Where did the last couple of hours go? What was in my wake up coffee? The hours seem to have melted in this summery furnace masquerading as dawn. Was I abducted by a UFO for some sort of intergalactic pranking? No it was a bad case of that deadly little app called Instagram - photoshop style algorithms in a free hand held app. Are you listening Mr Adobe? Yes it's lo-fi. But that's part of the wow factor - surprisingly great results. Instantly. No it's not like Polaroid. Different but good. Like a quiver - different tools for different "looks".
My "real serious" (read "outrageously-expensive-and-superseded-within-a-year") camera is getting jealous. And all those rolls of film for the analogue trio are frying in this stinking heat. Apart from that, it's plain fun. Like riding a stupidly long board on a stupidly small wave. There's no reo, barrel action, but it's FUN. Bring on the video version, I say.
My "real serious" (read "outrageously-expensive-and-superseded-within-a-year") camera is getting jealous. And all those rolls of film for the analogue trio are frying in this stinking heat. Apart from that, it's plain fun. Like riding a stupidly long board on a stupidly small wave. There's no reo, barrel action, but it's FUN. Bring on the video version, I say.
It's only a matter of time until the hordes of iPhones roaming the planet join their evolutionary cousins the GoPro and the Contour re-entering the primordial brine. Aqua Tek are taking up the challenge of developing what we all will later say was "an obvious gap in the market" - a rugged, waterproof iPhone case with a solar recharger on the back. And way more surfer-friendly than say an underwater iPad3 case. I'm happy to road test it, so long as I can play music via underwater headphones. . .
"Ahhh, but remember that the city is a funny place
Something like a circus or a sewer
And just remember different people have peculiar tastes"
from the Lou Reed song Coney Island Baby 1975
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