Love is Analog
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You may be wondering the connection between analog technology (tape recording, film, records) and love. To me, I see a world of similarities. “Analog” simply means “continuous. It refers to any technology that seamlessly changes one form of energy into another.
The minute you bring a computer into the picture, there needs to be some form of calculation. There’s gaps in the values. Unlike analog, not every value can be understood.
Love, like analog, seamlessly converts the energy of trust and commitment into community, creation, and fun.
I hope for you and your partner a non-calculating, analogous type of love. Here are 5 ways the ethos of analog tech and love collide.
1. Love is continuous, through any variable, through ups and downs. Even the distorted times (times when you are pushed to your limits) become warm memories when you get through things together. Love is infinite, love has limitless expansion.
2. There’s room to be imperfect - it’s just more to love! My favorite recordings and film has some fuzziness, something rough around the edges. Love embraces imperfection and the human.
Love is perfectly imperfect.
Shot on super 8 ektachrome, emily doom
Penny & The Quarters are a "lost" soul band which came to prominence in 2010 after an unreleased demo of their song "You And Me" was found in an estate sale.
3. Both love and analog are based in action/movement. We’ve all known those who talk pretty words of love but then their actions don’t line up. Love is based on the now and the doing.
Editing and splicing analog audio tape using a vintage Revox reel-to-reel tape deck.
“LOVE IS AN ACT OF WILL, BOTH AN INTENTION AND AN ACTION”
4. Limitations foster creativity. Just as in analog you’re limited to a certain amount of tracks or space, when you set your mind to loving one person WHOLLY, it can open a world of creativity.
“The enemy of art is the absence of limitations. ”
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert in Frank Capra’s “It Happened One Night”
5. Love is based on listening and being present. It is immediate and bold. It follows intuition rather than rules. The “good” and the “bad” live together as one - there’s no editing out the parts you wish you could change in your partner, you learn to embrace it all.
“Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make head or tails of it is going through intuition.”
Love. is. analog.