*the lomographic bookcrossing journal* (journal ring)
by lomographers & bookcrossers around the planet | Journals | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
ISBN: Global Overview for this book
1 journaler for this copy...
I discovered Lomography right before I discovered BookCrossing. Like BookCrossing, lomography has a cultish following, lomophiles worldwide have joined into this photofrenzy. Following the 10 golden rules of Lomography, lomographers shoot as many impossible pictures as possible in the most impossible of situations from the most impossible of positions. It is addictive. It is enlightening. It captures our world.
I dove into BookCrossing for a few reasons, not the least of which was that I consider reading to be the analog version of entertainment. Which I think is kinda quaint. And cool. And vital. The digitalized encroachment upon our world - television, video games, movies, computers - has taken the place of the written word in the form of books. I can't eschew this world where analog is ever-increasingly replaced by digital. I, in fact, am too hooked into it myself to pretend that I would renounce a world in which convenience and speed are customary and commonplace. But there is a sense of self, of reference, that I do not want to lose. And it is because of that I am caught, hook, line & sinker, by both BookCrossing and Lomography, media by which the marriage of analog and digital can co-exist peaceably (that's how it appears thus far, at any rate...). the lomographic bookcrossing journal is a way of sharing our lomos in an even more analog way, in a book that is passed from lomographer to lomographer, touched, seen, smelled, heard, and tasted by the flesh & blood lomographer behind the lens.
Historically, the best journals, the most vibrant and fleshed out, have been those with a mix of words and other media...photos, cartoons, pressed flowers, hair clippings, maps, tears...Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient references a journal thick with the journaler's life. The books of Nick Bantock are often modeled after journals that encompass art & life within the pages. There is the diary that was published in 1999 of Leonardo Da Vinci's paint mixer, Luigi Cannelloni, with illustrations on nearly every page. A lover of literature, I see a journal's pages as the palette upon which a writer can mix the colors to make their work a reality. Thus this mix of pictures and words within one tome. A collaboration of color and ink.
This, too, is my somewhat shameless way of merging two places that in my opinion everyone who is on-line ought to visit...
The Lomographic BookCrossing Journal is an actual hardcopy journal in the form of a book box within which people put their lomos or other assorted pics of their choosing and then WRITE. There are no rules about what to write or what sorts of pictures to include, it's just about being creative & taking part in something that is done in real time not cyber time. What will happen is I will put my entry in the journal first, then I will mail the journal to the next person on the list. It's an attempt to get different perspectives from different parts of the world, shown in both peoples' lomos and their words. I wanted this to be something that would cross borders, so participants outside the US would be nice, but it does require a willingness to mail the journal to the next person. If you're shy about mailing stuff that's bigger than a letter or of having your address viewable to another person you may not know, this is probably a project you don'e want to join. If you have questions, don't hesitate to contact me.
(The order of people listed is not necessarily the order the journal will be sent. I'll decide that as soon as I know who's participating. I'm hoping for about 20 people)
