{"id":12670,"date":"2008-02-21T23:49:51","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T23:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/02\/mama-dont-take-my-polaroids-away.html"},"modified":"2008-02-21T23:49:51","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T23:49:51","slug":"mama_dont_take_my_polaroids_away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/21\/mama_dont_take_my_polaroids_away\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama don&#039;t take my Polaroids away"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News about <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/2008\/02\/helmut_newton_t.html\">the demise of Polaroid film production<\/a> has pulled a number of interesting items out of the woodwork: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eames + Cramps + Cams: Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/video.google.com\/videoplay?docid=-4166037905967564527\">demo film of the Polaroid SX-70<\/a> made by famous furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames, but inexplicably set the music of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Cramps\">The Cramps<\/a>.&#160; Weirder still, it all kind of works. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kottke.org\/remainder\/08\/02\/15054.html\">Via<\/a>]  <\/li>\n<li>&quot;The late cinematographer Jamie Livingston, who died at age 41 in 1997,&quot; <a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.typepad.com\/the_online_photographer\/2008\/02\/random-excell-2.html\">writes<\/a> Mike Johnston, &quot;left an archive of almost 6,000 Polaroid SX-70 shots, taken one per day (with only minor lapses) for 18 years.&quot;&#160; You can browse the archive <a href=\"http:\/\/addresszero.com\/pod-html\/\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>David Friedman would like to see a Polaroid-style <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironicsans.com\/2008\/02\/idea_the_last_product_polaroid.html\">digital picture frame<\/a>, complete with dry-erase area for jotting notes.&#160; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/object_culture\/digital_polaroid_concept_8991.asp\">Via<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>&quot;<a href=\"http:\/\/theonlinephotographer.typepad.com\/the_online_photographer\/2008\/02\/polaroid-made-m.html\">Polaroid made me the photographer I am today<\/a>&quot;: Photographer Ctein reminisces about the format&#8217;s importance in his artistic development.<\/li>\n<li>We recently met with some photogs doing a great project using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.polaroid.com\/studio\/20x24\/\">large-format Polaroids<\/a>.&#160; Once they post images publicly I&#8217;ll pass along the news. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One more photo-nostagia tip&#8211;this time for Kodak&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=R2bLNkCqpuY\">this clip from Mad Men<\/a> shows a pitch for the original slide carousel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News about the demise of Polaroid film production has pulled a number of interesting items out of the woodwork: Eames + Cramps + Cams: Check out this demo film of the Polaroid SX-70 made by famous furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames, but inexplicably set the music of The Cramps.&#160; Weirder still, it all kind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}