Experiments in polaroid

posted Feb 20th 2009 12:26pm by Caleb Kraft
filed under: misc hacks, news

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[Peter] found that Polaroid film was an easy medium to play with, as the ability to develop it is built in. He has done several fun experiments, from electrocuting it to making giant mozaics. The Polaroid film may not be easy to get your hands on though. They stopped producing it in the summer of 2008. Some former employees are trying hard to get it back into production, but that may never happen. Polaroid has recently received permission to sell itself at auction. We’ll just have to wait and see.

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tagged: camera, exposure, film, polaroid

Reader Comments

Kind of neat photos, especially the static fields, but god is that guy ever an obnoxious douche:

“I disrupt the authority and authenticity inherent to Polaroid imaging. I am able to disorient an audience’s preconceived understanding of how the world around them works.”

Ummm…yeah. You exposed the polaroid film with an enlarger. Oh noes, the foundations of my reality are crumbling!11!!!

Posted at 12:45 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by dildo baggins

It’ll be an expensive hobby for the next 1-2 years.

Posted at 1:01 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by BigD145

Oh man you beat me to it, I had that paragraph copied and ready to paste into this comment.
He’s probably not a bad guy – most artists (design students etc) feel they have to speak that crap. I have a few friends who I tease from time to time about it.

Posted at 1:02 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by ClenchedTeeth

That’s fly.

Posted at 1:25 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by hum4n

You guys are just jealous that you can’t be so profound and artistic shattering the conventions of photography as we know it!

Posted at 1:46 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by schwillis

I didn’t know that Wolverine is into photography

Posted at 2:42 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by Bob

Haha bob, was thinking the same thing!

Posted at 2:54 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by Jay

Bob: Hahahahahahahha!

Thank you.

Posted at 4:01 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by Seth

I actually really like this guy’s photography but I agree that the text is really unintentionally humorous.

Posted at 4:05 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by Seth

The first pic on HaD reminds me of…
“So easy a caveman can do it.”

Posted at 4:07 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by baby_zapp3r

Dang — all the clever responses I had prepared for this article have already been taken.

I laughed.

Posted at 11:06 pm on Feb 20th, 2009 by eric

have done Kirlian photography. It really helps to have a dead camera to use as the developer though, and make sure that you wear gloves as the developer chemicals are not nice (NaOH+organic acids)

I used a spare B/W film under infrared light (so my camera/monitor could see it) and this worked well.

-A

Posted at 8:28 am on Feb 21st, 2009 by andre

The Polaroid factory has been bought by some rich guy and they’re reinstating production late this year.

Posted at 10:17 am on Feb 21st, 2009 by Fredrik

not nearly as beautiful as mary magdelena campos-pons 20inx24in polaroids:

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/eascfa/feminist_art_base/archive/images/563.1187.jpg

http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/siteart/A_Ver_brochure_21.jpg

Posted at 11:25 am on Feb 21st, 2009 by jakeb

Fuji just released something called Fujifilm Instax which is basically their version of the good old fashion polaroids.

Posted at 5:50 pm on Feb 21st, 2009 by Brian O

Reminds me of this website that let’s you upload an image and it’ll spread it out over several pages in a raster that looks awesome from a distance.