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I Hope I Am

By bonanos On 9 August 2012 · Leave a Comment

From a weird machine-generated sales page on Facebook: “Are you interesting in Instant: The Story of Polaroid”?

Well, gosh, you’ll have to ask the people who read it.

Instant Celebrity: The Supremes

By bonanos On 8 August 2012 · Leave a Comment

Unknown photographer, undated, but the hair probably puts it in the mid-sixties. Maybe it’s coincidence, but Miss Ross has the most expensive camera of the bunch.

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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.

http://vimeo.com/46696217

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And Yet Another Little Polaroid-Apple Connection

By bonanos On 6 August 2012 · Leave a Comment

This one even less meaningful than the last, but hey. It turns out that the recently cleared Polaroid site in Waltham, soon to be a shopping center, may contain… an Apple Store. It’s not a done deal yet (see the local report and its caveats here) but it certainly would be a story […]

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Another Little Polaroid-Apple Connection

By bonanos On 5 August 2012 · 2 Comments

My father reported this story over the weekend: A friend was traveling by car, pulled out her iPad while in the passenger seat, and switched it on. Black screen. Flicked it off and on again. No display. Kept fiddling, and eventually resigned herself to a busted device. Until she knocked her sunglasses ajar, and the […]

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