When I’d first started blogging in Dr. Bret Simon’s class, Personal Branding for MBAs, I enhanced the use of pictures in my posts using a neat little Plugin called Polaroid Picture. Luckily, it is still available all these years later!
What it allowed you to do was to take the image and make it look like the snapshot (a Polaroid) had been glued into a scrapbook. It allows for different rotations and even permitted the use of stick-on corners, the likes of which we used in our scrapbooks way back in the analogue world of the 50s and 60s. I managed to find the Plugin using Download.com, but sadly, I cannot see that it allows for the sticky corners anymore.
Still, the ability to rotate the image, as I have done here, is a neat addition to LiveWriter’s ability to handle images.
But WAIT! I went to the author’s Web Page here and found that he’d updated the Plugin from the version at Download.com (1.5) up to v.1.9. This latest version, 1.9, added the ability to put on sticky corners! So glad to see that it is still supported lo’these many years later.
Andy Warhol loved his Polaroid. In a 2009 Blog post at the Los Angeles Times (which you can read here), the author had this little tidbit:
Richard Meyer, associate professor of art history at USC and co-curator of the exhibition, says Warhol’s Polaroids acted as his visual diary and a personal buffer against reality. “He couldn’t conceptualize everyday life until it became an image,” he explains. “He always had a camera with him so that he didn’t have to deal directly with people.”
The artist intended his Polaroids to serve as time-capsule glimpses of a specific era — namely, the ’70s and early ’80s when he was at the height of his fame. The fact that Polaroid has discontinued its line of signature cameras renders these photographs doubly historic — a long-gone era as captured by a dead technology. © 2009, LA Times.
