I'll See You When We're Both Not So Emotional

At the weekend I went out with some very old friends that I hadn't seen in a very long time.  The night was messy and fun and interesting, which is all I ever want in a night out.  Arguing about music, how we have grown up, why Jay has superior taste, dating people with heads shaped like Doritos and at closing time getting my friends to persuade two questionable barmaids in a weird underground club full of misfits and weirdos to give us a bottle of disarano and 5 tiny bottles of coke, and explaining profit margins to them. 

I got a Polaroid for my birthday, to replace my old 600 one that got smashed in a domestic a few years ago.  Sadly since then, they have stopped making them and the film.  Seriously, out of date Polaroid film is going for about £50 on amazon and ebay!  Luckily, a company called "The Impossible Project" took ten of the last Polaroid employees and started their own company.  The film is very experimental, as the original colour dyes that Polaroid used are no longer made, so they had to figure it out themselves, but they are continuously working on new films so that  according to their website 300,000,000 Polaroid cameras don't become obsolete.   The film comes in "Silver Shade" or "Colour Shade".  I only bought the Silver Shade, and at £20 for 8 exposures I have been a bit scared to use it!  As you can see though, they come out totally different each time, which i love.  Agreed they give a artsy whimsical hipster feel to them, but really there is nothing like Polaroids, I never seem to come out looking bad in them either!

There is a wicked Flickr group for photos taken with impossible project film here

My faithful blog readers Chantelle and Angie

Chantelle and Jay in the worst compositioned photo ever taken

Me looking like a gangstaaaa Pat Butcher and Tom, this is our "if we were in a 90's grunge band called Charlotte and the Moths" album cover

When I got my old Polaroid 600, it came with special limited edition Silver film, which I used for my 21st birthday.  I wish I had kept all my film I would be sitting on a goldmine!  When the camera was thrown in a fit of rage it took a picture, it came out not unlike the impossible project ones, and I called it the fight.  I threw it away which was quite sad, but anyway here are my favourite results of my old beautiful 600, may you rest in pieces. 

Chantelle

I went to bingo for my 21st I have green bingo dabber on my face

Jayne, Hannah and Jodie fellow faithful blog readers many moons ago