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My girlfriend Elena made me join this App and now I’m hooked. Every day, you’re given a random 2 minute window to snap a photo with both the front and back camera on your phone simultaneously, and you’re only allowed to see your feed if you do so.You have to think on your feet, and the results are often amazingly banal. It’s a lot of photos of blurry countertops, boring landscapes, and your friends working at their computers. The imagery feels straight out of boomer Facebook posts.
Mar 15, 2022
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They tell me BeReal is not “cool” anymore but idc because still get a rush of excitement every day when I get the notification “It’s time to BeReal. Take a photo to see what your friends are up to!” My rule is you absolutely must take the photo exactly the moment you get the notification but you can do as many retakes as you want. I have a record of unstaged moments from more than a year of my life now.
Mar 31, 2024
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open app, take immedietly. use back camera if you can stand yourself. your real face reacting to real things is usually more interesting. stop fronting for the camera
Jun 25, 2024
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That rlly good fitting room selfie you posted a week ago on ur story.. post it again for tumblr. And ur public spam account. and in ur tiktok compilations. Make it the profile pic for an app u half care about. Gotta stretch that selfie capital as much as u possibly can amirite
Ur real friends r the ones u have on every platform to c u posting the same things over and over again for ur various audiences
Feb 25, 2024
Top Recs from @chris-maggio
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It’s very important for you to know that I have no taste when it comes to clothing, but a generic, black, pullover hoodie should be in every photographer’s toolkit. It has a ton of utility: it can be a napkin, a drop cloth, a pillow for when you need to take a break. I can’t be worried about what I look like when I’m out taking pictures, and a black hoodie rarely looks stained. Long story short: I need to be wearing clothes that, if I fell into a huge puddle, I wouldn’t care. I’d just throw it in the trash and keep on moving.
Mar 15, 2022
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A great book about the birth of Los Angeles based around the intertwining portraits of engineer William Mulholland, director DW Griffith, and evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. It presents the city as founded upon myth, greed, and man’s desire to conquer nature- which I think fits into the narrative of just about any metropolis in the USA. In New York City, we have a tendency to write off LA as some kind of self-indulgent city of cars and convenience, but there’s a part of me that thinks that LA’s image is far more honest than NYC’s: it more nakedly illustrates our innate desire as humans to exploit the Earth and each other to claim what we think we deserve as individuals. It’s a true illustration of the “every man for himself” brand of American ambition, and, in my opinion, New York is exactly the same, but we’re just a bit better at hiding it.
Mar 15, 2022
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Absolutely insane BBC dating show where contestants compete fully in the nude. As the rounds progress and the contestants answer questions, more and more of their bodies are revealed. First it’s their feet, and eventually it’s the whole enchilada. It all takes place in your standard, brightly-lit game show studio.The strangest thing is that the host is totally clothed, making them look like some kind of insane outcast in an alternate nude universe. In a more fair world, the hosts, camera people, and producers would all be working in their birthday suits.
Mar 15, 2022