{"id":77143,"date":"2026-08-08T06:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/the-ornithological-artist-drawing-1000-birds-by-hand-all-for-an-app-that-wants-you-off-your-phone\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:55:59","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:55:59","slug":"the-ornithological-artist-drawing-1000-birds-by-hand-all-for-an-app-that-wants-you-off-your-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/the-ornithological-artist-drawing-1000-birds-by-hand-all-for-an-app-that-wants-you-off-your-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand \u2013 all for an app that wants you off your phone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of the Flock app is quietly subversive: to encourage users to ditch their screens and explore the wonderful world of birding<\/p>\n<p>On a brilliantly bright afternoon in his gallery and studio in Bolinas, a small town on the northern California coast, Keith Hansen was putting the finishing touches on a watercolor of an almost improbably flamboyant painted bunting.<\/p>\n<p>With an ultra-fine sable brush, he made a few intricate additions to the cobalt blue plumage on the bunting\u2019s head, and, satisfied with his work, slipped the watercolor into a stout binder that every few days welcomes a new addition.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/08\/birds-artist-flock-app-california\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mission of the Flock app is quietly subversive: to encourage users to ditch their screens and explore the wonderful world of birding On a brilliantly bright afternoon in his gallery and studio in Bolinas, a small town on the northern California coast, Keith Hansen was putting the finishing touches on a watercolor of an &#8230; <a title=\"The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand \u2013 all for an app that wants you off your phone\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/08\/the-ornithological-artist-drawing-1000-birds-by-hand-all-for-an-app-that-wants-you-off-your-phone\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about The ornithological artist drawing 1,000 birds by hand \u2013 all for an app that wants you off your phone\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}