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Polaroid’s Death

Posted by Bryan Loar on February 14, 2008

Polaroid will stop making film for Polaroid cameras next year. Just when I was thinking this morning about Charles & Ray Eames’ work for Polaroid.

Washington Post article

Maybe there will be a cult following like lomography.

(image credit: sx70manipulator)

Originally seen @ Zandland

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Curious Expeditions’ Compendium of Beautiful Libraries

Posted by Bryan Loar on September 11, 2007

Everyone has some kind of place that makes them feel transported to a magical realm. For some people it’s castles with their noble history and crumbling towers. For others it’s abandoned factories, ivy choked, a sense of foreboding around every corner. For us here at Curious Expeditions, there has always been something about libraries. Row after row, shelf after shelf, there is nothing more magical than a beautiful old library.

To read more & see the collection of images, go to http://www.curiousexpeditions.org/2007/09/a_librophiliacs_love_letter_1.html

Posted in Fun, Images, Museums, Photography, [ Creating the ARLIS/NA Student Blog ], [ Suggestions for Improving this Blog ] | Comments Off

Better Shoeboxes for Digital Photos PT. 2

Posted by Bryan Loar on February 2, 2007

One thing about the NYT article that we bookmarked on delicious failed to mention is that Adobe’s Lightbox beta is free up until the end of this month, otherwise it’s $199 at its introductory price (can anyone say “Run on”?)

Anyway, here’s the link – http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

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Social Software and Images

Posted by Carter on November 6, 2006

Steven Cohen at Library Stuff recently blogged about mypictr. While being really useful for users of social software, this could also be convenient for anyone with a VR blog.  Talk about easy cropping!

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