Posts by: bonanos
Nice story in the current (April) issue of ArtNews about the book, written by a long-ago New York magazine colleague named Bree Sposato. Always great to get a little more press, especially now that the initial bump has died down, and I’m grateful for this one. Link here, but how about buying it […]
Well, the Instagram camera that started as a joke, then progressed to a design study, is going to be a real thing. Socialmatic has made a deal with a third-party manufacturer to produce it, somewhere out in the great Far East parts bin, and has teamed up with Polaroid itself for the […]
Whatever you call it: Someone made a Polaroid camera out of Popsicle sticks.
The back is a standard Polaroid 405, because you couldn’t really make fine-tolerance rollers out of softwood, though he did make his own bellows out of thin cardboard. (The lens and shutter came from elsewhere, though I guess he could’ve […]
No, that headline is not about Polavision. It’s about a new music video by Walker Lukens, a musician whose new album, Devoted, will be released in April. Nearly the whole video for “Dear Someone” (which premiered on Mashable this week) consists of stop-motion animation made with Polaroid photos of the singer, shot […]
Edwin Land’s published writing—precise, technically impeccable, and scientifically uncompromised—was the way he wished to be remembered, and two years after his death, his colleague Mary McCann collected it all into a pair of hardbound volumes. Published by the Science for Imaging & Technology in 1993, Edwin H. Land’s Essays never quite went out of print […]
A special post today: After much technical hoodoo, I’ve just posted a video transfer of “The Long Walk,” the short film of Edwin Land that was shot by Bill Warriner for Polaroid’s 1970 shareholders’ meeting. Apart from a couple of very short clips that made it into Polaroid promotions, and a snippet in my own […]
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