If you, like me, own one of the lovely Polaroid SX-70 camera’s (or any Polaroid camera that uses instant film for that matter) you’re very likely to have heard about The Impossible Project.

Well, the incredible The Impossible Folks were due to have presented the status of their work on the 22nd of February 2010 in New York – where Edwin Land presented the very first Analog Instant Picture publicly at the Annual Meeting of the Optical Society of America 63 years and 1 day ago, on 21st of February 1947.

Unfortunately, there’s has been a delay.

The impossible is not easy, and the good folks behind The Impossible Project have encountered some unexpected problems with production and have postponed their eagerly awaited press conference by one month.

Here is a snippet on the delay from The Impossible Project website:

It is not for nothing that Alexander was called the Great, Ivan the Terrible and our Project the Impossible. Bringing back Instant Film and saving analog Instant Photography from extinction is not a breeze – it is rather like constantly scraping past an adventurous abyss and breaking down barriers.

The latter has currently to be done at our factory in Enschede, where an unexpected surprise of impossibility within production occured on the weekend of February 6th. This undesireable fact is now forcing us to reschedule our timetable – the NYC press event on 22nd February has to be postponed. The Project leader’s Florian Kaps and André Bosman give themselves one more month to cope with the Impossible. On March 22nd 2010 they will disclose whether or not their Impossible Project will be possible.

Stay tuned.

Please join me in sending some positive thoughts to Enschede and let’s keep our fingers crossed that we’ll hear some good news on the 22 March 2010.

You can do it Florian and André! Tear those barriers down. Good luck.

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