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On Vine, Instagram and more, Creativity is cut to the quick with comedy, zippy traffic reports, sliced-up scenic vistas and even 15-second TV shows.
Auditions: Curtis Lepore
Auditions: “Desert Friends”
Tours: Glitterati Tours
Tours: LAhistory
Tours: Pete Halvorsen
Traffic: Ayden Mayeri
Traffic: Dan Marker-Moore
Animation: Ian Padgham
Animation: Friends in Faux
Auditions: Curtis Lepore
Local Vine star Curtis Lepore has 2.6 million followers for his mini-comedy sketches, plus accounts for his dog and his praying mantis.
Auditions: “Desert Friends”
“Desert Friends,” billed as “the world’s first Instagram TV show,” plays out in 15-second episodes, a couple of which are vaguely amusing. Perhaps the world’s second, third and fourth Instagram TV shows will get better.
Tours: Glitterati Tours
Go on a six-second trip on Fairfax with @GlitteratiTours …
Tours: LAhistory
… or enjoy a ride on the Bonaventure elevator with @LAhistory.
Tours: Pete Halvorsen
Pete Halvorsen’s videos, many of which feature glamour shots of the Manhattan Beach Pier, are like moving photographs set to music.
Traffic: Ayden Mayeri
It’s L.A., so of course people are Vine-ing and driving: aspiring actress Ayden Mayeri does most of her Vines from her car.
Traffic: Dan Marker-Moore
Photographer Dan Marker-Moore’s time-lapse Instagram videos make even traffic jams look like beautiful, hypnotic dreamscapes.
Animation: Ian Padgham
Stop-motion animators took to Vine like fish to water, with often enchanting results like Ian Padgham’s “Woodman” Vines starring a wooden artist’s model.
Animation: Friends in Faux
Before Instagram even released its video feature, animation team Friends in Faux stitched about 1,600 individual Instagram photos into a gleeful 2:51 short about animators toying with a beachgoer.
