#williamhooker

[saintvictoria]

Sorting out records I bought in LA: - osamu - kitajima - #hookworms - pearl mystic - #icebergslim - reflections - #ost - ecco ( riz ortolani) - #williamhooker - subconscious - #ost - long riders ( ry cooder) #recordshopping #vinyl https://www.instagram.com/p/Cd1uh3CJQpb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[budaallmusic]

William Hooker ‎– ... Is Eternal Life #RealityUnitConcepts 1977 🇺🇸 US Bass – #MarkMiller Tenor Saxophone – #DavidMurray, #DavidSWare Alto Saxophone, Flute, Percussion – #HasaanDawkins Tenor Saxophone, Flute, Percussion – #LesGoodson Artwork By – #AletaBaker Design, Photography By – #DonnaBerti Drums, Percussion, Vocals, Design, Composed By – #WilliamHooker Graphics – #PaulKlim Illustration – #JoseAndMarieArguellos, #MasonGibbs https://www.instagram.com/p/B5lblVUJq-H/?igshid=l0ied71ipetx

[aic-american]

Card Table, William Hook, 1800, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society through Jessie Spalding Landon Fund Size: 73.5 × 92.4 × 45.4 cm (29 × 36 5/16 × 17 7/8 in.) Medium: Mahogany, birch, and white pine

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75458/

[glynisj-blog1]

#writerslife: Printers are a Pain!

#writerslife: Printers are a Pain!

I was going to write about something personal using the hashtag, #thepersonalside, but I’m not quite ready to tell you about the goings-on husband and I are trying to accomplish. Maybe next week. So, this week I’m using the hashtag, #writerslife. 🙂

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original image by William Hook @ https://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/

I’ve been missing one piece of equipment to finish the rewrite/revision…

[jeffreymposts]

Visual communities and social imaging

Week nine looked at visual communities and social imaging and the increasing part visual images play in social media today.  With social media sites like Instagram for example, its possible, through the use of their mobile phone app, to take photos using your mobile phone and post them onto your Instagram account for all to see.  One of the key affordances of Instagram is its location based service (LBS) or geotagging in other words.  Geotagging with many of these social media platforms and their apps, has now become the norm.  With the emergence in recent times of second-generation locative media, this is now becoming the default rather than the choice, (Hjorth, Pink 2014).  Geotagging or LBS can be a good thing and a bad thing. If you are worried and concerned about privacy and ‘big brother’ looking over your shoulder, it could be a problem.

An example of a ‘good thing’ however is in the increasing availability of Mobile City Guides when travelling overseas.  Facebook for instance with their mobile phone app has a ‘nearby places’ function in their main menu to explore things locally.  The best of these apps work offline, without Wi-Fi, which enables the user to avoid expensive roaming charges when travelling overseas, (Schaal 2011).  Basically, the app uses your phone’s GPS and compass features and then points you in the right direction for that restaurant or museum you are searching for.  As someone who has been travelling overseas since the early 1980’s, when lugging around heavy travel guide books, maps, YHA guides to find accommodation among other items that just tended to lead to hair pulling, teeth grinding and the repeated use of foul language when inevitably hopelessly lost somewhere in a strange city.  In theory, this is now a thing of the past.  I’ve used a few of these recently and while not perfect, it sure beats the old days of lugging various heavy books around in your day pack when sightseeing!

 One I have used and has got some pretty good reviews on is Inviita.  Here’s a short YouTube video on it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAOGU-2o0OE

Some apps also, such as the camera function on the new Google Pixel 2 phone, has the option where you take a photo with your phone and it then uses that picture to tell you all about the photograph you’ve just taken.  For instance, if you are at Agra in India, just take a photo of the Taj Mahal and it will tell you all about it.  Very, very handy for the traveller on the go.

Jeff

References

Hjorth, L, Pink, S, 2014, New visualities and the digital wayfarer: Reconceptualizing camera phone photography and locative media, Mobile Media & Communication, 2014, Vol.2(1), pp.40-57, Sage Journals, http://journals.sagepub.com.ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/doi/abs/10.1177/2050157913505257

Hook, W 2009, ‘Geocaching’, flickr, (image), viewed 14 January 2018, https://www.flickr.com/photos/williamhook/4225307113

Schaal, D 2011, Mobile City Guides apps: Tours on your phone, USA Today, Oct 24, 2011, p.02B, ProQuest Central,

https://search-proquest-com.ezproxy.lib.swin.edu.au/docview/900288511/fulltext/62C91A0B1830455EPQ/1?accountid=14205

Wikipedia Commons 2015, ‘location’ (image), viewed 14 January 2018,

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:USMC-12263.jpg

[aic-american]

Card Table, William Hook, 1800, Art Institute of Chicago: American Art

Restricted gift of the Antiquarian Society through Jessie Spalding Landon Fund Size: 73.5 × 92.4 × 45.4 cm (29 × 36 5/16 × 17 7/8 in.) Medium: Mahogany, birch, and white pine

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/75458/