Okay forgive me you proud lomographers, but what gives? I get this brief in class today, to (in short) take some lomographic shots. I research it and I find the photographic equivalent of blindly throwing expensive paints on a canvas. I took the time to lean how to use a camera so I could take good, thought out photographs, not to take some unfocused, fuzzy, warped "holiday" snap.

The 10 Rules of Lomography [link]

   1. Take your camera everywhere you go

   2.  Use it any time – day and night

   3.  Lomography is not an interference in your life, but part of it

Okay I have no problems with these rules, I would love to carry my camera everywhere, and my sketchpad.

   4.  Try the shot from the hip

   5.  Approach the objects of your Lomographic desire as cose as possible

  6.   Don't think (William Firebrace)

  7.   Be fast

  8.   You don't have to know beforehand what you captured on film

   9.  Afterwards either

10.    Don't worry about any rules


And this? Here is an idea, I will give my baby brother a crash course in photography and he could be a lomographer? even a robot could do this?
My point is where the is the art? Without the thoughts, without the ideas, and to some extent the skills? how can this be called art?