AUTUMN DE WILDE

One night on pendarvis farm, whilst merrily roasting tofu dogs over an open campfire, we DECEMBERISTS, along with our esteemed management representatives and a certain missus autumn de wilde, photographer superieur, hatched a plan wherein mizz de wilde would document the making of THE KING IS DEAD on polaroid film, a full 2500 photos to be exact, and we would then include one of those unique photographs individually in each of the DELUXE BOX EDITION of the record. naturally, this is the sort of cockamamy scheme that lodges itself in the minds of perfectly sane adults while under the influence of a bucolic, arcadian oregon summer; the expense was deemed too great. this is where THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT came in, a group devoted to the survival of polaroid films of all sorts and collect or manufacture this ever-rarified breed of film in order to sell or donate it to photographers worldwide. they liked our idea; they donated us the film. and so here we are, this dream fulfilled. ms. de wilde followed us DECEMBERISTS around all summer, snapping polaroids. we posed obligingly. and one of those photos could be yours.