SNAP 'APPY

Remember the good old days when a night out wasn't taken up by you and your friends taking numerous pictures of each other?
Don't get me wrong, I love going out with my friends! We always have a fun night and the next morning usually consists of lying in bed looking through our pictures whilst nursing a hangover. Normally a weekend ritual.

Most people will agree that in a picture of a group of friends there is always someone who is not happy with the way it turned out. Immediatley after the snap everyone wants to take a look. I am also guilty of shouting to my friend 'Lets have a look!'. But, in my opinion, this is now taking up too much time on a night out. I want to chat and dance with my friends, not work out how best to stand/smile/ pose.

But I don't want to loose the memorabilia from the night out. Solution...disposable camera.

Pro Disposal:
- You won't have to take the same picture over, and over, and over again
- You can look forward to getting them developed and seeing how they turned out
- You can now get the images put straight onto a disc- so, don't worry, facebook won't suffer
- You don't risk breaking/loosing that expensive camera you got for your birthday
- There's satisfaction in winding it on
- Conversation starter

Con Disposal:
- Not great for keeping in a clutch bag
- You have to squint and put your eye to the hole
- Your friends see flashing lights for a few minutes after the picture has been taken

After my digital camera broke on a night out and all the pictures looked like the Matrix, I decided I didn't want to be the one responsible for the picture taking anymore. Does anyone?

But, things are about to change, I have every plan to buy a disposable camera for my approaching weekend and ultimately convert the massive.

'ISTA'

If you pick up any magazine off the shelf these days I can guarantee that somewhere among one of the articles, or written across one of the pages, will be the words 'fashionista'! I don't really understand where this word has come from, but the fact that adding 'ista' to the end of a perfectly normal word qualifies it to be a national phenomenon is beyond me.

I remember in one of my lectures last year one of our tutors (who had previously given us a two hour lecture on how colour makes you feel) decided that this week was going to be on Grazia - one of the first magazines to start using the 'word'. My tutor loved it and managed to squeeze into every conversation and lecture since. Soon it seemed the word was everywhere!

I had finally accepted that perhaps a word was needed to describe a designer or a fashion devotee and that the word of choice was Fashionista. Until 'Recessionista' became the new word! Used to descibe a fashion lover who bargain hunts during the credit crunch and recession the word has worryingly started to catch on. The only good thing, in my opinion, that comes from the new 'ista' is that I now have a new most hated word.

Still...I plan to avoid using any kind of 'ista'...fashion or otherwise.