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My girlfriend Elena made me join this App and now I’m hooked. Every day, you’re given a random 2 minute window to snap a photo with both the front and back camera on your phone simultaneously, and you’re only allowed to see your feed if you do so.You have to think on your feet, and the results are often amazingly banal. It’s a lot of photos of blurry countertops, boring landscapes, and your friends working at their computers. The imagery feels straight out of boomer Facebook posts.
Mar 15, 2022
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They tell me BeReal is not “cool” anymore but idc because still get a rush of excitement every day when I get the notification “It’s time to BeReal. Take a photo to see what your friends are up to!” My rule is you absolutely must take the photo exactly the moment you get the notification but you can do as many retakes as you want. I have a record of unstaged moments from more than a year of my life now.
Mar 31, 2024
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So badly do I want to post something with a grime to it because it’s coming straight from Snapchat. Perhaps a selfie with oily camera lens syndrome. Perhaps because you had just finished eating a sandwich for lunch. Perhaps your friend did something funny and you hastily whip out your 6s. Perhaps you want to commemorate it with a piccy on the grammy.
White converse, Air Force ones. Tommy Hilfiger light wash jeans. They are unflattering and give you a jenis. They are also cuffed twice at the ankle. Everyone loves vegetable sushi rolls, everyone loves to post pictures of movies on their macbook. Weed back when it was weed and not giving us psychosis. Sideboob community is huge. Ctrl just came out. iPhones are shiny and so tiny that your fingers look fat in mirror selfies. You cannot archive. You’ve gotta stick to it… your gut, I mean. Only square crops allowed. Your photo has to fit that 4x4. Must look good on the feed. Never too many images of yourself. Picture of a ladybug in the grass? Necessity. Show us your complexities... Sigh.
I wish I was strong enough to negate the discontented followers who don’t understand my grainy selfie is twenty-eighteen, twenty-four-seven propaganda. I wish I was strong enough to stand up for what I believe in.
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open app, take immedietly. use back camera if you can stand yourself. your real face reacting to real things is usually more interesting. stop fronting for the camera
Jun 25, 2024
Top Recs from @chris-maggio
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It’s very important for you to know that I have no taste when it comes to clothing, but a generic, black, pullover hoodie should be in every photographer’s toolkit. It has a ton of utility: it can be a napkin, a drop cloth, a pillow for when you need to take a break. I can’t be worried about what I look like when I’m out taking pictures, and a black hoodie rarely looks stained. Long story short: I need to be wearing clothes that, if I fell into a huge puddle, I wouldn’t care. I’d just throw it in the trash and keep on moving.
Mar 15, 2022
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A great book about the birth of Los Angeles based around the intertwining portraits of engineer William Mulholland, director DW Griffith, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. It presents the city as founded upon myth, greed, and man’s desire to conquer nature- which I think fits into the narrative of just about any metropolis in the USA. In New York City, we have a tendency to write off LA as some kind of self-indulgent city of cars and convenience, but there’s a part of me that thinks that LA’s image is far more honest than NYC’s: it more nakedly illustrates our innate desire as humans to exploit the Earth and each other to claim what we think we deserve as individuals. It’s a true illustration of the “every man for himself” brand of American ambition, and, in my opinion, New York is exactly the same, but we’re just a bit better at hiding it.
Mar 15, 2022
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The ultimate fuel for people who like to walk around New York City all day. Lunch that costs more than $12 is a crime, and your dollar takes you very far at Pret. I recommend their Calabrese sandwich with a small orange juice. Something I previously didn’t know is that every day, the staff at Pret hides a star sticker on the back of one of the sandwiches in the refrigerator, and, if you select it, you get that sandwich for free. Unbeknownst to me, I selected one at their 50th street location a while back and when I brought it to the counter, the entire staff cheered for me. It was one of the best days of my life.
Mar 15, 2022