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Burning Text Into Your Polaroid (The Impossible Project Stock Film).

I ran into this cool tutorial on their blog. Needless to say, it works: just cut out some stencils into a completely opaque, paper-thin material, and as soon as the picture pops out of your Polaroid camera, immediately tape the edges of the stencil to the picture (this way, no light can enter around the corners) and develop it under a bright light.

It works best if 1) your camera’s exposure setting is dark, and 2) your subject is wearing dark clothing.

Finalized package design for my Hindsight/Foresight project. Both the disposable camera casing and the box it comes with is made of recycled, natural cardstock. The overall typography was handwritten by me, scanned, and placed on templates that I carefully measured, cut out, and wrapped.

The project description (a one page, 8.5”x11” letter) is folded into a square and tucked into an envelope that I attached to the main box.

Each camera is assigned a name, based off the military alphabet.

The copy “Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it” is a quote from Confucius and pretty much entails what the Hindsight/Foresight photography project is about.

For a closer look at the construction of the disposable camera cover, click here to an older post.

Although it’s barebones, check out the site I set up at HindsightForesight.com

The other day, I thought to myself, “Hey, I’m a designer. I should redesign the cameras I’m giving out for my Hindsight/Foresight project and make it my own.”

And I did just that, using natural cardstock and scanned handwriting.

I’m starting a new, long-term interactive art project, inspired by the “A Million Little Pictures Project,” “Disposable Memory,” and YouTube’s “A Life In A Day.” As of yet, I haven’t developed a formal title.

Here’s the gist: I’m sending out disposable cameras across the US to people who I’ve met in my life. It’s a way to reconnect with old friends and create an individual, personal narrative of the people I know and miss. They’ll use that disposable camera to document everything he or she sees in a day or a week or a month: the people they meet, the places they visit, the things they eat — no subject is off limits, except that the person who gets the camera can’t be in the picture. Essentially, it’s supposed to represent what the user sees, and unless the user is staring at a mirror, he or she shouldn’t be seen.

Anyway, they’ll each mail me back the camera, and I’ll develop the film (with digital copies) and I’ll compose an interactive site/film using the images.

The map above consists on where the cameras will go on a local, national, and even international level.