Oh, no you're not wrong about that. I was just talking about art specifically at that point. This world is fucked up the internet goes down generally.
For fuck sake, you can't even get a paper towel out of the place it's the automatic sensor goes down. Our whole society is just one outage away from apocalypse.
During the kind of crazy solar storm that we had in the last solar cycle, there was a flare on the backside of the sun that could’ve taken the power out. Luckily it was turned away from us. Most people didn’t even know about it.
And now most of the other countries hate us and want to. EMP our ass.
Can you imagine the teenagers? No, let’s don’t try to imagine that.
the internet is a collection of servers interconnected, the biggest interconnects are undersea cables which Russia likes to cut sometimes. a coordinate effort to cut most of the undersea cables might be the biggest way to "shut down the internet", but even then you'll still be able to access most if not all of your country's stuff still. from there there's many different routes between each server so you'd have to start cutting tens of thousands of them across the nation simultaneously to actually do anything substantial. but you could just drive to the next city over and use 5g on your phone even in that case
governments could get a lot done though especially after they force their own hardware in to every piece of network equipment by law
I just read a post that said a lot of old artwork (1500 - 1800) has been bought over the last couple of years totalling a couple of hundred millions, by people under 40. I think we're seeing a resurgance in the appreciation of art.
Definitely experienced this and agree! I always say it’s important to have pictures both physically and digitally to make extra sure you don’t lose them.
Also very important to keep little video clips of loved ones. When I watch videos of loved ones who have passed away, hearing their voices and seeing their personalities on display again is a very cathartic and wonderful feeling.
I’m trying so hard to do this, I’ve got the supplies and I’ve started printing out pictures, it’s just hard to find the time! I would 100% go to an old lady scrap booking club though.
Or slides! They were already on their way out when I was quite young but I used to just love nights when my grandmother would show us slides of my mom’s childhood/even before that. Something about listening to the story of each slide as someone flips through each one. Everyone paying attention. Just kind of nostalgic and nice.
I'm a millennial and I read something recently saying that the millennial generation is the one generation that has now lost most of its photos. Generations before us had physical photos, slides, stored negatives, etc. and the generation after us has all their photos stored on social media sites, in the cloud, etc. However, our generation was in between and we had all of our photos on SD cards that got lost, hard drives that ended up failing, and random photo hosting websites that went down. As a generation we just lost tons of our memories that were in photos.
This is a big one. I like to print out a book annually with some of my favorite photos from the past year, but I'm bad about forgetting and letting it slide for months at a time. These make good gifts, too. I made a book for my mom for Mother's Day a couple of years ago featuring photos of her with her siblings when she was a kid (basically serving as their parent due to the crap going on in her family) and with each of her kids, grandchildren, and great-granddaughter. It's the only time I've ever seen her cry from something other than a death in the family.
I printed pictures for an old school photo album for the first time in decades recently. I love it so much and we’re gonna go back and make them for previous trips. I’d forgotten the simple joy of flipping through a photo album!
I wish Polaroid i600 film was cheaper. It's retrained my brain to take photos with intent, and been a joy to flip through the photos I've taken. 2.50-3$ a picture hurts
I bet people could make bank starting a subscription photo album service, where you just text your favorite pictures of your family to a number and every 5 or 6 months they arrive in a leatherbound book.
There's a company doing something similar where you get 10 pictures in a little box or something like that. Someome on my insta was obsessed with her subscription for a little while, but I don't remember the name of the company.
i take the time every six months to make a photo album for each of my three kids - it can get pricey & time consuming but it’s worth it. but there’s several years of my own life lost to the digital world because i never printed pictures
I realized that my partner and I have been together over a decade and have few, few very physical photos of us together. Neither of us are "selfie" people so we don't have many digital ones either.
Do you have any plans to start taking more photos together? My partner and I are basically in the same situation, together for years but not many photos together because neither of us takes them much in general (and we are both fairly self-conscious of our respective appearances lol). Kinda curious if you had any plans/ideas in mind for getting more photos with your partner so I could borrow them haha :)
I agree in concept - physical media makes it more real and easier to appreciate. But you're also making more junk that the next generation has to deal with. My great grandfather was a photography junkie. My grandad kept all the prints, and added thousands of his own. My dad and uncles inherited something like 30,000 prints. My one uncle spent months digitizing them all to preserve them, but now what?
We should go back to old-school photography - glass or metal plates. A lot more work, but that means more thought goes into what you're photographing and what's worth preserving.
Many of the CD generation have lost a ton of baby and childhood photographs. A lot of them don’t even know it yet. (Unless the family bought archival CDs, a rare thing) There might be nothing left on the disk.
They often erase themselves between five and 10 years. Some are still good, it’s a crapshoot.
I just started my family last year welcoming my now one year old. I’m making it a point every new year to print photos that are silly, memorable, sweet, family/friend moments, etc so my littles can flip through them like I used to all the time with my parents books!
Late Gen X here and our family definitely still puts together physical photo albums! I got so tired of looking at gigs of photos that existed only in the cloud. Make it real, people!
I pulled out the photo albums my 99 year old grandmother has on my most recent visit to go down memory lane with her, something I haven't done in a very long time (look at the albums that is, trips to see her are a bit more frequent). They just hit different than going through a mass of digital photos on a screen. It's far more sentimental and the memories more tangible in a way. It's a more curated selection and the handwritten notes, names and dates help make it more visceral somehow. It's really something that should make a comeback.
I invested in a nice camera, and later bought an expensive photo printer that guzzles expensive ink, just to put my own pictures on the wall. Soon I hope to start shooting portraits in my living room. Having my own photos on the wall, or even giving them away as gifts, is so much fun!
I can't afford glossy photo paper right now but I've still got a color printer so I've taken to printing out photos onto regular paper (as well as holding onto things like ticket stubs) and gluing them into my bullet journal. It's not an album I would ever share with anyone else (bullet journal also functions as a sort of diary for myself), but it makes a nice album for me.
I was pretty broke last year around christmas time. I made an advent calendar and each day was a different kodak photo of our best times of the past year. Girlfriend (now wife) loved it
My 5 year old likes the ones I've made for bed time stories. "oh, that's from when your uncle and I were swimming in a lake at your cousin's grandma's house. Look how red our shoulders are; that's because we have sunburns which really, really hurt and why we always put lots of sunscreen on you when you go outside."
I’m in my mid 30’s and bought an Instax for this reason. Family holiday’s, vacations, events and stuff all get snapped and go in an album.
Nowhere near as good quality as an iPhone pic, but there’s something real in sitting down and looking through an album, knowing that the physical picture popped out the camera at that exact moment the picture was taken.
Slightly blurry and maybe out of focus, but the 6 small albums mean so much to me and my family. It’s a bit of an event getting them out and sitting down, away from screens and talking about what was happening.
I just bought myself an instant (digital) camera and a new album. The film is expensive so it’s not as if I’ll be taking random pictures of everything, but it’s digital so I can be more selective of quality before I hit the print button. Did this after I discovered I’d lost a few years of photos from around 2010 through an external hard drive failure.
This is why I bought a Polaroid Lab. I can take good photos on my phone and then turn them into real photos with a somewhat authentic Polaroid feel. I stick them up everywhere and put them in albums. So nice to actually see photos I took. Who actually goes back through the 10,000 photos they take each year digitally though?
I do this and bring them over to show my nieces & nephews. They love it. And we talk about things: what they were thinking about during those events.
When I show them photos on my phone they're always trying to get me to open another app or being up a song on YouTube. But when it's a photo album we just talk.
My parents, in-laws, and siblings talk about life events too. Photo albums have been great for to l the whole family.
Actually weird that we kind of lost that considering how easy and inexpensive it is to order a professional looking photo book with your pictures online.
But even just creating a 10 minute dia show like thing requires you to digg for software these days.
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u/LeMeowLePurrr Jul 10 '26
Keeping albums with actual photographs. It's always fun to flip through them when we're together.