A laptop bag with an incorporated Polaroid frame! Oh happy day!
According to @polaroidtweets, it is 50 percent off today at With2nsDesigns.
DRAWINGS OF OBSOLETE CAMERAS: Volume I, Issue 9
(via photojojo by littleisdrawing)
Totally excellent Polaroid animation!Thanks to reader Tombo 79 for passing this on.
In 2003, Andrew Faris came to New York and documented the town using a Polaroid. His shots do a really nice job of capturing a moment in time. I think that’s what all photographs are supposed to do—duh!—but Polaroids especially. People could capture a moment and then enjoy the moment just a minute later. I guess you can do that with a digital photo too, but so many digital photos get erased or neglected because their value is zippo. I think part of the reason that Polaroids have such meaning is that each one cost like a dollar to make!
I’m enjoying scans of his shots at NYCPP.com, short for New York City Polaroid Project.
Thanks to Jon Bender for the link!
In recent months I’ve been dabbling in the world of embroidery. Dangerous territory, I know. But I try to use clean needles.
I’ve mostly been making up my own designs as I go, but there are some fun patterns out there that you can buy for pretty cheap. Apparently, obsolete things are especially fun to embroider! Feeling Stitchy just offered up this lovely set of CRT screens she stitched using patterns from the store andwabisabi, which also makes a pattern for a stitched boombox.
This got me curious about what other embroidered images of obsolete objects were available online. Here are some of my findings.
By Lucky Jackson. Original hand embroidered piece on vintage fabric.
Cassette tape pattern by PeptoGirl.
Embroidered Molkeskines by Nowvember.
Embroidered cameras by TinyBazaar.
Meet the Swinger, the Polaroid Swinger! Has a sexier commercial ever been made?
I found this when I was researching OBSOLETE’s the section on Polaroids. I can’t remember if I mentioned it or if the mention got cut in edits. I’d go check but the book is on the other side of the room. Amos! Go get book! Good boy!
Reader Larry Boer reminded me of this gem. He wrote me a nice email and even attached a photo of his own swinger camera posing with the book. (I just put his keychain in the mail). Boer also writes me:
“Doesn’t ‘You’ve got mail’ sound like something your grandparents heard?”
Yes Larry, it does. Indeed, it seems almost quaint to call it just “mail.” It’s as if, way back when, AOL didn’t want to confuse people by adding the “e.” Or maybe the letter just hadn’t yet been invented.
Anyway, you crazy swingers you, below is Larry’s pic. I’m running quite low on keychains, so if you want one, then get on it!
I just came upon some info about this movie about the last year of Polaroid film. How did I not know about this already?!
Anyway, the trailer isn’t super informative but it has me intrigued. I hope to see the full shebang soon…
My friend Amit, aka @Photojojo, just posted this cute Polaroid necklace to the Photojojo shop. Valentine’s Day is coming, people! Judging by the sartorial habits of folks in these parts of Williamsburg, I’d have to say that the Polaroid is right up there with audio tapes and boomboxes when it comes to fashionable iconography. Here are some of the other Polaroid necklaces the net is offering up at the mo’.
Lilliputian ‘roids from Jersey Maids on Etsy
Because the only thing sexier than a Polaroid is one that is also a mirror showing you your hot self. Am I right or am I right. From CBTSCloset on Etsy.
A Polaroid in all its photo-spitting glory. Retro-technology frozen in action! From FuzzyBunnyStew on Etsy.
Hello blog readers! Sorry for the lack of posts of late, but I was away. Now I’m not away. Away/not away, there/here. Yes, I know these distinctions are complicated in a time when one can blog from anywhere, but there you have it. I’ll give you a couple elipses so you can consider this.
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Thought I’d kick off my First Day Back with this sad (and sort of silly and sappy) ode to the Polaroid 600. Enjoy!
This video is featured in the Italian piece that I just mentioned. Hugh Laurie has grown better looking with age, no?
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Anna Grossman is writing this bio in the third person. She is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in lifestyle and entertainment features. She is 5'7" and has been described as "nice." Su esposo, Jesus, enseñandola Espanol. Email her if you feel like it: GrossmanAJ@Gmail.com
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James Gulliver Hancock is an internationally acclaimed artist who crosses as many mediums as he does borders. James is constantly on the move, having been involved in artist projects and residencies in Indonesia, Austria, France, the U.K. and America. He is currently located in Los Angeles and works on projects in Europe, America and Australia. His work is as varied as his travels, encompassing editorial illustration for magazines, commissions for music group artwork and animations, work with disabled children on logo designs, creating gigantic set illustrations for performances and TV.
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