Stay tuned for our 2014-15 Blog!
Each week, we will be posting about the book and how it relates to your experience as a first year student at UMD. Follow us on Facebook or Twitter to get real-time updates about the blog and other...
View ArticleYou and your First Year Book –‘Instant: The Story of Polaroid’
Welcome to the 2014-2015 First Year Book project! I hope by now you’ve had the opportunity to pick up a copy and begin reading. Instant: the Story of Polaroid is a quick read and a beautiful book....
View Article“What’s the next big tech trend?”– Imagining the next big thing
If you were sitting in that Harvard dorm room with Mark Zuckerberg so many years ago, would you have been able to see what Facebook could become? Did the creator of Twitter ever envision the role...
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What if Andy Warhol had an Instagram? And other news.
Instant film making a comeback in a digital dominated market By Helen Pike The Globe and Mail Sept. 1, 2014 Stevie Nicks’ Intimate Self-Portraits to Get New York Gallery Showing By Kory Grow Rolling...
View ArticleRetro/Vintage in the Age of Millennials
Lately I’ve been reading about the millennials’ (or younger) interest in nostalgia. Some would call it retro or vintage. Much of the interest in vinyl records, film cameras and DIY comes from a time...
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From Stevie Nicks to Taylor Swift: stars using Polaroid and other news…
Film Society of Lincoln Center Using Polaroids to Capture NYFF A-Listers By Gordon Cox Variety Sept. 23, 2914 A Collection of Andy Warhol big Shots Polaroids to be Auctioned Off By Alexa Carrasco...
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Finding the Lost Lost CHAMP Kodamatic
You may remember from the chapter “Our Brilliance” that Kodak decided to try their hand at instant cameras and film — leading to one of the biggest patent lawsuits in corporate history. From 1981 to...
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