Posts Tagged With: iPhone

The Olympic Torch

Posted on July 28, 2012 by Mark

The stunning culmination of the London 2012 Olympic Games Opening Ceremony, as the torch lights the cauldron, seen here from inside the incredible structure. I had to pause my TV and snap this on the iPhone.

Original image BBC TV

Categories: Photography, Random, Vibe Monitor | Tags: bbc, Cauldron, Games, iPhone, Olympic, Olympics, Opening Ceremony, sports, Torch, tv | 17 Comments

The Bones of Buzby Berkeley

Posted on July 20, 2012 by Mark

You might have realised by now that this isn’t the place for cupcakes and kittens. I found an x-ray of a hand on google images and fed it through my app-du-jour, Kooleido. The results look like something out of a Buzby Berkeley musical, (which featured kaleidoscopic aerial shots of formation swimming teams and feathery chorus girls.) I wonder if Buzby teamed up with Tim Burton or H R Giger (who designed Ridley Scott’s Alien) would it look something like this?

Categories: Art, Design, Photography, Random | Tags: app, Buzby Berkeley, goth, H R Giger, iPhone, kaleidoscope, Kooleido, Tim Burton, x-ray | 10 Comments

Psychedelic Blue Man

Posted on July 15, 2012 by Mark

Last week I showed you my oil painting, Blue Man and this week I fed the image through Kooleido, a kaleidoscope app on my iPhone. I love the religious overtones of mandala-style psychedelic images, and I’ve found the movement of a kaleidoscope quite hypnotic (Believe! Believe!) The result is almost like Dutch Delft ceramic tiles, although with sprawling knots of naked men. Imagine that…

Kaleidoscope image oil painting delft kooleido

Categories: Art, Design, Photography, Random | Tags: Blue Man, iPhone, Kooleido, Oil Painting, painting, psychedelic, Religion, The Vibes | 13 Comments

Moroccan Bazaar

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Mark

There was a sudden splash of dazzling colour in St Anne’s Square in Manchester. Under the stubborn grey shroud of the Pennine Cloud Blanket was a buzzing Moroccan market. As I wandered through the lamps and rugs, I tried to recall my haggling skills which I learnt in the Canary islands, and practised in Dubai. I soon found out that my negotiation drive had disengaged long ago, returning to the default setting which is Polite English. ‘What’s your best price,’ is a great start but you have to follow it up with some quick thinking if you want to nail a bargain and I failed spectacularly. Twice. And all this while sneaking these pictures. The market is in St. Anne’s Square until Saturday evening (May 5th.)

It’s funny how I don’t carry my digital camera any more, now that I can Instagram my flat grey iPhone pictures to look like I spent hours developing them in a studio in Hoxton. Click on any image to enlarge them.

Tales of the City

http://www.themoroccanmarketofhandicraft.co.uk/Manchester-moroccan-market

If you missed my previous post, The Vibes has been visited by a famous author! Click on the image on the right to find out more…

Categories: Photography, Random, Travel, Vibe Monitor | Tags: Art, Bazaar, craft, Culture, Freshly Pressed, Instagram, iPhone, Manchester, Market, Moroccan, Morocco, photography, pottery, Textiles, tour | 159 Comments

Lights and Shades

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Mark

These are close ups of lampshades from B&Q, fed through various apps, such as Instagram and Tadaa, with multiple filters applied in various combinations. (Tadaa is a more advanced, versatile version of Instagram.)