PCD

No, not the Pussycat Dolls, but rather a force not to be reckoned with: the co-founders of hac. We're here with you to welcome the rest of 2008 as we look back at our first official quarter. From this point on you can count on more posts about whatever the hell we want to write you. That's all. There's no 9th anniversary special with Chloë Sevigny, no quarterly reviews for possible raises, no bullshit. Just us, "being Asian" (thx silke, thx lewis, thx sf) and all:

us three

sometimes with friends

sometimes we'll eat for you and write about it

maybe we'll share some tunes (that we'll karaoke!)

staying fashionably questionable

sometimes close, and sometimes far...
just remember,

I (collectively) ♥ U

Do you like us? Stay for awhile! Write us; leave us comments; wave at us on the streets (we'll take your photo!); tell us about your blog(s), your dog Mickey, your new vintage find... We won't write about any of it*, but at least we'll listen, effectively (and that's a lot to promise as is!).

love always, hac

*only kidding... unless your stories really suck, then why the fuck waste time by retelling them! we could reinvent your stories--add some color, shake it up a little with some Heidi's and Spencers--maybe then we'll discuss them. Let's wait it out and see.

^photos were taken over the course of three months, with photobooth.

R.I.P. Polaroid

Some sad news to report:

BOSTON (AP) -- Polaroid is dropping the technology it pioneered long before digital photography rendered instant film obsolete to all but a few nostalgia buffs.

Polaroid is closing factories in Massachusetts, Mexico and the Netherlands and cutting 450 jobs as the brand synonymous with instant images focuses on ventures, such as a portable printer for images from cell phones and Polaroid-branded digital cameras, televisions and DVD players.

This year's closures will leave Polaroid with 150 employees at its Concord headquarters and a site in the nearby Boston suburb of Waltham, down from peak global employment of nearly 21,000 in 1978.

The company stopped making instant cameras over the past two years.

"We're trying to reinvent Polaroid so it lives on for the next 30 to 40 years," Tom Beaudoin, Polaroid's president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, said in a phone interview Friday, after the company's plans were reported in The Boston Globe.

Polaroid failed to embrace the digital technology that has transformed photography, instead sticking to its belief that many photographers who didn't want to wait to get pictures developed would hold onto their old Polaroid cameras.

Global sales of traditional camera film have been dropping about 25 percent to 30 percent per year, "and I've got to believe instant film has been falling as fast if not faster," said Ed Lee, a digital photography analyst at the research firm InfoTrends Inc.

"At some point in time, it had to reach the point where it was going to be uneconomical to keep producing instant film," Lee said.

Privately held Polaroid doesn't disclose financial details about its instant film business.

Polaroid instant film will be available in stores through next year, the company said - after which, Lee said, Japan's Fujifilm will be the only major maker of instant film.

Meanwhile, Polaroid is seeking a partner to acquire licensing rights for its instant film, in hopes that another firm will continue making the film to supply Polaroid enthusiasts.

lovelovelove,
Cyn