With a new album and national tour waiting in the wings, Dustin Tebbutt has a lot to look forward to. If he could just get off his Instagram feed.
“I like a good time waste as much as anyone (it's an essential part of being creative) and when you’re addicted to social media, you might as well look at something more interesting than random selfies.”
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Here are Dustin's top 5 favourite Instagram accounts.
1. @kookslams
Awesome collection of wipeouts ranging from harmless stupidity featuring clueless people, right up to some seriously heavy wreckers. Only two rules apply here: 1. You will cringe. 2. The ocean is master.
2. @boringlandscapes
Perfectly named, this account is a journal of mundane, somewhat ugly and completely un-noteworthy landscapes. Within the context of each other though, side by side, they take on another level of beauty and meaning. I also like the defiance of this page being on Instagram and proud not to be portraying the 'ideal'.The exact opposite of the often highly produced, posed and sponsored stuff we see filling our feeds more and more these days. It's a lesson in subtlety perhaps, or just a joke on us, but I do like flicking though these places, wondering what has happened in the seemingly grim spaces. It's all relative I guess.
3. @pnwonderland
Heaps of my favourite stuff captured exquisitely here, including mountains, rivers, lakes, forests and did I say mountains? It's a curated site with multiple contributors, so is also a good way to find cool photographers and other accounts.
4. @theroyaldivision
A photography collective, full of stunning landscapes and portraits, and the occasional mountain. Some of the shots are of the more edited variety, but on the whole the feed has a really organic and epic feel to it.
5. @thelmaplum
Thelma Plum is a wonderful person. In real life, her openness, honesty and energy are true virtues, and these all translate to her feed which is always entertaining in a really human way. She's not afraid to call things like she sees them, has an awesome sense of humour, and has a way of inspiring people though the way she sees the world.Dustin's newest album, 'First Light', is available from 5 August.
Dustin Tebbutt Tour Dates
Thu 4 Aug – Byron Theatre (Byron Bay)Fri 5 Aug - The Foundry (Brisbane)
Sat 6 Aug - Solbar (Sunshine Coast)
Fri 12 Aug - Northcote Social Club (Melbourne)
Sat 13 Aug - Workers Club (Geelong)
Fri 19 Aug - Newtown Social Club (Sydney)
Sat 20 Aug - Transit Bar (Canberra)
Fri 26 Aug - Jack Rabbit Slims (Perth)
Sat 27 Aug - Jive (Adelaide)
Sat 3 Sep - Elsewhere The Rooftop (Newcastle)
