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Nylon Magazine: Get Your Polaroid Act Together

By bonanos On 3 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

Nylon magazine: C’mon, dudes. You’re supposed to be knowing about art and design and photography. You are retro-cool enough to create a standing blog feature called the Nylon Party Polaroid. I even understand that shooting real instant film comes with its own problems, and that you’re just as soon splice a digital image onto the […]

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It Really Is Everywhere

By bonanos On 30 April 2012 · Leave a Comment

Just noticed a small detail of the interface on WordPress, the blogging platform that underlies Polaroidland. On the comments administration page (where I shovel out the spam and junk mail once a day) each comment has a spot for an avatar, the small photo or icon that appears next to the writer’s name. If you […]

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Another Ghost in the Machine

By bonanos On 22 February 2012 · 1 Comment

Anyone run across the word “skeuomorph” lately? It describes a visual vestige—a traditional form that reappears in some other context where it’s meaningless. For example, if an object was once made of leather pieces stitched together but is now made of molded plastic on which designers have added fake molded stitches, those seams are skeuomorphs.

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Polaroid, Ink

By bonanos On 26 January 2012 · Leave a Comment

Polaroid photography has has always had a cultish following. Something about the mystery of making a photo right away, yourself, adds an intimacy that makes certain people (like me) wildly enthusiastic about this medium. I, however, have not gone as far as the folks below, who have permanently etched Polaroid iconography into their skin.

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