We went to visit my parents, partly to give the car its first long journey, partly to show it off, and partly so that I could be showered with birthday gifts a week late.
Mum and Dad bought me a load of books and maps about Guatemala. Debbie bought me a Stylecam Blink camera, so I tried it out when we went for a stroll around Aber.
As you can see, the Blink's pictures can't compete with a "proper" digital camera, but I don't think that's the point. It's cheap, it's tiny, and it takes photorealistic pictures. It fits in the little sub-pocket of a pair of jeans, so you can always have it with you. It's cheap and light enough to hang off a kite (which is why I wanted one). With a bit of extra kit you could leave it taking time-lapse pictures in places where you wouldn't want to leave a more expensive camera.
You just have to appreciate that the resolution is low, you do get distortion from the cheap lens, you do get blurring around the edge of the frame. Don't treat these limitations as inherently bad things, just treat them as a feature of your medium, and work with them. You can get some great motion blur effects by moving the camera around in "steaming snapshot" mode.
One thing I regret is that it refuses to take pictures in low light. I'd rather it took a long exposure; I could have lived with the motion blur -- enjoyed it, even.
Stuff like this reminds me of David Hockney's polaroid collages. There he was taking cheap consumer-level technology, which produced images that most photographers would have been very sniffy about, and using it to produce genuine art. Not that I'd label anything I've done with the Blink so far as art.