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Starting lineup (at MTA Subway - 50th St (1))
I’m embarrassed to say that my main camera is my iPhone. I’m on Instagram so I can follow friends; I like how immediate it is. I upload with filters sometimes; I’m not that purist about it. In the past, you’d pick a certain type of film for a certain look, and today’s filters are a similar concept: the modern version of choosing the right mood. But if there’s absolutely stunning light, and a picture hasn’t needed a filter, I always do #nofilter.
Exactly.
Facebook is still five times bigger than Twitter, the second of the world’s leading social networks, at least the Western ones.
Pinterest is looking mighty appetizing right about now. I bet Twitter takes a piece, if this is any indication.
(Chart via Alexis Madrigal)
#rainroom (at Expo 1: New York Rain Room)
New Haven Line
Having the wrong timing is still being wrong.
A word of wisdom from Ian Rogers to co-founder of Instagram Mike Krieger.
I worked for Ian at Topspin along with Brad.
Lunch: #fromwhereieat (at Pax)
So Kodak has 140,000 really good middle-class employees, and Instagram has 13 employees, period.
The giant sucking sound of the digital economy.
Pin desires, Instagram realities.
GiMP (at Grand Concourse)
Trumped in Harlem (at Gotham Yellow)
Cosmic (at Columbus Circle)
Mackey Saturday designs the new Instagram logo. Simple, yet complex.
It’s no surprise that hashtags increase your chances of likes and followers. But you’re also more likely to grow your followers by simply asking for likes/follows and reciprocating.
Instagram strategy: Quid pro quo.
Instagrams, worthy of their own language; easily recognizable:
Instagram images have become units of speech, building blocks in a visual vocabulary that functions somewhat like a colonial patois, where old-school darkroom photography is the native tongue and digitization is the imperial language. And like an empire at its height, Instagram is relentlessly making conquests—and in short order. Even people who don’t yet use the app can recognize in its distinctive photos a new visual lingua franca. The images don’t look “filtered” or like Instagrams. They look like … reality.“
Still concur with Hugh MacLeod though:
I like Instagram almost as much as I hate the fact that Facebook owns it.
