Posts by: bonanos
A story pinging around the Web this weekend, via the Wichita Eagle: Kid bought a Polaroid Impulse (600-type) camera at a garage sale, brought it home, and popped it open. The film cartridge within held a picture, and he showed it to his grandmother, who recognized the subjects as the boy’s uncle, who had […]
This man is named Pinkhus Karlinskii. This color photograph of him was shot when he was 84 years old, in 1909.
Think that through for a minute. Color photograph of a man born in, most likely, 1825. A contemporary, if just barely, of Beethoven and Jefferson.
He […]
Not earth-shattering technology, I grant you. But an extremely nifty little object: the Polaroid Instant Tripod, Model 2328, offered as an accessory in SX-70’s heyday. There’s a hanging loop, presumably in case some poor benighted soul chooses to keep it dangling from his belt. The head is a ball-and-socket arrangement, tightened and loosened by turning […]
From (as the Car Talk guys say) the Shameless Commerce division: I’ve added a Buy the Book link on this page, over at the right side. Preorders welcome! Official release is October 3.
I’m also excited about the two endorsements on the book jacket, which also appear on the Amazon page. I am extremely […]
Another Polaroid-a-day site, and a good one. It’s a Tumblr based in the Czech Republic, and it’s all waist-up Polaroid shots, shirtless (though not necessarily nude), shot on Fuji/Polaroid pack film. The proprietor (unnamed, mysterious) posts one per day. Most are sexy but not NSFW (though a few may cross the line, depending on […]
Yes, I am a huge Polaroid geek. And I am also a typography geek, so I need no excuse to offer up a little celebration of Polaroid’s longtime logo typeface: News Gothic.
It was created by the great type designer Morris Fuller Benton in 1908 for ATF, and its clean crisp lines were probably […]
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