Lomography

[mondragon]

Lomo started out as a russian company making a copy of a japanese Cosina camera, resulting in the LC-A. It was a fun little thing, sharp in the middle but serious light fall-off at the edges, and the shutter would stay open long enough to get an exposure no matter how dark it was - so if it needed a half hour, it would stay open that long. The

Comments

[eclipse77x]

Does it really matter what other people think of you?

[mondragon]

No. But they took something special and interesting, made it unspecial and uninteresting, and are selling it as a lifestyle product.

[eclipse77x]

Doesn't that happen a lot when people without original ideas are looking to make money? And why good books are made into shitty movies and shitty movies are made into Broadway shows and why Miley Cyrus does cover songs of old Poison songs. :)

There was a cool article (In NY Magazine I think) about the death of the hipster. That excited me. A lot.

[mondragon]

It wasn't really about the death of the hipster - it was a very interesting history and a completely damning review of how nothing good has come out of the actions of these "arty" people.

[maxauburn]

I like the photos.. interesting fuzzy pic gives them a dream - like quality!

[bitterlawngnome]

was just reminded of you, well actually of this LJ -
http://www.flickr.com/photos/toddboland/2355032559/in/photostream/