Word: retro
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...concessions go, Angel Stadium offers a usual fare. There’s Ruby’s Diner that has a retro 50s atmosphere and the club level holds the Knothole Club, a baseball-themed restau-bar serving among other things a California Roll plate (typical ballpark cuisine...
...quickly agreed that there was a great market opportunity for a new instant film," remembers Kaps, who switched tracks after getting a biology Ph.D. to enter the retro-photography business. First he worked as an executive with the Lomographical Society, founded in Vienna in 1992 to celebrate the Russian Lomo camera, a very basic snapper that conquered some bohemian corners of the West after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Then, four years ago, Kaps fell in love with Polaroid and founded a company specializing in selling equipment for analog instant photography. An official partner of Polaroid, the company still...
...becoming more and more popular with our customers, and we were disappointed when we found out last year that Polaroid was to cease manufacturing film," says John Buckle, bookshop manager at the Photographers' Gallery in London. "People like the look and feel of Polaroid analog photography. They have a retro look with lovely colors compared with the often bland look of digital photography. [Instant pictures are] also sociable, allowing for the sharing of a real photograph rather than just a small image on a screen." (See pictures of Barack Obama on Flickr...
With a muscular retro appearance, the Camaro plays on the baby-boomer generation's insatiable appetite for nostalgia. However, GM also has bets on several other new models, which are planted in key market segments critical to GM's future sales: the hybrid Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck, the Buick Lacrosse sedan and three new crossover vehicles (the Cadillac SRX, Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain) that are part car and part SUV, all of which will reach dealers soon. (See pictures of American muscle cars...
NICK AT NITE picks up Malcolm in the Middle, starting least-retro war with VH1's I Love the New Millennium...