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There have been a lot of cool Kickstarter Projects in recent months, but this one will warm the heart of anyone who likes a good old-fashioned road trip. The Route 66 Polaroid Project is just what it says on the tin: a plan to drive the length of the famous highway taking Polaroid snapshots all the way. (click below to read more)
Eric and Sarah are getting married in June and they're heading down The Mother Road for their honeymoon. They're going to be bringing along several Polaroid cameras to document their journey.
As they explain on their Kickstarter page, "Over the past year, we've set aside our digital cameras in favor of vintage Polaroid cameras. These gadgets hearken back to a simpler time when you'd cock the camera, take the shot, yank the picture out of the camera, wait a couple of minutes, peel it, let it dry and then *presto* you'd have your photo! OK, maybe it wasn't simpler, but there was a certain almost instant gratification to it."
It turns out Fuji still makes film for the ColorPack Polaroid cameras, and Eric and Sarah want to share their photos with you. If you back them for $10, you get a unique Polaroid shot sent directly to you from a town along the road with a description of the place written on the back. Higher-level sponsors get more photos.
Eric also runs the Civil War Daily Gazette blog, an addictive site giving a day-by-day account of the war 150 years later. Route 66 passes by several Civil War battlefields and you can bet he'll be taking snapshots of them.
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