The Niftiness Brigade

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About The Niftiness Brigade

We all have great moments.

Saving up and buying a print from your favorite artist.
Finally quitting your food service job and burning those ugly non-skid shoes.
Loving your new haircut.
Realizing, much to your surprise, that your year's worth of failure to cut your hair accidentally resulted in a really nice look.

Then some of us realize that, in the process of getting by, our lives have become somewhat compressed. We work, we sleep, we eat, we go to school, we go back to work. We make rent, we pay bills, and we realize that, as a result, we don't see real people nearly as often as we might like.

When this is the way you live, those above moments are that much better. However, it's also that much more disheartening when, at two in the morning, you've completed that massive research paper and realize you no longer know who might still be awake to share in your victory.

This group is about looking at what you want to share, and why. When you find something that makes life nifty, document it, and post it. Do it to look at why such a thing qualifies as nifty. Do it to examine how you go about documenting such things. As a form of self-therapy, consider documenting something profoundly not-nifty and then examine why it affected you so badly in an effort to breathe niftiness into the situation. Or hell, just post it because you want to share. Everybody loves a pretty picture.

Acceptable Content:

If the single most nifty thing of your day is that bizarre new position that you and your roommate discovered on that crazy night with Becky, please don’t share the pictures. We’re really, really happy that you found something that awesome, but if you just have to share, consider drastically abstracted paintings of a watering can. There’s totally a metaphor there, we know you can find it, and we’ll delete the picture if you give up before such a moments of discovery.

That said, the group is open to all forms of picture making: photos, illustration, collage, knitting, face-to-scanner experimentation. Tasteful nudity, such as life drawing, is acceptable.

Your photographs do not need to be artistic. In any way. At all. We’re talking about a group that’s dedicated to that day when the ice cream machine accidentally gave you two things for the price of one. Ansel Adams be damned, just show us the tasty, tasty choco-taco duo.

Also, please do that being respectful thing. Your comments are content too.