Poladroid Project

So a week or so ago a group of us were poking around in the basement at work… doing a little pre-fall cleanup when we came across a part of the museum’s old disaster preparedness kit. In this kit there was an old polaroid camera which elicited some fond reminiscences amongst those of us who fancied ourselve photo-geeks. Of course polaroid technology has sadly gone by the wayside, but there is still a way to recapture the fun of waiting for those dark, old, odly tinted photos to develop online!… the Poladroid Project!

I’ve known about the Poladroid for some time. I have used it on this site to create thumbnails for some of my entries. I think its really sweet and the images it creates work really well with grunge website layouts. Nothin’ quite like kickin’ it old school.

The little camera widget looks like a polaroid camera on your desktop and works by dragging an image you have saved on your computer over to the camera and dropping it. The little camera widget makes the characteristic click & caputre noise & then the fun begins. Slowly your image comes to life. There is the option to stop the development any time while developping… a very fun little feature.

To see what some other folks have done with the Poladroid you can check out the project’s Flickr Group, “be Poladroid”–> http://www.flickr.com/groups/poladroid/