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The student-run magazine of San Francisco State University

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Fits of SFSU co-founders Breanna Miller (left) and Esperanza Vaquiz (right) pose in the Quad, Sept. 15, 2022. (Oliver Michelsen / Xpress Magazine)

Turning the Quad into a Runway

Oliver Michelsen, Multimedia Editor
October 14, 2022

SF State’s quad is filled with the sounds of students greeting friends on their way to and from class, landscapers maintaining the plant life and music playing from any one of the speakers positioned...

Beyond the Surface Level of IG Content Creators

Beyond the Surface Level of IG Content Creators

Story by Anne Lima, Photos by Paige Acosta
August 25, 2020

Editor's note: This article was written as a part of the Fall 2019 class but was not able to be published due to website issues. It seems as though when you tap into Instagram these days everyone is...

Behind the Filters

Behind the Filters

Marinelle Cabillo
April 13, 2018

What filter will it be this time around? What is trying to be “corrected” today? Skin texture? Skin tone complexion? Eyes? Nose? Jawline? Face structure? Double chin? Today, anyone has the power...

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Instagram announces emoji hashtags

Jay Garcia
May 12, 2015
Emoji lovers will rejoice as they find themselves now using them even more than before.
Collage making just got a lot easier. Photo by Tami Benedict/ Xpress Magazine.

Instagram introduces new app

Tami Benedict
March 24, 2015
Making mirrored images of yourself just got a lot easier.

The post-selfie scene

Catherine Uy
October 24, 2014

Marcela Garcia holds up her iPhone 4s and turns on the front-facing camera, adjusting a light at her desk. The twenty-eight-year-old editor from Alberta, Canada, wants the light to shine...

Insta-Love or Insta-Hate?

Hillary Smith
October 6, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lmKq9LU690&feature=youtu.be Photos of gourmet burgers, kittens, and famous internet memes are flooding Instagram as you read this. In fact, roughly two hundred million...

Instagrammers of SFSU

Instagrammers of SFSU

October 24, 2012

Words by: Erin Browner Maybe it’s San Francisco’s love for the fusion of technology and photography, but Instagram is becoming a favored sharing platform. Users don’t have to be photographers,...

Instafame: Bex Finch

October 24, 2012

Words: Barbara Szabo Instagram photos: Bex Finch On February 12, 2012, Bex Finch, watched as Justin Vernon (the frontman of critically-acclaimed indie outfit Bon Iver) won a Grammy award for Best...

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