Rando
By sending a single photo to a complete stranger, this app aims to insert an element of spontaneity into an increasingly precise digital world.
Serendipity is becoming increasingly scarce as reliable technology takes on more of the responsibilities of modern life. The days of finding a single photograph and having no immediate context as to when it was taken, or by whom, are long gone. Everything is discoverable at the click of a button.
Rando is an app that is aiming to inject a little mystery back into proceedings. It delivers a single photo to a complete stranger without any details other than roughly where it was taken geographically and the sender seeing approximately where it 'lands'. Acting as a way of recreating the nostalgic lack of information associated with film photography, much like Thirty Six, the app that digitally recreates the experience of shooting on a 36 shot roll of film, Rando, put together by design studio ustwo, seems like a refreshing way of dialing down on the information overload.
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