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Sometimes Art Just Happens…

An old adage in the Dishwashing biz, of which I was once a proud member, is that you can’t get clean dishes out of a dirty sink. What do dirty dishes have to do with art, well nothing, but the tenet in that old saw works for the fine arts as well. You can’t create a masterpiece with cheap tools and low quality media. For instance, I used to do a lot of work with watercolor. My paintings sucked. It wasn’t until I took a course and found out that if the artist uses sable brushes, 400Lbs cold pressed paper, and watercolor paint that doesn’t bear the name “Crayola”, he or she can produce some credible work. The other main factor is talent, which eludes me to this day.

The exception to this rule is Lomography, where a cheesy camera is an essential tool. Lomography is based on the Lomo, a Russian made camera with a cheap plastic lens. The point and shoot camera has to be wielded with a shoot from the hip, in your face attitude to get the proper Lomographic effect. You can use Photoshop to create some of the effects, but the spontaneity and element of chance are missing.

For some edgy photography in the Lomographic vein, check out DerMuränenBlog. Below are a couple photos I vandalized with Photoshop…