Everyone’s favorite online dating platform, Tinder, has just announced that it will be adding new features – Instagram Integration, Expanded Interests and Common Connections – designed to provide more context surrounding potential matches. The update now allows for Instagram photos, Facebook interests and shared friends to be directly added to your profile, increasing your chances in … Read more
Gathering feedback from businesses and users alike, Instagram is introducing a new advertising format called carousel ads. This will allow viewers to swipe left for additional images and links, giving brands more flexibility in telling their stories. First introducing advertisements in 2013, the Facebook subsidiary looks to improve the current promotion system by allowing marketers to bring multi-page hyperlinked print campaigns to mobile phones. Instagram … Read more
In the ever evolving world of making at home viewing a better seat than actually witnessing a game in person, the NHL has partnered with GoPro to present live game footage utilizing their HERO3+and HERO4 cameras. According to the official press release, “GoPro’s Professional Broadcast Solution, developed in a partnership with Vislink, will deliver live … Read more
In the age of the selfie, a standard point and shoot digital camera will simply not suffice the average consumer. Fujifilm, a long-running veteran in shaping the way people utilize photography, has recently produced an update to their previous X-A1 model by incorporating a rotating 175-degree tilt feature to the camera’s 3-inch LCD screen, facilitating self-portrait … Read more
Having updated its selection of filters two years ago, Instagram‘s offerings have fallen out of favor with smartphone photography enthusiasts as tastes have changed and technology has progressed. These enthusiasts more often than not gravitate now to the more evocative options under third-party apps like VSCO Cam and Snapseed among many others, even though Instagram … Read more
The long-awaited and much talked-about Polaroid Socialmatic camera is now available for pre-order. This 14 MP camera packs amazing Polaroid insta-print abilities and it connects to the web for quick online sharing. Snap a pic then use the touchscreen to make edits, add filters, text and graphics. Socialmatic prints pics in real life too, library … Read more
TIME magazine has unveiled its annual list of the Top 10 Photos from around the globe. Much of the list recalls tumultuous ocurrances from 2014, not limited to the Ferguson civil riots, Ebola outbreaks in Liberia, and ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle-East. The set of provocative imagery is certainly impactful in its contextualization … Read more
Social networking platform Twitter has just recently added filter options for photos uploaded with tweets. The new photo filters can be accessed by double-tapping the thumbnail of the photo: multiple filters are offered, and each can be adjusted to increase or decrease intensity. Twitter’s new feature tags along on the photo-editing app craze, which includes … Read more
Artist Hannah Rothstein imagines how Pablo Picasso, Piet Mondrian, and other famous artists would arrange a plate of Thanksgiving foods in this clever food art series. Vincent van Gogh Piet Mondrian René Magritte Pablo Picasso Jackson Pollock
“Serie Freestyle” by German photographer Julia Christe is an imaginative series that catches various dogs in midair as they jump for an object outside of the photo, making the dogs look both incredibly powerful and incredibly vulnerable at the same time.