{"id":807,"date":"2021-03-11T11:27:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/an-impossible-project-review-warm-and-fuzzy-nostalgia-in-retro-doc\/"},"modified":"2021-03-11T11:27:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T10:27:20","slug":"an-impossible-project-review-warm-and-fuzzy-nostalgia-in-retro-doc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/03\/11\/an-impossible-project-review-warm-and-fuzzy-nostalgia-in-retro-doc\/","title":{"rendered":"An Impossible Project review \u2013 warm and fuzzy nostalgia in retro doc"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florian Kaps \u2013 Vienna\u2019s answer to Steve Jobs \u2013 enthuses over analogue hardware and makes a persuasive case for life beyond the digital realm<\/p>\n

Here is a documentary about the resurgent interest in retro culture that comes across like a warm fuzzy blanket of nostalgia for pre-Covid days. The central figure is \u201cDoc\u201d Florian Kaps, who the film presents as Vienna\u2019s answer to Steve Jobs, a social visionary untroubled by such details as earning a living or indeed running a functioning business. Kaps\u2019 speciality is what he calls \u201canalogue\u201d: physical hardware such as manual switchboards, jukeboxes, printing presses, and the like, made obsolete by the rise of laptops and smartphones.<\/p>\n

At the start of the film, Kaps\u2019 attention is caught by the failing Polaroid camera, and \u2013 seemingly on a whim \u2013 he agrees to take over the company\u2019s last factory, in the Netherlands. (We are not told much about his finances, other than the occasional arrival of tech investor types who pop up whenever needed.) It soon becomes clear that Kaps\u2019 visionary utterances (\u201cWhat does Facebook smell like?\u201d) are no match for a solid business plan, and after a few years of trying fruitlessly to replicate Polaroid\u2019s instant film, Kaps is ejected from his own company when a former intern becomes CEO after bringing in his own investor father.<\/p>\n

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\nFlorian Kaps \u2013 Vienna\u2019s answer to Steve Jobs \u2013 enthuses over analogue hardware and makes a persuasive case for life beyond the digital realm
\nHere is a documentary about the resurgent interest in retro culture that comes across like a warm fuzzy blanket of nostalgia for pre-Covid days. The central figure is \u201cDoc\u201d Florian Kaps, who the film presents as Vienna\u2019s answer to Steve Jobs, a social visionary untroubled by such details as earning a living or indeed running a functioning business. Kaps\u2019 speciality is what he calls \u201canalogue\u201d: physical hardware such as manual switchboards, jukeboxes, printing presses, and the like, made obsolete by the rise of laptops and smartphones.
\nAt the start of the film, Kaps\u2019 attention is caught by the failing Polaroid camera, and \u2013 seemingly on a whim \u2013 he agrees to take over the company\u2019s last factory, in the Netherlands. (We are not told much about his finances, other than the occasional arrival of tech investor types who pop up whenever needed.) It soon becomes clear that Kaps\u2019 visionary utterances (\u201cWhat does Facebook smell like?\u201d) are no match for a solid business plan, and after a few years of trying fruitlessly to replicate Polaroid\u2019s instant film, Kaps is ejected from his own company when a former intern becomes CEO after bringing in his own investor father. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florian Kaps \u2013 Vienna\u2019s answer to Steve Jobs \u2013 enthuses over analogue hardware and makes a persuasive case for life beyond the digital realm Here is a documentary about the resurgent interest in retro culture that comes across like a warm fuzzy blanket of nostalgia for pre-Covid days. The central figure is \u201cDoc\u201d Florian Kaps, …<\/p>\n

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