escape yourself and gravity

How sad! I never actually owned the original Polaroid camera, but I knew a couple of people who did, and it was always such fun shaking the pictures and waiting for it to develop. I do have the Polaroid izone, though, and I wonder if my sticker film is going to be available any more. I don't use it much, but still! :( I guess I'll be stuck using the polaroid brushes I have for Photoshop.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/12/08/polaroid.farewell/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

From the article, a part I don't want to forget:

Sean Burns, of Columbia City, Oregon, fondly remembers the cross-country trips his family took every summer for more than 20 years. They traveled thousands of miles, covering practically every road west of the Mississippi, and almost every moment is documented on Polaroid film.

"Dad thought Polaroid was the greatest invention ever conceived and stubbornly remains loyal to the product to this day," Burns wrote on iReport.com. His father, Otis Burns, received his first Polaroid camera in elementary school in the 1940s.

"He was so intrigued and fascinated by the instant developed pictures that he became almost religiously devoted to Polaroid and refused to accept any other form of film," Burns said.

Otis Burns still takes the same camera on his road trips today. At every motel where he spends the night, he takes a photo of the view from the room -- whether it's a pastoral landscape, a brick wall or the parking lot. And on the back of each photo he writes the details of the setting: the room number, the town and the date.

"Sometimes magic seems to happen and a deceptively simple picture outside a Motel 6 can say a thousand words," Sean Burns said of his father's collection. "Polaroid photos take [only] a minute to develop, but sometimes art takes decades."