Where I Stand

Hipsters make no sense. They have this personal mandate to boycot anything that is considered “main stream” and live their lives in a unique fashion. Or if they do something that the rest of us are in to, it’s allegedly an ironic commentary on our lives. Frankly, why bother? We get it, you want to be different — why go to such laborious lengths to prove that you are. Just live your lives and quit criticizing the rest of us. For more information on hipsters, watch this video (click).

But something that all hipsters seem to agree on is that this little iPhone app called Instagram is apparently the greatest thing ever invented since the iPhone. On a side note, they all happen to have iPhones meaning that apparently there are a few things that all Hipsters seem to agree on (so far we have Instagram and iPhones if you’re keeping score). Apple has created a brilliant product with their phone and are constantly making improvements to the things their end consumers value most, the camera being one of the largest ones. And even though I don’t personally own one (Android was a better fit for me), I think that they are a terrific piece of technology. Instagram, however, continues to piss me off. It’s everywhere — crappy looking photos with these ridiculous filters on them to emulate old film, a technology we collectively spent years improving so that it looks as clear and lifelike as possible. Yeah, Instagram seemed kinda neat when it first came out with all its pretty colours, but it got old really fast and half the time I see people trying to pass off Instagram images as regular photos, I just wish they’d turn off all the crazy filters so I could see the photo in its nice clear original form.

So this brings us to Sarcastagram, a fun little feature that myself and a couple friends created to poke fun at Instagram. The idea is, we try and put ourselves in the mindset of hipsters Instagram users in looking at plain old objects and trying (and failing) at turning them in to art using a bunch of filters and stuff. It’s basically Instagram with a lovely Sarcastic twist. I liked the idea so much, that it is now a permanant addition to Where I Stand. You can see it over on the right side under my Twitter feed. ———————————————>

If you’d like to check out Sarcastagram at any time (it has an RSS feed if you want updates), check it out at flickr.com/sarcastagram. And it gets better — if you’d like to contribute to Sarcastagram (so far Vince and Curtis are on board), email me (sam@sgbrooks.ca) and I’ll get you set up!

Sarcastagram — From the creators of Where I Stand; Powered by Flickr, and not at all affiliated with the weirdoes that use Instagram.