As many regular readers have probaby heard by now (or visited and seen for themselves), we share our headquarters here in Gastown with Bootup Labs.

Bootup Labs is a startup incubator, and in addition to their staff, four companies have taken up residence in the Bootup portfolio and now share office space with us.

Thankfully, there's plenty of room for all, and some very cool folks have joined our already fun and productive office culture.

We'll leave it to our friends at Bootup Labs to tell you all about the companies that have signed on with them, but in the mean time I thought it would be fun to snap a few shots of our new neighbors with our in-house Fuji "Instax" camera.

A Dying Art Form?

Did you know that Polaroid no longer makes their famous film? That section of their business has been discontinued, and Polaroid film is near impossible to find. Fujifilm has the "Instax" film that I've used for these shots (it appears a bit more "widescreen" than the original polaroids, yes?) but I'm curious if anyone out there knows of other fun, instant film types (or stickers) like these.

I mean, with all of this digital technology, and shrinking instant photo printers and cameras, shouldn't there be a whole variety of available digital cameras with an instant print option? Or if you prefer to think of it this way: An instant photo camera that archives a digital copy for later upload?

Help me out, my dear friends. Point me to the cool and fun instant, toy and sticker-printing cameras out there, will ya?

*images: (top to bottom) Maura and Danny of Strutta, Paschal of Adhack, Craig and Francis of LetsGoForDinner.com, Steven and Ross of Strutta, Jahzel of QCDocs, Corey of Adhack.