Art Phone
Take your smartphone to art school.
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Polaroids and instant film were obviated by digital cameras and then simulated by Instagram filters.
We have no need to use film anymore!
But apparently we do have a need to just slap a layer of film grain over our phone pics.
We have a perverse collective obsession with recreating the analog by way of the digital.
For a long time, phone cameras were not good including the first smartphone cameras.
A bare-bones smartphone photo, taken through a lens smudged with finger grease and dust, is merely fine.
That same photo, sepia-toned and with a fluorescent digital timestamp in the corner?
A phone … with a camera?
You couldnt even attach your phone to your machine and offload the pictures.
Lets bring some mystery back to the internet.
Lets bring back postage-stamp-sized pictures so blurry that they cannot be identified except in the broadest of terms.
What am I doing?
You know what I hate?
Being able to see faces.
Thats why I love all of the few pictures that I still have from my LG VX5200.
Heres a picture from a track meet.
Thats just a handful of Slender Men sprinting past me.
It looks like that blurry meme of Mr. Krabs.
Here is a picture of when I camped outside a Best Buy for a Wii in 2006.
The Wii wasnt even that good!
Ah, the follies of youth.
Anyway, my point is: lets bring back the limitations of the flip phone.
