Shake It Like a Polaroid Picture, While You Still Can

In a few decades, when the still-infectious opening strains of Outkast‘s Hey Ya! fill your flying car (courtesy of the GoogleRadio Oldies Station), a tiny, befuddled voice will ask: “Grandparent, what does ‘Shake it like a Polaroid picture’ mean?” And you’ll have to explain…about the magic of the Polaroid camera, the suspense of watching the photos develop, and how in 2008, the company announced that, “due to marketplace conditions,” it had discontinued almost all of its instant film products.

The Guardian‘s Mark Lawson has composed

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