VHS: An Experience Like None Before
The first films I remember watching was the original, unaltered Star Wars trilogy. The storytelling and the special-effects blew my mind, quickly kick starting my love of Cinema. They transported me to…
nostalgia
The Chinese-American Girl
It was pretty ironic how a little Chinese girl who was adopted and brought to America grew up playing with American Girl Dolls. I came to the United States in the 1990s, which was more…
Defining Analog
Today, there is a movement of nostalgic technology. Young and old have been returning to technologies of the past, like film cameras, record players, typewriters, physical books and handwriting. I am a part of this…
The life lessons I learned from a cheap old Kodak film camera
Members of my generation are probably the youngest generation to be nostalgic about analog technology. We millennials were the last generation to grow up with dimensional televisions, music and films on tapes, and phones with…
Back to the Future: Millennials and Early Onset Nostalgia
I was born in 1991, which gives me the pleasure of calling myself a ’90s kid.’ A typical day in my childhood consisted of many things that I still find myself reminiscing about today. I…