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On my other Tumblr site, Internet For Dogs, I just experimented for the first time with Poladroid, a little program that lets you upload a photo through a small widget that looks like a Polaroid camera. Drag the digital photo onto the camera and then you see it develop in slow, Polaroid fashion, fading from a kind of murky gold into the colors of your picture. You can stop the developing any time if you want an only under-developed, murky gold picture. Or, you can try to have some patience and wait until it’s done. I couldn’t wait! That’s why this shot looks a little yellow-y. But I like it. I was hesitating about using this picture: I think the Polaroid white picture frame motif is overused these days. It has become shorthand for “snapshot.” Now that snapshots often don’t ever leave a screen, it’s hard to visually represent them without showing screens.  So, the frame is kind of an easy solution, I guess; it also apologizes for the fact that a photo inside might not be great quality. Hey, it’s only a snapshot! The subject of this photo is the Silver Jews’ David Berman and his dog, Gittel. I interviewed Berman about his dogs at The Dogs.

On my other Tumblr site, Internet For Dogs, I just experimented for the first time with Poladroid, a little program that lets you upload a photo through a small widget that looks like a Polaroid camera.

Drag the digital photo onto the camera and then you see it develop in slow, Polaroid fashion, fading from a kind of murky gold into the colors of your picture. You can stop the developing any time if you want an only under-developed, murky gold picture. Or, you can try to have some patience and wait until it’s done. I couldn’t wait! That’s why this shot looks a little yellow-y. But I like it.

I was hesitating about using this picture: I think the Polaroid white picture frame motif is overused these days. It has become shorthand for “snapshot.” Now that snapshots often don’t ever leave a screen, it’s hard to visually represent them without showing screens.  So, the frame is kind of an easy solution, I guess; it also apologizes for the fact that a photo inside might not be great quality. Hey, it’s only a snapshot!

The subject of this photo is the Silver Jews’ David Berman and his dog, Gittel. I interviewed Berman about his dogs at The Dogs.

Notes

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