links for 2011-06-18

• Polaroid's SX-70: The Art and Science of the Nearly Impossible
  There’s a rule they don’t teach at Harvard. If anything is worth doing, it’s worth doing to excess.

  “Don’t undertake a project,” an oft-quoted Land maxim goes, “unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.”

  1947: Instand photography introduced by Land
  1950's: Company thrived, introduced new, improved models
  1960's: Company thrived, introduced new, improved models
  1972: SX-70 launched
  1979: Land forced out of Polaroid

  “The A-bomb of photography…revolutionary, spectacular, and amazing.”

  dream all along: “absolute one-step photography.”

  Land’s Polaroid, by Peter C. Wensberg Longtime Polaroid executive

  Insisting on the Impossible Victor K. McElheny’s excellent 1998 biography of Land

  
  
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  Jimmy Kimmel: Father's Day on the cheap - Grantland
  
  
  Jimmy Kimmel: Father's Day on the cheap - Grantland June 17, 2011 at 04:09PM
  
  
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