{"id":1177,"date":"2016-06-09T10:37:43","date_gmt":"2016-06-09T14:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/?p=1177"},"modified":"2016-06-09T08:29:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-09T12:29:37","slug":"analog-imperfection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wyomingjarbo.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/09\/analog-imperfection\/","title":{"rendered":"Retrofication\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retro is in and nostalgia is a powerful drug. I love certain retro designs and art, whether it be the \u201cfuture\u201d fonts of the 1970s or 8-Bit graphics. Limitations in past technology produced qualities or artifacts that could be considered inferior – like pixel art in computer graphics or light leaks in photography. Should these imperfections be preserved and used as a form of expression or will they die over time?<\/p>\n

#nofilter<\/h2>\n

Instagram brought the flaws and quirks of analog photography to the smartphone era. It got overused and ushered in a ton of other filter apps. I love Hipstamatic. I like the aesthetic quality of old cameras. Some people don\u2019t even know that some of these filters have origins in old personal cameras of 60s, 70s, and 80s. Minecraft uses pixel textures for everything. Those qualities then in turn have an entirely new origin in style.<\/p>\n

je ne sais quoi [1]<\/a><\/sup><\/h2>\n

Is there a name for these imperfections? We use retronyms to distinguish older technology from new. You could use retro<\/em>, or lo-fi<\/em> I suppose. I think there needs to be a term for these effects. You see them becoming more prevalent in film or TV. The VHS type haze used in the film Kung Fury<\/em> is an example. And now when you look at a movie like Alien that takes place in the far future, the computers look like they\u2019re from the 70s – because they were.<\/p>\n

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Computers from the film Alien<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What I\u2019m trying to define is a term for when a movie debuts in 2016, and then uses computers from the 70s for some type of artistic reason, whether it be a period film or not.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an app for that<\/h2>\n

It\u2019s ironic that we are using computers to emulate older technology. Some of my favorite examples of these types of conversions are:<\/p>\n