Word: polaroid
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...days when parents immortalized their children’s birthday parties with an old 8mm camera. Embarrassing moments of our youth are now captured by high-tech digital video camcorders, which push film movies into the esoteric, ‘retro’ corner already occupied by the Polaroid camera. But Home Movie Day, which was hosted by the Harvard Film Archive (HFA) last Saturday, seeks to rediscover and celebrate these old, forgotten film reels lying in dusty corners of attics and basements. Created by the Center for Home Movies, Home Movie Day is an international event observed...
...your typical indie pop outfit (think Tilly and the Wall) video: hyper-chromatic garb and lighting, bouncy vocals, DIY sets and props, and relentless, exaggerated theatricality. The band members begin in an overcrowded cardboard box doing “cool” things like reading Borges and taking Polaroid shots of each other. A girl with two long braids (you’ll recognize her as Mel from “Flight of the Conchords”) and a man decked out in tan flannel travel from Tokyo to Paris in another cardboard box. The deliveries of weapons labeled...
...Wiijuries and you smash your plasma TV when the Wiimote slips off your hand. We’ve all lost sight of the real thing.“The magic of instant photos is going digital,” read the opening line of a February 18, 2008 Polaroid press release. The epitaph declared that Polaroid would cease production on their line of instant film and cameras by the end of 2008. The thought of not being able to purchase film for my Polaroid camera in 2009 frightens me, and makes me wonder if anything is sacred. Must...
...dreams of fame. This, of course, is before he goes badass “gangsta” on us and reveals gritty images of prison life to the viewer. But you won’t find gyrating booties or a waterfall of hundred dollar bills in this video, only Polaroid-style photo shots of Nas and his crew chillin’ through the years, while a mishmash of handwritten notes flutters across the screen. The video begins in silence, with a shot of a classic black-and-white notebook labeled “Nas Rhymes” opening up like...
...solidify the father-child bond are "Saturday with Daddy Outings," special songfests, field trips and potlucks with dads. Even men behind bars could get help: one program allows an inmate father to read children's stories onto cassette tapes that are then sent, along with the book and a Polaroid picture of Dad, to his child...