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Polaroid Week / Found Art Tuesday

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robayre
on November 3, 2009
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Today I had the brilliant (patting myself on back) idea to kill two birds with one stone. Day two of Polaroid Week would also be a great day for a Found Art Tuesday piece.

I remembered the other Found Art Tuesday Polaroid piece I did around this time last year at Carhenge. That piece was a failed picture that I drew on, so I was inspired to look through my bag of old Polaroid pictures and find an old one I’ve never posted before and then leave it somewhere for another person to pick up and keep.

The picture is from 2003, as it was written on the back. I like all of the white/neutral colors and textures.

Shhhh, don’t tell anyone but….tonight I had my ceramics class at the community college and I decided beforehand I’d leave the Polaroid in the Art wing somewhere. When we got to class I remembered how many bulletin boards are covered with all sorts of artwork and decided to sneak my picture in on one of them. As it turns out one of the boards was filled with art cards with different subject matters, portraits being one of them. Perfect. My piece fit in wonderfully.

Polaroid Week 2009

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on November 2, 2009
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It’s is Polaroid Week 2009! I’ll be posting a new Polaroid picture each day this week, Monday through Friday. I posted about it over at HelloCraft.

This morning I started browsing through my collection of Polaroid cameras looking for one that might have film left in it. None of them did and this triggered panic. Reality hit for the first time. I might never be able to buy Polaroid instant film ever again. I knew I had at least one film pack left in the basement, but I immediately started kicking myself thinking “WHY DIDN’T YOU STOCK UP WHEN THEY ANNOUNCED PRODUCTION STOPPED!”

When they originally announced that Polaroid halting production of their instant films I wasn’t worried, I had tons of boxes of film still. I continued to take pictures frivolously as if each film pack was like water and would never run out. Deep down inside I thought it was just a threat and Polaroid would never dare to stop making a product that everyone loves, a product that has become so deep rooted in our culture/society and such a huge medium in the art world.

I drove around today thinking, thinking, thinking. This last film pack I have has to last the week and plus some. I’m allotting only one picture a day. No take backs, no re-dos, no multiple shots. Each and every picture might be one of the very last Polaroid pictures ever taken. Ever. That carries a lot of weight and pressure.

It’s beautiful outside today. A gorgeous fall day with blue skies and growing bare trees with the goldest of gold leaves remaining. But is a snapshot of that worthy of one of the last pieces of film? Hasn’t that been done again and again?

I hoped that when the time came for today’s picture, the one that was meant to be, that I would realize it and be able to capture it fully. I kept my camera by my side as went through my day.

I took the rest of the day off work and decided to utilize my day fully. I got things done that I just can’t seem to force myself to do on the weekends. I cleaned out my dead car and went to the post office. I grabbed a box of tulip bulbs that I had purchased as part of my “To-Do list for 2009″. I went outside and put my hands in the earth. As I dug through the cold dirt I realized that this would be the picture. I’ll document this as I cross off an item off my list. A perfect item to document, as planting fall bulbs also carries connotations of death and rebirth. As everything dies and goes into hibernation for the winter, I’m investing in and hoping for beauty in the future/upcoming spring.

Of course, the picture didn’t turn out as I had hoped, and where I normally would have retaken it, this year, I get what I get. So here it is. My first contribution to Polaroid Week 2009. Let’s keep our fingers crossed that Polaroid too has a rebirth and that we can keep it going. If you read the quick Hello Craft article I wrote (linked above) you will find several links to help support the movement. Please take a moment to check those out.

And I’d love to hear if you are also participating in “Roid Week”. Leave me a comment. Polaroidgirl on twitter has created a list (here) of all the people participating, and of course there is the flickr group devoted to it as well.

Friday Archive

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on May 23, 2008
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polaroid sky, originally uploaded by robayre.

Once again, last minute. Friday’s are definitely busy, because I get off work and then have my art group meeting which usually goes pretty late.

Last week I got a new polaroid camera, and so for today’s archive piece I decided to choose an old polaroid picture I’d taken in 1998. Polaroids have long been a love of mine and have found their way into many pieces of artwork from mailart, to intaglio prints. The idea and image of polaroid often creep into my work. I was of course sad to hear that polaroid was discontinuing production of their instant film, but still hopeful that another company will pick it up. After getting my recent camera, I’ve found that fugi already carries an instant pack film that supports my new camera.

This photo was used in an illustration piece that I can’t seem to find right now, maybe I’ll be able to track it down and post it tomorrow? I had cross hatched with my fine rapidoliner pen, the entire positive space of this piece. The picture was taken out my parents back window, out into their yard.

Anyway, I’m excited to try out my new camera. The film arrived the other day and I haven’t even had a moment to try it out yet, but I’m sure you will see more of that coming soon.

Scores and Found Art/Street Art, Yo!

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on May 21, 2008
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polaroid colorpack II land camera, originally uploaded by robayre.

This weekend I scored this polaroid colorpack II land camera from Erica’s Grandma. I have already purchased a fugi film pack to use with it. I’m so excited to use it. It’s like brand new and came in the original box and everything.


I also bought myself this hibiscus plant, my favorite flower. I just hope it is as cool as my mom’s, which blossoms all winter long.
Both the above pictures were adjusted using picnik, recommended by Rosa on her blog. You can do all sorts of effects with your images right on flickr.

 

Today I finally left my found art piece from last week. It was set on top of a lotto machine at Matt’s suggestion. I was so afraid that the guy at the register was going to get testy with us for messing around near the machine, but I think he was too busy helping customers.

Lastly, today I got some mail from my sister. She sent me a couple pages from her page a day calendar that she thought I might like. I liked ’em, thanks Chris! The top one says “Compose a poem and leave it in a public place to brighten up someone’s day” and the bottom one says “Stick a message on a fruit”. I love both of them, but the bottom one really has inspired me. It reminded me of two things:
  1. When I was trying to fill up my Wreck This Journal page with fruit stickers, I totally cheated by covering the back of my hand with the stickers off of fruit I didn’t buy at the grocery store. One time I was checking out and wasn’t paying attention and the cashier saw my hand and asked “Are those our stickers?” She didn’t seem too upset so I showed them to her proudly and she just laughed.
  2. I used to do this thing when I would go to Walmart where I would pick up fake plastic fruit from the craft department and strategically place them in the real fruit bins. They blend in amazingly. I never stuck around to watch as people picked them up and immediately were shocked at their lack of weight and delicious juiciness. Ha ha, I crack myself up.
Anyway, I think the next natural step in messing around with the produce department in grocery stores would be fake labels. I’m a graphic designer after all, how come I didn’t think of this idea sooner?

april 24 Polaroid Week 2008

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on April 24, 2008
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april 24 Polaroid Week 2008, originally uploaded by robayre.

Wow, I’m blowing through polaroid film this week like it’s going out of style (or maybe just being discontinued).
Have you seen the Save Polaroid site? They have a survey up, go take it.
One thing that makes me really sad about the end of instant Polaroid Film is all the stuff I wanted to do, but will never get the chance. I’ve always wanted to try emulsion transfer with polaroid, and there are so many different types of cameras and films that I never got to use. I’m still trying to get over the end of joycam and i-zones :(


I came up with the idea to make some polaroid buttons like this one and will hopefully add them to the shop soon, so keep an eye out for those.

april 23 Polaroid week

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on April 23, 2008
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april 23 Polaroid week, originally uploaded by robayre.

Here is today’s polaroid picture for Polaroid Week 2008. This is the notorious Nikki, who is just about to go through 2 months of high intensity chemo. This is a young woman who took pride in her long, beautiful, blonde wavy hair. When it was lost in her innitial rounds of chemo she was pretty broken hearted about it. Now, in this period between when it has grown back in a bit, and right before it will be all lost again, she decided to have some fun and dye it hot pink. Check out her caring bridges page here: www.caringbridge.org/visit/nicholewilliams. I love this picture so much, as it really shows her vivacious personality and just how truly beautiful she is.
All of your continued positive thoughts and prayers are appreciated.

Found Art Tuesday

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on April 22, 2008
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Okay, so I’ve created the above piece for Found Art Tuesday today, but I haven’t had time to leave it behind and be found. I’ll do that tomorrow. The theme was Kindness. Check back tomorrow to see where I leave it. I’d also like to mention that Found Art Tuesday now has a flickr group. Everyone is welcome to join and have fun leaving artwork behind. The more the merrier, I’d be so happy to see what artwork you might leave behind for others.

And here is today’s Polaroid Week picture. Matt enjoying a slurpee.

 

‘08 Polaroid week

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on April 21, 2008
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It’s Polaroid Week. Join me and take a polaroid picture and share them for 5 days this week, in the Flickr Group ‘Roid Week, ‘08.

This is my picture for Monday. Today was the first time I’ve ever taken Theo outside and let her be on the ground/grass. I’ve always been too afraid that she would get startled and run away, get attacked by some animal seeing her, or get a tick or fleas or something in the grass. She seemed very curious and I could just imagine what she was thinking…”What is this weird place where the ground is made entirely of food?”

Just wanted to share

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on April 20, 2008
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I hope everyone is having a nice weekend. It was a bit rainy yesterday, but today was absolutely beautiful. This is one of those weekends that sped by and I wish I had another weekend just to recover from it. Before I head to bed, I wanted to catch up on a few things I wanted to share here.

This is a very interesting article about a painting by a contemporary artist that is about to go up for sale for up to $36 million. I especially appreciated the part about the print made of the painting.

Here are instructions on how to build your own garden box.

Tomorrow is the beginning of Polaroid Week. Please join in, there is a flickr group devoted to posting a picture each day.

Have you noticed, I added a list of inspirational links over to the right ——>
Do you see any sites that I might have missed, something that you think I should know about or add? Please let me know.

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