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HipstaMatic 200 New Features And Chunky Lens

HipstaMatic 200 is getting some great new features, the Chunky lens will be free and there’s an additional HipstaPak available with this update.

Verizon’s not the only iPhone news happening on February 10th. iPhone’s App of the year, Hipstamatic, has teamed up with iconic fashion photographer Chiun-Kai Shih, A.K.A “Chunky”, of GQ fame to create a beautiful new fashion lens. The saturated new lens comes complete with sparkle and cinematic brilliance. The “Chunky” lens is available as part of a new HipstaPak that becomes available with the release of the latest update — Hipstamatic 200.

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As part of the celebration, M.A.C & Milk Fashion Week have partnered with Hipstamatic to make the “Chunky” lens available as a free download for Hipstamatic users from Feb 10 – Feb 17. During fashion week, Hipstamatic photographers will be rocking out the new M.A.C & Milk Fashion Freepak with new up and coming designers – bringing you exclusive behind the scenes shots from the runway shows, the VIP Lounge and the after-parties. You can be part of the action by submitting to our new Fashion Contest. It’s time to get out your fiercest attire and walk the streets like its your runway.

For more info on the contest, go here.

After the 17th you can find the Chunky Lens as part of their new SOHO HipstaPak that comes complete with two new films: 1.Blanko Noir – Classic, black and Handsome & 2.Cano Cafenol Film – Mysteriously aged darkness found only in a cup of morning joe. To top things off,  a shiny new “Mr. Bling” gold case.

New Camera Skin

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Chunky Lens

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The new lens is inspired by 3rd Ward’s creative director, fashion world star, and member Chiun-Kai Shi. It will be released in conjunction with the The Chunky Lens World Release & Gallery Show near New York City.

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Behind-the-scenes prints of Eletra Wiedemann Shot By Chunky during the Cover Shoot for Harper’s Bazaar.

Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]