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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 11 November 2018
‘Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism‘ what perfect timing, if you pardon the pun. Kristen R Ghodsee has published a thoroughly researched exploration proclaiming that capitalism is bad for women. She argues, adopting some ideas from socialism ‘women will have better lives’ and of course, this includes sex. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and East European Studies, spent years researching what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism. In this book, she analysed many facets of a woman’s life – work, parenting, sex and relationships, community and authority. One chapter, entitled “Women: Like Men, But Cheaper,” she discusses women in the…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 16 September 2018
I love literature almost as much as I love visual art and this week I’ve been indulging in ‘The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume II, 1956-1963, edited by Peter K Steinberg and Karen Kukil. The relationship between Ted Huges and Sylvia Plath as we know, was astonishing in its intensity and Plath’s letters, deeply private. The tragedy of their lives is no more acute when you consider what could have been, two immensely gifted poets, who found each other and then literally tore each other apart. Hughes who cheated not only physically but emotionally published poems which Plath discovered, each one a passionate love poem to his lover, ‘describing their…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 22 April 2018
This weeks Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase is a love letter, not only to each artist but instinctively to the centrality of art and culture within each of our lives. It’s wholly satisfying, with the trajectory of relationships like lovers, talking themselves in and out of our beds. Light that post-coital cigarette and enjoy! Thank you to all artists for submitting your works. If you would like your work to be considered for entry in to our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: klimtt – Cecilia Sao Thiago,…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Showcase – 15 April 2017
“Mercy is radical kindness. Mercy means offering or being offered aid in desperate straits. Mercy is not deserved. It involves forgiving the debt, absolving the unabsolvable. Mercy brings us to the miracle of apology, given and accepted, to unashamed humility when we have erred or forgotten”. This is a quotation from a new book I have been reading this week by Anne Lamott. I have several of her books and enjoy reading them over and over, this one entitled ‘Hallelujah Anyway’, is just perfect for Easter Day and for our Mobile Photography & Art showcase. You see, mobile imagery is created by some of the most wonderful artists, living today,…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase 22 January 2017
"There were things that burned away at me, not only as a private individual, but also as a citizen of our century, our pixelated age. What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we’re not intimately engaged with another human being? How do we connect with other people, particularly if we don’t find speaking easy? Is sex a cure for loneliness, and if it is, what happens if our body or sexuality is considered deviant or damaged, if we are ill or unblessed with beauty? And is technology helping with these things? Does it draw us closer together, or trap us behind screens"? A quote from…
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Grand Flickr Group Showcase of 2015 – TheAppWhisperer – Mobile Photography and Art
This Grand Flickr Group Showcase of 2015 represents the top favourited images from our Flickr Group – Mobile Photography & Imagery. Each week we produced a showcase and we have selected images from all of those showcases to bring you this epic finale of the year of 2015. There is plenty here (over 200 images and artists featured) to enlarge your sense of mobile photography and mobile art. This showcase will compel you to keep watching and to discover more. You will be heartened, astonished and stunned as you watch, loving it, engrossed in the art. Then as if by chance you will notice, I wash the ground completely beneath…
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Mobile Photography and Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 8 August 2015 – TheAppWhisperer
Wow, this is another week of completely mesmerising, uplifting and incredibly strong mobile photography and art. It’s a huge pleasure to view and curate. I am sure you will also enjoy this as much as I do. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art flickr group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. Many congratulations to the following featured artists this week: Eliza Badoiu, Roger Guetta, Michael Trombley, Grace Brignolle, Meri Walker, Eliza Badoiu, Patricia Geyer, Catherine Caddigan, Jun Yamaguchi, Lorenka Campos, Mimo Khair, Nizamettin Küçüköner, Olga, Alex Visage, John Fullard, Eliza Badoiu, Tricia Dewey, Janine Graf, Jo…
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Mobile Photography and Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 2 August 2015 – TheAppWhisperer
Oh you will love this, it’s another week of fabulous mobile photography and art from all around the world. This work is so strong, it’s a huge pleasure to view and curate. I am sure you will also enjoy this as much as I do. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art flickr group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. Many congratulations to the following featured artists this week: Mark Walton, Keisuke Takahashi, David Hayes, Mimo Khair, Clay Railton, thelcf666, Andy, Hussam Eissa, Lorenka Campos, Geri Centonze, Shams Tabreez, Cathrine Halsor, Chad Rankin, Nick Kenrick, Claude Panneton, Sara…