A la Polaroid

I was digging through a box of  stuff a friend left—I find myself doing this fairly often here in China, we leave little traces of our lives all around the place—and found a Polaroid camera and one cartridge of film, or paper, or whatever you call it for Polaroid. I have been excited ever since seeing it, and I can just feel that it will be the perfect ten pieces of paper to record a special upcoming life change.

For one, Polaroid is just cool. I remember wanting to shoot one when I was a kid when seeing some friend of my brother with one, but I was simply too little to be trusted, I guess. I have never pulled the trigger (more true than I ever knew till just recently, they really do have a trigger kind of mechanism) on a Polaroid. And second, I only have ten shots. That is just exciting in itself.

I know there are other folks out there who can understand this strange feeling, but I am just giddy at the thought. It will be the perfect way to catch those ethereally normal moments as our family makes a very big life change. And you can bet I will be writing notes on the bottom. That is just too cool to not have to do that in some computer software!

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  1. 2009-09-03

    DUDE! I was just going to get started on my Polaroid mini-documentary of the family, and the first shot came out in a big photo-chemical blob. I shot again…same thing. I do not know if the film was old or the camera is not doing its thing right, but all ten shots ended up looking like some funky fire thing. So much for the Polaroid idea.

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