Posts by: bonanos
Turns out my book is competing with an iPad app, and not just in the generic sense—all books do that these days—but specifically for title supremacy. Instant: The Polaroid Maker, an app produced by ThinkTime Creations, is a playful Instagrammish thing, one that adds visual effects: Once you’ve edited and filtered your photo, […]
It’s on sale, ahead of schedule. (I wasn’t expecting it till after the print edition was out.) You can order it here. Same contents, same photos; doesn’t smell as nice as a new printed book, but it’ll get to you a lot faster.
Once again proving that we here at Polaroidland are your best source of obsolete-photo-technology news, The New Yorker’s Calvin Tomkins follows our recent post about the presidential photo shoot with a perfectly charming Talk of the Town story (subscription required to read it online). I mean, he’s kind of late to the game and all, […]
Been a busy week, and I am late reporting on Tuesday’s announcement from The Impossible Project: a new product, financed through Kickstarter. It’s part-and-parcel with Impossible’s new camera, which has been in the works for some time, and thus far takes the form of (more or less) the bottom half of an SX-70/600-style camera: […]
Post–21 Jump Street, pre–Captain Jack Sparrow. I’d guess mid-1990s (a.k.a. the Winona Years). With Spectra camera and hat from L.A.’s notorious Viper Room.
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