Mary Lorincz from Walnut Creek, California, United States
Our eighty ninth interview in this series of intimate interviews is with talented photographer and artist Mary Lorincz from Walnut Creek, California, United States. You may know Lorincz from her popular Instagram account @ms.divination. For Lorincz taking the photograph is only half the work. I imagine that she spends the same, if not more time on her post processing. Within her portraiture she loves deep and extensive areas of sepia and or black and in some cases the background is minimised or eliminated entirely to give greater emphasis to the sitter’s face. Some of the faces are also masked though as if concealment offers a new perspective to humanity, perhaps humanity…
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Mobile Photography & Art – New Assignment for our Forthcoming Book ‘Away with Words’
Whilst I am busy completing the seventh chapter with our selected image for our previous assignment #ladylike, I would like to announce our brand new assignment for the next chapter in our soon to be published book entitled ‘Away with Words’. Our new assignment is ‘Belonging’. We would like to see your interpretations of this assignment. Belonging can be interpreted in many ways, who is accepted and who is not? What is self actualisation in the context of society and religion? What are the artist’s role in pushing boundaries? What is truth and who defines it? What is rejection? What is fear? What is forgiveness? What is courage? This assignment…
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,140) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, one hundred and forty 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 @reneviolence – Rene Valencia with this image, untitled. 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