Lunch with English Meet the artist who creates surreal masterpieces with his iPhone A brilliant white lightning bolt strikes the Eiffel Tower in Paris. In Venice, Italy, a whale splashes joyfully through a street system made up of canals. In New York, an elephant is lifted high into the sky by a mass of colored helium balloons. These may sound like the most fanciful of cheese dreams, but they are, in fact, the work of a fantastic artist double-act: German-born Robert Jahns and his iPhone. Using his iPhone to assemble his surreal masterpieces, and then posting the resulting pictures to Instagram under the name nois7, Jahns is taking the art world by storm. And like many contemporary artists, he couldn’t have done it without his trusty Apple device. 27 year old Jahns began editing pictures on Adobe Photoshop when he was 13. Everything changed for him a few years ago when he bought a secondhand iPhone 3G from a workmate. “I was totally excited about it,” he says. “As a freelance art director, I’m really into design. I loved the clean and simple user interface design by Apple, and felt very comfortable with it immediately.” Currently Jahns uses the iPhone 5s, although he says that he plans to switch to the iPhone 6 soon. “A big display is handy for me, but the 6 Plus is too big for my taste,” he says. For editing his images he uses several different apps. “I use different combinations depending on what what I want to create,” he says. “The most important app is called ArtStudio, which is a tool for professional editors. I also use Filterstorm, VSCO Cam, and Photoforge 2.” “Really I just download some apps I think sound interesting and play around with them for some time,” he says. “If you want to try composing some of your own images, I’d recommend starting with simpler apps like Image Blender or Superimpose.” His complex images take around 2-3 days of part-time editing to achieve. Previously he used to start out with a hand-drawn scribble to guide the creation process, but today he says that all of this takes place within his head. “I get inspired by everything that surrounds me,” he explains. “Often I can get an idea for a new image in just a second — from whichever sound, texts or images I see around me. I make sure to stay creative every day.” Jahns isn’t the only person to appreciate the easy portability of the iPhone, which makes creativity-on-the-move a reality. In May last year, Bentley debuted its new ad, which was shot using an iPhone 5s, and edited from the back seat of a car using an iPad Air. More recently, photographer Brooks Kraft snapped the Christmas decorations at the White House using an iPhone 6 Plus. “If you are looking to capture something candid, people are so used to seeing mobile devices that their reaction time is slower,” he told TIME magazine. “You have a better chance of getting the shot, and that was the case at the White House.” “The iPhone is a really powerful device even if it comes to graphic design or making compositions,” says Robert Jahns. “I like being able to create my art on the go. Its combination of the apps and camera image quality is insane.” #words #wordoftheday #english #learningenglish #iPhone #apple #photography #wonderland #RobertJahns #nois7 #pics
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 11:18:00 +0000
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