http://www.ultraswank.net Retro Living and Design from the 50s, 60s and 70s Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:56:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.ultraswank.net/inspiration/creating-the-past-for-polaroid-wins-competition/ http://www.ultraswank.net/inspiration/creating-the-past-for-polaroid-wins-competition/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 05:46:44 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=3381 Lisa Predko, who we have mentioned before on Ultra Swank, is a talented photographer based in Chicago. Her love for everything vintage inspired her to start shooting retro inspired photographs about a decade ago. Since then she has created a impressive collection of really neat photos that look like they were freshly taken out from [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/inspiration/creating-the-past-for-polaroid-wins-competition/feed/ 0 http://www.ultraswank.net/inspiration/polaroid-sx-70-promotional-film/ http://www.ultraswank.net/inspiration/polaroid-sx-70-promotional-film/#comments Wed, 10 Feb 2010 06:25:19 +0000 Chris http://www.ultraswank.net/?p=1925 This short promotional film, produced in the early 1970s gives us a insight into how the classical compact Polaroid SX-70 camera functions. The SX-70 included many sophisticated design elements. A collapsible SLR required a complex light path, with many mirrors (including one Fresnel reflector) of unusual, aspheric shapes and at odd angles. The film pack [...]]]> http://www.ultraswank.net/inspiration/polaroid-sx-70-promotional-film/feed/ 2