Creative tools: the Polaroid Close Up Stand Model 7500
As you probably know if you’ve followed our agency or this blog, we love instant photography and have been happy to promote it to our clients as well often shooting vintage Polaroid cameras with Impossible Project film. Well we lucked out and got a Christmas/Holiday present from the Impossible Project folks of a Polaroid Close-Up [...]
Review: Instant The Story of Polaroid
Ever since Polaroid announced that it was done with instant photography and the Impossible Project started up, I’ve been obsessed with instant photography. I had some of the last packs of Polaroid film and still have one pack in the fridge that, most likely, I should use pretty soon. Anyhow, when I heard about Instant: [...]
Movie Reviews: Chasing Ice, More Than the Rainbow
Two recent documentaries we’ve watched focus on two very different photographers. The first is Chasing Ice, which follows James Balog and tells the story of the Extreme Ice Survey which he’s been doing for many years and follows the travails of Balog as he works to tip public opinion on climate change so that people [...]
Review: My Kid Could Paint That (documentary)
Having seen Amir Bar-Lev’s other work including The Pat Tillman Story, I was compelled to finally check out My Kid Could Paint That. The title of the documentary was interesting to me, even when all I knew about it was something about Marla Olmstead being a kid who paints similarly to Jackson Pollack. But the [...]
America’s Cup Photos and Photo booths
We’ve already done a bit for the America’s Cup and are pretty excited for more events to photograph. We also have some special offerings including marine photo booth options and other cool ideas that can make America’s Cup events unique. Our Polaroid coverage is also pretty popular and we’ve been shooting Impossible Project film quite [...]
Review: Herb & Dorothy – A Film by Megumi Sasaki
If you don’t know who the Vogels are (and even if you do) you should definitely check out the award-winning documentary Herb & Dorothy, directed by first-time filmmaker Megumi Sasaki. The film tells the story of a charming couple, postal clerk (Herbert Vogel) and librarian (Dorothy Vogel), who built a contemporary art collection with very little. [...]
Documentary review: architectural photographer Julius Shulman
Case Study House #22 is perhaps the most iconic and famous of Julius Shulman’s photographs and it is one of the many subjects in the documentary Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman. The film is quite educational and many iconic buildings that Shulman photographed are described with details on his creative process as well [...]
Go see Bill Cunningham New York now! (Film Review)
Photography is something that many people are passionate about (like us!) but even if you are passionate about something else, you will identify with parts of Bill Cunningham New York, the excellent film about the legendary New York Times photographer. The film takes a fascinating look at Cunningham’s life/style and the choices he’s made throughout [...]
Surrogate Valentine – Movie Promo Shoot
Recently, I did photographs of Goh Nakamura – local music hero and star of Surrogate Valentine, a new feature film by Dave Boyle. I also have the honor of calling Goh my friend. This past weekend the film made it’s world premiere at SXSW – It’s been getting a lot of great buzzzz. I look [...]
Polaroid SX-70, Impossible Project films and sparking creativity
I’ve always loved the Polaroid SX-70 Land Camera and finally found one in great condition on eBay so bidded on it and won. I had been saving some Impossible Project Fade to Black Film 10/09 film just to use with this and did a personal project with it to see how it’d turn out. Of course [...]
The Impossible Project has brought Polaroid back (and it’s now on sale!)
As we’ve mentioned in our twitter feed, we were excited that The Impossible Project was attempting to preserve the Polaroid format and they’ve actually succeeded in phase one and they are now selling their first batches of film. They’ve reformulated things and have a variety of options now on sale in their online shop – [...]
Poladroid
Poladroid is a ridiculously easy-to-use piece of software that you can download for free. You drag in any image and it spits out a Polaroid-like version in seconds. It weirdly satisfying to use because you see the image “develop” in real-time and it even sets of a satisfying click-a-churn Polaroid camera sound. It’ll add on [...]