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Fairphone and Honest Mobile launch industry first sustainable smartphone with a carbon negative mobile network
Fairphone, the Dutch social enterprise building a market for ethical smartphones, and Honest Mobile, the UK’s only B Corp certified mobile network, announce the launch of the first ever carbon negative and sustainable mobile proposition. The B Corps are joining forces to offer UK smartphone users with an industry first: a sustainable smartphone with the world’s first carbon negative mobile network. “We want to show the industry – and consumers – that it’s possible to do things differently in the smartphone industry. Our partnership with Honest Mobile is proving to the electronics industry that making people and planet an integral part of doing business is a viable option. We’re excited to join forces with an…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 21 March 2021
Marcel Proust describes, In Search of Lost Time, his own experiences of ‘involuntary memories‘, these are profound and unexpected glimpses of the past triggered by mundane and everyday experiences. Escaping time, is in essence the affect of ‘involuntary memories‘, they return us to past events. Photography, is the perfect medium to use as the physical connection to illustrate and explore this. Susan Sontag pronounced that, all photographs are memento mori, to take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. (Sontag, 1979: 15). According to Roland Barthes photographs…
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Brand New Podcast with Mobile Artist Marco Prado from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
We are delighted to announce that our latest podcast has just been published to our Apple podcast channel and our other vast social media links. This time we speak with Award Winning Mobile Artist, Marco Prado from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. In this episode Prado talks with TheAppWhisperer – Joanne Carter, discussing his unique style of mobile art and how it changed in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic. He also talks about his workflow, techniques and much more. Link to Marco Prado’s podcast within our Apple Podcast channel Recently we also published four podcast’s, one with Award Winning Photographer and author, Paul Toussaint from Manhattan, New York. If you missed that,…
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Brand New Podcast with Mobile Photographer/Artist Rita Colantonio from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States
We are delighted to announce that our latest podcast has just been published to our Apple podcast channel and our other vast social media links. This time we speak with Award Winning Mobile Artist, Rita Colantonio from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States. In this episode Colantonio discusses her art background, her influences, her favourite apps, our essay for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words‘ and of course the future of mobile art. Link to Rita Colantonio’s podcast within our Apple Podcast channel Recently we also published three podcast’s, one with Award Winning Photographer and author, Paul Toussaint from Manhattan, New York. If you missed that, please go here. Another with Award Winning…
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Brand New Collection of Limited Edition Prints by Peter Wilkin Available in Our Print Gallery Today
We are delighted to announce today our brand new collection of Limited Edition Prints by Multi Award Winning Artist, Peter Wilkin are available within our Online Print Gallery. Peter Wilkin from Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom is a highly experienced and awarded mobile artist. To have someone interpret our story, to know what we’ve endured, experienced, sustained and to vocalise it back to us, is what we all most long for. Peter Wilkin’s art meets us at this level, perhaps offering the ultimate allure, to have our own story retold to us. Yearning, moribund, caring, all brush up against each other in this selection of art, you can edge right up to it, be…
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Brand New Podcast with Mobile Photographer/Artist Clint Cline from Florida, United States
We are delighted to announce that our latest podcast has just been published to our Apple podcast channel and our other vast social media links. This time we speak with Award Winning Mobile Artist, Clint Cline from Florida, United States. In this episode Cline discusses his art background, his interests and influences, his motivations and of course the future. Clint will be joining our online gallery soon and he talks about the work he will be bringing to our new platform. Don’t miss it. Link to Clint Cline’s podcast within our Apple Podcast channel Last week we also published two podcast’s, one with Award Winning Photographer and author, Paul Toussaint…
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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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Brand New Podcast with Mobile Photographer/Artist Peter Wilkin from Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
We are delighted to announce that our latest podcast has just been published to our Apple podcast channel and our other vast social media links. This time we speak with Award Winning Mobile Photographer, Peter Wilkin from Yorkshire, England, UK. In this episode Wilkin discusses his art background, his interests and editing techniques in mobile art, his motivation to continue with mobile art, his workflow and his new art series coming to our online gallery soon. Don’t miss it. Link to Peter Wilkin’s podcast within our Apple Podcast channel Earlier this week we also published a podcast with another Award Winning Photographer and author, Paul Toussaint from Manhattan, New York.…
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Brand New Podcast with Mobile Photographer/Artist Paul Toussaint from Manhattan, New York, US
Brand New Podcast with Mobile Photographer/Artist Paul Toussaint from Manhattan, New York, US We are delighted to announce that our latest podcast has just been published to our Apple podcast channel. This time we speak with Award Winning Mobile Photographer, Paul Toussaint from Manhattan, New York, United States. Toussaint has a new book out entitled ‘iPhone Photography for Everybody – iPhone App Techniques – Before & After‘, it is published by Amherst Media. In this podcast we discuss this book with Toussaint as well as his mobile photography techniques and future plans, don’t miss it. We are also excited to be giving away three copies of this book to readers…
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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…