Lomography

[Fathom Zero]

http://lomography.com/

I've got a massive boner for this stuff and I'm not ashamed to admit it.

[Sam]

I don't get it.

[Fathom Zero]

[Chojin]

Yeah, uh, reading their about page I still have no idea what the fuck they're on about.

Apparently it's photography where you don't bother to set up shots? Every trip to myspace must be an orgasmic experience for you.

[Fathom Zero]

[The Leader]

It's about integrating the Lomo Kompakt Automat camera into your daily routine/life and using it to capture your daily experiences. It held far more meaning before they came out with all of the digital point-and-shoot cameras and camera-phones that everyone has now. Basically these people wanted to have myspace and flickr before they existed so they did the next best thing and made it pretentious to boot. Currently only pioneers of this "Style" and various young hipsters still do it in an attempt to either extend their "Artistic" heyday far beyond its years or as some sort of perverse self indulgent act which plays along with the retro crazes that occasionally sweep through universities.

[Fathom Zero]

But I just like taking cool looking pictures with lo-fi cameras.

[Tadao]

You can do that without being part of a club.

[Fathom Zero]

I don't want to be in the club. I just want the cameras. That's what I meant. The neato Lomo cameras.

[The Leader]

Just use a cellphone.

[Fathom Zero]

Just buy action figures.

[Sam]

I don't get it.

[Esuohlim]

But I thought you deleted all the lomography from your computer :CONFUSED

[Fathom Zero]

:embarassed

[The Leader]

Originally Posted by Fathom Zero

Just buy action figures.

But... I already do...

[Fathom Zero]

I forgot what my point was. It was stupid, anyway. I'm gonna go to sleep now, heal from my brain injury.

[Esuohlim]

Fathom if you want to be a Lameographer then I support you wholeheartedly, son

[Fathom Zero]

Thanks, Dad.

[MattJack]

Originally Posted by Esuohlim

Fathom if you want to be a Lameographer then I support you wholeheartedly, son

[Zhukov]

Don't listen to them FZ, you can do anything that you put your mind to, no matter how pretentious.


Oh, I kid. Post more photos.

[Tadao]

http://www.pastemagazine.com/article...-2009.html?p=8

The Evolution of the Hipster 2000-2009


2007: The Vintage Queen
She shops at retro boutiques and posts Holga photos on her blog. She has said that the koi fish cover-up tattoo on her arm symbolizes “nature and love and peace and stuff.”

[executioneer]

oh man, 2006 ;_;

[Fathom Zero]

So long ago.

Look, I'm not saying that I'm not ashamed of myself or that I'm nothing like that.

Shit's fun for me.

[Esuohlim]

I know so many Twees and they all look exactly like each other

[bigtimecow]

i just read the 10 rules of lomography and yeah, basically it's a concept that cannot be executed

"don't think" is one of them, which is asinine because there is no way at all that you can take a photo and literally not think about anything for the shot. you will always have an intention, whether or not that intention is to be "intentioness" or "thoughtless"

now, if say you were to take like a bajillion photos over the course of a month at these "random" (impossible) moments, and then cull through them and develop a conceptual series of works which involved content that was somehow connected to the process in which they were taken (what i have just described), then i can understand

but otherwise this is just an excuse for faggots