Pack your bags.

Put on sunscreen . . . or maybe a down jacket . . .

Get on the web and search for the craziest streaming radio station you can find from the opposite side of the globe.

Turn off the lights.

Settle back with a favorite beverage, and . . .


Click slowly and deliciously through the "Most Recent Uploads" section of the Lomography web site.

You'll travel, all right.

And the special weird distorted rainbow saturated appeal of the Lomo Look will pre-nostalgia-tize your experience.

Lomographs automatically look like they've been banging around some cool relative's old battered suitcase for half a century. The positively reek of travel and the passage of time.

As Susan Sontag pointed out --- once we buy the premise that photographs are in some way faithful to the actual array of photons at a certain moment in time . . . all photographs are nostalgic.

Don't forget your passport!