Photography

Get the Fuck Outta My Newsfeed: Hipstamatic Prints

— By Zach Perkins |

 

If I see the word “Hipstamatic” pop up in my MyFace.com Newsfeed one more time I swear to god I’m going to go around smashing iPhones into fucking oblivion.  You are flooding the shit out of my newsfeed and seriously hampering my hourly stalking of girls that I did/didn’t have sex with two to six years ago.  

And like that shitty Happy Meal toy I didn’t want, every Newsfeed instance of that apex-douche term “Hipstamatic” comes complete with a lame picture you took of your dull day-to-day life, plus the synthetically retro after affects you added to make it seem one ten-thousandth less dull.  FUCK. 

edit: And for the record; yes I do know that I can “hide Hipstamatic Share for iPhone” but motherfuckers be double posting as wall photos telling me all about what kind of ‘rad’ fake lenses and no-longer-produced film you didn’t actually use.  I’d prefer to block your app, not you.  Don’t tempt me.

Heart of Oak Might be the Best Bay Area Street Art Photographer I've Seen Yet

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Heart of Oak is a streetart photographer that is apparently familiar to many but new to me and his/her stuff is covered in radsauce.  The above photo features stuff like a 98-second exposure, which I’m assuming is impressive but I don’t know how to operate a camera that doesn’t also feature a full keyboard and the ability to dial out.  Heart is also having a showing from April 10th to 23rd at the Common Ground Gallery in Berlin so, you know, why out there or something.  Or you could just buy a book.

Anyways, credit to Everyday Dude to introducing me to Heart’s stuff.  He’s one of the few people part of the favstar/one-liner’s/memetwitters clique whose tumblr is actually worth reading and this is why.

 

Steve Comes Back From Guatemala

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Net-level photo geek justonlysteve has returned from Guatemala and would like to share what Guatemala would look like with a little bit of post-processing.  It’s a preview of what you’ll get to see next week from me, only mine will be taken from a cellphone, look a lot less pretty, probably involve a lot of graffiti, and will be from a Latin American country whose official language is English.

Bikes! Lights! Parks!

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

I’d like to personally apologize for our inability to spam your RSS reader over the past few days.  All the authors collectively realized we’re broke and got ourselves jobs until we have enough methamphetamine, condom and matzo money so we can break glass bottles over children’s heads in Dolores Park again.  In the meantime, I made some time to comb the internet for a money photo of Dolores Park.  Ain’t she pretty?

 

(photo by awwwwwwwwdamn)

Lock up your daughters

— By Jane Parton |

 I think we may have a new Mission Playboy on our hands!

I came across this dashing, (very) young gentleman taped up in the window of Sapphire Photo on Mission near 24th.

Some of the other studio portraits included families next to the Eiffel Tower, men in cowboy outfits in front of the Grand Canyon, and my personal favorite … babies photoshopped Anne Geddes-style into flowers. At something like $55 for these studio portraits, I think I know where at least some of my tax refund is going. 

So, should I be a baby sunflower or a baby lilac?

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