A Little Creative Class was recently mentioned on Kingston Creative’s blog: http://kingstoncreative.net/the-new-york-capital-regions-66-most-instagrammed-places/. Read the excerpt below:
“Kingston will always be the first capital of New York, but we decided to turn our gaze to the north and see what’s going on in New York’s fourth capital, Albany. We discovered that Instagram is very much an Albany thing (in addition to the steamed hams).
As a digital marketing agency based in the Hudson Valley (check out our work with some recent political campaigns), we’re always striving to understand how real life activities and places are driving the most activity online, and vice versa. One of the ways of doing that is with social media data; we looked at over 80,000 Instagram photos taken throughout the Capital Region in the last year, and organized them by how many times people geo-tagged themselves at different locations (we didn’t count posts by the places or business owners themselves).
We ended up counting the photos taken in places like Albany, Troy, Cohoes, Rensselaer, Schenectady, Colonie, Delmar and all of the places in between (sorry Saratoga Springs!) and came up with the 66 places below…”
“While most of the photography and commentary featured in this post is positive, we also have to acknowledge that the social media bubble distorts the struggles that many people are going through. For example, almost half of the households in our own Ulster County are one paycheck away from financial ruin.
If you’re reading this and thinking about spending money to visit the region, you should also consider pre-ordering Brenda Ann Kenneally’s upcoming book Upstate Girls: Unraveling Collar City, where she documents the rise and fall of the American working class while photographing a group of women in Troy, and their struggles and victories of making ends meet in our society. 100% of the proceeds go towards her non-profit, A Little Creative Class, which helps provide disadvantaged young people with access to the creative economy that has a high cost of entry.”
Thank you, Kingston Creative, for the mention!