And it’s so overdone that it’s becoming boring. "I get it, it's pretty to look at," she says. But in the end, this sort of endless visual snacking feels hollow. Everyone likes breathtaking photos of mountains and beaches, and everyone longs for a day when they can just get away from it all. The creator of Socality Barbie understands why such feeds are popular. Captions like Always gram your coffee or it didn't happen and Great things never came from comfort zones are pitch-perfect platitudes. Shimmer and shine in this mid-weight bomber that flaunts flip pink sequins across the outside with a pink Barbie logo satin lining. There she is, showing off her double scoop of vanilla and honey lavender ice cream at Salt and Straw. There she is, contemplating life while gazing over a lake, hair tousled and knit beanie ever so slightly askew. ![]() On those days when the photographer is too tired to head to, say, Multnomah Falls, she'll use a little digital trickery in Photoshop.Īs fun as the photos are, it's the details that make scrolling through SB’s feed a delight. It's all so authentic, as are the locations. The quintessentially Pacific Northwest Pendleton blanket is a scrap of felt with painted lines. Her fashionably disheveled wardrobe is often handmade-a hipster backpack made from an iron-on patch and leather, a beanie cut from the finger of a glove. ![]() "I couldn’t tell any of their pictures apart so I thought, 'What better way to make my point than with a mass-produced doll?'" “People were all taking the same pictures in the same places and using the same captions," she says. The homogeneity of their authenticity and universality of their socality all but demanded satirization. She created the Instagram about three months ago to poke fun at all the people hashtagging photos with #liveauthentic and #socality. Dressing dolls, Barbie or otherwise, can be challenging unless youre talented at removing hands and youre okay with the risk of breaking off a thumb. The woman behind the account is a wedding photographer in Portland, Oregon, who wishes to remain anonymous so to preserve Socality Barbie's authenticity. Anyone who’s flipped through an issue of Kinfolk gets the aesthetic. It’s an endless barrage of pensive selfies in exotic locales, arty snapshots of coffee, and just the right filter on everything. Socality Barbie is a fantastic Instagram account satirizing the great millennial adventurer trend in photography. ![]() ![]() She's living #authentic, celebrating #socality, and effortlessly being so much better than you. Winners will be notified via email 24 hours in advance of the show.Barbie's traded her pink Corvette for a Subaru, her designer purse for a Filson backpack, and her ordinary specs for Warby Parkers. Alt-rockers You Am I dominated the Australian charts in the 90s with their albums Hi Fi Way (1995), Hourly, Daily (1996) and #4 Record (1998) Indigenous rapper and dancer Baker Boy spits rhymes in both English and Yolŋu Matha Electric Fields fuse electro-soul with vocalist/keyboardist Zaachariaha Fielding’s Aboriginal culture, with vocals in Pitjantjatjara, Yankunytjatjara and English Haiku Hands’ boisterous beats reflect an alternative take on four-on-the-floor dance jams multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter G Flip, best known for their viral hit “About You,” wields loops and multiple tracks to sound like a massive band, all by themselves and electronic DJ duo Peking Duk may have first gotten attention with a bootleg Passion Pit remix, but their hit “High” with Nicole Millar has since gone triple platinum in Australia.Įnter to WIN the best seats on us to AUSSIE BBQ!* Returning to SummerStage to celebrate the sounds of Australia, THE AUSSIE BBQ showcases some of the best of the country’s emerging and established talent. AUSSIE BBQ will be livestreamed for one-time only at on 6/18 at 4:30 PM ET.
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