[…] the nostalgia cycles have become so short that we even try to inject the present moment with sentimentality, for example, by using certain digital filters to “pre-wash” photos with an aura of historicity. Nostalgia needs time. One cannot accelerate meaningful remembrance.
From Christy Wampole’s How to Live Without Irony.
I never could figure out why anyone would would want to make their pictures look old. I like my stuff to be new and shiny.
meh!
That’s sort of what Instagram does, right? It makes pictures have a past, a nostalgy, as if it was an old memory.