instagram fulfilment centres vs un-instagrammable hang zones
According to The Times, the interior of 68-seat Frog Club features a fireplace, frog-themed murals wearing Prohibition-era cocktail attire painted by artist Normandie Syken, and hundreds of plates suspended by chains throughout the dining room.
To give you more of an idea of the restaurant’s vibes, Eater writes that newsletter Found NY “ compared F... See more
To give you more of an idea of the restaurant’s vibes, Eater writes that newsletter Found NY “ compared F... See more
Brianna Perry • NYC’s Newest Restaurant Likened To A Favorite Childhood Book ‘On LSD’
In the 2010s many of our public spaces started to be molded, physically and literally, by the market advantage of luring patrons looking for highly Instagrammable shots. Businesses that once paid large sums of money to have photographs taken for advertisements that cost even more to run now had access to an army of free labor, taking pictures for f... See more
Freddie deBoer • Review: Kyle Chayka's Filterworld
The page functions as a hub of London’s best local eateries and their delicious dishes, celebrating these spots in all their day-to-day glory. Many of them have distinct shopfronts, too, which 30-year-old Rangaswami never fails to point out, often via poetic captions about the history of hot dogs, old school cash registers or musings over what a ch
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The Caff Is One of Britain’s Cultural Treasures – But if We Don’t Eat in Them, They’ll Disappear
Isaac Rangaswamitheguardian.comInstagram is essentially “pics or it didn’t happen”-as-a-service.
Julian Lehr • Proof of X
The new ugliness is defined in part by an abandonment of function and form: buildings afraid to look like buildings, cars that look like renderings, restaurants that look like the apps that control them. New York City is a city increasingly in quotation marks, a detailed facsimile of a place.
The Editors • Why Is Everything So Ugly?
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Here’s a beautiful thing about U.G.H.Z Principles — they apply to virtual spaces , too. (No, you would probably never “gram” a website, but we are talking metaphorically here baby!)