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NYU was named the 4th most hipster school in the country by The Huffington Post this week, so to celebrate (sarcasm) I want to share with you my new favorite iPhone app: Hipstamatic ().

The picture above and my new profile picture on Facebook are both products of Hipstamatic. It’s a sweet app that let’s you take “old looking” pictures. The coolest part about it though isn’t the pictures…. actually, it is the pictures. But the second coolest part is the interface. It’s not select from a list of effects and then snap a picture regularly. You pick your film, lense, and flash right on a legit old school camera. I don’t even know how to explain it. Just go download it and take a journey to the 1970’s or 80’s or 60’s or whatever pre-Dean D’Agati time period that cameras actually did this.

(It costs 2 bucks, so if you know of something that’s cooler & free, post in the comments!)

Here are some more (click for full)…

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Whenever I check out my friends’ blogs, all I see are these amazing galleries of professional photos that make me want to sell my car to buy a DSLR, change my major and dedicate my life to photography (1, 2, 3).

While no major life chances like that will be happening to me anytime soon, I was able to go on a photo shoot over the weekend with deandagati.com “awesome people” Taylor & Maxie and see the pros at work. They also introduced me to Elia who is yet another amazing Cooper photographer who has her own blog here, and I’m happy to finally have met her (Taylor talks about you a lot, Elia).

The pictures included in this post are all from my iPhone (since I don’t own a still camera of any kind), but hopefully the legit pictures from their cameras will make their way to Facebook soon. Click the thumbnails below for full size…

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Above is Taylor Slingerland’s Color Slideshow Project for Photography at CCHS, and when I saw it, not only was I amazed (clearly I’m a sucker for photography), but I knew immediately that Taylor had to be this month’s awesome person.

(Yeah, I’m turning Awesome People into a monthly thing. Sling gets February.)

When Pichardo, the CTV officers and I were choosing people to enter CTV in 2008, Pichardo raved about this kid Taylor Slingerland in his TV1 class. We watched his music video project and my first response was “I don’t want this annoying sophomore in CTV.”

It took until I graduated, but that “annoying sophomore” eventually became one of my best friends.

His photography and film skills are ridiculous and I want him to come to NYU. While he did actually apply here, he also applied to 983 other schools and claims he probably won’t be coming to New York. I’m keeping my hopes up though because A.Katz and I really want him around.

For more Slingerland Photography, check out his Flickr here.

If you’re also a sucker for photography like me, check out the Color Slideshow Projects of Julie Weintraub (here) and Jon Cohen (here) because they are both awesome, as well.

One last thing is that Taylor hates nicknames, so I say we all post some creative nicknames in the comments and I’ll have a poll for the best one next week. Just for you Sling ;)

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Yesterday, David showed me this iPhone app called Vint Green that let’s you take pictures that look like they were taken in the 70’s. There are about 72 billion photo related apps for the iPhone and none of them are really that cool, but this one is different: It’s really freakin cool.

Here are some pictures I took at the Flamingo Plaza:

Click “read more” for a couple more pics and have a good new year!

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I’m starting this new thing on my blog called “Awesome People.”

Every once in a while I’ll put up a post about somebody who I think does something particularly awesome or makes something particularly awesome or just flat out is awesome.

For the first post, I’m talking about Alex Levinson who took the picture above and is probably getting a little creeped out by the amount of times I tell her how much I love her photography. But I mean, it’s so legit, how could anyone not love it?! The picture above is currently the wallpaper on my Mac and you can click “READ MORE” below to check out a couple other Alex pics that I really like. If you’re friends with her, check out her Facebook albums, hurrrrrr.

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