And by the way, I live in Pittsburgh which has a massive Urban Outfitters. If I go in there, I go straight to the clothes and try to avoid all the trendy little toys/gadgets along the wall. (Although I did find a mini USB accessible vacuum in there one time for my OCD, computer geek brother. Which was hilarious.)

And fads are bad when you live in a town where you’re constantly surrounded by Scene kids, who would probably by that 110 and then go, “Oh wait - it’s film?” The only good that comes from fads, is making things accessible in a large mass to those who actually appreciate something - especially vintage things…

For example - when I was a kid, I refused to wear any shoes but converse high tops (well, and jellies.. but that’s another story) and my mom had a hell of a time finding them. Because they were only available in thrift stores. Now? You can get them in every way shape and form, to the point you might not even recognize them as converse anymore. But those kids now wearing them in all these new fancy designs don’t appreciate where that came from. And they’ll stop wearing them once the new trend shows up.

It’s important to actually have a passion or appreciation about something, and fads aren’t about that. They’re all about what’s in now and how your reputation will be while you’re wearing/using it.

Harry Potter is a bad, bad piece of literature. So is Twilight. But it still gets kids to read… so it’s a good thing, right?

Cameras get people to look at the world in a different way, and maybe even be artistic = good thing!

The majority of these people have no idea what they’re doing, and are just doing it for the same reason they listen to half the music they do; because it adds to the image.

*sigh* there’s my rant for the day.

ps. urban outfitters? There’s not one in town, right?

The bad bit is when people uniformly like the photos simply because they look ‘neat’ — but that’s a problem already with digital photography. Have a brief look through Flickr to see the difference between great photographers and merely ‘interesting’ ones!

But hey, who am I stop other people from appreciating art in their own way…

Mail-order developers are quite common, even in the US — they don’t have a storefront, they just accept negatives by mail! Can find ‘em in the back of magazines, and online I imagine :)

I just don’t like the idea of all of these hipsters walking around taking pictures on 110 film just because it’s “vintage.” Since when does a clothing store sell cameras?

And if they were going to try to revive the film industry, they should have tried a couple of years ago when they still had the chance.

Although I know there are still independent print shops in Britain, and they actually make some money. It’s not that way in North America anymore.

Don’t think it’s a problem to develop 110, you just might have to send it away to a mailorder place :)