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Been spending a lot of time on here!
The Toronto store is closing next week. LA and Manchester are done. More to follow?
Toronto Lomography store destined for the deadpool
Toronto Lomography store destined for the deadpool
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Yup, you're right. Nowadays everything could be simulated on computers. Soon they gonna put microchips in brains of all of us to simulate, sorry, stimulate politically correct thinking. Future is bright.Probably just not enough lo-fidelity hipsters around to support the sales of film and crappy cameras; the lo-fi aesthetic has been co-opted by digital filter effects from Hipstamatic and to a lesser degree, Instagram, and Snapseed. https://support.google.com/snapseed/
The prices Lomography is putting on theirs stuff is just too much. Even for those hipsters.That's to bad, i have in ha Toronto store a few times just poking around and the staff there were really nice and informative. I had been in other stores and the general census was if you did not know as much as them you were not worth talking to unless you were buying something.. I hope they do well in their next venture.
Buying a $6 roll of film, and then paying a lab $12.99 for 36 decent 4x6 color prints still does not solve the hipster desire to get images onto social media and to get their cool, artsy images SEEN by OTHER people. That's the real issue I think...people want to disseminate their images, share them, send them to many people. With prints, those people need to be within arm's length in order to just see the images, and they cannot take "ownership" of the image unless a copy print is made for each person.
Buying a $6 roll of film, and then paying a lab $12.99 for 36 decent 4x6 color prints still does not solve the hipster desire to get images onto social media and to get their cool, artsy images SEEN by OTHER people. That's the real issue I think...people want to disseminate their images, share them, send them to many people. With prints, those people need to be within arm's length in order to just see the images, and they cannot take "ownership" of the image unless a copy print is made for each person.
What's nauseating is that this compulsion to post this stuff to be SEEN by OTHER people, who are also posting this stuff to be SEEN by OTHER people, has to fall into a category being defined as "hip".
From my day, being hip meant you were NOT blindly following the herd. Guess I'm old and marginalized.
The point is that by using your retro-y filters and/or lomography cameras, you are laboring under the impression that you are NOT blindly following the herd.Buying a $6 roll of film, and then paying a lab $12.99 for 36 decent 4x6 color prints still does not solve the hipster desire to get images onto social media and to get their cool, artsy images SEEN by OTHER people. That's the real issue I think...people want to disseminate their images, share them, send them to many people. With prints, those people need to be within arm's length in order to just see the images, and they cannot take "ownership" of the image unless a copy print is made for each person.
What's nauseating is that this compulsion to post this stuff to be SEEN by OTHER people, who are also posting this stuff to be SEEN by OTHER people, has to fall into a category being defined as "hip".
From my day, being hip meant you were NOT blindly following the herd. Guess I'm old and marginalized.
I just bought 2 packs of lomography 120 film bc it was the cheapest I found. Sad to see them go.