The iRony-phone & the new media world
Written by John MacphersonTwo articles caught my eye this last few days……………….
That was self-confessed “photo geek” Melanie De Arakel, commenting in an article for Wired (edited from a longer original article on Wired/Innovation Insights, since deleted), entitled ‘Move Over DSLRs, ‘iPhoneography’ is Taking Over Professional Photography’
Rob Hart has taken Melanie’s advice and turned the everyday things ‘he’d usually pass by’ into memories with his iPhone.
Subjects such as his former colleagues, his work desk, and his job. All memories.
You can follow Rob’s iPhone adventures as he negotiates his way through this new media landscape on his blog ‘Laid off from the Sun-Times’.
And if all you’re interested in are other people’s dinners, in close up, here you go from Rob’s blog, mystic pizza (and he has pictures of cats and children too, if that’s of more interest). I wonder how long it will be before a self-proclaimed ‘photo geek’ points out that ‘unemployment’ is blurred and they could have done better?
I suspect Rob’s eyes were blurred. Mine would have been too. Salt does that. But there’s the story. From a storyteller.
Unemployed paperwork and cold pizza © Rob Hart
Author — John Macpherson
John MacPherson was born and lives in the Scottish Highlands. He trained as a welder in the Glasgow shipyards, before completing an apprenticeship as a carpenter, and then qualified as a Social Worker in Disability Services. Along the way he has cooked on canal barges, trained as an Alpine Ski Leader & worked as an Instructor for Skiers with disabilities, been a canoe instructor, and tutor of night classes in carpentry, stained glass design and manufacture, and archery. He has travelled extensively on various continents, undertaking solo trips by bicycle, or motorcycle. He has had narrow escapes from an ambush by terrorists, been hit by lightning, caught in an erupting volcano, trapped in a mobile home by a tornado, kidnapped by a dog's hairdresser, rammed by a basking shark and was once bitten by a wild otter. He has combined all this with professional photography, which he has practised for over 35 years. He teaches photography and acts as a photography guide & tutor in the UK and abroad. His biggest challenge is keeping his 30 year old Land Rover 110 on the road. He loves telling and hearing stories.