The LomoWorldWall
The LomoWorldWall
Trafalgar Square, London, 17 – 23 September 2007
This is a prime call to all Lomographers: Participating in the creation of the biggest LomoWorldWall ever is both the avenue to fame and a holy duty for anyone who is part of the Lomography world. We want everyone to take part in the creation of the LomoWorldWall by not only submitting their best shots but also by designing their part of the wall. Therefore we have, for the first time, developed a special online tool to make the competition even more interactive.
What is the story behind this LomoWorldWall?
The year of 2007 brings a special period in the juvenile growth of the addictive and wild, yet totally legal and ever so sweet fruit that is Lomography. This year brings the first flashback of the last ten excitement-filled years! And after a brief pause of some mere ten seconds, we return to another ten years of Lomography in full throttle. But those are yet to be cautiously invented, planned with ambition, and dived right into - head over heels! And all this we vowed to resolve as the Viennese Philharmonics pitched their tune at the New Year’s concert 2007. And here we present the very first results!!
In the year of 1997, at the Lomography World Congress in Madrid, we first announced The Big Lomography Global Event 1997 - 2007: "The great mission that stands above all Lomographic approaches and activities; the Lomographic future project that unites the world of Lomography, the big Lomographic challenge to build the Lomographic utopian dream… creating an all-embracing, most diverse and colourful, most authentic and spectacular Lomographic complete image of the surface of the world of all times."
The Big Lomography Global Event 1997 - 2007 encompassed the following ideas, the following concept, and the following plans:
LomoWorldArchive
LomoWorldCongress
LomoWorldShow
LomoWall / LomoWorldExhibition
And this is what we have done since:
NOTHING, absolutely nothing, a shame for Lomography! We painfully failed you!
Apart from a few humble LomoExhibitions, events with the LomoWorldShow, LomoWorldCongresses, LomoWalls, LomoCompetitions, LomoEmbassy openings, new LomoCamera developments and LomoBook publications, we barely did more than play around on the LomoWorldArchive that now holds about 2 Million snapshots (if we were to count all printed images that we store in the halls of the Lomographic Society Headquarters in Vienna, as well as in our external locations in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul) as not to say 10 Million snapshots (if we were to add all electronically uploaded pictures that are stored on our servers in Vienna, the United States and Asia), as not to say 20 Million snapshots (if we were to add all those photos lying around in the Lomographic embassies), as not to say 10 Billion, if we were to take into account all Lomographs ever taken with one of our Lomographic cameras and that have since been stored in shoe- and banana boxes, stuck to bathroom- and office walls, displayed in books, newspapers and Hollywood movies, forgotten between stalks of wash, those fallen behind cupboards and forever lost, those tacked into diaries and family albums, those stuck on hairspray cans, forgotten in development labs, still undeveloped...
Completely neglected, however: the ever growing LomoWorldShow, with the ever growing LomoWall, LomoWall, LomoWall, LomoWall, LomoWall!!!!
What happened? Chaos, turmoil, disorder, utter most confusion, unfair competition, money- and bookmakers, greed and don’t-wanna-give, stingy mentality, confusion about photo and LomoWall formats and sizes, materials and construction, nothing fits, no one knows. In short: it doesn’t exist, the ONE LomoWorldWall, that one, breathtaking, big, homogeneous LomoWall, that just keeps growing, carefully stored in an air-conditioned, holy, high-security salt mine tunnel-gallery in a disclosed location in the Austrian alps... just millions of single LomoWalls, everywhere and always, nothing fits, all chaos.
That’s just bullshit, that’s not the way to handle this!
So we sat back down together and this is our solution (in look ahead of The Big Lomography Global Event 2007-2017, that, of course, is still to be announced during the Lomography World Congress in London):
Make your very own LomoWall (alone or with your LomoBuddy), online
We will then download your LomoWallDesigns and your high resolution data (with your prior agreement) and build up your LomoWall ourselves according to your design and with your data...
...for the big LomoWorldWall exhibition 2007 on Trafalgar Square during September in London, with 100.000 Lomographic images! Of course your names will be prominently displayed in connection with your very own LomoWall section...
...and used for future exhibitions in the ever growing world of LomoWalls if the opportunities arise and you give us the permission (we will contact you before every such occasion)
Furthermore, we will make sure to think of some more smut we/you can do with your OnlineLomoWallDesign: building LomoWalls yourself (we provide prints and panels), process them to poster books, table sets, airplane wings, etc etc.
And get right to our proposal of our big goal in time for the LomoWall exhibition in 2017: a 2 kilometre long LomoWall with 1 Million Lomographic Snapshots!!
Submit your image(s) and Lomowall(s) here.
For any queries please contact us at congress@lomography.com.
This is a prime call to all Lomographers: Participating in the creation of the biggest LomoWorldWall ever is both the avenue to fame and a holy duty for anyone who is part of the Lomography world. We want everyone to take part in the creation of the LomoWorldWall by not only submitting their best shots but also by designing their part of the wall. Therefore we have, for the first time, developed a special online tool to make the competition even more interactive.
What is the story behind this LomoWorldWall?
The year of 2007 brings a special period in the juvenile growth of the addictive and wild, yet totally legal and ever so sweet fruit that is Lomography. This year brings the first flashback of the last ten excitement-filled years! And after a brief pause of some mere ten seconds, we return to another ten years of Lomography in full throttle. But those are yet to be cautiously invented, planned with ambition, and dived right into - head over heels! And all this we vowed to resolve as the Viennese Philharmonics pitched their tune at the New Year’s concert 2007. And here we present the very first results!!
In the year of 1997, at the Lomography World Congress in Madrid, we first announced The Big Lomography Global Event 1997 - 2007: "The great mission that stands above all Lomographic approaches and activities; the Lomographic future project that unites the world of Lomography, the big Lomographic challenge to build the Lomographic utopian dream… creating an all-embracing, most diverse and colourful, most authentic and spectacular Lomographic complete image of the surface of the world of all times."
The Big Lomography Global Event 1997 - 2007 encompassed the following ideas, the following concept, and the following plans:
LomoWorldArchive
LomoWorldCongress
LomoWorldShow
LomoWall / LomoWorldExhibition
And this is what we have done since:
NOTHING, absolutely nothing, a shame for Lomography! We painfully failed you!
Apart from a few humble LomoExhibitions, events with the LomoWorldShow, LomoWorldCongresses, LomoWalls, LomoCompetitions, LomoEmbassy openings, new LomoCamera developments and LomoBook publications, we barely did more than play around on the LomoWorldArchive that now holds about 2 Million snapshots (if we were to count all printed images that we store in the halls of the Lomographic Society Headquarters in Vienna, as well as in our external locations in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Seoul) as not to say 10 Million snapshots (if we were to add all electronically uploaded pictures that are stored on our servers in Vienna, the United States and Asia), as not to say 20 Million snapshots (if we were to add all those photos lying around in the Lomographic embassies), as not to say 10 Billion, if we were to take into account all Lomographs ever taken with one of our Lomographic cameras and that have since been stored in shoe- and banana boxes, stuck to bathroom- and office walls, displayed in books, newspapers and Hollywood movies, forgotten between stalks of wash, those fallen behind cupboards and forever lost, those tacked into diaries and family albums, those stuck on hairspray cans, forgotten in development labs, still undeveloped...
Completely neglected, however: the ever growing LomoWorldShow, with the ever growing LomoWall, LomoWall, LomoWall, LomoWall, LomoWall!!!!
What happened? Chaos, turmoil, disorder, utter most confusion, unfair competition, money- and bookmakers, greed and don’t-wanna-give, stingy mentality, confusion about photo and LomoWall formats and sizes, materials and construction, nothing fits, no one knows. In short: it doesn’t exist, the ONE LomoWorldWall, that one, breathtaking, big, homogeneous LomoWall, that just keeps growing, carefully stored in an air-conditioned, holy, high-security salt mine tunnel-gallery in a disclosed location in the Austrian alps... just millions of single LomoWalls, everywhere and always, nothing fits, all chaos.
That’s just bullshit, that’s not the way to handle this!
So we sat back down together and this is our solution (in look ahead of The Big Lomography Global Event 2007-2017, that, of course, is still to be announced during the Lomography World Congress in London):
Make your very own LomoWall (alone or with your LomoBuddy), online
We will then download your LomoWallDesigns and your high resolution data (with your prior agreement) and build up your LomoWall ourselves according to your design and with your data...
...for the big LomoWorldWall exhibition 2007 on Trafalgar Square during September in London, with 100.000 Lomographic images! Of course your names will be prominently displayed in connection with your very own LomoWall section...
...and used for future exhibitions in the ever growing world of LomoWalls if the opportunities arise and you give us the permission (we will contact you before every such occasion)
Furthermore, we will make sure to think of some more smut we/you can do with your OnlineLomoWallDesign: building LomoWalls yourself (we provide prints and panels), process them to poster books, table sets, airplane wings, etc etc.
And get right to our proposal of our big goal in time for the LomoWall exhibition in 2017: a 2 kilometre long LomoWall with 1 Million Lomographic Snapshots!!
Submit your image(s) and Lomowall(s) here.
For any queries please contact us at congress@lomography.com.
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