My love is like a ticking clock

Polapremium just came to my attention. Tonnes of discussions going on all over the tubes. Here is a great photoblog and post about it.

Also… If you participated in TOP TEN RECORDS – keep an eye on your mailbox – everyone who sent an SASE (or internationally, sent some Ameri-bux) should have their Top Ten back within the week – depending on post speeds.

Thanks all who contributed. Was a great show, helped spread lots of Polaroid love, the book is underway. If you didn’t get a chance to scan your Polaroids and you want to be included, drop me a line.

Top Ten Records Installation

DSC_0143.JPG, originally uploaded by robynmakesstuff.

A few installation snaps are online now. Better images will be put up next week once I drag my gear to school. Show comes down November 1st.
(Exhibition extended for John Wood and other VSW excitement)

Top Ten Records Opening Photos – Sept. 5, 2008

Click any of the images to see the set on Flickr. Installation photos will be posted post-haste (ETA – within the next week)

Thanks to those who spread the Polaroid love

via: savepolaroid.com

via: Touching Harms the Art

via: The 20×200 Blog

And….

The Rochester Insider!

Special thanks to our host, Visual Studies Workshop and to Lisa, Dan, Kris, Daniel, Marlene, Kirby, Tate and Jamie for helping with set-up.

And here they are, in order of exhibition, The Top Ten Polaroid makers:

1. Evinn E. Neadow Top Ten Polaroids of 33 Oakland Street
2. Dan Varenka Top Ten Comfort Foods
3. James Prez Top Ten Cheese Drawings of 2008
4. Dan Wagner Top Ten Sites on the Wilsonia FC Pitch
5. Kristen Merola Top Ten Books in my Office
6. David Merulla Red & Black & White
7. Kirby Pilcher Top Ten things found in a box in the basement that hasn’t been opened in two years
8. David Vu Top Ten hanging by a shoestring
9. Lisa Wright Top Ten Polaroids from the house where I spent my teenage years
10. Marta Filipek Top Ten Summer Mix Tape ’08
11. Kathy Van Torne Top Ten Polaroids I have taken of signs in Austin, Texas
12. Robyn York Top Ten Beards of Summer 2008
13. Luke Strosnider Top Ten Scenes Above Me (8/19/08, 6:50-7:50pm EST)
14. Jerome Icardo Top Ten selections from: In heaven there is no heat
15. Jennifer Evans Top Ten Parts of the Body
16. Fernanda Montoro Top Ten Park Polaroids
17. Ryan Affalter Top Ten Bottom Halves
18. Evinn E. Neadow Top Ten Polaroids of Venetian Blinds
19. Mike Bartolotta Top Ten Things That Move Me
20. Romy Hosford & Mary Ellen Hosford Top Ten things I will inherit from my parents
21. Kory Gunnarsen Top Ten Crash Sites
22. Raven Pierson Top Ten Horses at Jensen’s Stable
23. Lisa Wright Top Ten Stuff in the Lawns in my Neighborhood
24. Daniel Fischer Top Ten Arrows on the way to Honeoye Falls
26. Stephen Grebinski Top Ten Bridges
27. Dan Larkin Top Ten Passport Rejects I and II
28. Evinn E. Neadow Top Ten Polaroid Journal Entries of a European Experience
29. Michael Neault Top Ten Clouds I have loved or left
30. Nalina Chellam Top Ten Abstractions
31. Heidi Greenwood Top Ten Pattern Behavior

Thank-you all!

Wait a minute wait a minute, mister postman

The postbox is filled with Top Ten Records. Mark your calendars for the opening.

How to illustrate your love for instant film:

Simon Brader's Illustration - Homage

One of Rochester’s finest pop culture luminaries has a great Edwin Land (Polaroid brainchild and inventor extraordinaire) essay online here.

Michele Maule's illustration of clothesline Polaroids

Have a good weekend – take more pictures!

Top Ten Records – Countdown —0—!

Top Ten Records are due today!

Here are a few Top Ten lists from the internet tubes:

Time’s Top 50 Top Ten lists from 2007

Alternet’s slightly more dated Ten Best Top Ten Lists from 2005

And for nerdy web-designers…
Jakob Nielson’s Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design (2007) and his original list from 1996

Top Ten Records – Countdown —1—

One day left to get your entry in to the Top Ten Records show. Make sure you get your package postmarked by Friday, Aug. 22, 2008 to be included.

Top Ten Records – Countdown —2—

Two days left to get your Top Ten Records Polaroids made. Load that expensive 600 film and get snapping.

Although I don’t normally condone the fake Polaroid integral print frame, here is some inspiration from a design savvy site using that ubiquitous white frame. Good design makes bad design look SO bad.

Polaroid 600 film – $13/pack

Super sleuthy Lukeadelphia has uncovered a great (well, relatively, in 2008 terms) source of Polaroid 600 film.

Staples!

I found a four pack in Berkeley, CA for $51.99, but couldn’t find anything online.
($13 a pack! $1.30 a shot! that is 40% than the average price everywhere else! yeah for math!)