Still super busy around here…big website project I’m trying to get wrapped up and more importantly, Cat graduated last night. Daniel’s parents came down for it and just left this morning. I’ll post pictures of her graduation when I get the film back. Gotta finish off the roll this weekend hopefully.
Super busy, yet I’ve still managed to somehow continue my documentation of the Liquor Stores of Orange County. Took the above polaroid today at lunch. I drive by this place all the time and realized last night that it’s screaming for a Polaroid shot. Polaroid film is expensive and hard to come by so I try to use it sparingly—it’s so fun, though, it’s hard not to use up an entire pack at a time.
This film isn’t the kind that the camera spits out and you watch the image appear—they stopped making that film. Instead, this film is an older type. You manually pull it out of the camera and then let the picture sit for a couple minutes, and then peel it apart. It’s called peel-apart film. It is really fun to use. You can get it for about $10 a pack, and there’s 10 pictures to a pack. So a dollar each. I took these on a drive up in the Santa Ana Mountains Daniel, Cat and I took last weekend:
(Sometimes the film gets spots like that last one.) I need to do a post about that drive and post more pictures from it—we were up inside the clouds for a bit. Super high up on top of the mountains on a narrow dirt fire road. It was fun, if scary!
June 12th, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Congrats to Cat! And awesome Polaroids too.
June 12th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Hilarious! That first picture really had me laughing. Especially with the post title.
Congratulations to Cat. Has she found anything else to submit to Found magazine?
I am excited about your Orange County photo project.
June 13th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
I remember the peel-apart Polaroids. Fun! I would find it difficult to restrain myself, too.
Another graduate. Two down, one to go. I attended my niece’s graduation last week. There were 700 graduates. It took over an hour to read all of their names. That was after the hour that it took for the program, which included three valedictory speeches, one saluditory speech, four “musical” performances by various graduates among other things. And that was after the hour we had been sitting waiting for it to start (it was held at a big events arena, so you had to get there early to get a decent seat). I could have gone for a vodka float that night, I’ll tell you what.
June 14th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Sounds exactly like Cat’s graduation, except it wasn’t at a big arena, it was at the school’s bowl, which is outdoor and has wooden benches. We knew from Nathaniel’s graduation last year that it was going to be miserable so we brought camping chairs. Much more comfortable!
June 17th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Nice! Theres a liqour store in Glendale called ‘Hammered’ with a hammer logo.
The liqour stores of socal are like nothing Ive ever seen.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:26 am
Me either. There’s literally one on almost every corner where I live. Some corners have two. It’s crazy.