@eldang @twistylittlepassages there might be an analog (ha!) in the cassette releases world …. but i probably wouldn’t dismiss either releases to cassette or photography on 10-15yr old cameras as ‘just’ hipsterism … i don’t know, i am just remembering yashica TLRs i owned, because i loved shooting medium format but will never afford a hasselblad. and i remember shooting pentax 35mm not because they were amazing cameras but because good lenses were cheap and ubiquitous. and joy in ‘saving’ stuff from landfill

and maybe also with a camera, esp. a cast-off one, there’s also kind of a resistance ‘f you’ element, a kind of middle finger to the expectation of endless consumption that comes with a smartphone? and a f-you to parents - like, i am going to take your old shit and make it useful and make art out of it. combined with weird fun we used to get taking crappy photos with disposable cameras (stars above how do we exist in a world where ‘disposable camera’ is a real thing that existed) - this seems a little punk to me