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"Stop making sense" You may ask yourself... am I doing this right or wrong? Don't stress! Lomography often at times isn't meant to make sense so stop trying to. Relax and simply click away. When you stop making sense you will more than often find your best results.
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Presenting The LOMO LC-A+ Customisation Competition
@ :: sms ::
Nov 12 2009, 01:52 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   Fancy seeing your own design on a LOMO LC-A+ limited edition? As a loving tribute to the legendary LOMO LC-A’s 25th year in the analogue biz, we’re launching a special contest that gives you the chance to turn the classic, iconic snapshot wonder into your very own masterpiece! This rare opportunity could win you 5 of your self-designed LOMO LC-A+s and a 3-day trip to the Lomography HQ in Vienna.
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ASAKUSA JINTA, they came, they played and didn't get told to stop!
@ :: sms ::
Oct 27 2009, 04:44 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   When the van pulled up and i realised how much music equipment was going to be set up on our little street i got nervous. The set up however added to the tension that built up on Newburgh Street while ASAKUSA JINTA were preparing for yet another improvised street gig. All the local shop keepers peaked out to look, the neighbourhood security guys got suspicious and the street cleaner didn’t seem to give a crap.
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The Cheap Plastic Camera That Could: Lomo Turns 25
@ :: sms ::
Oct 20 2009, 03:37 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   LOMO opened in 1914, developing optical instruments for the Imperial Russian army. The company developed Russia’s first motion picture camera but also specialized in night surveillance gear, rocket components and telescopes. The Lomo LC-A was originally designed to compete with inexpensive, high-quality Japanese compacts in the early ’80s. Initially, the LC-A proved quite successful.
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Lomography to open London store
@ :: sms ::
Sep 20 2009, 05:08 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   The store, on Newburgh Street in the west end, is said to feature a Lomo Wall featuring ‘a collection of hundreds of images on panels’, as well as vintage furniture imported from Austria. The analogue film enthusiasts already have specialist shops and galleries open worldwide but this will be the first store of its kind in the UK. Lomography started life in Austria in the early 1980s...
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RED Camera and Flash create for MTV and A&E
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Jun 11 2009, 04:45 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   A new press release talks about a pair of projects from Loyalkaspar and LORI PATE+ that use some interesting technology. The first is the opening to A&E’s “Tattoo Highway” which combines video shot with a RED Camera with animations done in Flash. The second is a promotional spot for MTV’s Spring Break `09 which uses some special digital effects to replicate the effects of old LOMO cameras. Read the press release, with links to the promos and graphics, after the break.
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On a Stretch of Hong Kong’s Hollywood Road, Art, Fortunes and More
@ :: sms ::
Jun 06 2009, 06:14 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   Next door is a boutique dedicated to Lomography, the analog form of photography that uses cheap, plastic cameras to achieve fascinating effects. The shop stocks every model of the popular Lomo cameras, as well as accessories and film. By now you should be ready to rest your weary feet. A pretty oasis awaits through the kitschy Tang Dynasty-style entrance to Hollywood Road Park.
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Easy travel with ten items
@ :: sms ::
May 24 2009, 06:52 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   Worried about getting your new digital camera stolen, but still want to take pictures in a questionable city. Lomography cameras are known for delivering photographs with saturated color, leaked light, fish-eye effects and multiple exposures. These cameras are often made out of plastic and look like toys, hardly a target to be lifted. They are affordable and will give a different, artistic look to your snapshots.
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Hooray! Lomography.com Has Relaunched!
@ :: sms ::
May 15 2009, 04:30 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   It’s here! It’s totally unique and it’s all yours! Join now and be a part of this exciting time for analogue photography. The launch of the brand new Lomography website brings you a whole host of new features designed to amplify your experience, interaction and enjoyment! To think, there are even more fantastic features to come! Browse, connect and have fun on analogue’s new home, which has been created for you, with the invaluable feedback of the Lomography community! Thanks a lot!
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Developing a thing for film
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Apr 29 2009, 06:38 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   Everything about a digital camera is instantaneous. As soon as the shutter snaps, the image is there, ready to be deleted or kept, re-taken or printed to hang on the wall. But there is something to be said for the element of surprise that comes with the development of photos from film, according to Laura Maruzzella, a junior and amateur photographer.
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JPG Magazine Says Goodbye
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Mar 30 2009, 07:18 (UTC+0)
From: damon :
   We've spent the last few months trying to make the business behind JPG sustain itself, and we've reached the end of the line. We all deeply believe in everything JPG represents, but we just weren't able to raise the money needed to keep JPG alive in these extraordinary economic times. We sought out buyers, spoke with numerous potential investors, and pitched several last-ditch creative efforts, all without success. As a result, jpgmag.com will shut down on Monday, January 5, 2009.
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It's Only Rock and Roll but I like it
@ :: lomo travels ::     Nov 12 2009, 01:47 (UTC+0)

Strong coffee. Strong coffee and a hot samosa at 5 in the morning. A strange way to start a tour perhaps but this is a tour that rewrites the meaning of the word strange. The night before was the first concert at oslos Rockefeller venue. A sold out show, a great venue, a blistering serena maneesh set to start the fire. Then back to emils house to sleep for 4 hours, wake up, eat and drink the aforementioned breakfast, crawl into a small toyota van and hurtle at 100km/h to stavanger, on the mountain road.
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Lens From The Soul
@ :: editorial ::     Oct 27 2009, 04:43 (UTC+0)

ccoh writes: I am curious about what motivates us to expose our photography and ourselves on this and other Lomography sites. There are those for whom a Lomo home is simply a bit of fun, a kind of public scrapbook of their personal snapshots, just as there are others who take it a deal more seriously: their albums, weblogs and even their guest book entries are part of a communal laboratory for the development and appraisal of their photography as art. Being artisan, craftsman-like and not 'artistic' in posture, my own work falls between these two stools. Lately, it's been a means of self-examination.
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I Am The Camera
@ :: editorial ::     Oct 20 2009, 03:36 (UTC+0)

ccoh writes: "A picture is not just a picture. It matters greatly what camera you take it on." It's abject silliness like this that gets me pissed off with the so-called Lomo community. To give the individual who posted this (on an unofficial Lomo bulletin board) the benefit of the doubt, maybe he was trying to get across the idea that he had more fun using one type of camera more than another. However, to those of us who have a regard for making images, the statement is as laughable as a carpenter arguing that how a table or chair or verandah turns out is less important than whether it was built using a clawhead hammer or a nail gun.
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Reflections Of A Life
@ :: editorial ::     Oct 06 2009, 03:03 (UTC+0)

A decade ago, Creed O’Hanlon was among the first and best-known entrepreneurs in a then-nascent local internet industry.

“MY PERSONAL narrative has always been complex,” notes Creed Chris O’Hanlon. “The images I make are the only means I have of keeping the story straight.” O’Hanlon is a large, charismatic man; barefoot, in a black T-shirt and black jeans, he looks like an unlikely cross between an English gangster and a defrocked priest. Right now, he is sprawled across a jumble of large cushions on a wide, teak daybed in a corner of a temporary studio in Palm Beach, an hour’s drive north of Sydney.
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The original and one-and-only Lomo LC-A camera out of production
@ :: views ::     Oct 03 2009, 03:29 (UTC+0)

The original and one-and-only Lomo LC-A camera has been taken out of production, there are still a few hundred units for each Lomographic market available and finally we have been asked to cross our fingers and believe in the possiblitly of a future ultimate LOMO snapshot machine. This was the bad news, the good news, the best news together thrown in with a little bit of the old news in the most recent Lomographic Society International newsletter which has shocked avid lomographers around the world and caused an unforseen future regarding the direction the lomographic community. Is this the end of lomography or a new beginning?
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In Search of Lomo Tradition: 100 Years of Shooting from the Hip
@ :: editorial ::     Sep 20 2009, 05:08 (UTC+0)

One of the problems with the rise of Lomography - due in equal parts to the fetishistic appeal of its hardware, clever guerilla marketing, and the reactionary inventiveness of its users - is that in the cult-like rush to embrace its looser, less predictable, and lower resolution image-making, many are overlooking its position in a rich, century-old tradition of shooting-from-the-hip.
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an attack on ccohspacer29.Dec:20:53
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Natalies Post!damon27.Dec:10:16
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The Ultimate Lomographic Insider: The Polarized World of DocFlaps
@ :: interviews ::     Aug 31 2009, 05:28 (UTC+0)

Born in Vienna the hometown of the LSI by age nine he picked up his first pinhole camera as part of a Sherlock Holmes kit. This evolved to a love for photography that spanned to his adulthood and led him to begin working for the Lomographic Society International for four years under the title neurophysiological internet project scientist. Now the cat *totally* out of the bag we spoke to docflaps, former Web Chief for the Lomographic Society and Polaroid rock 'n' roller in this special rare interview. Is it newsworthy? Yes. Are we gonna air it? You bet.
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A Trip Through the Island of Cheung Chau
@ :: lomo travels ::     Aug 07 2009, 05:35 (UTC+0)

The sea was undecided: whether to batter the pier or allow the star ferry and confusing mix of other vessels safe passage on her back. By the time I made it to the Lamma pier she had decided on the latter. Nick came wearing his trademark hat and after a short exchange with a friend of his along with some oolong tea- we headed to the Cheung Chau pier. The sun broke free a few times allowing us the luxury of watching the sea and surrounding islands become illuminated by her faint shadow. After a few photos and some vacant looks at the ocean we arrived at Cheung Chau.
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Approach your Lomographic Inspirations as Close as Possible
@ :: views ::     Jun 06 2009, 06:18 (UTC+0)

As fellow photo-adventurers we have each discovered our own style of blurring, oversaturated color shots and vignetting effects we have captured on film all characterized by the LC-A's bizarre auto-exposure system and weird lens. We have all inspired to be daring, be different and to be impractical with our approach to our photography and we all no doubt have hit obstacles and barriers along the way. Each of us may have our own sources of inspiration from famous photographers past and present worldwide but who are your very own lomographic society Cecil Beaton's, Henri Cartier-Bresson's and William Eggleston's?
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Grin and Bare It: The Visceral Itch of Intimate Photography
@ :: editorial ::     Mar 30 2009, 07:17 (UTC+0)

When Germaine Greer, the Australian feminist and best-selling author of the ‘The Female Eunuch’, was to be photographed by the legendary Diane Arbus at the Chelsea Hotel in New York, the last thing she expected was a physical assault. “But it was tyranny. Really tyranny,” she recalled to Arbus’s biographer, Patricia Bosworth. “[She] ended up straddling me – this frail little person kneeling, keening over my face. I felt completely terrorized by the blasted lens.”
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Multitalented Derek Powazek Embraces the Lomographic Blur
@ :: interviews ::     Jan 08 2009, 03:56 (UTC+0)

Derek Powazek is a professional amateur photographer. As the
cofounder of JPG Magazine, he publishes the work of other photographers. He has a BA in Photojournalism from the University of California at Santa Cruz. His work has appeared in Wired and San Francisco Magazine, and has been honored by awards from the Society of News Design, the NPPA, and the Photobloggies. Working the web since 1995, Derek Powazek is the creator of many award-winning websites, a couple of which still exist. He also just happens to have a Lomo LC-A and can be tempermental in the heat.
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