Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Lenny Kravitz, Leica designer?

This is one of those increasingly frequent stories where you check mentally "is it the first of April already?"
Lenny Kravitz, by virtue of being a medium-popular pop-rock singer, and by virtue of apparently sometimes using a Leica camera, has achieved the status of now being a Leica designer!
His "design" consists of no more changes to the camera than having machines and assistants rubbing off the black paint in corners and some areas on a black Leica camera, so it looks like it has been used a lot! Awesome...
(Having seen some documentaries about how things work in Celebrity World, I would be surprised if Lenny even had anything to do himself with this design "idea".)

Read Mike Johnston's no less sarcastic take on this.



5 comments:

Russ said...

Reminds me of the $200+ distressed jeans I see women wearing these days with the fabric worn away to look like they're 10 years old instead of new!

emptyspaces said...

They should have had Seal "design" it - he's a serious photographer. Kravitz probably figured out how to use a Leica by taking pictures of himself in front of one of his many full-length mirrors.

Joe Dick said...

Is it that people today are too lazy to wear things in like the old days? I see different places selling t-shirts of the "distressed" type - it's too hard to wear that AC/DC shirt long enough to get the look for real! I guess. :-)

Eolake Stobblehouse said...

One issue is that it takes 20 years of daily use to make a Leica look like that. Just try and shoot with a 20-year-old digital camera, I dare ya. :-)

joe dick said...

Maybe they need to make it so you can swap out the insides. Then you can still upgrade but you get that worn in look.