The LC-A 120 Story, Part III: Say what again?

I’ve been wondering why this phrase keeps being said over and over again… There’s always the rational explanation, which states that it’s just a way of simplifying the fact that our brain can absorb huge amounts of information by a visual representation rather than just words. At least that’s what the Wikipedia says… go ahead look it up.

I read that definition over and over again and I still felt there was something missing. Yes it’s true, rational explanations are normally the most accurate, but they miss that special, magical if you will, side that makes a story, A STORY.

Now let me tell you the true story of why we say: “a picture is worth a thousand words”…
It all started with a birthday gift. A box wrapped in a bright paper with a big ribbon and a small note: “Keep seeing the world through those beautiful eyes. – Love, Cris”
It was my 30th birthday and I was excited as if it was my 10th birthday. My friends and family where there, and were waiting to see my face when I opened my new present. I started unwrapping slowly, gently, but then I suddenly stopped. Smiled out of the corner of my mouth and ripped all the paper, stood up on my chair and shouted at the top of my lungs: “It’s an LC-A 120!”
I was so excited I started doing my victory dance, just like Chandler from Friends while the people at the party where laughing, they knew I was a Lomography buff, but I guess they couldn’t figure out why I was so excited with this little piece of plastic…

Days went by and took my brand new LC-A 120 everywhere I went. I took pleasant lomowalks around my neighbourhood and took a whole bunch of pictures of the places I knew, but no people, to try out all the features I know and love from my LC-A+, but now with 120 film.
On my way to work one day, I stopped in front of a shop window covered with white paper to take a photo of myself holding the LC-A, because hey, it’s nice to appear on photos once in a while. I stood there and as I took the picture, a couple passed by, messing my shot on purpose and I heard her say: “Look, another lomo-loser…” as the guy behind her just eyeballed my lovely LC-A.

I got so angry because they had ruined my shot. I tried to take another one but that was my last one and I didn’t have any more rolls. I went to work and tried to get over it. A few days later I was flipping channels on the TV at night, while I was checking out my fresh prints form the Lomo Lab, I saw them. The rude couple that had ruined my shot, but something was weird. I turned the volume up as the news reporter was saying something about them not being able to speak all of the sudden. I looked down saw the print with their rude faces, turned it around and everything the couple was trying to say was appearing on the back of the print. All of the sudden it hit me, I’ve captured their voices… this picture IS worth a thousand words….

geschrieben von guanatos am 2014-10-29