If all goes to plan, the Polaroid factory in Enschede, Amsterdam, will soon be making film again thanks to its new owner, an eccentric Austrian artist and businessman named Florian Kaps. Mr Kaps, 39, has dedicated the past five years to instant photography. He set up Polanoid.net, the biggest Polaroid gallery on the web, and the first ever Polaroid-only art gallery in Vienna, called Polanoir.
Smile! Polaroid is saved, by Emily Dugan
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this is so great!
Jan 19th, 2009 / 8:51 am
Being Dutch I was surprised to find out that according to your blogpost Enschede is a part of Amsterdam, because it’s not… Enschede is a city of it’s own in the eastern part of Holland and I just wanted to point that out to you.
Jan 19th, 2009 / 8:52 am
Jacqueline, I just copied that paragraph from an article. Thanks for clearing that up though! Tina
Jan 19th, 2009 / 9:13 am
Is this true? Yay!
Jan 19th, 2009 / 9:13 am
They need to find a way to capture the images on a memory card, but still produce a printout at the moment of the photo being taken.
Jan 19th, 2009 / 10:56 am
Prescott – I believe that is called a flat-bed scanner… It’s just it works in reverse order… print out, then digital.
Jan 19th, 2009 / 8:09 pm
This is the happiest day of my life!
Jan 19th, 2009 / 9:12 pm
AHHHH! MY LIFE IS INFINITELY BETTER!!!!
Jan 19th, 2009 / 11:52 pm
Thanks again, Tina. This will make a lot of people very happy! I’ve credited your story at the link below.
http://giam.typepad.com/the_branding_of_polaroid_/
Jan 20th, 2009 / 5:24 pm
Brilliant! Yaay! Long live Polaroid!!
Though, yes it’s quite embarrassing to say Enschede is in Amsterdam, whoever wrote the original article. *tsk tsk*
Jan 21st, 2009 / 12:12 pm
Tina, here’s the official web for the re-inventing Polaroid.
http://www.the-impossible-project.com/
Jan 21st, 2009 / 12:18 pm
If only someone could do for Gocco what has been done for Polaroid!!! Let’s hope…
Jan 28th, 2009 / 2:34 pm
If only someone could do for Gocco what has been done for Polaroid!!! Let’s hope…
Jan 28th, 2009 / 2:34 pm