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…
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.
Deborah Kleven Morbeto 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 Deborah Kleven Morbeto’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…
Discussion on AI Art Apps between Mobile Artists, Jerry Jobe and Meri Walker
I am delighted to publish this discussion on widely popular AI Art Apps between our award winning mobile artist and resident tutorial editor, Jerry Jobe with award winning mobile artist Meri Walker (iphoneartgirl). It is very interesting, enjoy! (foreword by Joanne Carter). Jerry: The mobile art world has been overtaken recently with artificial intelligence (AI). Apps like Wombo Dream and StarryAI take an input text prompt and create wonderful images from it. Naturally, after the initial experimentation has taken place, conversations have arisen on the implications of this new method of creating images. This isn’t a new conversation, of course. AI tools have been in existence for years, helping…
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.
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,…
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.
Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 16 January 2022
“In these last decades ‘concerned’ photography has done at least as much to deaden conscience as to arouse it”, Sontag, S. On Photography (1979). Sontag argued that beleaguering the public with sensationalist photographs of war and poverty was a definitive way to numb the public’s response. Sontag believed that the more distressing images people viewed, the more immune they became to their impact; viewers became reduced to inaction, either through guilt or a dismissive lethargy towards making a difference. Sontag reversed this view in Regarding the Pain of Others (2004), but ‘compassion fatigue’ is still used as an argument against war imagery today. I have been thinking about this a…
