#flashcube

Here we have the peak of 1960s ergonomic design: a silver-and-black box that looks like it was assembled in a toaster factory. She’s smiling because she just realized she doesn't have to thread film through a series of complex sprockets—just pop in a plastic cartridge and hope for the best. With that massive flashcube perched on top, she’s approximately three seconds away from blinding everyone in a ten-foot radius with a light intensity rivaling a supernova. It’s the ultimate accessory for the casual photographer who wants their memories preserved in slightly grainy, wonderfully warm Technicolor.

HERE ARE SOME OF MY FAVORITE PPT2 SHIPS AMD THEIR ASCETICS, I’ll even take some requests if you want to, it dosnt have to be a ship either, it can just be a character or two characters in a non ship way. Idk PLEASE HIVE ME REQUESTS IK BOARD ASF

I’ve won so hard

Polaroid SX-70 User Guide, 1972.

Collage on paper, 7.5″ x 5″

Flash + Cube (1965-1975) is an artist’s book about the Sylvania flashcube — the space-aged, flash photography device, revolutionary in 1965 and nearly obsolete by 1975. Assembled from a wide range of archival materials — a “terrorist letter,” G.I. photographs from Vietnam, Sylvania flashcube advertisements, as well as Long’s photographs and photomontages—the book explores the links between light, war, history and photography. Apart from its circulation as a novelty item online, the flashcube is largely forgotten. The history of photographic flash is also often relegated to a footnote and is strikingly under-analyzed. Yet flash’s blinding effects and military genealogy, and the flashcube’s precise contemporaneity with the war in Vietnam make this a rich analytical object with which to reflect on the cultural, political and economic imperatives of its moment. As Long’s deft work with this archive shows, the flashcube is good to think with.

The Blue Coat with the Green Dots, 1968 GE Flashcube ad