Friends,
Remember when you were a college freshman? When you had stars in your eyes? When you were going to take the world by the horns unconcerned about getting gored? Sometimes I see that people on the Facebook need some help, especially in my area of expertise. One of those people is my Facebook friend who is the daughter of my friends who has embarked on taking herself way too seriously at a liberal arts college back East.
Eventually the reality of this world will surely catch up to her and deal her the soul-crushing blow it dealt the rest of us. In the meanwhile, this exchange happened today…
Liberal Arts College Freshman: Does anyone have an old school Polaroid camera that they would love to give me? If so, I will be forever and eternally grateful.
Friend Of Freshman: ebay has some nice one for under 5 bucks. Mine was .99 cents
Your Humble Author: You can have my Polaroid 800, but this might make more sense. Just download Polardroid on your Mac and use it to modify your digital photos for totally blown-out, over-saturated pics…
http://www.poladroid.net/
Liberal Arts College Freshman: 1) I don’t have a Mac. I don’t really think Mac is an ethical company so I try not to buy from them.
2) I don’t have a digital camera because I don’t personally think digital photography is the best artist art form when it comes to photos.
3) I want a Polaroid camera because they are history and after that scare awhile back when they said they were going to stop making Polaroid film, I decided to invest.
Thanks for the suggestion though!
Apple isn’t an ethical company. Not as ethical as, say, Microsoft or HP. There’s that. But digital photography isn’t an art form compared to a Polaroid?
Ah, youth. You kids are so screwed.
– bob