prosthetic knowledge
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Polaroid Cacher
Student project from Adrià Navarro and DI Shin turns an old Polaroid camera into desktop printer, designed to capture special moments in your online life - video embedded below:
Polaroid Cacher from Adrià Navarro on Vimeo.
The Polaroid Cacher is a camera that allows you to take traditional instant pictures of your digital experiences. It’s an ambient device, part physical and part digital, meant to address the fleeting nature of online interactions.
We believe that our daily online activity –conversations, discoveries, games– is as meaningful as our activity in the physical world and, as such, should be preserved the same way we try to capture every important moment in our life. Especially because most of this experiences will be soon forgotten, lost under layers of information, databases and outdated services.
Given the powerful association of instant photography with memories, people and nostalgia –rather than with photographic quality– we designed our camera as a fictional Polaroid product. One that captures digital media in a traditional analog format, as means to create tangible, durable mementos of our digital life.
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Ruined Polaroids
Series created by William Miller - more here
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cy twombly: photographs 1951 - 2010
An exhibition held at the Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels featuring photographs taken by the abstract painter.
More information and other examples can be found at Minimal Exposition here
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Polaboy
Large backlit photography frames that take the form of a Polaroid photograph:
The LIGHTWALLS® are based on analogue and digital medium and large-format photographs taken by renowned international photographers. By cooperating with the best specialists in the production of analogue and digital photograph enlargements, LIGHTBOYS® create photographic masterpieces with astonishing intensity and brightness.
These are images which not only open up rooms, but also hearts and minds; images which are pure and true and free from artificial effects or filters. They express strength, peace and reassurance and stand for freedom, open spaces and passion. They invite you to explore and discover their rich detail, to lose yourself in them. They are images which make you feel you™re in a special place and let you forget about your problems. Images with the power to move you.
More information can be found here
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New Polaroid Camera: Z340 Instant Digital Camera
Takes cues of its classic cameras of the past, but with a 14 megapixel resolution and modern integrated printer:
Sharing photos instantly is as easy as snap and print with the Polaroid Z340 Instant Digital Camera. Using the full-function digital camera and integrated printer, photo printing becomes as mobile as photo taking, recapturing the magic of instant photography. Using ZINK® Zero Ink® Printing Technology from ZINK Imaging, instantly transform digital pictures into fun and useful, 3x4” photos that can be shared and enjoyed spontaneously and on the go. Mobile and easy-to-use, the Polaroid Z340 Instant Digital Camera provides a new, innovative way to print and share photos instantly. The Polaroid Way.
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Taken from a Polaroid SX-70 advert (at ISO50)
Original commercial on YouTube can be found here
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A film by Charles and Ray Eames for Polaroid. Beautiful in a million different ways. I could watch this over and over again.
Via jackcheng:
