happy SX-70 Day
Paphos, near Aphrodite’s Rock (Petra tou Romiou) earlier this month.
And of course the photographer climbed to the edge of the cliff to take pictures.
I stayed behind, safely, with my SX-70.
These are the results.
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Travels and Daydreams
Tag: Polaroid
November 23, 2012
two London Clock minutes
I have two tiny stories published as part of the London Clock, a wonderful new literary venture by the London Literary Project, champions of poetry and flash fiction.
Every story is a London minute, exactly 60 words.
The first is called Dark City.
The second, Accidental Discoveries, is accompanied by part of an Impossible Polaroid of the same location (see below.)
It’s so much fun writing flash fiction. And these tiny stories, they fit anywhere. My next one out in the world is published on the back of a postcard!
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November 12, 2012
Impossible Monday
It’s Monday, so of course I don’t want to do anything. This is what happens when you forget to stop working on the weekend. So. Much. Writing. Editing. Submitting. Mind swimming.
So, great time to look at some pictures!
These were taken with the older Impossible color film. (Got the new one, haven’t used it yet.)
By the way, notice how crisper that last shot is. That’s because the nice people at Vintage Instant tuned my Land camera last month.
And because I used the new scanner adapter to scan it.
Me: What are Newton rings?
T: (points to previously scanned Polaroids) That. And that.
Me: Oh. (Orders scanner adapter.)
Best Beach Restaurant. I like how proud they are of their establishment. (Pretty good food, too.)
One of my favorite lifeguard tower shots. Where did those colors come from? Does it matter?
And finally: my Impossible Nicosia.
I took this last week at Ledras Street when I was visiting my favorite apples at their post-wandering event.
I showed the picture to the kids.
Instagram, they said, and laughed.
But they were only kidding. They knew what a Polaroid was. The μηλιά kids are geniuses. I ran another mini writing workshop for them and they wrote genius funny stories.
I can’t wait to see what they do next.
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July 14, 2012
too tired for pictures
Book Ex Machina has a brand new website!
Matchbook Stories Issue 1 was featured on Design *Sponge!
I took new Polaroids, some are on the Impossible Project website!
And now I am exhausted, probably from excessive exclamation mark usage.
:)
be back soon xoxo
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June 2, 2012
Paris
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May 24, 2012
Oxford, je t’aime
It’s been a busy busy month.
Three cities in three weeks: London, Oxford, and Paris.
A glorious tour prompted by my graduation from Oxford University’s Masters in Creative Writing.
I met with lots of friends. Had a nice Degree Day. Read at a great literary event at the Albion Beatnik Bookstore in Oxford with a super talented group of writers that shall be henceforth called The Shy Oxford Writers.
Went to bookstores, galleries, museums, theaters, diners, restaurants, coffee shops, pubs, cinemas, parks, malls, and a tiny basement in Dalston to see a band play. Friends’ houses. Train stations. Art supply stores, grocery stores, hotel rooms. Artists’ studios. A very full trip complete with celebrity sightings, more rain that I’ve been in all year, and even an afternoon of a sudden hail storm. (This, London, is not spring weather. This is madness.)
Oh and I took some Impossible polaroids. (It took me more than one film to realize that England was so cold that exposed shots had to be placed in warm pockets to develop, otherwise they came out all yellowy.)
These are the ones I took in Oxford.
Wellington Square park.
Rewley House.
a street off Banbury Road, previously seen here in non-Polaroid form and sunshine.
The Sheldonian Theatre, built in 1664-8, where we had our degree ceremony.
The Emperors. I love these guys. I want to get one for my desk.
Rewley House again. I stayed there. A lot.
And I will miss it, tiny beds and all.
So I’ll just say, au revoir, Oxford. Thank you for a fantastic time, a good degree and great friends. See you again soon. xoxo
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April 25, 2012
and then, there were two.
Two Impossible PX70 films in the can, I mean, box. Two old cars.
Two churches, one sunken under the water of the reservoir
Two people playing pool
Two symmetrical light leaks…
Two shots of the same far away life guard tower
and two Travels and Daydreams.
I have moved.
Hope you’ll follow.
:)
xoxo
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April 9, 2012
testing the Impossible!
I got a Polaroid Land SX-70 off eBay. Loaded up a pack of Impossible film and started testing it.
Looks like its light meter is a little off as all my shots came overexposed.
I tested using my usual models and following some advice from my resident photographer and the super nice people of Vintage Instant and somewhere between the first and eighth shot I found myself so fascinated by the camera that I even went and read about its history. And watched old commercials of it.
But I guess my favorite moment was when after driving for two and a half hours I stood with sand beneath my toes and snapped the last of my first Impossible PX70 film shots. And this was the result.
Just like Laurence Olivier said: “And then, the Impossible happens.” I smiled all the way home.
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April 5, 2012
instant picture envy.
There’s something really cool about instant images you can touch instead of just see on a screen.
Especially when they’re a little imperfect , beautiful little things.
An instant art exhibition!
Out in the sun, to dry. (This is old-school peel-apart Polaroid film.)
He has been doing this for a while now, everywhere, not just volcanic beaches and museums of ancient things.) Using expired film and cameras that I can only imagine were once called ‘portable’ because portable used to mean ‘can be lifted, even if heavy and inconvenient.’
So I got jealous. And got an old Polaroid SX-70 and some Impossible film. (Which, you have to develop in the dark still, and it’s not exactly the same, but like I told him, I am investing in the future…of the past. The Polaroid is dead, long live the Polaroid!)
xoxo
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