Roll-o-Film: Archive

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Jun 15th

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May 3rd

isaiah’s weblog: Apple won't give you the time of... →

… The other day I went hunting through the App Store hoping to find a nice clock for the iPad that I could turn on while it was sitting on my desk. To my surprise, there really wasn’t anything that appealed to me. There are a handful of really nice digital clocks, but I prefer analog. And the…

Apr 24th

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Apr 23rd

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‘Roid Week 2010, May 3 – 7 →

May 3 – 7, 2010. Save the date! An instant photo (or two) a day for five days. (That’s instant photo. None of that Poladroid silliness, people.) ‘Roid Week 2010. Also, @PolaroidWeek for updates.

Apr 23rd

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PX100 + ND Filter Test Shots

Same subject. Same environment. Unmodified SX70. Same pack of PX100 instant film (First Flush). Shot 1, Shot 2, and Shot 3.

Apr 5th

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The Widower →

“Soon he was pressing her little button all the time, even though she asked for $2.75 every time he did. Inexplicably, she also asked for an additional $25 because when she was coming she said it was from “Europe.” But whatever–he was getting laid!”

Apr 5th

SwankoLab - A Handheld Darkroom Kit for your... →

“Complete with smells of photo chemistry and sounds of mad science being made, your SwankoLab comes with everything you need to turn any image into a retro misprinted masterpiece.” YES!

Apr 4th

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Apr 4th

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Telegramme - Issue One / Spring 2010

A few of my Polaroid shots were featured in the very first issue of Télégramme, a photography magazine published by Sarah Hill and Aaron Jeewood.

Mar 29th

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Mar 23rd

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Stunning Flatiron Polaroid Formula 43 Test Shots

(photos by @polaroidgirl // anniebee)

Mar 23rd

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Mar 22nd

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Will the Impossible Project Be Possible?

The brain trust behind the Impossible Project will hold a press event today at 11:00 a.m. EST in NYC. Have they been able to save instant photography? YES!

Mar 22nd

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Mar 20th

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Mar 14th

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Digital Wedding Forum Interview With Seth Godin →

Digital Wedding Forum: How do we reconcile art and commerce? For the artist who also needs to be a businessperson, how do we keep one from overwhelming the other? Seth Godin: I think the souvenirs of your art… the stuff you sell to make money… don’t have to be artistic. Souvenirs are things that people like to buy, and they are often a shadow of your work, not the work itself. Christo did a great...

Mar 14th

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Yellow Negatives

If you process your own black and white film, you may have experienced the “yellow negative problem.” It happened to me for the first time today. Let me just say, it’s not the end of the world. There are two possible causes: 1) not enough time in the fixer and 2) over-diluted fixer. Regardless of the cause, simply refix your negative for a few more minutes and the yellow will...

Mar 14th

Ilford Photo Black & White Film Processing Guide... →

Mar 14th

Mar 13th

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Polaroid product placement in new Lady Gaga video. →

*throws up in mouth a little*

Mar 12th

“Photography as a fad is well-nigh on its last legs, thanks principally to the...”

– Alfred Stieglitz, “The Hand Camera - Its Present Importance” 1897

Mar 12th

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Mar 12th

British Journal of Photography - Instant headache... →

Built over the past four decades, the collection holds between 16,000 and 24,000 Polaroids, shot by an impressive line-up of the world’s greatest artists and photographers, including Ansel Adams, Andy Warhol, Chuck Close and Robert Frank. On 21 June, 1200 of these Polaroids will go under the hammer at a one-of-a-kind auction in New York – much to the dismay of some of the artists who shot them.

Mar 11th

Flickr: The Photo History Timeline Collection's... →

The Photo History Timeline Collection is a privately owned collection of original 19th and 20th century photographs and related artifacts that traces the technical and artistic development of photography and photo-mechanical printing from their origins in England and France in the early 19th century up through worldwide use in the mid-20th century.

Mar 11th

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