Reading about the Lomo camera yesterday reminded me of Pixelvision, which I was introduced to when I saw Richard Linklater’s film Slacker. When the movie suddenly turned fuzzy and grey, the person I was with said “Hey, he’s using that Fisher-Price camera that recorded on audio cassettes! That was a super cool device.” It was a novel idea, but the camera bombed. Five minutes of very low quality black & white video on a 90 minute tape was not appealing enough to kids accustomed to their parents’ video cameras. But the camera’s surreal images held the perfect results for attracting a cult following. Where there is filtering of reality, there is art.