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Polaroid
Wired: Steve Jobs considered [Polaroid Founder Edwin] Land one of his heroes. They both had a single-minded vision; they both paired a strong design sense with technology.
Christopher Bonanos: They were both artist-technologists, and both really believed in the importance of the product itself, instead of just filling a market segment or carving off some market share. You know, there were lots of MP3 players around before the iPod, and they were ugly or annoying to use or bulky or otherwise flawed–and then here came this perfect little white brick, and when you got it in your hand, you went aaaah. It went the same way with Land’s ultimate achievement, the SX-70 camera — it’s a marvel even now, because it’s a single-lens reflex camera that folds down flat to something barely bigger than the film pack inside. As perfect a little object as it could be.
Wired, Why Polaroid Was the Apple of Its Time.
Bonanos’ new book, Instant: The Story of Polaroid tracks the rise and near fall of the company.
Image: 1986 Polaroid booth near the New York’s World Trade Center introduces the Spectra system, via Wired.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mbmkk2sdH51qedj2ho1_500.jpg)
Polaroid
Wired: Steve Jobs considered [Polaroid Founder Edwin] Land one of his heroes. They both had a single-minded vision; they both paired a strong design sense with technology.
Christopher Bonanos: They were both artist-technologists, and both really believed in the importance of the product itself, instead of just filling a market segment or carving off some market share. You know, there were lots of MP3 players around before the iPod, and they were ugly or annoying to use or bulky or otherwise flawed–and then here came this perfect little white brick, and when you got it in your hand, you went aaaah. It went the same way with Land’s ultimate achievement, the SX-70 camera — it’s a marvel even now, because it’s a single-lens reflex camera that folds down flat to something barely bigger than the film pack inside. As perfect a little object as it could be.
Wired, Why Polaroid Was the Apple of Its Time.
Bonanos’ new book, Instant: The Story of Polaroid tracks the rise and near fall of the company.
Image: 1986 Polaroid booth near the New York’s World Trade Center introduces the Spectra system, via Wired.
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Spectacular Views of The Space Shuttle
Wired’s Raw File consistently posts fantastic work, if you are not following them, you should be. Case in point this slideshow of Philip Scott Andrews chronicle of the last days of the space shuttle. See more on Wired.
A wise photo editor once said that sometimes the most interesting photos don’t happen at the football game. They happen in the parking lot. It’s easy to get caught up in the action and forget that everything surrounding the action can be just as revealing.
Case in point is Philip Scott Andrews’ ongoing photo series Last Days, which documents the end of NASA’s Space Shuttle program. For three years Andrews has had unprecedented access to the Kennedy Space Center, and he’s made good use of it by capturing a side of this facility the public is not used to seeing.
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“We thought we were doing
this the right way. It turns out,
we made a mistake.”
Explains Why His App Is Collecting Address Book Data - Wired
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blech: Record on a disc! from Wired ReRead, blogging ads from old issues of Wired.
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Star Trek: Into Darkness
The tagline should be “Get ready for Cumberbatch to fuck with your feels across two fandoms”
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