Articles Tagged ‘photography’
Dec. 23rd, 2008
On the last day of this year, Polaroid will cease production of its magical film.
In 2004 I became fascinated by a beautiful old chrome and leather folding SX-70 polaroid camera a friend had. Within a week I had bought two on ebay, and a year-long project was born. Every day I carried a camera with me, and made one polaroid of something interesting I saw that day, and published each of them online at Polaroidiary. It was an exciting exercise in seeing, discipline and storytelling, and the resulting collection is an evocative document of a turbulent year of my life.
After playing daily with the SX-70, and the magic of holding the framed object-photo and waiting, breathless, for an image to surface out of the grey murk, the finality of polaroid’s decision to cease production does indeed feel like the death of an old, well-loved friend.
Here are few of my favourites from Polaroidiary. You might also like to look through the archives, or just start at the beginning.
It’s definitely just not the same, but in typical optimistic, cheerful Photojojo style, they’ve gathered some ways to keep the Polaroid spirit alive in spite of it all.
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Jun. 1st, 2007
Like any good geek with an overdeveloped need to present myself and my experiences as if anyone was interested, I carried a camera around all day and saw a few things worth looking at.
Must. Have. This. Shirt.
This is how gorgeous the weather was today. If you weren’t here, you can go off and be jealous now. Go on.
This guy and his neighbour did what I desperately wanted to after a vastly insufficient amount of sleep last night, a skull stretching amount of ideas and info and plenty of skin bakin’ rays.
There are of course many many more (556 at last count), from myself and many others.
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Mar. 16th, 2007
Found while searching for something else entirely:
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Nov. 21st, 2006
What’s the use of having a blog if you don’t use it to shamelessly promote yourself and leverage your audience to increase your fame and fortune?
I’ve submitted 2 photos to JPG magazine. If you’re interested in photography and don’t know about JPG, you should. Even if you’re only interested in the internet, you should know about the only magazine (I know of) to combine the best of Web 2.0 and print in one project.
Anyway, back to my photos. If one of them gets printed I get $100, a subscription, and maybe a lensbaby. Why am I telling you this? Well, in the grand old tradition of Web 2.0, whether or not a photo gets printed depends at least partially on how many votes it gets from the digital masses. That’s where you come in. Go check out this photo and the other photo too, and if you like them, click the big green button. That’s it. I’ll be eternally thankful, especially if I get published. And if you vote and leave a comment here to let me know, I’ll even thank you personally.
Damn, what could be Web 2.0ier than using your blog to send people to vote on the photo you uploaded somewhere else?
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Jun. 28th, 2006
At the moment I’m in Seattle working on a project with Microsoft. Nothing against you Seattlites (Satellites? Seattle-Siders?) but once I got here I had absolute zero interest in seeing another city during my free weekend. Instead I put a roast beef sandwich, a liter of water and my camera in a bag and headed for the mountains.
Although I’m an avid nature fan, I’m the last person anyone would describe as a sport-freak. The word “fit” is seldom used in a sentence with my name in it. So I’m still a little surprised at, and more than a little proud of myself that I hiked 16 miles and ascended over 3,900 feet (around 24 km and 1,200 meters) up the north east side of Mount Rainier and witnessed one of the most breath-taking views of my life.
There are, of course, pictures.
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