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The big news last week in BMX was Rob-o was giving his first full interview about Cult and it would show up on The Come Up.  And it did and, the question everyone was dying to hear the answer to – why did Robbie run screaming from the S&M World Domination Headquarters and Money Minting Machine – was answered with…

Hold on, let me get this right…

No fucking comment.

Well, that cleared that right up.

Meanwhile Ian Schwartz decided to quit riding and become a farmer.  I actually get that.  I know it’s hard for some people to understand, but riding bicycles isn’t the most awesomest thing in the world for every body for all of their lives, especially if it’s your job.  Who hasn’t want to quit their job and find something more rewarding? I’ll say this to anybody, you should only ride as much and as hard as is fun for you. It always surprises me how many people have a hard time with that.

Of course, the real news of the week is this.

That’s a brand new, Polaroid camera folks.  Thanks to the work of The Impossible Project new Polaroid film is coming soon, so Polaroid has decided to get back in the game announcing a new model in either metallic silver or woodgrain at CES.  While I realize that you can do much to simulate the look of Polaroids via digital manipulation, you can also masturbate.  In both cases it’s not the same.  Plus, you want a conversation starter, pull out an instant camera.

Even though I have a Polaroid (I had two, but that’s a whole ‘nuther story involving a social experiment gone terribly wrong) I’m happy to see these. [via Gizmodo]

Gizmodo has a list up of the most popular photography hacks of 2009.  Most of them are from LifeHacker, so if you follow that site you’ve pretty much seen all of them, if you haven’t, you still may have seen a lot of them.  It’s a good list for people out there with a camera, check it out here.

Steve got a Fat Favourites up.  I’m apparently his second favorite BMX photog, but Mystic Negro is not one of his favorite websites. Hmmmm.  Anyway, if you’re wondering, the “George” who shot the pics is, in fact, me.  Much like Martika, I need no last name.  I am a little salty that they edited that one picture to take away the sky, which was awesome.

Also, anyone who’s wondering, pics from Clay’s jam will be up this weekend.  I’m still trying to make fun of all of you.

Found in Moophisto’s photo stream.  Also there, some pretty nice pictures from the World’s including a great Wilkerson shot which I cannot post here.

Pictures from the Because I Grind demo are up.  Here you can see Ratkid buying Nowhere Fast.

I really need to clean my scanner bed.

Bo Wade, Mid Dacade found on George Teneyck’s photostream.

Note the lack of anything resembling a brake…

Someone leaked pictures of the new Olympus Digital Pen micro 4/3 camera.  Basically what we’re looking at here is an interchangeable lens compact, much in the style of the PenF.  Depending on price, this may have just beat out the Panasonic LX3 as my next camera.  Oh yes, do want.