Posts by: bonanos
My book now has its own Facebook page. It’s not like a personal page but is instead in the format that Facebook uses for businesses, which means you can’t Friend the book; you can only Like it. Now’s your chance!
In order to entice you over there, I’ve shared a short film, which […]
Last week, my New York magazine colleague Ben Wallace did a bangup job writing about TED—the series of conferences devoted to “technology, entertainment, and design” at which very smart people touch antennae with other very smart people. The story extensively quotes Richard Saul Wurman, TED’s founder, who made his money publishing a series of […]
The Gallery 13 is one of a number of small green shoots that’s popped up in Asbury Park, New Jersey, in the past few years. (Asbury is one of those towns that spent the eighties and nineties fighting severe problems with drugs, crime, and blight, and appears to have turned the corner lately.) Its […]
A special treat at the opening of “Momentum,” the Impossible Project’s latest exhibit, this past evening: I finally met Dr. Florian Kaps, the man who (with his business partner, André Bosman) saved Polaroid’s last instant-film factory from the scrapyard. We had spoken via Skype but never in the flesh. Tonight, we chatted, we joked, […]
Sam Yanes, the longtime corporate-communications chief at Polaroid, reminded me yesterday that Christopher Plummer—who on Sunday finally got his Oscar, becoming the oldest actor ever to win one—did Polaroid commercials. Here he is, in 1980, teasing the Sonar SX-70:
This polished 30-second spot is somewhat similar to the introductory SX-70 ad that Laurence Olivier […]
I kinda figured that Outkast’s “Hey Ya” (you know, “shake it like a Polaroid picture”) would be the swan song for Pola-pop. I wasn’t even close, though. A few weeks ago I posted about Allo Darlin’s “The Polaroid Song,” and not one but two more videos have lately celebrated everyone’s favorite snapshot medium. […]
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