Like film gifs and magical rappers, Pornaloid exists to promote the creative and curatorial potential of Tumblr and to preserve the endangered art form of the Polaroid. It’s blogging sexy back!
Like film gifs and magical rappers, Pornaloid exists to promote the creative and curatorial potential of Tumblr and to preserve the endangered art form of the Polaroid. It’s blogging sexy back!
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
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- Andrei Tarkovsky’s Polaroids
Soviet auteur and celluloid master Andrei Tarkovsky had made films like The Mirror, Nostalghia, Solaris (original) and The Sacrifice, though the linked trailers and clips hardly do the work justice. For a period of time, he also documented his surroundings with ethereal Polaroids available in this book and, naturally, bootleg-digitized by this Russian blog, as of recently. See loot pickings above.
The Impossible Project, known for their preservation efforts against the extinction of Polaroid film and saving the last existing Polaroid film factory, are ready to re-introduce the product to fellow analog film fetishists. The first batch will be available March 25th, in hopes of keeping those SX-70 and newer 600 models from becoming obsolete. Read more »
The Impossible Project is not so hopeless after all. Focused on developing new instant films, the group’s efforts have inspired Polaroid to bring back some old cameras back from the dead, particularly the Polaroid One, and produce a new digital version by next summer. The Dutch instant film revival group will begin manufacturing its own film products early next year with black and white, color and Polaroid-branded version being released thereafter. |Telegraph|
Graffiti Writers Captured By Polaroids
For all the photo-filled books exploring graffiti and the secret lives of writers, few, if any, let the artists show and tell their own experience. Like Lipstick Traces, a new book Aurélien Arbet & Jérémie Egry , does just that: 13 graffiti writers from around the world were given a Polaroid camera and 100 shots to picture their life, city, and adventures in getting up. Read more »
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