Some exciting news for all you White Stripes fans out there. I am probably the biggest White Stripes fan of all time. OK, maybe that’s not true. At least out of everyone I know. The first time I heard “Fell in love with a girl” was absolutely transcendent: Meg White’s drumming was so simple and yet so spot-on (it doesn’t hurt that she’s the cutest thing!). Anyway the music was just the first thing that drew me in. I’ve become a huge fan of the Whites themselves actually. They’re so enigmatic and so great (are they married? Are they brother and sister? What a mystery! Actually, in case you didn’t know, the Detroit Free Press produced copies of the marriage and divorce certificates, so the mystery’s been solved. But it was fun while it lasted!) They were so great acting in Coffee and Cigarettes, plus I thought Jack’s producing on Loretta Lynn’s Van Lear Rose was just so great. As if he weren’t cool enough already, Jack has the same birthday as me: July 9. Coincidentally we share the same birthday as Courtney Love and also Tom Cruise. Anyway, I’ve written about Lomography before (namely the Diana camera, which they recently re-released), but the folks over at Lomography are coming out with a new special limited edition of White Stripe Lomography cameras, which is spectacular news for a rock ‘n roll and retro camera junkie like myself! There are 3,000 Jack Holgas and Meg Dianas, both very stylish looking in red and black. The cameras themselves are no different than the standard Holgas and Dianas, except for the colors. They’re selling the cameras in starter kits that include the cameras, an additional fisheye lens, three filter sets, a Peppermint lens filter; the Meg camera comes with a “Nobody Knows How To Talk To Children” ringflash and Peppermint film mask filter. Each set retails for $180. You can read more about the cameras at the White Stripes official website.
