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Grimes – Vanessa

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I am in love with the wooden spoons made by Allegheny Treenware. They have a tent set up at the Waterford Fair every year and I always want to buy one (or ten) of these ladles and use them as bowls, perhaps for oatmeal. This photo was taken with my Polaroid SX-70 using the The Impossible Project’s “poor pod” film.

Note: Normally not into babyish voices, but I do like this Grimes song and it gets better as the song progresses.

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Austra – Beat and the Pulse

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Do I hear crickets? Tumbleweeds? Yes . . . it’s been a bit since I updated the blog. It’s time to catch up!

A while back I ordered a six pack of “poor pod” film from The Impossible Project and was pleasantly surprised by my first photo. I thought for sure there would be strange undeveloped patches but so far I haven’t had that issue with this film. There have been issues with overexposure and blurriness, but that might be user error. If I had my way, all instant film would have this stylin’ black frame.

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Memory Tapes – Bicycle

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As you can probably tell from previous posts, I have struggled a bit to get results I am happy with when using The Impossible Project’s film. I recently got my hands on their new PX 680 color test film and am really excited about it. I love the colors and the photos are coming out a lot clearer (this might be due to my new controlled way of covering the film when it is ejected from the camera, and not a new quality of the film). Can’t wait to shoot more of this film!

On another note, this bicycle looks really sad. I am surprised the seat is still on it.

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José González – Far Away

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The other day I showed my friend Hoi the pile of Polaroids I had gone through to select the twelve that will be in the Polaroid Retrospective II show (which opens Saturday, April 9th). It was interesting to see his reactions to the photos, because he was not as into some of the photos I had decided were definitely in, and he really liked some that I thought had too many things wrong with them . . . like this one. I still like this Polaroid, but for a number of reasons I didn’t think it would fit with the rest of the photos . . . so it’s going up here instead.

The image is dark brown because I was playing around with using a cold/hot clip to warm up the photo during development. I think it may have stayed under my arm a little too long, but I still like how it turned out . . . especially that unintentional !.

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In the past several months I would estimate I’ve spent some 40ish hours driving around rural Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania taking Polaroids (and other photos). You can see some of these photos (including the previous post and the one below) in the upcoming Polaroid Retrospective II show opening April 9th at Lamont Bishop Gallery.

Saturday, April 9, 2011
7pm
Lamont Bishop Gallery
1314 9th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001

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DeVotchKa – The Man From San Sebastian

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I’ve been on a “wandering around rural Virginia” kick lately, piling up my car with cameras and stopping at almost every barn I see. Here is a photo I took on Color Shade PUSH! film. The left photo was scanned around six hours after I took it and the right photo was scanned a month later. This is one of the first Color Shade photos I’ve taken that I like. I’ve been having fun messing around with the film, trying to get more saturation in my images, but as of now I like the less saturated images better (like this one).

Note: I will have photos in an instant film exhibit opening April 9th at Lamont Bishop Gallery. This photo will undoubtedly will be in it. More details will be posted as soon as I have them.

Note 2: I love this DeVotchKa song. If you have a chance to see them live I recommend it.

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Benoît Pioulard – Shouting Distance

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This week’s polaroids were taken on The Impossible Project‘s First Flush Color Shade film. It has taken some getting used to, but I find when using it in high contrast situations (like a sunny day at the antique shops in Lucketts, VA) I quite like the results.

Last week I saw Benoît Pioulard live in Brooklyn and really enjoyed the show. As if I wasn’t listening to his music enough before seeing him live, now I can’t seem to listen to anything else. I am particularly fond of this song between 0:50 – 1:30 minutes.

Note: Please excuse those pesky Newton’s rings. I might rescan them when I have a moment and see if I can get rid of them.

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PVT – Circle of Friends

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Here are some flowers for you . . . The Impossible Project flowers to be exact. I don’t mind that little defect at the top since I know The Impossible Project is still refining their process, but I do look forward to not wondering if there will be a black hole eating into my photos.

Note: If you are in NYC this week and happen to like this PVT song, they will be playing three shows as part of CMJ . . . I am a (lot a) bit bummed that I won’t be able to make it to any the shows. In the meantime I will keep them on repeat. I cannot stop listening . . . this song has pretty much everything I love in music.

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Tipper – Screw Loose

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Five months ago (to the date), I took two photos with The Impossible Project’s Fade to Black film an let it go completely black. My sister heard from the people at The Impossible Project store in NYC, that if you put the photos in direct sunlight the image will come back somewhat. It took a number of months, but you can finally see what the original image was.

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Interpol – Success

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Summer is coming to an end and I have only made it to the ocean once (not including dipping my feet into the Pacific). I drove 3.5 hours each way in one day for seven hours in the ocean and it was completely worth it. Both the SX-70 and Holgaroid (Holga with polaroid back) accompanied me to the beach and were put to use. I used Impossible Project’s PX 70 color shade film in the SX-70 and expired Polaroid 100 Blue film in the Holgaroid. If I can manage another day trip out there now that the masses are gone I will most definitely do it.