RANDOMS 2026 #14

POLAROID REVIVALISTS

 

Bad Monkey is a really entertaining TV series from 2024 that I've recently been watching.

It's based on a book by Carl Hiaasen, also called Bad Monkey, and it's unusually well done.

That is not something I often say about TV programs, in fact I usually say they are utter crap. But I like Bad Monkey, both the book and the TV series.

In episode 6 there is a Polaroid camera featured. Although I've seen those before, I don't know much about them and have never used one myself. Maybe they were popular in America but not so much in New Zealand?

So I had questions! - When were they popular?, how much did they cost?, and are they now cool again and having a revival in the digital era?

I looked them up online…

Polaroid history from 1948 to modern retro cool

Some main points of interest to me were:

The first black & white Polaroid camera was sold way back in 1948. It was an instant hit.

 

The first colour Polaroid camera, The Land 100, was released in 1963 and it retailed in America for US$149. 

The new ones now are modeled on the ones from the late 70's.

At that point Polaroid cameras were pumping, and they were at peak popularity throughout the 70's & 80's. But their popularity started to decline in the 90's, and although Polaroid did develop an early digital camera, the digital revolution pretty much ended things for Polaroid.

 

"Polaroid Corporation filed for bankruptcy in 2001 its brand and assets were sold off. A successor Polaroid company formed, and the branded assets changed hands multiple times before being sold to Polish billionaire Wiaczesław Smołokowski in 2017" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Corporation

In the 60's and 70's Polaroid cameras were expensive in New Zealand, with our weak currency, and heavy import taxes, along with the already relatively expensive prices of the cameras to begin with. 

 

Adjusted for inflation, a Polaroid camera in New Zealand, back in the 70's would have cost the equivalent of around NZ$2000, and then there were the expensive film costs on top of that.

So it's no surprise that they were not very common here, even in the 80's & 90's. But I gather they were once huge in America and are now becoming trendy again.

It turns out that there is currently a POLAROID REVIVALIST movement, and the new retro Polaroid cameras are styled to look like the old 70's ones, but they have been updated to work with blue-tooth and phone apps.

They now sell in New Zealand at around NZ$400 for a high end one. 

 

The big drawback is the cost of the film. In NZ that works out at $2 a shot! For someone like me who regularly knocks off up to 200 photos in one session on my digital camera, in the hope of getting half a dozen good ones, that would be up to $400 a day. No thanks!

But apparently kids love them and drunken party goers think they are wondrous, and there are basic ones selling in NZ from as little as $98.

 

Which is pretty cheap, so I'm guessing the objective here is to get people locked into repeat buying the film.

 

THEY LIVE REVISITED

"They Live" was a classic 80's movie that exposes how we are all being programmed. It does not need to be "remade", the original just needs to be watched!

 

But the Jewish owned media corporations pull the same scams constantly. Predictive programing is the entire basis of platforms like Facebook & Youtube, as it is with all other forms of media.

Apparently a darker remake of the movie "They Live" is planned. It is built around a world where the aliens have already won. The original was exposing them, but a remake would just be yet more predictive programing... 

 

They have already won, and you are the defeated goyim...

DONALD IS GOAT

 Donald is a living legend and his quotes are legendary.

It cracks me up that every time I mock the orange clown a bunch of Americans spit the dummy and think that because I'm not into Captain Chump I must be a "Demorat"... 

No, it doesn't work like that, I think they are all a bunch of clowns doing a stage show designed to distract us.

Here are some great quotes by "The Don" to distract us:

“People don’t realize how smart I am. Really smart.”

 “I don’t like critics. Critics are people that haven’t achieved as much as I have.”

“To be blunt, people would vote for me. They just would. Why? Maybe because I’m so good looking.”

 “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.”

“Our country is in serious trouble. We don’t have victories any more. We used to have victories but [now] we don’t have them. When was the last time anybody saw us beating, let’s say, China, in a trade deal? They kill us. I beat China all the time. All the time.”

 “I have very good words. I’ve got the best words.”

 “I know a lot of people that go to Tesco, and they’re dangerous.”

 “Nobody has better respect for intelligence than Donald Trump.”

 “While Bette Midler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct.”

 “In life you have to rely on the past, and that’s called history.”

 “She does have a very nice figure… If Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

 “Why would Kim Jong-un insult me by calling me ‘old,’ when I would NEVER call him ‘short and fat?’ Oh well, I try so hard to be his friend – and maybe someday that will happen!”

 “I could talk for hours. Everyone loves to listen to me.”

 “People love me in Ireland. The Irish love me. They love me for my name, Trump. Because when they see my name they think excellence.”

“These deals were so bad, only I could’ve fixed them.” 

“If you look at the statistics, the statistics show… I mean, I’m just stating facts, I’m very factual. The statistics are there.” 

 “I know a lot of tough people that are stupid.”

“Well, I’m not saying yes. I’m saying no. But maybe.”

 “There was nobody tougher on Russia than me, nobody.” 

“Ice cream, I always get two scoops.” 

SATELLITES ARE AS FAKE AS COVID

"The Satellite Hoax" is a great series of seven posts by Agent131711 that fully exposes the entire fraudulent story of "satellites".

They are yet another monumental lie that most people have fallen hook line and sinker for, a lie that only fairly recently seems to be attracting more widespread attention.

 Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

 

 Part 4 

Part 5

 

 
Part 6

Part 7

 

The entire "satellite" story is another one of those b-grade psyops, that although almost universally believed, just falls to bits as soon as you start delving into it. Like the moon landing, the holocaust, germ theory, or nuclear bombs, it is utter rubbish that hasn't got a leg to stand on.