FILM260 - Living Life Vicariously Through Instragram
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If a person who didn't know you scrolled through your would they get a feel of who you really are?
is communication. But is it genuine communication? Do the pictures we post resemble our everyday lives?
Screenshot from Instagram with personal permission from Andrew Menzies
There are 1.6 BILLION likes every single day on
.
That’s likes per second. Photo by: Denis Derisevic
"In our age of social networking, the selfie is the new way to look someone right in the eye and say, ‘Hello, this is me.’”
– James Franco
But is this "me" a real version of "me"?
Photo by: Alex Torres
Before you hang out
with your friends,
make sure you take a
selfie of your perfect hair, makeup and
outfit.
We live in a society of online personal documentation.
Photo by: Ly Gonzalez
"A texting conversation might fall short of communicating how you are feeling, but a selfie
might make everything clear in an instant.” – James Franco
Photo by: Kevin Dooley
is a complex network of communities. Using hashtags these communities come together
and are represented by a plethora of photographs.
Photo by: Theo La
Photo by: Debbie Tingzon
Wait! Don't eat your
delicious cheesecake yet! Make sure you
take a picture of it and put it on
. Dessert is served,
let's spend 5 minutes framing that cheesecake
perfectly!
15 likes for my cheesecake, who cares
what it tastes like!
Starbucks is the second most popular brand on .
Why take a picture of your Venti Vanilla Bean Frappuccino with extra whip topped with chocolate chips when you can enjoy your
drink with the person sitting across from you?
Photo by: Ahmad Hashim
Beauty gurus and fashion icons have thousands of followers. When everyone can take a picture of an outfit, everyone can
become a fashion designer.
is inclusive. can support your career.
Photo by: Slipp D Thompson
is the modern day photo album. Why have 3 baby photo albums when you can do it all digitally
AND let the world know how adorable your 1 year old is?
Grandma wants to see baby Theodore? Just open !
Photo by: Ministerio de Saude
has changed the way we come to know celebrities.
We can now see
behind the scenes of our favourite
television show or get up and close
with James Franco or Aaron
Paul through their
accounts.
Photo by: Lauren Friedman
We have the ability to photograph
anything and everything.
The reality is anything and
everything may not actually be that
important.
The reality is that we let our
accounts define ourselves when
truthfully, barely
represents who we are or what we
feel. Photo by: Ray Snaps
"Just because the picture looks artsy doesn’t mean you are. You are part of a fast growing legion of people that have been duped into believing they are
visionaries, auteurs, even. What would your day have been without a picture of those blueberries? Would you have felt a little less connected to the earth and, ultimately, yourself ? But no, you are popular and people like to feel earthy and
spontaneous by living vicariously through you and your blueberry-picking adventure."
- Katherine Markovich
Photo by: Kate Elliot
"Are we starting to over-share our personal lives with a bunch of strangers? Are we sharing a little too much, when our dinner becomes
the subject of our photo shoot? And are these so-called personal moments no longer real, but only fabrications, or what we want
others to see?” – Kat Kazeminy
Photo by: Brian Boucheron
Stop living photograph to
photograph and start living moment to moment.
You might not remember those 10 minutes it took you to frame and filter this photograph, but you will remember the way the
wet sand feels beneath your feet.
Photo by: Slipp D Thompson
• "A Poem That Will Inspire You to Put Down Your Smartphone." Andrea Romano. Mashable.com. 2014. http://mashable.com/2014/05/05/look-up-poem/
• ”An Open Letter to People Who Take Pictures of Food With Instagram." Katherine Markovich. McSweeney's.com. 2012. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-open-letter-to-people-who-take-pictures-of-food-with-instagram
• "Drew Nipper." Andrew Menzies. Instagram. http://instagram.com/drew_nipper
• "Instagram: are we over-sharing?" Kat Kazeminy. ProjectQuinn.com. 2013. http://projectquinn.com/instagram/
• "Instagram Statistics." Nitrogram. 2014. http://nitrogr.am/instagram-statistics/
• "The Meanings of the Selfie." James Franco. The New York Times. 2013. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/29/arts/the-meanings-of-the-selfie.html?_r=0
* All images taken from Flickr under the Creative Commons License. All photographers are given credit on photographs.
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Photo by: Jason Howie