Cong Minh blog: Youtube daily Instagram Jan 27 2019

Hello Youtube.

My name is Caya and I consider myself and amateur photographer...and for the past few

years I've been spending time and effort, crafting and publishing my photos on Instagram.

But I no longer believe Instagram is the place to be discovered.

I'm quitting Instagram, and I'm going to tell you why.

OK, so first of all, let's talk about the evolution of Instagram, and travel back to

2012, this is when I first moved to NYC.. and it was a fantastic time for me.

Back in 2012 your family was starting to join Facebook, and then Facebook was this place

where you would still publish photos about your trips and your vacations, photos with

your friends and tag them, comment, whatever...

And then Instagram was this little secret place, it already had millions of users, but

it was a secret millennial place where you would post day to day random spots that you

would find, and that's what I would use Instagram for, the photos that would stand out were

the photos where you found the weird angle and chose the right filter.

And that's fine, it's literally amateur photography.

Maybe you found a friend that had some talent for composition that you didn't even know

about.

And we used to have Instagram cheating, I don't know if you remember this, it was cheating

if you would use your DSLR photos, so Instagram was all about smartphone photos.

And we loved it, right?

We loved this little secret place where we could look at life through these filters.

Fast forward to 2019, Facebook is not cool anymore, we all know that!

There's no original content on Facebook anymore, people are no longer publishing pictures about

whatever they're up to.

Facebook is all about news, and fighting and controversy, fake news...

But Instagram is still somewhat selective... at least on what you follow, or how much business

content you get.

And we have stories now.

I don't hate stories, I really don't.

I don't hate stories.

I think that the word here is transcendence.

I want to create content that's worth watching and sharing.

If I'm going to spend anywhere from 5 minutes to 10 hours editing a video, I want that content

to live on.. and it's fine, it's fine!

I think there's content that should be ephemeral.. but in the end Stories have transformed Instagram

into what it is today.

I think it's still a cool platform, but Instagram is no longer the place for amateur photographers

to get discovered, it's become this place where we follow our friends, where we find

out what they're up to, or where we follow people that we care about like celebrities,

for whatever reason we are curious about what they are up to, and I've been migrating my

time on Instagram from watching the feed, to watching stories.

That's the inherent problem here, if you're taking photos, it's no longer what Instagram

is all about.

And that is reason number one.

So now let's move on to standing out on Instagram.

I've accepted...

I've accepted that I can't stand out on Instagram.

I'm going to tell you story to illustrate this.

When I was in college I studied Digital Animation which is this very design, artsy-oriented

career.

I was never an artist in high school.

Digital Animation is a career where you stand out if you're talented, not because you studied

very hard.

So one of my best friends in college was Luis Gadea.

Luis would carry his sketchpad every day, every moment we're sitting, having coffee

or having lunch, he's sketching.

And he's this fantastic, truly fantastic illustrator.

What I figured, knowing Luis, is that I'm never going to be as good as him, I'm never

going to catch up to him, unless I dedicate twice the time he's already spending drawing.

And that's the way it works for a lot of things in this career, you need to be very aware,

and accept that there are things that you aren't that good at... and you have to leverage

what you are talented at.

That' in the end the conclusion I made with Instagram.

I don't have the capability to stand out on Instagram as a photographer.

I took a class with another Luis, now that's coincidence.

This guy has a blog called 'To the Wonder' and I'm a big fan of his.

He's Costa Rican photographer that travels the world taking these mind blowing photos.

But after taking the class and understanding the type of photo that he takes, the effort

that he puts into this... this is a photo that he has to choose the right filter for,

spent thousands of dollars in these lenses because he wants the perfect picture.

I can't do that!

I'm no that passionate about photography to spend a day....

I went to Japan a couple months ago, I really don't want to spend one of my ten days in

Japan finding the perfect shot of Mount Fuji.

Again, just like with college, I realized I'm not going to be a professional photographer

unless I really spend that time.

And that's fine.

If you're someone like Luis, you can absolutely stand out on Instagram, you search for a hashtag

and a photo like this, stands out... but unless you want to go that route, I no longer believe

Instagram is the place.

And we as amateur photographers need to evolve out of Instagram.

So what to do now?

Youtube.

This Youtube channel is one of the things that I am doing... and by all means, if I

suck at this, let me know in the comments now!

If not, maybe subscribe, but only if you want to ;) So to explain how landed on Youtube,

how I'm betting on Youtube, I should tell you about my background.

I'm going to do that in this 30 second clip.

This is my life in 30 seconds or less.

Born and raised in Costa Rica.

In 05 I got a job so I could pay for college, tried to be a developer.

FAILED.

Found something more design oriented: Digital Animation.

I made a short film.

Met amazing artists who were going to make it, realized I wasn't one of them.

FAILED to get promoted at my job, quit, came up with a cool iOS game, raised a Kickstarter

Campaign for it, appeared on CNN, game got called 'The Next Angry Birds'.

Moved to New York.

FAILED.

Moved back to San Jose with $15,000 in debt.

Spoke at TEDx.

Started Slidebean with these guys.

Became a Dad.

Worked as hard as I've ever worked in my life.

Paid debt.

Slidebean became profitable and grew to a team of 24.

Made time for hobbies again, tried to put my photos on Instagram, FAILED.

Made a two cameos in NAS Daily, chatted about Youtube.

Turned 30.

Figured I had to go to Base Camp before I get old and tell the story.

So what I'm trying to do here is, leveraging the experience and the talent that I have.

I'm a decent writer, I think.

I can edit a good video and I have post-production skills.

This is something that I really can't leverage on Instagram... but it's something that I

might leverage on Youtube... and that is why I'm here.

I'm trying this out, this is the third video I make... but for you as an amateur photographer

this is what I think you should try and reconsider.

Maybe Instagram is not the place to get your photos discovered.

If you can, try Youtube.

If you can stand in front of a camera and tell a story.

I used to make this videos that were sort of moving pictures.

I picked this song and edited a lot of different shots from my trip.

I did that when I went to Iceland, I did it when I went to Easter Island which was one

of my favorite trips ever.

But this content is not interesting because it's not telling a story... and this is what

people enjoy on Youtube, being told stories.

I was watching this interview with Casey Neistat the other day, and I guess we have to quote

Casey.

I was pretty poor.

I had my son when I was 16 and I washed dishes for a living... and it wasn't until I was

18 years old that I decided I wanted to make movies.

I was washing dishes so that I could pay for my computer that I could edit on, I was an

assistant.

I used to clean out kitty litter boxes for my boss so I could get a paycheck, take that

money, buy cameras and make movies.

I always made a living so I could make movies.

I never made movies to try and make a living.

I think this is very interesting.

It's not like I don't care if my videos are liked.

I care, I really do.

But I'm working, I have a day job I'm not planning on quitting, and I make these videos

because I want to tell a story.

So if you're an amateur photographer, I think that it's time for you to reconsider Instagram.

There are platforms like 500px.

I think 500px is still... photos are too pro.

I can't compete with a photo from 500px.

I think this is the best photo that I've ever shot, and it was a complete coincidence...

it's my favorite photo ever.

And I put it on 500px and it did, just OK.

Maybe we need a new platform, right?

Maybe we need a new Instagram, a new place where selfies are forbidden, where friends

photos are forbidden, you can only publish the world around you.

Some #earthporn sort of app.

I don't know.

Reddit I think is another option.

The Reddit crowd is ruthless, but if you can make your way on Reddit and get that content

upvoted, then you can really be discovered.

And then the home for that content can still be Instagram.

It's just stop thinking about Instagram as the place where you can promote that content.

Let me know if I'm wrong, and if you're an amateur photographer and have another platform

of choice, please let me know.

See you next week.

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Scouting for Instagram Spots (pls watch, it was freezing outside) - Duration: 7:53.

What's up, y'all?

Good morning, good morning Alright, so it's about 7 am right now, and

so I thought that I'd take you guys on a little adventure this morning

I have to be at work at around like 9, 9:30 so I have about 2 hours to spare so I thought

that during that time we can go scout out some Instagram spots together

Alright, but before then I thought we'd do a little #ootd

and so, um I know that my bathroom counter is pretty messy right now, but uh we're just

not gonna talk about that.

So anyways um I just wanted to show this denim jacket that I got at Nordstrom the other day

and so that's pretty much it so let's go

I hate it when vloggers do okay let's go

Oh my God it is way too cold for what I'm wearing right now

And I did not even check how cold it's going to be the morning oh my gosh okay

I did not feel like changing what I was wearing so I just put on a scarf

Alright, so basically what we're going to do is around my apartment there are a couple

of areas that I've driven past and so I think that there can be potential for some good

photos there so what we're going to do is just going to kind of scout out those areas

and just see if we can get a good photo there or not and so then this weekend we're going

to come back and take photos at some of the spots that we scouted out

So that'll probably be in another video so stay tuned for that

I apologize if I'm sounding a little bit incoherent today because I only slept for like one and

a half hours last night and so, you know, some people might be like "well why are you

waking up so early and filming when you haven't slept?" but, I'm all like, you know, the show

must go on I do it for the fans

So the first area that we're gonna look at so there's a train track that runs through

my part of town So what we're gonna do is we're just gonna

walk down the tracks and see if there is an area that we can take a good photo at

I'm just a sucker for train track pictures and also I'm really basic

#seniorpics so this is the first place that we're stopping

at because I just want to get the potential for dying out of the way as soon as possible

so yeah Hopefully a train doesn't come by

that would be a bad start for the morning having to deal with that

I feel like further down there's not like a whole lot of brush like on either side so

it's not framed very well but, I think like maybe in this area

uh I don't know all the brush is kind of dead Oh this isn't a bad shot

okay, I'm liking it I'm liking it okay, so like right here the slats or whatever

aren't covered by like a lot of gravel so I think like maybe if we just kind of have

the tripod maybe at like this position right here

and then maybe I'll stand like over here

this could be a pretty good shot Alright so I think that that was a pretty

decent location I think that potentially we can get a good

shot there it's still winter so a lot of the trees look

pretty dead but I think that there is enough greenery

that it could turn out pretty decent so anyways

wanted to get a good train track photo to like represent Thomas the Train Engine

the next place that we are going is there is a furniture store not too far away from

here just a couple blocks down and so that place uh I believe is a British

chain or something like that they have like a like one of those red telephone

booths in their parking lot so I wanna see if we can get a decent picture

from this place because then you know

it looks like I'm a worldwide traveller so I think you can see it from over here

that's where we're headed, boys alright here we are

oh no the store is closing?

what?

70% off?

so I think, you know, we can get like a pretty basic photo over here

no!! it doesn't open!

It's fake! man, okay, well I did want to see if that

opened or not what if we take like a picture with the American

flag in the background?

alright got pranked that is not a real telephone booth which I

guess I should have expected that but at least um I still think that it would be a pretty

cool picture to take oh my gosh I am so sleepy right now and I

really want coffee, but you know what?

We're just gonna tough through it because I do not need to be spending money on coffee

right now I got coffee

alright in case you were wondering what I got I got a café au lait

it's pretty good ah I should have turned right there

okay I'll just turn around so where we're going right now is there is

a small park that is not too far away from my apartment and so were just going to be

going around to see if there are a couple place that we can take photos there

oh that's a good shot okay wait hold on

I like that so what I'm thinking is is like right here

so what I'm thinking is like that like space in between the brush right there

yeah there be like sitting ??? ???

??? okay so remember when I said

I only slept for like one and a half hours last night

well that started to take toll It's like sunrise right now

and I actually really like how this area right here is like illuminated

I know that I said we were only scouting today but I couldn't help myself

I took a photo at that place we were just at right now because the sunrise is so beautiful

I did want to look around this park a little bit more but

there are a couple other places that I wanted to check out so we need to get going

I don't wanna get out of my car right now because it is freezing

but I accidentally made a wrong turn while I was on my way to the next place that we

are going to go to and I came across these little buildings right

here and so I thought

so at this point of the morning almost nothing that I was saying was making much sense

so I'm probably gonna narrate mostly from here on out

apologies if you were a fan of lyrical masteries like

there be like sitting let me know in the comments section if those

words resonated with you if so, that's pretty sad

so over here I was thinking of taking a photo in front of this reddish building

here look I'll show you a proof of concept that's me

here I'll give myself a coffee to make myself look more realistic

pretty sexy, huh?

ladies, DM me that was stupid

so I got to the next location and was walking around a bit

saw this bench that I thought would look okay to take a pic

alright so I continued walking around and there were some okay spots

I didn't really see anything too too interesting but it was like pretty nice I guess walking

around that morning So there's this traffic circle and there's

this big blue structure thing in the middle of it and so I thought that that might have

potential if we went into the center and I probably would have crossed the street to

check it out but oh my gosh

baby, it's cold outside sorry there's not much closure to this video

I kind of just stopped filming when I was out the other day

but, if you liked this video be sure to subscribe and hit the like button

and if you didn't like this video Thanks for watching!

See you guys next time.

Bye!

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News24 - Man Utd fans think Sanchez is responsible for cheeky Instagram post mocking Arsenal - Duration: 4:03.

Alexis Sanchez delivered one of his finest performances for Manchester United on Friday night

Returning to his former club Arsenal, the Chilean brushed off his difficult form this season for a blockbuster FA Cup fourth round tie, which the Red Devils eventually won 3-1

Sanchez scored the opening goal - only his fifth since moving to Old Trafford - by rounding Petr Cech and finding the net he so often rippled during his time in north London

Further goals from Jesse Lingard and Anthony Martial would cancel out a Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang strike and ensure United progressed to the next round

It also, of course, elongated Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's remarkable 100% record since replacing Jose Mourinho back in December

Arsenal 1-3 Man Utd Sanchez has struggled for game-time in spite of the managerial switch, but will be hoping his performance against Arsenal will start to change things

And there's definitely evidence to suggest that the 30-year-old is in better spirits and if United fans are to be believed, that's summed up by his recent Instagram activity

It's no secret that Sanchez loves his two dogs Atom and Humber, even going as far as creating an Instagram account for them with over 180,000 followers

Instagram story mocking Arsenal Sanchez definitely plays a key role in updating the account, which is often graced with dramatic compilations of Atom and Humber set to emotional music

That certainly wasn't the case on Saturday, however, as a post appearing to poke fun at Arsenal was uploaded to the account's Instagram story

It shows Sanchez superimposed on to a movie poster with the title 'I Am Back' as well as an amusing subtitle of: 'He came back to play the piano

They faced the music.' It's fair to say United fans are convinced it came from the man himself

Check out the post and the reaction below: Come on Alexis, was it you? There's nothing untoward about the post but it's certainly cheeky, especially when you consider Sanchez made over 150 appearances for the Gunners

Either that or somebody in Sanchez's family or team just couldn't resist sharing the post

Regardless of Instagram activity, though, Sanchez will be feeling good about finding the net for United and will turn his focus to becoming a regular starter on Solskjaer

If he can produce the kind of showings that silenced Arsenal on Friday night, then there's every reason to suggest he could compete with Martial and Marcus Rashford

Supporters know he can succeed in the Premier League and his previous form at the Emirates shows that but Sanchez is still a long way from returning to his best

He'll have to hope that - like the poster says - he really is back. Do you think Sanchez should start for United? Have your say in the comments section below

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Μετά από αρκετά χρόνια προσπαθειών, η Carrie Underwood και ο Mike Fischer καλωσόρισαν στον κόσμο την Δευτέρα 21 Ιανουαρίου τον δεύτερο γιο τους, Jacob Bryan

"Είναι απίστευτα ευτυχισμένοι με τον ερχομό του γιου τους. Ήταν αρκετά δύσκολα τα τελευταία τέσσερα χρόνια με διάφορες αποβολές που είχε η τραγουδίστρια και δεν πίστευαν πως θα φτάσουν σε αυτό το ευχάριστο σημείο" συμπληρώνει πηγή του αμερικάνικου People

«Ο Jacob Bryan Fischer, ήρθε στον κόσμο μας τις πρώτες πρωινές ώρες της Δευτέρας… Η μαμά, ο μπαμπάς κι η αδερφή του δεν θα μπορούσαν να είναι πιο ευγνώμων στον Θεό που τους εμπιστεύτηκε αυτό το μικρό θαύμα! Η καρδιά μας είναι γεμάτη τα μάτια μας κουρασμένα κι οι ζωές μας, μια για πάντα αλλαγμένες! Η ζωή είναι ωραία…» έγραψε χαρακτηριστικά στην λεζάντα των φωτογραφιών που δημοσίευσε από το μαιευτήριο, η Carrie Underwood

Να υπενθυμίσουμε πως η 35χρονη Carrie είναι Αμερικανίδα τραγουδίστρια κι ηθοποιός, η οποία έκανε ντεμπούτο με το album της «Some Hearts»

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