These pretty awesome postcards are made by Franco Brambilla , who is an Italian illustrator devoted to sci-fi. He takes vintage postcards and adds his touch of sci-fi action creating an almost realistic image of aliens and Star Wars characters coexisting on earth.

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I lost my driver’s license at the LApocalypso partu, and didn’t realize until trying to buy a bottle of wine for a friend’s going away party and getting denied! I took some photos from my car while waiting at stoplights on my way to the DMV.

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Yet another interesting series, this time by photographer Robert Voit. Most of us drive past these trees not thinking twice that they are completely at odds with the environment around them. Some of them are on the verge of being comedy and straight out of a theme park. No, they are not natural, unless you consider man-made cell phone masts something of nature. Well, technically man is a part of nature, and man created cell phones, and therefore cell phone masts are in fact somewhat natural. That’s a whole different story. Can you tell what’s fake in the photos above? … If you can’t, we’re worried. These strange artificial trees include faux cypress, pine, palm and, in Arizona, cactus. [Photograph: Robert Voit courtesy of Amador Gallery, New York]

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I’m sure most of you know by now that the company Polaroid has discontinued their Polaroid film, but it really just hit me today, because I went out and got yet another Polaroid camera from a garage sale and really wanted to go out an use it in this beautiful rainy day. I’m so sad. I loved listening to the sound of the film coming out from the camera and the anticipation of watching the image slowly appear from nothing. I also, for some strange reason, loved the smell of the chemicals coming from the developing film, although that was probably not such a great idea.

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I did, however, find this website SavePolaroid.com which is trying to find another company that can possibly take over the production of the film or save Polaroid from dying altogether. They have created a PDF package in which you can take action to help save it. Not sure how far ahead this whole thing is, but I guess it’s always worth a shot to try and do something if you are a Polaroid enthusiast.

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