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Big in Taiwan

By bonanos On 11 November 2013 · 5 Comments

This makes me chuckle every time I see it. A book by a guy who never got out of the foreign-language gate was published last week in Taiwan, translated into Mandarin. (You can order here, if you can read it.)

Needless to say, I have no idea how the translation reads. But Polaroid […]

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A Year of Living Instantly

By bonanos On 28 September 2013 · Leave a Comment

INSTANT: THE STORY OF POLAROID was published a year ago this weekend. (I can’t put my finger on the exact date; it was either September 26, 27, or 28, pushed up at the last minute from October 2. I remember it as a Friday, which would be the 28th, but Amazon says the 26th, so […]

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Instant Moment: ISBN 978-1-61689-085-8

By bonanos On 6 August 2012 · Leave a Comment

There aren’t a lot of days like this in life. First copy of the book arrived from Princeton Architectural Press this afternoon.

I couldn’t focus on a damn thing for the rest of the day. Though I did manage to take an instant photo of it. (On Impossible’s new no-shielding-required test film, by the […]

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Have You Read the Book? No, But I Saw the Video

By bonanos On 6 August 2012 · 2 Comments

We made a book trailer, and here it is. There’s a little treat in there: a few moments of film of Dr. Land, shot in 1970 and barely seen since. Plus, y’know, a lot of me talking.

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What I Did Last Week

By bonanos On 11 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

Got a few photos from our BookExpo America signing, shot by P.A.P.’s Russell Fernandez while I was snapping and scribbling. (Plus one extra photo, via Twitter, from the book blogger known as The Picky Girl.)

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My Big Day At BEA

By bonanos On 9 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

A successful day at BookExpo America! I am extremely happy to report that we had a great turnout at Princeton Architectural Press’s booth, enough that we ran out of books while people were still waiting in line. I kept shooting photos of visitors and passing them out, and I hope nobody went home too disappointed. […]

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