looking for a little character

At the moment I am completely uninspired to write.

Usually I juxtapose an event or an object with an idea. Lately however I have been considering the idea for a new online magazine/blog, reporting on some local events and exchanging ideas with some readers. Now I come to the keyboard without the first idea to write about.

There is a great pool to draw from when one considers character. I'll just look around the room here for character. Much of modern life is devoid of character; there is a great desire to be like something or someone else. Many people complain that they cannot tell cars apart, they are referring to cars built in the 90's as many new cars are beginning to show some character.

I have six cameras on my table (it is a large table,) one is the Contax I wrote about before, one is digital, three are handy little cameras for taking with me when I go out and one, propped up on a Fender tube amp is a Diana.

Diana’s are prizes for art students because they have a lot of character. They were not intended to have this much character it is just the way things worked out. A Diana is a roll film plastic camera from the sixties. It has a plastic lens that you can scale focus, a single speed shutter, three apertures and it is likely to leak light through the back. Nevertheless many people love the dreamy quality they can get when they take pictures with these things.

I have never used mine. I found enough delights in the use of scale focus Agfas from the fifties to satisfy me, so the Diana sits as an ornament until I decide to sell it.

People are attracted to Diana’s due to the character they see in the pictures that this toy camera produces. It is a neat trick that we see this as character when in fact it is only a crappy picture.

You can find character in many things; you can find a lack of character in a great many more things. Look for character, when you find it bring it into your life and let the things that lack character go.

The one thing that people really remember is character.