I'm no huge fan of the past... In fact, much like the Greeks before me, I am increasingly drawn to a form of the good life that includes neither over-expansive nostalgia, debilitating regret, nor even comprehensive hope for the future. You see, I feel quite comfortable in the present these days, un-worried or preoccupied by lessons older than 24 hours and plans made after the next 24.

So color me surprised when, that said, I fell deeply in lust with the Superheadz Digital Harinezumi 2++ video camera. Suddenly, when watching the images produced by this wonder of engineering, I found myself transported to a time when focus was approximate, color accuracy tentative, and light leaks the baseline of normality. This was a time when memories looked like the films we took of them, a time when our ambitions were as simple as "make love not war," a time when adding super in front of any word made it better...

Today, because of so-called advancement in technology, the images have gotten crisper, smoother and tending towards perfection. To wit, my documenting of my son going up the Eiffel Tower is a self-erected monument to the fact that there is little that can go awry in one's documenting of what one sees these days. Still, can it not also be true that, in the words of Grendel, form is function? Can one object, not for purposes of nostalgia but that of character, transport us to a time and place when and where we felt that style expressed meaning, as opposed to today's simple use of it as a contributor to perceived beauty?

That is exactly what the Character Approved people at Superheadz had in mind with this camera. And people have been responding to the call in droves. That's a good thing.

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