'Instant Dreams' is the title for a documentary that follows individuals from all walks of life that still use Polaroid cameras and its instant film.

Instant Dreams is a feature documentary by Willem Baptist (Wild boar, I’m Never Afraid!) about the fascination and love for Polaroids. When Polaroid announced the end of instant film in 2008, the last still working factory was bought by a small group of enthusiasts. Among them is the retired scientist Stephen Herchen who previously collaborated with the inventor of Polaroid and is still trying to unravel the secret of the lost chemical formula.

Via PetaPixel.

The TV series "Contact: Magnum Photos" explores in ten 30 minutes long episodes some of the most iconic photos from around the world shot by photographers from the Magnum photo agency.

This is a real treat for photography lovers so watch it over at archive.org while you can.

I wrote about the street photography documentary "Everybody Street" in 2013 as one of the best documentaries I had seen recently. In it, you'll get to know some of the best street photographers out there, and get lots of great New York scenery.

Watch the full length version on Youtube:

Or watch the cut down version on archive.org.

IWLTBAP has released on their Facebook page (no need to login) yet another great free 3D LUT for color grading your images and video footage – a cinematic LUT inspired by "Blade Runner 2049".

I enjoyed the Polaroid documentary "Time Zero: The Last Year of Polaroid Film" (2012) and now there's another one in the making, this time from the team behind The Impossible Project, who took over the production and machinery for Polaroid film when the original Polaroid factory closed . The documentary is called "The Impossible Project" and was shot on 35mm film, and below is an extended trailer.

Find out more about this documentary by visiting the project's Kickstarter page.

Via PetaPixel.

Inspired by infrared photography, IWLTBAP has released a set of 55 unique psychedelic color grading presets. Five of these LUTs can be downloaded for free here, a pack that also includes bonus LUTs.

The image below taken by me during a trip to Falkenberg, Sweden, earlier this summer is graded with the LUT Choweed. Looks like a Polaroid, don't you think?!

The 900-page coffee table book "Beyond the Wall: Art and Artifacts from the GDR" by Justinian Jampol and published by Taschen, features over 2500 items from the the Wende Museum's East German Collection.

This encyclopedic volume features over 2500 items from its extraordinary collections. Never before has a book included this full a spectrum of art, archives, and artifacts from socialist East Germany: official symbols and dissident expressions, the spectacular and the routine, the mass-produced and the handmade, the funny and the tragic. Packaged in a slick, portable box, the book also comes with a facsimile of a GDR family scrapbook, documenting real and imagined travels both within East Germany, and across the border.

You can order the book on Amazon here.

H/t Umbrella Magazine.

Norrland covers 60 percent of Sweden's total area and is one of Sweden's three main parts called lands, with each containing several provinces by their own.

Norrland is located north and has some amazing nature, and in Niklas Hägglund's time lapse, some of it is shown.

In this short video by Coleman Lowndes, the amazing and time-consuming colorized photography work done by colourists Jordan J. Lloyd, Marina Amaraland, Mads Madsen, Dana Keller and Patty Allison are being looked at and the amount of research that is done to make these photographs authentic.

"Rush" is the title of photographer Alex William Helin's cityscape and traffic time lapses that were shot in Seoul, London, Taipei, Mumbai, Kolkata, Jaipur and Bangkok.

Via Dooby Brain.

Photographer Jarrod Reno dusted off his Polaroid camera eight years ago that he had standing on the shelf because it looked good, and instead began documenting the growth of his daughter, a decision that eventually led to a career change.

Matteo Stucchi is an Italian pastry chef who creates everyday scenes with pastry that he showcases on his Instagram account.

Via GP (SE).

"Into the Inferno" (2016) is the title of Werner Herzog's latest documentary that is released by Netflix. In the documentary Herzog explores active volcanoes from around the world.

From the synopsis:

Werner Herzog's latest documentary, Into the Inferno, heads just where its title suggests: into the red-hot magma-filled craters of some of the world's most active and astonishing volcanoes—taking the filmmaker on one of the most extreme tours of his long career. From North Korea to Ethiopia to Iceland to the Vanuatu Archipelago, humans have created narratives to make sense of volcanoes; as stated by Herzog, “volcanoes could not care less what we are doing up here.” Into the Inferno teams Herzog with esteemed volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer to offer not only an in-depth exploration of volcanoes across the globe but also an examination of the belief systems that human beings have created around the fiery phenomena.

A couple of days ago, I released the short "The Car Wash" (if you can call it a short?!) in an attempt to showcase the Canon PowerShot S110's video capabilities during low light conditions.

Today, I released another video, this time showcasing the camera's video capabilities during daytime.

I shot the footage during a drive around the city of Gothenburg, color graded it slightly with a free 3D LUT from Lutify.me and named the video "A Saturday Drive".

The footage, I think, turned out a bit poor, but I doesn't think it is caused by either the camera or the LUT itself but the rendering of the video editor I'm using called Filmora.

The photography and Kickstarter project "Last Night in Sweden – The True Story" will present facts about Sweden that is much more thruthful regarding its everyday living than those that have been presented after Donald Trump's speech back in February.

Plenty of 'alternative facts’ about Sweden have been shared recently, most notably when, in February, Donald Trump mysteriously referred to ‘what happened last night in Sweden’ in a sinister tone. Many of the opinions being shared about Sweden in recent months are fuelled by ignorance or hidden agenda, and come from people who have never even been to Sweden.

The short "Alpine Adventure" by Joshua Cowan captures the majestic nature of the wilderness found in Austria, Germany and other European countries.

Music by Max Brodie.

My wife showed me the wonderful work of art director and artist Tatsuya Tanaka earlier this morning – the Miniature Calendar, that everyday gets updated with a new image of miniature figures surrounded by everyday objects.

Watch the spectacular nature of Island in the short film "Vindur: Icelandic Landscapes" directed by Vadim Sherbakov and Ludmila Tregub.

Look at those waves!!! The short "Mining Gold" directed by Chris Gurney and Tom Jennings in collaboration with Volte Wetsuits shows the West Australian coastline during the first day of the Southern Hemisphere winter.

Via Reid Gower.

About seven years ago, Swiss photographer Kurt Caviezel began to capture images of tourists from open internet cameras located all around the world. These images are now included in his on-going photo series entitled "The Photographers".

Caviezel has spent 15 years collecting more than four million images from open internet cameras around the world. He’s so obsessed by it that he occasionally wakes in the wee hours to make sure he isn’t missing something. "If you’re not at the right place at the right time, the picture vanishes and is overwritten by the next one," he says. "It's live photography, so I have to be there to get these images."