Are you Instagramed yet?

Instagram is the newest rage that has hit the digital world. Especially if you notice it on sites like Facebook and Twitter, and if you have either one, chances are you’ve seen the glossy, filtered Smartphone photos. If not, then go ahead and look up that one Facebook friend who posts ten pictures a day of him- or herself doing mundane things like eating lunch and riding in the car.

Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger developed it in San Francisco in October 2010 due to their interest in mobile photography.

Thanks to surprisingly good-quality camera phones and apps like Instagram, the days of using a dark room or a big fancy camera to take cool photographs are over. So why is everyone using Instagram? Studies have shown that Instagram users have the intention of creating beautiful art and joining communities with this relatively new app.

Definitely photography is still easier than ever. And I am happy enough that the app is seriously helping users to get back to mobile phone clicking which has recently vanished into the sky cos of the cheap deals on digital cameras.

Personally, I think Instagram is a great app. I recently downloaded it and Instagramed a few photos of my own. A lot of my friends also have the app and I really enjoy seeing them posted on Facebook and Twitter. Instagram brings together people who have a common interest and encourages them to display their creativity. It is a fun way to make art and I believe that this app will only gain in popularity with the social savvy world.

Instagram is free, too, and can be downloaded on IPhone and Androids. So if you’re exhausted of your regular old photos and want to dapper them up with color and some cool filter effects, check out Instagram! And don’t forget to post the tons of test shots on your Facebook. I want to see them, really! :)

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Roll Down to the ‘Blues’

I certainly am writing a post after a long long time, so do spare me if you find my language a bit unpolished ;) you know what I mean! Anyways – The main point was that recently, I managed to enter the ‘Mahindra Blues’ festival that was held in Mumbai. & boy it was fab!!. Blues Music has always fascinated me in & out in recent years. The plus point was the photographs that I managed to click while listening to the whimsical music at the fest.

So thought I might dig deep into the form & get some info. On how the ‘Blues’ came to life. Also sharing some of the photographs from the event:

Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything. - Plato

Blues is a Native American musical and verse form, with no direct European and African antecedents of which we know. In other words, it is a blending of both traditions. Something special and entirely different from either of its parent traditions. In the early nineteen-sixties, the urban bluesmen were "discovered" by young white American and European musicians. Many of these blues-based bands like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band, the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, Canned Heat, and Fleetwood Mac, brought the blues to young white audiences, something the black blues artists had been unable to do in America except through the purloined white cross-over covers of black rhythm and blues songs.

Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words.

Since the sixties, rock has undergone several blues revivals. Some rock guitarists, such as Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Eddie Van Halen have used the blues as a foundation for offshoot styles. While the originators like John Lee Hooker, Albert Collins and B.B. King - and their heirs Buddy Guy, Otis Rush, and later Eric Clapton and the late Roy Buchanan, among many others, continued to make fantastic music in the blues tradition. The latest generations of blues players like Robert Cray and the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, among others, as well as gracing the blues tradition with their incredible technicality, have drawn a new generation of listeners to the blues.

“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music”

The photographs feature 2 amazing Indian Bands. – Blackstratblues & Soulmate.

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