Lowering the tone
We use Instagram to try and save five APPalling locations in Leeds
Most student Instagram accounts seem to be pictures of culinary nightmares or big stacks of books they’ve taken out the library.
But if Instagram can make your kitchen disasters look appetising, what can it do for some of the ugly spots around campus and Hyde Park?
Here’s five grim Leeds locations we tried to make look somewhat reasonable via everyone’s favourite photo-filtering app.
1. Clarendon Way/Hyde Terrace
A daunting uphill walk, especially if you’re carrying some heavy shopping, and with the main sight being the charming Worsley building, an Amaro effect makes everything seem slightly more hopeful.
2. Edward Boyle Private Study Area
Something to send to the parents which a) shows that you’re working and b) filters out the offensive graffiti.
3. The Old Bar Toilets
Not really sure why anyone would want to Instagram the loo’s, especially these toilets, which came out worst in our list of places to poo on campus. A Brannan effect does make them seem somewhat presentable but an app which filtered out the smell from your nose would be the next logical step.
4. Abandoned School, Royal Park Road
One of more Hyde Park’s more eerie attractions, a Lo-Fi effect tries to deflect attention from the fact this place is definitely haunted.
5. Leeds Metropolitan/Beckett University
Part University, part building site, this blot on the landscape is surely a lost cause. Grey and depressing, not even a pretty willow effect can save that plywood tower from looking ridiculous.