Hipstamaniac

I know - it's been a crazy long time since I posted. I'm sorry. Facebook has been fulfilling my need for quick, punchy status updates, but I need to take the time to write a proper blog post.

A couple of months ago, I found a new passion. Well, it's actually a twist on an old passion. A friend on Facebook uploaded some pretty sweet looking pictures he took with an iPhone app called Hipstamatic. It's a camera app where one can change the "lens" "film" and "flash" for different looks. It's based off of a real camera made by a couple of guys 20+ years ago. The camera was made completely from plastic and the idea was to make cameras so affordable that even your average children could buy them. Tragically, the guys making the cameras died in a car accident (hit by a drunk driver, I believe) and the cameras kind of died with them. The pictures from both the real camera and the app have an interesting look to them. Kind of blurry, but in a good way. I am completely addicted. I have had the app for maybe two months or so, and I have taken hundreds of pictures. Hundreds. Maybe even close to one thousand. Some of them have turned out really, really cool. It's not that I'm a great photographer - I give most of the credit to the app. I will have to post pics, but if you are on Facebook, you can check out most of the pics there.