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Long Live the Polaroid
Polaroid film may be dead in a year, but with your help, the self-developing Polaroid camera is set to come back in a digital form.
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He took a Polaroid every day, until the day he died
A man named Jamie Livingston took a photo every day from 1979 until his death in 1997. The Polaroids document his life, his loves, and his death (from cancer). These Polaroids were stumbled upon by Chris Higgins. The following article, by Higgins, talks about who Jamie was and how Chris came upon the website. It also showcases some of the key Polaroids that Jamie took.
The Website: http://www.addresszero.com.nyud.net/!!!pod-html/ A man named Jamie Livingston took a photo every day from 1979 until his death in 1997. The Polaroids document his life, his loves, and... more -
Digital Polaroids
Polaroid is discontinuing the production of their instant film, but they will be coming out with a hand-size printer that produces color snapshots in about 30 seconds. I like the way Polaroids have the uncanny ability to make every image look like it's from 1982. This printer looks pretty cool, but in the meantime, I'll be buying all the Polaroid film reserves we can get off eBay. Polaroid is discontinuing the production of their instant film, but they will be coming out with a hand-size printer that produces col... more
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Fish in a Bowl
Fish in a Bowl.
Things that happened on Easter.
I got this small polaroid camera and I am testing its capabilities. The lenses are not that great but all the functions are easy to setup. You can compare the image difference with the photo.
Big difference. The lighting and position was the same for the movie camera and photographic camera. Fish in a Bowl. Things that happened on Easter. ... more -
What Polaroids are hidden in your old albums?
The Boston Globe is featuring readers' old Polaroid pictures on their website. They'll continue to post for the next couple weeks so upload, scan, mail away! The Boston Globe is featuring readers' old Polaroid pictures on their website. They'll continue to post for the next couple... more
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Shake it like a.....er, jpeg image??? SAVE POLAROID !
Polaroid have announced they're going to cease production of their film (they already stopped making cameras a year ago).
Petition's here http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-polaroid-film....
Not sure whether Fuji are planning to discontinue theirs....hopefully not...
d Polaroid have announced they're going to cease production of their film (they already stopped making cameras a year ago). ... more -
Polaroid 2.0
Polaroid film may be gone, but for some of us with fond memories of the format -- this digital picture frame concept seems a fitting tribute. There's a dry erase portion on the bottom, and the frame can stand on its own or be pinned to a cork board for added realism. "Standard" mode emulates a regular digital frame, while "Classic" mode slowly fades the picture into view. Yeah, maybe a little too cute for its own good, but maybe we like it that way. Polaroid film may be gone, but for some of us with fond memories of the format -- this digital picture frame concept seems a fitting t... more
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Polaroid Ends Instant Film Production
This truly is an end of an era. I personally don't use a lot of the instant film but I mourn it as another casualty of digital photography. Much like the image taken by these things, the first true 'instant gratification' photography medium is fading away.
Polaroid has completed its transition from a real company to something that just slaps its brand on other people's hardware. It announced this week that it will stop manufacturing its iconic instant film. This truly is an end of an era. I personally don't use a lot of the instant film but I mourn it as another casualty of digital p... more -
Wave bye to shakin' it like a Polaroid picture
Polaroid is quitting what made it famous: the instant photos that pop out and develop as you watch it (and wave it around in the air). Instead, they'll focus on digital cameras and TV's. Production on the instant film will end sometime in 2009. Polaroid is quitting what made it famous: the instant photos that pop out and develop as you watch it (and wave it around in the air).... more
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Bye Bye Polaroid
Polaroid, the company that immortalized the hipster and made photography cooool again has announced that they are going digital... Last year the company stopped producing instant cameras and said last week that as soon as they have enough instant film to make it to 2009 they'll stop making that as well. All of the manufacturing plants will be closed by the end of the year.
So stock up kids cuz we all know normal pictures don't look any where near as cool on your dorm room walls and myspace isn't worth having if you're main photo isn't a snap shot of you throwing a peace sign and smoking a cig. Polaroid, the company that immortalized the hipster and made photography cooool again has announced that they are going digital... Las... more -
Next Smithsonian exhibit may be portraits of museum executives doing "perp�...
Washingtonians - and others with big egos - have a portrait fetish that is obscene especially when it involves taxpayers money.
Even half that nealry 50 grand could have been significant funding for the non-profit Native American and environment projects I volunteer for in northern Michigan.
More comment after a few sentences of the article and a look at this portrait:
Portrait Cost Indian Museum $48,500: Senators, Trustees Question Spending By Former Director
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds to commission a portrait of himself.
The portrait of West by New York artist Burton Silverman hangs in the patrons' lounge on the fourth floor of the flagship museum, which is dedicated to the arts and culture of American Indians.
Silverman said West picked him after he saw a portrait Silverman had done of former Smithsonian secretary Robert McCormick Adams.
The Adams portrait, completed about a decade earlier, was smaller and cost about half as much.
Rest of the Washington Post story:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
Portrait:
http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2...
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Native American on Native American crime - much like black on black crime - is especially insidious because so much good could have been done for First Nations peoples heritage with this wasted and misappropriated money.
It's also a crime against taxpayers and common decency.
Spending $48,500 on a self portrait is among the disgraceful financial crimes of W. Richard West Jr., the founding director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.
For this crime to occur in the hallowed halls of the Smithsonian shows again thievery knows no class boundaries - and should be treated just as severely as the poor man who sticks a gun into the face of a 7-11 clerk.
The Smithsonian needs to be thoroughly audited from top to bottom as this is at least the second huge scandal to tarnish its once respected reputation.
No doubt it's only the tip of the fiduciary iceberg that's tearing through the Smithsonian's highbrow richly-protected hull.
I do volunteer work for several Native American related non-profits whose budgets are much smaller than even the cost of that disgraceful portrait.
And the suggestion that it could not have been painted by an American Indian artist is as laughable as it is sickening with a hint of racism against one's own culture.
Even the portrait stance is borrowed and unoriginal, as a buttoned-down Mr. West gazes thoughtfully off to the east, his coat hanging on a crooked forefinger and tossed over suspenders with his soft thumb and the remaining fingers forming the "OK" sign.
The Washington ego commands that a portrait much be painted to prove one's importance.
No doubt many law offices, banking institutions and the halls of officialdom are plastered with the self-aggrandizing crafty art.
Prior to the Polaroid, a self-portrait may have been necessary to preserve one's historic legacy but in today's world it's merely a measure of one's self-importance that is more often scoffed at than admired by those it's meant to impress. Perhaps, a modern definition of irony.
Maybe the next exhibit at the Smithsonian will be portraits of former executives doing the proverbial "perp walk" - cuffed and stuffed for perp-etuity. Washingtonians - and others with big egos - have a portrait fetish that is obscene especially when it involves taxpayers money. ... more -
stop-motion animation with polaroids
Process Enacted: by Jordan C Greenhalgh
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Polaroid Playground
'Process Enacted' is an experiment to exploit the single frames that make up an animated film and explore the emotions of the creative process. Created with 987 polaroids and no computer compositing. 'Process Enacted' is an experiment to exploit the single frames that make up an animated film and explore the emotions of th... more
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