via danielwarnersmith & jarredbishop
Nada Bike is a venture from Project M that sells bike frames for $100, with no manufacturer’s markings or brands. It’s an effort to democratize the idea of bikes as a transportation method, without it being under the thumb of a company’s brand. Buy your frame, and build up your bike the way you want, with parts you have in the garage or with fancy ones you purchase new.
Getting one of these.
“The Impossible mission is NOT to re-build Polaroid Integral film but (with the help of strategic partners) to develop a new product with new characteristics, consisting of new optimised components, produced with a streamlined modern setup. An innovative and fresh analog material, sold under a new brand name that perfectly will match the global re-positioning of Integral Films.”
- The Impossible Project from their “Mission” Page
The Impossible Project genuinely excites me as a person who loves revival movements and who finds the anomoly of the format revival truly fascinating. The Impossible Project is a project that aims at producing a viable model for the production of a film stock commonly known as the Polaroid. This year the project issued the remaining Polaroid film stock (the Polaroid company no longer produces instant film for the general market) through Urban Outfitters.
Reinventing Polaroid film in order to preserve the medium is interesting. While 35mm film is the rough equivalent to the vinyl record, Polaroid is its own beast. It is a medium of function mostly, but is uncannily romantic. It provides relatively instant gratification, though it retains a number of the unknowns that only film can provide.
