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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 11 November 2018
‘Why Women Have Better Sex Under Socialism‘ what perfect timing, if you pardon the pun. Kristen R Ghodsee has published a thoroughly researched exploration proclaiming that capitalism is bad for women. She argues, adopting some ideas from socialism ‘women will have better lives’ and of course, this includes sex. Ghodsee, an acclaimed ethnographer and professor of Russian and East European Studies, spent years researching what happened to women in countries that transitioned from state socialism to capitalism. In this book, she analysed many facets of a woman’s life – work, parenting, sex and relationships, community and authority. One chapter, entitled “Women: Like Men, But Cheaper,” she discusses women in the…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 4 October 2018
Mobile photography has capsulated self portraiture, or selfies as they are known. Offering the ultimate notion of control, you’re not trusting someone else to capture you, you’re deciding how to frame yourself, you’re not relying on someone else to make you look good. The paradox at the heart of selfies is that they masquerade as a candid shot but in reality they are posed and often heavily edited. But at least for the younger audience, looking good, is not good enough, you need to look good in extreme scenarios. There’s a blurring between the lines of reality and fantasy, until they collapse into one another. Such was the case this…
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Grand Flickr Group Showcase of 2016 – TheAppWhisperer – Mobile Photography and Art
I had intended to publish our 2016 Grand Flickr Group Showcase of Mobile Photography and Art on Christmas Day this year. I had prepared most of it ahead of time and was relatively well organised to go live on 25 December. However, events took a turn for the worse and as I awoke after a thoroughly turbulent night on the morning of 24 December, I picked up my phone and saw a Facebook message coming through from a friend expressing how sorry she was for the loss of Carolyn Hall Young a few hours before. For a few moments, I thought I was still in the midst of the wretched…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 4 September 2016
The energy that flows through this weeks Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group Showcase is so rich. Each artist is so talented and their work work flows warmly with qualities akin with emotions, psyche and even symbolism. Please be inspired by this showcase, I’m excited for you to view it. If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art flickr group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. If you would like to view our previous Flickr Group Showcases (please go here). Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Yasuo Furue, Roger Guetta, TheiPhoneArtGirl – Meri…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 14 August 2016
Creative arts and rejection go hand in hand, the latter is almost part of the process. It’s not just within the creative arts that we hanker to be accepted, to suceed, to realise our dreams. We all need each other to thrive, it’s the nature of humanity, human beings need one another. A young child experiencing unconditional love will live, will thrive, will prosper, will flourish, grow and bloom. Love is essential to early development but other than early childhood, rejection is hardly physically life-threatning. But it hurts, rejection in any form hurts, because our feelings are deeply intimate. When we are judged unfairly through untruths, the more upset we…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 17 July 2016
Art and health are in-explicitly linked, we know the obvious health benefits and therapeutic advantages of creating physical art with paintings and photography but also it’s linked with literature and medicine. Many will notice ‘the ‘language barrier’ when visiting a doctor. Sometimes your doctor may not understand your condition because you cannot describe it lucidly enough and in turn, your doctor cannot describe the proposed treatment because he cannot explain it squarely to you. Language is integral to medicine, as an art, this means language is integral to our health. Chekhov famously quipped: “Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 10 July 2016
I need to tell you this, “your mobile photography and art is a gift, you are all highly intelligent story tellers. Your art posses the charm to embed itself into all who view it, into their psyche“. This is what originally motiviated and attracted me and it continues to do so, your imagery. “We also have a beautiful community, this is hugely motivating and rewarding to all. This weeks showcase of your art, is a symphony of passion, insatiable longing with unquenchable desire to to learn more. A burst of brilliance explosive, sparkling touch, the climax is like no other. Enjoy!“ If you would like your work to be considered for…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 26 June 2016
“Never say you know the last word about any human heart”, a quotation by Henry James from the rich tapestry of a book I am currently reading, Any Human Heart by William Boyd. Art links all around us and we need to be able to tie it altogether, to make it whole. Human expression within this weeks mobile photography and art Flickr Group Showcase, speaks to us. Worldly wise, yet perilously frail, many of these images demonstrate the agony and ecstasy of love and life lived. This weeks showcase is a wholly humane romance and a worthy treat for all of us. Enjoy! If you would like your work to…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase – 19 June 2016
This weeks Mobile Photography & Art Flickr Group Showcase is a vivid chronicle of our era. This is not only prevalent in the choice of technology used but also in the way it encompasses our emotional worlds in startling detail. Each image demonstrates acute visual descriptive prowess with piercing intelligence. Enjoy! If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art flickr group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. If you would like to view our previous Flickr Group Showcases (please go here). Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Jun Yamaguchi, Candice (CLAY3) Railton, Marco…
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Mobile Photography and Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 28 June 2015 – TheAppWhisperer
The high level of mobile photography and art represented in this weeks’ curated set is incredible. It’s truly beautiful and I am sure you will all enjoy this as much as I do. If you would like to be considered for our weekly Flickr Group Showcase, please upload your images to our dedicated Flickr group, for this section, here Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week: Mateusz Jaszak, Serdar Turkoglu, Marco Lamberto, Roger Guetta, borisbschulz2009, Lorenka Campos, Christophe Brutel, Lea Lovora, Vivi, Claude Panneton, Eliza Badoiu, Dixon Hamby, Marco Lamberto, Shel Serkin, Roger Guetta, Sandra Becker, Aylin Argun, Jiri Dvorak, Alain Paris, Vanessa Vox, Jun Yamaguchi,…
