Mobile Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘February’
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is entitled ‘February’ by Tomiko Beyer. Beyer is a Japanese American, queer femme poet and the author of Last Days (Alice James Books, 2021). Describing this poem Beyer explains, “Over the past few years, in part inspired and encouraged by Robin Wall Kimmerer’s Braiding Sweetgrass, I have slowly been building a relationship with the stolen land that I occupy. I am learning to listen to the land, people, ancestors, seasons, and more-than-human beings of this place. I am trying to live fully in all the seasons—and winter is where I struggle most. This poem, written in February and revised over the summer,…
Mobile Art Pic of the Day (1,660)
Here’s day one thousand, six hundred and sixty of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @marshadraws – Marsha Estes with this image entitled ‘Past abstracts and a pencil drawing ’ 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
Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 30 January 2022
This week, I’d like to talk with you about courage and it’s scary, being creative is a path for the brave. If you lose courage, you lose creativity. Each one of you has hidden treasures within you, as do I and we need to bring them to light and it takes a lot of faith and hard work, not least devotion. It’s important to say ‘no’ at times, I suppose, not that I’m one for that, it’s easy to say ‘no’, you’re off the hook but if you say ‘yes’ then what happens? It’s showtime! There are times, when you might need to lay low, as I have this past…
Mobile Art Pic of the Day (1,657)
Here’s day one thousand, six hundred and fifty seven of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Today, we are proud to select @remnants_captured – Jean with this image entitled ‘The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious but still a faithful interpreter – in the eye’.-Charlotte Brontë. 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
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…
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.…
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.
Smartphone Videography is the Next Big Thing: Trends Unboxed
Making professional videos with the help of smartphones is already a reality. Not to lag behind, read about the pros and cons of smartphone videography, useful tips, and booming 2022 trends. It is impossible to deny that smartphones are replacing professional cameras, and more and more bloggers choose remote devices to generate video content. In the US alone, there will be 205 million smartphone video viewers in 2022. And the number is going to increase in the upcoming years. If you are planning to use mobile movies to establish an online presence and promote your brand, this article can help. Below, we are going to discuss the pros and cons…
