it's so weird that taking a selfie with the old phone (lg g5) i'm using right now makes the pictures look extremely 2014-2016. it's going to be interesting how we will be able to identify the era of a photo by not only the quality of the image but by how much saturation and post proseessing modern phones add
“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit — all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of control, of a medium pushing to its limits and breaking apart. The distorted guitar sound is the sound of something too loud for the medium supposed to carry it. The blues singer with the cracked voice is the sound of an emotional cry too powerful for the throat that releases it. The excitement of grainy film, of bleached-out black and white, is the excitement of witnessing events too momentous for the medium assigned to record them.”
Brian Eno — A Year With Swollen Appendices, Faber and Faber | 1996
in 10 years taking photos with shitty old smartphones will be the hottest shit for post-gen z high schoolers and 20 somethings, mark my words.