So John S and Kodot Verichrome walk into a bar and order a Hipstamatic…
As I may have mentioned and as anyone who has spent time with my Flickr (or me) my iPhone camera is the Hipstamatic app, which produces images like the one above. The reasoning that produced this curious obsession went something like this:
- The iPhone camera is really really bad.
- I hate it.
- There’s gotta be an app for that.
For me, that app is Hipstamatic, which has become the top photo app. It is one of a number of apps that apply actions/filters to the image to adjust color, focus and image quality. To me, it seems to smooth away the jaggy edges of the default “photos” produced by the phone and turn them into something that makes it a little bit easier to dial in on the subject of the photograph.
Hipstamatic allows you to change your lens, film and flash to approximate actual cameras, flash & film. If you’re wondering, there are 336 possible combinations in the default pack you get with the camera (yes, you can buy more). To make my addiction to this “camera” I’m sure worse, I have locked my Hipstamatic to use only the John S lens and Kodot Verichrome film. There’s a quality to it that I really like that seems to go well with what I like to take pictures of.
The photo is titled Bad Hair Day and it was taken by 2Hoog, or Jan Ferwerda, photographer as he is also known when he’s not changing his name to hide from Joker Jr. here or shooting photos of the Dutch Light, dogs who would rather be elsewhere and The Afterworld.
John appears to suffer from acute Hipstamatic addiction as well and curiously enough, exclusively uses the John S and Kodot Verichrome combo as well.
Dive into his Flickriver.
song of the siren
When the size of a man’s hair mattered.
Are Violent Video Games Preparing Kids For The Apocalypse?
“Playing video games alone and friendless all day is simply the best way we have to prepare our kids for a life of solitude in a bare wasteland”
…and with new scientific developments like 75-foot tall, super-intelligent giant crabs, it’s never too early to start preparing!
Happy Peter Madcat Ruth Day everyone!
Peter Madcat Ruth is the best harmonica player I’ve ever seen play live. That’s probably true for others too.
Today is his birthday and today is Peter Madcat Ruth Day by official proclamation. Definitely catch a show if you can.
Last night he told me about traveling every year to Brazil to be a frontman for the band Bluesmenau. Yow.
