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Software

You Can Post Photos To Instagram With Hipstamatic Now

Instagram and Hipstamatic are getting together to let Hipstamatic users post to Instagram, according to Fast Company. It’s the first time that Instagram’s API has let anyone post to the photo-sharing network with anything but the official iPhone Instagram app.

December 22, 2011
Online

The New Internet Will Make You Sad Forever

The web used to be about other people. IMing your friend, emailing your wife, a chatroom with other guinea pig enthusiasts. Now it’s turning around. Information is becoming less important than emotion — the web is an empty nostalgia factory.

December 14, 2011
Software

D-Series Collaborative Photo App Creates Evidence Of Last Night’s Party

If you’re a fan of taking your well focused, high-resolution iPhone images and adding fancy old-school lens types to them, you’re in luck. Synthetic, the makers of Hipstamatic, have announced their D-Series collaborative-photo-roll app for iOS.

December 7, 2011
Gadgets

Apple iTV Rumours From Oz And Stuff Not Posted

So much news passes before our collective eyes every day that we couldn’t possibly cover it all. Mostly because much of it isn’t worth covering! But here are a some borderline tidbits we passed on, just in case.

October 14, 2011
Cameras

Is Hipstamatic’s Fake Disposable Camera Idiotic Or Brilliant?

Remember Hipstamatic? That app we all used for fake vintage photo filters before Instagram? They’re plotting a comeback, and it hinges on the most ironic, most faux of all faux possible moves: a digital disposable camera for your iPhone. Yeah.

February 20, 2011
Cameras

The Modern Concert

There’s nothing new about cameraphones at concerts or even filter apps like Hipstamatic (it went to war and came back with an award!), but something about this picture got me thinking this week about concert culture in a hyper-connected age.

February 15, 2011
Software

Why A War Photographer Shot An Award-Winning Photo With An iPhone App

It’s incredible how, years after computers have landed every desk and so much of the media we consume has been converted to digital bits, people remain so deeply uneasy about the inauthenticity of things produced with digital tools. Like NYT photographer Damon Winter’s award-winning photograph, shot with iPhone app Hipstamatic. That’s the point I was trying to raise last week.

February 11, 2011
Cameras

Hipstamatic And The Death Of Photojournalism

Pictures of the Year International is a photojournalism contest that’s a pretty big deal. This photo by New York Times photographer Damon Winter of the 2nd Platoon under fire in Afghanistan took third place this year. It was taken with the iPhone app Hipstamatic, which slathers photos with moody effects.

November 23, 2010
Cameras

The Hipstamatic War Photography Of The NY Times

If you thought war photography on the front page of today’s New York Times looked different, you’re right. I did too. But I’d never have guessed that it was taken with an iPhone. Using Hipstamatic, no less!

October 9, 2010

Hipstamaddicts And Fauxlaroids

I appreciate Eric’s sentiment – echoed by Choire – but have come to disagree. All art is artifice; all feelings are legitimate; faux or not, if it provokes it’s fair. Sometimes you must linger a while before setting off again. Photo by Nikola.

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