@insta_repeat is doing God’s work. Their profile description sums it up aptly: “Déjà Vu Vibes 🌲 Wander. Roam. Replicate.”
The account, which is curiously ‘verified’, makes 3×4 collages of common Instagram travel photos that you probably see clogging your timeline. As standalone images in your feed they can be beautiful, even inspiring (or envy-inducing); but as collages like these it reminds us that: originality is tough, social media isn’t real life, and you’re unique just like everyone else 🙂
Finally, it’s just for fun. Please don’t take this parody account—or social media for that matter—too seriously!
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Reddit user Aurify recently shared this (entirely unsurprising) image of hikers waiting in line for ‘the shot’. For those curious, this is the famous lookout point at Roy’s Peak in Wanaka, New Zealand. It’s about a 3 hour ascent to the summit (however this particular spot is not at the very top) and photo opps aside, looks quite breathtaking!
To be honest, this orderly line is much better than everyone just cramming into the one spot and fighting to take a picture whilst struggling to make it look like nobody else is there. If given an option between the two, I would opt for this!
Artist Thomas Romain has two young kids with remarkable imaginations
Last year animator and illustrator Thomas Romain found himself marvelling at one of his son’s drawings. He admired his imagination and figured as an artist himself, maybe he could embellish and build upon his son’s originality.
Fast forward to today and Romain has illustrated hundreds of his two sons’ (now aged 9 and 11) fantastic drawings, and the family have amassed a huge online following for their ongoing series of works.
Thomas has even launched a YouTube channel and Patreon page that shows how each drawing comes to life. Below you will some of our personal favorites but be sure to follow the family at the links below for much more!
I’m a simple person; I see a bird with funny eyes and I smile
Meet Kahori Fuji, a beautiful cockatiel that calls Japan home. Through a fun and playful Instagram account managed by her owner, she is bringing joy to countless people around the globe completely unbeknownst.
In this random photo series, a simple strip of paper gives her new and expressive eyes. I love how something so simple can still put a smile on my face and hopefully yours too!
Vera Shimunia is an embroidery artist from St Petersburg, Russia
Vera Shimunia is an amazing embroidery artist from St Petersburg, Russia. For those unfamiliar, ‘needle painting embroidery’ involves intricately stitching together a range of colourful threads onto an embroidery hoop, which in this case is palm-sized.
Many of Vera’s works tend to be landscape-style paintings and she even adds depth and dimension to elements like clouds. She has also experimented with mashups of her embroidered artworks with photographs and illustrations to create some surreal visuals.
Vera makes her works available for purchase through Etsy (everything is sold out at the moment) and posts her newest works on her active Instagram account.
Keigo is an artist and illustrator from Japan who has attracted a large online following for his playful and quirky daily sketches.
One his most popular ongoing series is imagining the daily struggles of animals doing human activities like playing sports, getting ready for work and hanging out with friends. Another common struggle is trying to play music. In this post we look at the music problems of a crocodile, a recurring character in Keigo’s drawings.
For thousands of more pictures, you can check him out on Instagram!
Taxidermist and osteologist Margaret Seagull shows us what a hedgehog skeleton looks like
Margaret Seagull is a taxidermist and osteologist (a person who studies the structure and function of the skeleton and bony structures), and on her Instagram account you can find a variety of taxidermy/osteology related posts (which may make some squeamish).
A recent series featuring the skeleton of a hedgehog, along with its distinctive spine and hollow ‘hairs’ made stiff with keratin, was recently shared on reddit where I came across the series of images.
According to Wikipedia, their spines are not poisonous or barbed and unlike the quills of a porcupine, do not easily detach from their bodies.
A self-professed ‘Instagram boyfriend’ took this candid shot when he noticed 3 fellow Instagram boyfriends taking a similar shot at Thailand’s famous Maya Bay; made popular from the film The Beach starring Leonardo Dicaprio.
Located near the Thai island of Koh Phi Phi Leh, the beach was actually closed for four months starting in June in a bid to halt environmental damage caused by tourists.
According to officials, the closure will allow for the recovery of the island’s battered coral reefs and sea life. Thailand’s National Parks and Wildlife Department will set a daily limit of 2,000 tourists when Maya Beach reopens, and boats will no longer be allowed to anchor there, according to the Associated Press. More than 35 million tourists visited Thailand last year. [source]
The agreements were printed on standard A4 wide scroll with standard legal contract font size and type
Dima Yarovinsky
“I Agree” is a project by designer Dima Yarovinsky that visually showcases the lengthy ‘terms of service’ we agree to in order to use the world’s most popular online services like Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat, and Tinder.
I took the content of the “terms of service” of the leading online services that we use on a daily basis (including Facebook, Snapchat, Instagram, Tinder etc.). I’ve printed them on a standard A4 wide scroll with a standard legal contract font size and type. After printing these so-called terms, I hung the scrolls in the gallery at the academy, added the number of words and the time it takes to read each scroll on the floor. My main goal was to emphasize how small, helpless and harmful we are against these giant corporates.
Dima Yarovinsky
According to Yarovinsky, the average person reads at a rate of 200 words per minute while a standard ‘terms of service’ agreement contains 11,972 words. That means that even if a user did attempt to read the terms before agreeing to them, it would take approximately 60 minutes.
Clym Evernden is an award winning artist and art director with a unique, creative eye. His signature ink-based style has evolved to encompass mixed media, animation, and set design. A graduate of Central Saint Martins, Clym studied BA Fashion Design Womenswear prior to working solely as an artist.
On Instagram, Clym has amassed a large following for his creative illustrations and popular story paintings that unfold before your eyes on a series of progressive artworks that evolve as he unfolds a simple piece of paper, transforming part of one image and reinterpreting it into something else entirely.
You can find many more #ClymStory online and we’ve included our 5 favorites below. Enjoy!
