BY: AILEEN ZANGOUEI Alison Brettschneider, a native New Yorker who now currently lives in California, is a successful fashion business owner. Her boutique has multiple locations and is called 25 Park, which is also the name of her social media…
Celebrity endorsements: stop buying the shit that famous people are selling you
Recently Kylie and Kendall Jenner were in the news for superimposing their Instagram pictures over iconic photos of Tupac and Biggie on t-shirts. Although the idea was very stupid it definitely got me thinking about why they felt they could get…
What I learned by staying offline
BY: NADIA ZAIDI Sometimes I think that we have too much time on our hands. Even though technology has amplified our societal, economic and familial obligations, we still have time. Time to scroll, to watch, to consume. Most of the…
These 10 travel Instagram accounts will inspire you to hit the road
If a person travels and doesn’t share their experiences via Instagram, did they really travel? While the answer to that may seem an easy one of yes, in the social media age a traveller void of Instagram posts is a rare bird.…
Model posts fiery picture of her censored nipple in response to Instagram’s policy
BY: NADIA ZAIDI In a bold move against censorship, 25-year-old model Imogen Anthony held an open flame to her nipple in a picture she posted on Instagram. Her audacious actions are in support of “free the nipple” – a campaign…
These statistics prove how social media-obsessed the world was in 2016
BY: SAMANTHA TAPP Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, LinkedIn, WhatsApp and Tumblr. No, I’m not listing every social media outlet we have available to us, I just listed all the social media outlets that I personally use. Writing them out kind…
Is the rise of citizen reporting responsible for the death of journalism?
BY: AISHA ILYAD Explorations in today’s modern world, both in terms of quality and quantity is different – and preferable – than any other era in history. One example is the formation of the virtual world in parallel with the…
In an extremely saturated industry, this Instagram photographer is going his own way
By: Andrew Uyeno Instagram has become one of the biggest apps in the world. It’s as if everyone with a phone is trying to be the next greatest Instagram photographer and industry influencer. Now companies are starting to pay these…
Pawel Nolbert’s photos explore the distorted reality of social media.
BY: ERIC ZDANCEWICZ While many people are fabricating dual personalities with their Instagram accounts, Pawel Nolbert is creating work that embraces the ambiguity of reality in the social platform. In his Deconstructed series, the Polish artist takes simple shapes and…
How Instagram’s Aesthetic Culture Changes Who You Are
Sometimes, on a good day, our lives cross paths with a compilation of visuals so satisfying—complex in allowing desire to wrap around the fading ordinary—that we cannot help but feel some sort of way at the sight of calculation: the…
The psychology of Instagram and the shifting sexuality of a new generation
BY: REGAN MCNEILL I guess you could say that for as long as I possibly could, I have tried to bypass social media. Before the birth of Instagram, there was Facebook. After briefly enjoying the novelty of “creeping” people I went…
This is what cheating death by jumping the gaps between city roof tops looks like
BY: SHAY ANSARI Hidden by a grey hoodie in the shadow of skyscrapers, a lone man races across cement roof tops clearing the gaps between buildings without a twitch of hesitation. He is a free runner, a type of underground…
This Instagrammer will make you seriously consider converting to veganism
BY: SHAY ANSARI We’ve all rolled our eyes at one point at the mention of veganism, but maybe the joke is on us. Instagrammer, Moky, posts mouth-watering photos of her vegan meals and makes us reconsider our daily diets. Not…
Instagram couple pairs the physically impossible with the ultimate landscapes and travel locations
BY: SHAY ANSARI Do what you must… and your friends will adjust! #YogaBeyond @ACROVINYASA #Doublebow with our homie @laurasykora Lens @dtufino_photo A photo posted by * Honza & Claudine Lafond (@yogabeyond) on Jun 25, 2015 at 12:32pm PDT Feel the…
An Instagrammer transforms risking his life into an art form
BY: SHAY ANSARI They should rename this building @carrly_patrice A photo posted by roof topper (@roof_topper) on Apr 10, 2015 at 5:48am PDT Life should be lived on the edge. You have to exercise rebellion: to refuse to tape yourself…
Russian tattoo artist turns childhood fears into permanent works of art
BY: SHAY ANSARI Skulls, snakes and ravens are not usually the first thing you think of when choosing a tattoo. However, Russian tattoo artist, Alexander Grim, takes these dark images and turns them into breathtaking pieces of art that will…
Instagrammer captures surfers riding sub-zero swells in the isolated Arctic Ocean (Photos)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA “Anything that is worth pursuing is going to require us to suffer, just a little bit,” declares surf photographer Chris Burkard on TED, a man who has found inner peace by surfing the world’s coldest and…
Photographer travels America with his rescue dog pursuing the country’s greatest adventures
Photos by: Theron Humphrey You might remember Maddie the dog, a warm-tempered coonhound who became famous on Instagram for her unusual ability to balance on everything from tree branches to horsebacks. Now she is travelling mostly by motorcycle across America’s…
How Instagram is fuelling a movement of urban explorers (Video)
You can find them in the catacombs of abandoned subway stations or on the rusty ladders of skyscrapers swaying in the wind. The high towers in the city skyline are Everest in the eyes of these youthful explorers who are…
The Instagram generation perceives every moment as an anticipated memory
BY: LAURA ROJAS Professor Daniel Kahneman, a renowned psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, did a TED Talk back in 2010 on the difference between experience and memory. His main thesis, and something I hadn’t even thought about prior to watching his…