This Blog Is Retroactive

I was browsing through the pages of Nick Campbell’s blog, Greyscale Gorilla, the other day when I came across the iPhone app he created called ShakeItPhoto.  Basically, it takes your iPhone pictures and makes them look like a Polaroid photo.  As a fun little bonus, the app makes a Polaroid sound when you take or make the photo, and the more you shake your phone, the faster the image “develops”.  It was only 99¢ so I thought I’d give it a try.  I really like it.  I took some time to use it on a number of photos I already had on my phone, with some really satisfying results, shown above.  What is it about placing an image inside a white square border coupled with subtle vignetting that instantly makes a badly taken picture look better?  I don’t have the answer, but I like the result.  If you feel like sharing your iPhone Polaroids there’s also a Flickr group and a webpage called PhotoShakeDown.  Thanks Nick!

LG, makers of chintzy, gimicky pieces of crap for years now have finally come up with a mobile device that I really, really want.  The geeky teenager that sleeps on the couch in my subconscious will always be a sucker for futuristic techno-gadgetry and the LG-GD910 is par for the course.  It’s a freaking two way wrist communicator, okay, with video phone capability.  It’s just like on Venture Bros! If I had this watch phone I could finally talk into my wrist without looking like a crazy person.   Also, if it has a calculator function, I could finally get rid of my Casio CA53W.   According to CNET all you have to do is live in the U.K. and pony up £500 (about $825) and you too could be the proud owner of the LG-GD9610 watch phone.  The future is here folks.  If this is any indication of what’s to come, flying cars, rocket boots and pizza re-hydrators should be just around the corner.  I’m going to start saving my pounds sterling today!

Until I have enough to buy one from LG, the watch phone I fabricated last night will just have to do.