“You know, you’re not supposed to shake the Polaroid,” Paul chimes in, his comment spreading a smile across my face. “According to a recent study that I read on CNN technology, shaking a Polaroid after it’s been conceived can actually distort the picture’s development process. In today’s technology, there is a white plastic that protects the film, so shaking to dry it is pointless. OutKast’s song about ‘shaking it like a Polaroid picture’ has actually done a disservice to the modern day Polaroid.”