{"id":301,"date":"2010-10-12T18:52:06","date_gmt":"2010-10-12T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2016-11-15T13:58:26","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T13:58:26","slug":"lomo-moogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/?p=301","title":{"rendered":"Lomo moogo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21802765@N06\/sets\/72157625093700740\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-309\" title=\"5050313677_120780625c_m\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/5050313677_120780625c_m1.jpg\" alt=\"Moogieman at Deja Vu\" width=\"240\" height=\"226\" \/><\/a>So, I&#8217;m getting into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lomography.com\/about\" target=\"_blank\">Lomography<\/a>, about 20 years after Viennese pioneers invented it (or should that be rediscovered it).<\/p>\n<p>My interest was sparked when a friend showed me his camera and directed me to a page on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/groups\/lomo\/pool\/\" target=\"_blank\">flickr<\/a>. I clicked through a stream of photos that are, in\u00a0conventional terms, largely unexceptional yet I found them strangely compelling.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>A certain quality\u2014dreaminess, soft-focus (even out of focus), blurs, vignetting, and above all <em>grain<\/em>\u2014reminded me of what had been missing since I switched to digital, around 2001.<\/p>\n<p>So, armed with a <a href=\"http:\/\/microsites.lomography.com\/dianamini\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diana Mini<\/a> I&#8217;ve been exploring the Lomo world and generally wasting money on films and lab processing. Hopefully, though, some of my shots of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21802765@N06\/sets\/72157625093104418\" target=\"_blank\">open mic performances<\/a> and the ones of my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/21802765@N06\/sets\/72157625093700740\" target=\"_blank\">recent Deja Vu gig<\/a> (taken by a willing accomplice) have done something to capture these events and bring them to the wider world with a slightly vintage feel.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I&#8217;m getting into Lomography, about 20 years after Viennese pioneers invented it (or should that be rediscovered it). My interest was sparked when a friend showed me his camera and directed me to a page on flickr. I clicked through a stream of photos that are, in\u00a0conventional terms, largely unexceptional yet I found them [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[55,45,54],"tags":[56,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2504,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/2504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.moogieman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}