An end of an era in instant photography

February 21st, 2008
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Polaroid Instant Film taking its final shaking. Polaroid has announced that they will cease production of its instant film citing ‘marketplace conditions.’ While arguably the quality of the photos from Polaroid’s instant cameras was terrible at best, it still has managed to hold a cult status in pop culture. As a child, I can remember many family outings, birthday parties and family gatherings captured with instant pictures. It seems that era has reached an end in a surprising-yet-not-so-surprising announcement by Polaroid that they will discontinue almost all of their instant film products. They’re citing digital cameras as the main reason.

I’m split about this one. Personally, I don’t own a Polaroid Instant Camera, so I’m not really affected. But the idea of ’snapping polaroids’ is something I couldn’t imagine going away. Now that most photography itself has moved digital, it just seems to me that the threat of a house fire isn’t what people will fear the most in losing their family photos — it will be a hard drive crash.

This is why I love Chicago

July 3rd, 2007
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You just never know what you’re going to see, nor where to expect it. Last weekend at Chicago’s Pride parade, there was a rather odd woman (I don’t know if she was a crack ho, homeless, crazy, or what) who was busy having her own parade. She’d started long before the parade began. She danced, marched, and stomped down the street wearing a pair of panties on her head, shouting and hollering.

What the US Army is REALLY looking for

March 31st, 2007
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Lamers? In Lincoln Park? Say it ain’t so!

March 31st, 2007
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I was walking down the 1800 block of N. Halsted St. in the Lincoln Park neighborhood and saw this name placard on a door and had to grab a picture.

Sonar in the City

August 10th, 2006
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My roommate James and I were out on the front porch having a smoke when we noticed this confused bird flying in a very erratic circle pattern. After a few minutes, James suggested that maybe it wasn’t a bird, that it was a bat.

I kept thinking nahh, not in the middle of the city of Chicago. I mean, I’d heard of them maybe in the northwest Forest Preserve, or the Dan Ryan Woods, but not near Midway Airport. Then James came up with an idea: Get his camera and grab a few shots. Easier said than done with a hyper bat. Still he managed to snap some pics.