Articles Tagged ‘Polaroid’

Lady GaGa + Polaroid=??

That’s Lady Gaga above, if you didn’t realise!  Polaroid have announced they have teamed up with Lady Gaga to release some Gagapolaroid products.  Out of all the creative team ups over the years, that is one I didn’t see coming. As per usual with this type of news, the interwebs is up in arms, with the »

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Polaroid Team up with the Impossible Project!

Press release: The Impossible Project inspires Polaroid to re-launch Instant Cameras We are pleased to herewith announce a history making cooperation between Polaroid and The Impossible Project: As we have created quite some buzz about Analog Instant Photography over the past 12 months, the Polaroid licensee – The Summit Global Group – now can’t resist any longer and announced »

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Featured Photographer of the Month: C G Moyer

We figured we would finish the week off and set you up for the weekend with some lovely photos…. This month we introduce C Gary Moyer, toy camera photographer extraordinaire, pizza eater, and Light Leaks column writer. Name: C Gary Moyer Location: Maywood, NJ Hometown: Pottstown, PA Current Gear: over 100 cameras- toy and vintage making up the majority. Favortite Film: »

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SX-70 Electronic Mod

For the longest time, i overlooked the use of integral film. i passed on it, because all i knew was pack film and the peel apart medium. not to mention peel apart film was still being currently made and it was widely available, so it may seem, that i had no room to try »

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The Resurgence of Instant Film!

This is our first article with super-duper-bonus-futuristic-mechanised-twitter-interactive-elements. The article was more experimental to see if the twitter community could get involved directly..it seemed to work ok! We should be experimenting in future with more twitter-interaction goodness. A fellow Holgablog writer, Derek, mentioned something interesting about the increasing popularity of the Polaroid.

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the polaroid house

photo courtesy of kim it was a dark and early morning when i started up my car to make a four and half hour drive from my home to an abandoned house down south. located an hour north of los angeles california, and five hours south of san francisco, an abandoned house sits above a road, overlooking »

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‘Roid Week 2009 is upon us

It seems Holgablog is floating from one themed week to the next at the moment, with International Commie Camera Day on Friday being followed up this week with ‘Roid week 2009. Here’s the lowdown from flickr: Here are the simple rules: * It’s five days. Monday thru Friday. * Pool opens at 6:00 am on Monday, Eastern Standard »

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Introducing… Edward

i really don’t know how i got started into photography. perhaps it was my dad, or perhaps it was because i was already into capturing images through videography. i used on an old rca vhs camera that i toted around during high school. what a nerd. but damn, i took some mighty fine video on family vacations. in »

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