Polaroid Just Obsoleted Your Blog, Hipster
It's true, and soon the hipsters will be reading it on each others' Tumblrs or whatever: Polaroid is getting out of the film business, closing factories and hoping someone will be stupid enough to buy their technology even though they themselves stopped making cameras a year ago. Experts say the move is long overdue, but a dollars and cents calculation misses the awful human toll: literally dozens of young aspiring artists left unable to photograph their ridiculous friends using a retro analog tool that pales and mutes its subjects. The terrifying news has only just begun to trickle through the Polaroid fetishist community. In the meantime, here are some of the hardest hit.
Rony's Photo Booth (first pic). At a minimum, will have to change the entire theme of its home page. BJ Panda Bear (second): More of a dabbler in the format. Gorilla Vs. Bear (third): Many Polaroids here. Also: Panda Toes, Not On The Guest List.