I had this wonderful and long post about why I think the whole Lomography thing, invented by two marketing students on a trip to prague is basically bullshit.

For those of you that healthily managed to avoid the unnecessary hype of the thing, it's basically a plastic camera, with one setting and a plastic lens that takes crappy pictures. VIgnetting, light streaks, wierd colors, blur... the stuff that would normally make you throw away a slide or delete a file. (and ditch your camera too). It sucks, really, but it's so cool and of course flickr is invaded with lots of Lomograph (that's how you call a picture done with it.)

Oh, it was a long and convincing post, that would have forced my friend Splunge to use a proper decent camera again, instead of traveling with this kind of horrid plastic monster (shame on you). And taking lots of (pleasant as they are) fuzzy, cross_over_mega processed double exposed pictures like he's doing lately...

But my funny browser crashed in the middle of it, so I had to find someone who shared my views, and I found it. A very good website by the way. Quote:

Apart from the social and economical backgrounds of LOMOgraphy as explained above, there is the artistic aspect. LOMOgraphs are pictures shot with the least possible brains. Preferably at night. Preferably from the hip. Preferably in such a fashion that you can't see what's on the picture. The intent of LOMOgraphy as a philosophy is to let go of all the burdens of traditional photography, and capture life as it is, as directly as possible. To translate freedom into pictures. To be free, wild, and young. To be spontaneous.

To then impress others with your spontaneity.

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Another one of my problems with LOMOgraphy is that the form is fixed, with you to fill in the blanks. There is very little room to experiment, because a LOMOgraph is a LOMOgraph only if it conforms to some basic rules. It needs to be unsharp. It needs to be abstractish. It needs to have strong colors. It needs to conform to some notion of artistic credibility. So in the end, how enlightened is LOMOgraphy really?

Eat it Splunge! GET A PROPER CAMERA! (so we can discuss apertures and focal length and formats and all sorts of VERY USEFUL stuff again!) Stop this plastic crazyness! :D