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12/16/08	added portroids to html page: from my recent trip to New York: after his play "Taking Over", Danny Hoch (he would only allow a picture if I was in it with him); an old friend, Colin Gee; from the TV show "Mad Men", Elisabeth Moss; from the play "The Seagull" and the original UK version of "The Office", Mackenzie Crook; also acting in "The Seagull", Kristin Scott Thomas.


12/03/08	added portroid to html page: Morgan Spurlock, director/actor/creator of Super Size Me, Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden?, and 30 Days

11/29/08	added portroid to the Steve Bannos Collection: a Polaroid from the set of their TV show, The Smothers Brothers.

11/27/08	added portroid to html page: from the Nutcracker: El Rato

11/23/08	added portroids to html page: from the closing night of the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival: Daniel Junge (director of the documentary "They Killed Sister Dorothy" which has been short-listed for an Academy Award nomination), David Stang (brother of Sister Dorothy), Giulia Steigerwalt (actress from the film "The Eternal City"), Joe Iacovino (actor from the film "The Eternal City"), Thomas Imbach (writer, director, and tribute guest at the festival), David Pomes (director of the film "Cook County"), James Gray (director of the film "Two Lovers"), John Hickenlooper (Mayor of Denver - taken on Denver's 150th birthday), Bill Pullman (recipient of the 2008 John Cassavetes' Award), and Alexis Gentry (advertising manager for the festival).



11/22/08	added portroids to html page: from the Denver premiere of "Seven Pounds": Brandon Marshall (player on the Denver Broncos. He walked away before I could get a signature) and Will Smith (who came to town to promote the film and visited the Children's Hospital, an elementary school, and local charities, as well as donated 300 turkeys to the Food Bank of the Rockies. He spent almost an hour on the red carpet signing autographs and taking photos with fans).

11/16/08	updated blog and added portroid to html page: after the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival's Women + Film panel Africa In Transition where she discussed her film "Pray The Devil Back To Hell": Abby Disney

11/16/08	updated blog and added portroids to html page: after the screening of his new film "Song of Sparrows": Majid Majidi, from the Big Night screening of "Slumdog Millionaire" at the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival: Dr. Marci Bowers, the first Jason from Friday the 13th: Ari Lehman, actor and recipient of the 2008 Excellence in Acting Award: Richard Jenkins, cinematographer Wally Pfister, ASC (check his imdb page, you will be seriously impressed), and my main PR contact for the festival, Rachael Tucker.


11/14/08	updated blog and added portroids to html page: from the opening night of the 31st Starz Denver Film Festival: Neil Truglio, Bill Plympton, Majid Majidi, Ron Henderson, and Rian Johnson


11/04/08	added portroids to html page: from the Election Eve Ultimate Get Out The Vote Rally in Denver, CO sponsored by Rock The Vote: Tenacious D's Kyle Gass. It looked like my first Polaroid was not going to develop, so I changed the cartridge and took a second portroid, only to find that the new cartridge film was worse quality than the first. So, I present two portroids of Kyle Gass.

11/02/08	added portroid to flash page and html page: Nick Nelson

10/26/08	added portroid to flash page and html page: the first portroid of Year 6, from a rally in Colorado for Barack Obama: Zach Braff

10/24/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: the final portroid for Year 5: The Brady Bunch's Marcia Brady - Maureen McCormick

10/23/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from my recent trip to Los Angeles: NBA superstar Magic Johnson, Matt Besser, Wayne Federman, Jeff Garlin, Jonah Hill, A.D. Miles, from Human Giant: Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer, ex-White House press secretary for Bill Clinton: Dee Dee Myers, CNBC analyst Ron Insana, Harris Wittels, Dave Hill, Tig Notaro, Lucy Lawless, and Tess Bovard.




10/12/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: Lenka Zajic

10/05/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: Brisdon Chernick, Christine Schrum, Jen Howland, from the New Yorker Festival registering people to vote: Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins (who made his portroid into art), Wes Craven, my favorite living author: Haruki Murakami, from the play "All My Sons": Patrick Wilson, Dianne Wiest, Katie Holmes, and also in attendance at the play, Tom Cruise



09/21/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from the Rocky Mountain Sustainable Living Fair: Ed Begley Jr

09/14/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from this past week's vacation to DisneyWorld: Frontier Donald Duck, Timon, Captain Hook, Mr Smee, the first self-referential portroid: James P DeMint Jr, Woody, Daisy Duck, The Walrus, Tweedledee, Tweedledum, Queen of Hearts, Alice in Wonderland, Dead Bride, Baloo, King Louie, Jiminy Cricket, Pocahontas, Colonial Minnie Mouse, Colonial Goofy, Bob Jackson, Belle, The Beast, Snow White, Dopey, Mayor Weaver of Main Street USA







08/30/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from this past week in Denver during the Democratic National Convention: the Diabolical Biz Markie, Sam Collier, Charlize Theron, Alan Cumming, Dana Delany, Tony Goldwyn, Ellen Burstyn, Matthew Modine, Rachel Leigh Cook, Josh Lucas, John Paul DeJoria, Star Jones, Kerry Washington, Zooey Deschanel, Anne Hathaway, Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, and Cam The Ram.





07/28/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from the Spaced-Numb-A-Thon marathon screening in Austin, TX: from Ain't It Cool News, Harry Knowles. Writer/director of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz: Edgar Wright. And writer/actor of Spaced, Shaun of the Dead, and Hot Fuzz (as well as actor in many other great things): Simon Pegg.

07/02/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from our recent trip to Maui, my niece Sakara Poppas and a guest portroid emailed in from a fellow DeMint (so far, I have only met DeMints that I am actually related to), Anthony J. DeMint

06/21/08	added portroid to flash page and html page: The Hamburglar!

06/16/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: Red Robin and added three new celebrity Polaroids to the Steve Bannos Collection. Go to his page to check them out.

05/26/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: Frank Kavalier, Debbie Heayn, Mica Manecchia, Aleah Graham, Richard Walker, Giancarlo Esposito, and from the Swell Season and the film 'Once': Marketa Irglova


05/25/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from the new Neil LaBute play 'reasons to be pretty' currently showing at the Lucille Lortel Theater in NYC, a great cast and a performance I highly recommend: Piper Perabo, Pablo Schreiber, and Thomas Sadoski (also in the cast is Alison Pill, who does an amazing job, but did not want her portroid taken).

05/22/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from 'Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull', which opens today in theaters: Karen Allen

05/16/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: Flight of the Conchords' Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie

05/13/08	added portroid to flash page and html page: two-time Survivor (Vanuatu and Micronesia (Fans vs. Favorites)) contestant Ami Cusack

05/03/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: due to Polaroid announcement that they will no longer be making film, portroids has opened up the possibility of guest portroid artists sending in portroids of their own. The first to be added are two portroids taken of Adriene Crimson Fonte. One by guest portroider g1sh and the other a self-portroid.

04/28/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from the The David Lynch Weekend (and other "around town sightings" in Fairfield, IA: David Lynch, Donovan, Paul Praither, John Dey, Ben Daniels, Aimee Farley, Moby, Kevin Farley, Skylar Halley, Lil Halley, Loni Eisenbraun (and Alexis), Brian Eisenbraun, Zarosh Eggleston, Gareth Wallace, Matt Mullenneaux, Suzanna Mullenneaux, Justin Heaton, Linda Heaton, Suzie Gautherat, Eliana Freeman, Tom LeMay, Milly Malloy, Joan Adams, Michael Adams.






04/20/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: Paul Thew and Devon Parker

04/11/08	added new portroid image directories so you can better search for individual portroids you may be searching for (e.g. yourself, or your favorite some other person). See them here -> A-C D-F G-J K-M N-R S-T U-Z

03/17/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from the The State: Live reunion show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles: Ken Marino, Kerri Kenney-Silver, Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant (recreating his portroid pose from four years prior), Joe Lo Truglio, Michael Patrick Jann, Todd Holoubek, Kevin Allison, Peter Salett, Liezl Estipona, Tristan Schoenfeld, and 'Weird Al' Yankovic



03/10/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from the wedding of Rifkin Young and Shirley Yeung - Josh Young, Laura Young, Allan Harris, Ali Harris, Jivan Mukti Hall, Rick DeMint, Kanoa Zimmerman, Mariko Reed, and 1/3 black




02/29/08	added portroid to flash page and html page: PBS personality and travel guru Rick Steves

02/19/08	added portroid to flash page and html page: portroid of Dave Eggers speaking in Denver about the crisis in Sudan. To learn how you can help, go to www.valentinoachakdeng.org

02/15/08	added a special new gallery of celebrity Polaroids collected through the years by Steve Bannos. You can see them here, in The Steve Bannos Collection. I've included one sample photo below: Ray Charles

01/21/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: additional portroids from sfsketchfest and my trip to San Francisco: Shirley Yeung, Jon Benjamin, Tim Heidecker, and Eric Wareheim

01/21/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from sfsketchfest Freaks and Geeks Speak - Reunion and Q&A: Linda Cardellini, John Francis Daley, Busy Philipps, Samm Levine, Martin Starr, Dave (Gruber) Allen, and Steve Bannos


01/21/08	added portroids to flash page and html page: from sfsketchfest Match Game Live: Jimmy Pardo, Scott Aukerman, Patton Oswalt, Maria Bamford, Brian Posehn, Paul F Tompkins, and Bob Odenkirk