Posts by: bonanos

The New York Premiere of ‘Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film’

By On 25 June 2012 · 1 Comment

Had the great pleasure, last night, to meet up with a slice of the Polaroid community: Grant Hamilton, director of Time Zero, screened his film at New York’s VisionFest 2012. Most of the Impossible Project’s key players turned up, as did a scattering of Pola-enthusiasts—cameras in hand, of course—and the theater, at Tribeca Cinemas, was […]

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Instant Moment: Carrots and Radishes

By On 23 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

Shot at the Union Square Greenmarket a couple of hours ago. No reason, just liked what I saw.

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Good Morning, Polaroid-Style

By On 23 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

A new bit of Polaroid kitsch from an inventive Etsy seller: Polaroid-camera pillows.

SX-70, Swinger, Colorpack III, a couple of others, all from a seller named intheseam, who has a full line of unorthodox pillow designs, with images of stuff like manhole covers.

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Instant Moment: The Dénouement

By On 22 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

Spotted in the window of a cheap electronics store across from the Empire State Building.

It’s a long way from Dr. Land’s “Don’t do anything that someone else can do” to commoditized stuff like this, and Polaroid’s current owners have a long climb back. (And by the way, Sony? We’re looking at you next. Akio […]

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The End of Main Street

By On 18 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

A few weeks back, I documented my trip to the Polaroid site in Waltham, where demolition had briefly begun, then stopped in (I think) late 2010.

Turns out that it was my last chance, because the backhoes have started up again, and building W2, which you can see in the post linked […]

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Happy Father’s Day

By On 17 June 2012 · Leave a Comment

The first Polaroid camera in my life was my dad’s Pronto! model. We bought it for him as a Father’s Day present around 1979. I was always curious about how the sonar autofocus pinger worked. Here it is:

Thirty-odd years later, here’s the card I received from my own son, who is 3.

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