Hipstamatic Sucks
I posted a while back about how much I hated Instagram. Turns out I was misinformed. Instagram isn’t the target of my dislike: it’s Hipstamatic.
I spent.. no.. wasted $4 on Hipstamatic and two filter/camera sets today to test out the software. It’s really dumb. The filters are taken to the extreme… to the point where I’m convinced that people who use it don’t understand what art actually is. It reminds of me HDR photography and how some amateurs bump up the saturation in their photos to ridiculous amounts because it “looks cool.” No, it doesn’t look cool. It looks like you don’t know what you’re doing.
At least Instagram’s filters are much more subtle (see http://goo.gl/mSSJz). So yes, maybe I should issue a revised statement: Instagram isn’t the problem, it’s Hipstamatic.
