"The Future is Analogue" -Lomographers
Lomography is the name of this lo-fi/hi-fi, analogue technique that was instigated by two Viennese students touring Prague. The fairly recent activities responsible behind “a magazine, a shop, and a community,” as the website spouts. The history is seemingly more interesting than the fashionable home page leads one to believe. The word “Lomography” stems from the LOMO LC-A camera, which was a soviet modified Cosina CX-1. The Lomo was put into production in 1982, and features a sharp glass lens and a very high light sensitivity. The camera was found in a hole in the wall camera shop in Prague by visiting art students in 1991, and it has been their project to br...Read more
MCA Denver Adopts Orphan Paintings: Unknown and Accepted
Today I want to write about the role museums play in society. There are many kinds of museums: Art, History, Science, etcetera. For a long time I did not know there were museums that collect and ones that do not. Take for instance the Denver Art Museum, it is a collecting institution whereas the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver is not. Both exhibit certain kinds of artwork, yet one has a body of work to draw upon where the other relies upon a steady stream of new material. With that in mind it is not so hard to jump to the realization that these places have different goals. Each would like to educate the public on the role Art plays in society, but the way that lesson is conveyed by both is...Read more
Hate to Love YouTube
The other night I had an uncontrollable urge to show my friend a short film I knew he would love. I hopped on youtube, pulled the film up, and pressed play. The quality was so horrible that I groaned to him that we should turn it off while he reassured me he could tell what was happening and was getting the gist of it. I squirmed, while he watched, and in the end he loved what I had shared and was pumped on the filmmaker. As the film editor here on illiteratemagazine.com it is my job to love on film so much that you, my ever loyal readers, will begin to love on film as much as I do. Because we are not in a classroom and I do not have an infinite reserve of 16mm and 35mm ...Read more