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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPgoodmorning
Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post every week announcing the latest project.
This one’s for you, early risers. The goal this weekend is to take photos and videos that capture the sights and sounds of the world waking up. Here are a few tips to get started:
- Take advantage of soft morning light, whether it streams through your bedroom window or lights your favorite hiking trail at sunrise.
- Record quiet moments with your family before the day starts moving: still-sleeping portraits, steam rising off a cup of fresh coffee and reading the newspaper together.
- Consider morning moments that aren’t slow — not everyone has the weekends off of work. Take a Hyperlapse of the vendors setting up the fish market before the sun comes up, or a Boomerang of park ranger out in the field.
PROJECT RULES: Please add the #WHPgoodmorning hashtag only to photos and videos taken over this weekend and only submit your own visuals to the project. If you include music in your video submissions, please only use music to which you own the rights. Any tagged photo or video taken over the weekend is eligible to be featured next week.
Chiaozza Brings Colorful and Curious Structures to Coachella
To see more of Adam and Terri’s work, follow @chiaozza on Instagram.
For two weekends in April, the small desert oasis of Indio, California, is a destination for tens of thousands of @coachella attendees, who flock for music, food and art. Two of the featured artists this year are Adam Frezza and Terri Chiao, who make up the Brooklyn-based duo Chiaozza (@chiaozza). “Chiaozza Garden” is an entire acre of tall, bulbous, colorful structures — all of which have whimsical names like Giros, Dollop Sprouts, Twin Lumps and Exquisite Plants — that stand out even in the vastness of the festival grounds. “When we were designing this garden,” says Terri, “we thought a lot about the experience of the light in the desert — how it gets kind of bleached out during the day, but the colors start to really glow at dusk and sunrise.” Evolving from a sketch in their studio to 8-ton sculptures made from plywood, lathe, stucco and cement in the center of Coachella, the pair had a hand in every stage of the production process. “It’s the largest project we’ve ever done,” says Adam. “It’s so fun to see people engage with the work,” which includes dancing with some of the pieces’ rubber tassels and resting in the late afternoon shade the structures provide. “Over time, we want this work to continuously befuddle and offer a curious sense of imagination.”
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- Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPgoodmorning. View photos from the last project, #WHPgeometric.
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