The Bold Italic: Let's Get Physical

San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | I never made a conscious decision to eschew digital in favor of the bygone days of simple machines a | Chelsea Hogue

[thecodont]

I never made a conscious decision to eschew digital in favor of the bygone days of simple machines and media. It’s just who I am. I don’t see the printed word as an anachronism in a world of Kindles and iPads. As an editor, books are my livelihood and my earliest and most prevalent passion. Vinyl is not the latest craze; it is the way I listen to music, a physical way of experiencing the auditory. And I still receive and send greeting cards to my grandmother in Mississippi.

I am not alone. This analog lifestyle has caught on in San Francisco, the heart of technology-centered industry, where you can’t spit and not hit someone involved in a start-up. But the desire to return to original formats – physical evidence of creativity – is among us. So, cross over my friends; dip your toe into the pool because the water is fine.

Here is a list of a few locals that are serving as the impetus for the ever so growing analog conversion.

[thecodont]

A look at local (San Francisco) non-digital merchants: Ourshelves lending library, Secret Seven Records, Photobooth, Red Letter Day, and more.

[thecodont]

Article published March 13, 2012 - my posting goof-up.

[the invisib1e hand]

A cry in the wilderness. The very appearance of pieces like this is a sign the machines have won. Reality is, for practical purposes, just a bunch of electrons at a point in time.