How Mobile Devices are Opening up New Creative Opportunities
Mobile devices like the iPad and Smart Phones have opened up a new world of creativity for both everyday users and professional artists. The most popular camera used on the photographic social media site Flickr is now the iPhone4. Apps like Hipstamatic and Instagram have proved to be extremely popular in simulating the unique peculiarities of old film processes such as Polaroid and Lomography. Early adopters of the iPad include David Hockney and Damon Albarn who have both produced their latest output using the device, which when launched, "nobody really knew what it was for but everyone wanted one".
Tablet technology: A touch of creative genius
Tablet technology has already transformed the way we consume culture. Now musicians, artists and writers are harnessing its expressive potential. It was an unlikely setting for a high-tech leap into the artistic unknown. This summer a dusty corner of an Edinburgh church played host to the premiere of Alma Mater, the world's first piece of iPad theatre. A 20-minute work for one man, a tablet computer and a pair of headphones, it fused theatre, film, classical music and visual art in such an ingenious way as to make the most modish, site-specific, promenade productions look rather old hat. Created by Fish & Game, Glasgow-based specialists in immersive theatre, the play guides audiences around an empty mock-up of a child's bedroom via a handheld film on an iPad. It sounds gimmicky but the lines of physical reality and virtual performance are so cleverly, eerily blurred that you soon become convinced that the children on the screen are in the room with you.
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Phone Cameras Challenge Point-And-Shoot Compacts
Nearly every new smartphone has a better camera than its predecessor. One of the latest is Apple's iPhone 4S — but there are plenty of other cellphones with advanced cameras on the market, such as the HTC myTouch 4G and the Samsung Galaxy SII. The cameras are so good, in fact, that it raises the question of whether it's worth it for amateur photographers to own a separate point-and-shoot camera.
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