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30 Apr 2008
We could tell that the waitress serving the next table had a tattoo, but only about a quarter-inch of it extended beyond the bottom of her shirt sleeve. What was visible wasn't complex. It just looked like the bottom of a plain square. "I think that it's a Polaroid picture." Maybe it was temporal proximity; just the day before, Brian had made me stuff his exposed Polaroids into my purse. "No way. There is no way anyone would get that tattoo. Not in a million years." I thought it was a pretty good idea for a tattoo. Simple, inoffensive to everyone, and you could even get strangers to draw in it with washable markers as an ice breaker. "In fact, I'll bet you one hundred dollars that it's not."
Why did I take the bet? I'm not sure. Did I think he would pull his hand away at the last moment before shaking? Is it because he offered me 10:1 odds? Was I really sure that it was, indeed, a Polaroid photo? No, it was definitely not that last one.
After Brian handed me my winnings, I told him what I was going to do with it: I was going to buy Polaroid film. I still have no idea what I'm going to use the ten packages of lightly-expired professional-quality 779 for, but buying something thematic makes me feel a little less like I'm stealing from my friend.
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13 Mar 2008A grassroots effort to persuade Ilford or Fuji or anyone else to license Polaroid's technology before they stop manufacturing it.
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9 Feb 2008Time to stock up on a pile of 779. They're going to manufacture enough film to last them through the end of next year, and then..
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5 Feb 2008You can buy this virtually-unique 1200mm lens for a mere $99,000.
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25 Jan 2008
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24 Jan 2008B&W film development times for dozens of chemicals and film types. Indispensable.
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13 Dec 2007I activated mine, but it taken them a while to spin up. Tomorrow!
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26 Nov 2007
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21 Nov 2007They've expanded and relaunched the Map feature. Here's Boston on Places for instance.
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31 Oct 2007This SD card has wifi. It can upload directly from your camera to Flickr.