The next installment from Irina Werning‘s project
You may remember Werning’s photos circulating around the Internets last winter because the concept and execution were so lovely. She asked some people to help her recreate their old photos right down to the tiniest details. Now there’s another whole set of photos floating around and they’re just as awesome. Here’s a couple:
Have you ever recreated vintage photos? We’d sure like to see them!
Photos by Irina Werning via Flavorwire
Enjoy these photos of Passover seders and Easter dinners gone by
Brace yourself for more grainy photos, horrible haircuts, precocious preschoolers and mucho amounts of manischewitz as we journey back in time to remember some awesome family holidays. Goodness, we love retro photos!
Photos via rbaranblat, The Rocketeer, The Gifted Photographer, Valerie’s Family Geneaology, camiluna and neilfein on Flickr.
Do you have any retro family holiday photos you’d like to share with us? Send photos of family holiday fun to meghan@bunchfamily.ca or find us on Flickr.
Whatever happened to the Wakefield twins?
If you were a girl who came of age in the 80s, you will have fallen into one of two camps: you were either a Babysitters Club fan, or a Sweet Valley Twins fan. The series was started in 1983 by Francine Pascal and resulted in 181 books. The Sweet Valley Twins series introduced us to the glamorous 16-year-old Wakefield twins, Jessica and Elizabeth, who lived equally glamorous Sweet Valley, California. The were blond. They were popular. They. Were. COOL. Loyal readers followed the girls through junior high, highschool, and onto University. We loved to hate their horse-owning rich-girl snob frenemy Lila Fowler and we constantly wondered whether Elizabeth and Todd would ever actually hook up, like, for real. Maybe most of all, we longed to be a member of the Unicorn Club.
What happens when you recreate your old photos
Photographer Irina Werning says what she loves about old photos is imagining how the people in the photos would look and act nowadays. And so a few months ago, she began her Back to the Future Project where she invited people to help recreate their old, cherished photos. The results are amazing — she’s a real stickler for detail. Via Gawker.
What photos would you try to recreate?
Today is the last day that Kodachrome will ever be processed. Last year, Kodak stopped producing the iconic color-reversal film that Paul Simon sang about. Dwayne’s Photo in Parsons, Kansas will develop the final roll today. Here’s a quick tribute to all the family pictures shot in Kodachrome colour.
Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world’s a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don’t take my Kodachrome away
photos from .Dianna. Antoine Ruedisueli frontdrive34 talon k. spello Here in Van Nuys via Flickr
Your most hilarious holiday photos revealed
We so love retro photo time. This month we’re getting in the holiday spirit and unearthing photos of Bunchlanders as kids at Christmas and Hanukkah. Brace yourself for more grainy photos of cheesy decorations, relatives with outdated hairdos, gifts of toys that don’t exist anymore and terrible, terrible sweaters.
Photos by Jeff Van Campen, bkhubbard, brad_holt, jasonpcasey, Metro Transportation Library and Archive, Paul-W, The Jewish Agency for Israel, mdintenfass, thecameo, TheGoodReverend, Bill on Capitol Hill, Steve Thoroughgood, Whistling in the Dark, juls, jek in the box, via Flickr.
Sit back and laugh at this hilarious gallery of old-school Halloween costumes
This is Wil Wheaton.
As you may already know, this year Bunchland is participating in National Costume Swap Day by hosting a swap of our own in Toronto on October 9. We’re excited to do something good for the environment and facilitate the free exchange of previously loved costumes.
But mostly, we’re excited to see all the old Halloween costumes that people will bring. Can you blame us? Recycling old Halloween costumes rather than tossing them out is a brilliant, brilliant idea. After all, some costumes are timeless, and even if they’re not, retro costumes are in (at least according to us). We’re just really hoping we see some old-school costumes like these at our swap.
