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As we head into the age of less physical contact and communication and more in the virtual world, a common aspect of our digital interactions is creating and interacting with mediums that are remi- sense of the past.
Something ironic that has re-emerged from such a digital age of using phones as the camera is long- ing for a previous way of using photography and art. “The current obsession with the analog, the vintage, and the retro has everything to do with this fetishization of the offline... Vintage cameras and typewriters dot the apart- ments of Millennials. Digital photos are cast with the soft glow, paper borders, and scratches of Instagram’s faux-vin- tage filters’. This ironic trend of something so analog might be reflective of wanting culture to slow down and not change so rapidly, but always through a media that is common to us, through the photo.
This could be seen with the rise of film photogra- phy and vinyl sales, but also the culture of today’s youth glo- rifying past decades as idealistic eras. For example, the 90’s as being a time of “the last great decade” where individuals were not trapped behind the burden of climate change, social media, and technology.

These actions and ways of thinking became known as the “halcyon days,” when storms do not occur. Today, the term is used to denote a past period that is being remembered for being happy and/or successful.