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Mobile Photography & Art – Saturday Poetry – Self-Compassion – James Crews
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘Self-Compassion’ by James Crews. He is the author of The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy (Storey Publishing, 2022) and the co-founder of the Poetry of Resilience seminars. Crews wrote ‘Self-Compassion’ the summer after the pandemic first began. He explained ‘when I felt so worried for the state of our country and planet, when everything in our individual lives also seemed to be falling apart—the leaky pipe, my husband’s health. I’m a recovering cynic, so self-care practices can still seem silly to me, but in this case, I had no choice but to be kind to myself, the wise…
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Mobile Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with James Bacchi from San Francisco, US
We are delighted to publish the nineteenth of our newly styled interview entitled ‘Mobile Artists on Their Artistry’. Within this interview, we ask highly successful mobile artists twenty questions about their backgrounds, their work, social media, how Covid-19 has influenced their creative life and so much more… Today, we are proud to feature James Bacchi, he is a San Francisco/Palm Springs based Award Winning iPhoneographer and Curator. #inthesky is an inspired series of mobile photographs. Shot spontaneously, these images portray the volatile relationship between the sky and the urban landscape. Each image contrasts fleeting moments of beauty, strength and vulnerability. Muses for this ongoing series, which began in 2015, are San Francisco, Palm Springs, New York, Las…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘The Lonely Sleep Through Winter’ Kemi Alabi
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘The Lonely Sleep Through Winter’ by Kemi Alabi. Born in Wisconsin in 1990, Kemi Alabi earned their BA in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston University. Their first full-length poetry collection, Against Heaven, was selected by Claudia Rankine to receive the 2021 Academy of American Poets First Book Award. They live in Chicago. I have matched artwork by @ja_graham – Jennifer Graham with this image entitled “In common with most people of artistic perception, I like trees. While looking out of my window toward the wooded hills one summer night, a caravan of camels seemed to be traveling across the sky.…
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,653) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, six hundred and fifty three of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @effe5 – Guido Colla with this image untitled. To view his Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer
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Mobile Photography Tutorial – iPhoneography Apps – Using Style>Toon in iColorama
We are delighted to publish this new tutorial by award winning mobile artist and our resident tutorial editor, Jerry Jobe. This time Jobe takes a deep dive into using the style Toon in hugely popular art app, iColorama. Take a look at this video tutorial below (foreword by Joanne Carter). The new Toon feature (January 2022) in iColorama is an AI that sketches your image. It is configured for faces, and has no real user controls. But it can be manipulated to achieve nice results.
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,651) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, six hundred and fifty one of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @jbjobby – Julia Badakhshan with this image untitled. To view her Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,650) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, six hundred and fifty of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @clau_clara – Claú Clará with this image entitled ‘The Tragic Comedy of Life’. To view her Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.
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Cindy Karp Joins our Mobile Photographer & Artists Portfolio Profiles
We are building the largest and most comprehensive portfolio of mobile photographers and mobile artists in the world and we are delighted to welcome Cindy Karp’s portfolio today. View her portfolio profile here. We continue to build our directory of portfolios and we need your help. If you would like to be included in this comprehensive directory, viewed by millions of organisations throughout the world, then please submit a selection of twelve images, either an artist’s statement or description of your work and social media links. Send this information via WeTransfer or Dropbox to joannetheappwhisperer@protonmail.com Although we do not ask for any payment for this service, many artists do contribute,…
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (1,649) via Instagram
Here’s day one thousand, six hundred and forty nine of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @debergenseboekenkast – Michèle Polak with this image ‘Blues’. To view her Instagram account, please go here. Each day we select one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram, with this hashtag #theappwhisperer.
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Mobile Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with Phyllis Shenny from New Jersey, United States
We are delighted to publish the eighteenth of our new styled interview entitled ‘Mobile Artists on Their Artistry’. Within this interview, we ask highly successful mobile artists twenty questions about their backgrounds, their work, social media, how Covid-19 has influenced their creative life and so much more… Today, we are proud to feature Award Winning mobile artist Phyllis Shenny who resides in New Jersey, United States. Shenny teaches therapeutic mobile art within the Cancer Support Community to help patients process what they are going through in a creative way. To read our other interviews in this series with Jane Schultz, Susan Latty, Cindy Karp, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Deborah Kleven Morbeto, Patty Larson, Adrian McGarry,…