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Mostly Mobile Photography & Mobile Art – Tickle Your Fancy #52
Welcome back to our fifty second post in our ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ section. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art. Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site. We really hope you enjoy these articles over…
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The Presidential Campaign Captured with an iPhone 6
This is an interesting article by my friend Olivier Laurent for Time; “photographer Brooks Kraft usually carries two camera bodies and four lenses with him when he covers a presidential campaign. This year, however, as six presidential candidates from parties descended on New Hampshire to campaign on Independence Day, Kraft left his cameras in his hotel room. Instead, he went out with just an iPhone 6 Plus”. Read more here
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TIME’s Lightbox Follow Friday Photographer Series
TIME Lightbox have a wonderful new series where they feature the work of photographers using Instagram in new and engaging ways. Each week they introduce a photographer befind their feed through his or her images and follow it up with an interview. The latest photographer to be picked up is Matt Black (@mattblack_blackmatt), who charts the physical terrain of economic inequality in his Geography of Poverty project. He says Instagram has allowed him to explore the connection between cartography and photography as he builds a map of modern poverty in pictures. Really fascinating, read and view more here.
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TIME’s Lightbox Follow Friday Photographer Series
TIME Lightbox have a wonderful new series where they feature the work of photographers using Instagram in new and engaging ways. Each week they introduce a photographer befind their feed through his or her images and follow it up with an interview. The latest photographer to be picked up is Redux photographer Q. Sakamaki (@qsakamaki) – described by TIME as ‘vivid Instragram photos produced almost exclusively with his iPhone. His gracefully composed images – made from around the world from Central Part to Fukushima – have appeared in TIME, Rolling Stone, Newsweek and Reader’s Digest’. Read the full interview here
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Magic Piano Finally Comes To The iPhone
From concert pianists to harmonic hamsters, Magic Piano has captured the imagination of the world. Finally, the #1 iPad piano app is available on the iPhone and FREE for the world to enjoy! Featured in the New York Times, TIME and MacWorld, Magic Piano lets you experience the joy of making music. Choose from the largest song catalog of any piano app and play effortlessly by following beams of light. From classical to pop, Mozart to Lady Gaga, play the songs you love. Enjoy new songs every week! Hot new hits are constantly added to the app, so check back for new releases and suggest songs on Smule’s Facebook…
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iPad Issues Of Time, Fortune And Sports Illustrated Now Free
The headline sounds great, but there is catch but it’s not all bad. The Wall Street Journal reports that Time Warner, the parent company of publisher Time, Inc., has finalized a deal with Apple that allows subscribers of its print magazines to download digital versions for the iPad for free. The arrangement goes into effect immediately and includes Time, Fortune, and Sports Illustrated magazines and their respective iPad apps. "Subscribers to Sports Illustrated, Time and Fortune magazines will be able to access the iPad editions via the apps, which will be able to authenticate them as subscribers". The Time Magazine iPad app has already received an update this morning that…
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Our App Of The Day – Flipboard, updated – 03/11/11
Named Apple’s iPad App of the Year and one of TIME’s top 50 innovations of 2010, Flipboard is a fast, beautiful way to flip through the news, photos and updates your friends are sharing on Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, Flickr and Instagram. See your social media in a magazine layout that is easy to scan and fun to read. Share articles and photos, comment on posts, and like or favorite anything. Customize your Flipboard with sections created from your favorite news, people, blogs and topics. As our App of Day, all our regular readers know the trailer for this app will feature on every page of our site for a…
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Now You Can Read iPad Magazines For Free
That is correct if you are already a subscriber to the print version of course. People magazine is leading the way with Time, Sports Illustrated and Fortune expected to follow within the next 30 days. Previously it was necessary to pay up to $5.99 for each iPad version of these magazines even if you were already a subscriber to the printed version. But now that Apple has made it possible for one title, other magazines will want to follow suit. It’s not clear what took so long. Publishers who were encouraged to build iPad apps by Steve Jobs himself say were ready from the start to make them free to…
