Archives: March 2005
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March 30, 2005
After much head-scratching, square-one-returning, re-coding, and a round of interstate online video, IM, and telephonic collaboration, the Photobooth Blog and by extension Photobooth.net are now rendering properly to our Internet Explorer visitors. Though it is outdated, non-standard, unsafe, and inadequate,...
Brian | 10:40 PM | Site News
Rutgers paper profiles local booths
March 29, 2005
In yesterday’s edition of the The Daily Targum, the Rutgers University student newspaper, the Inside Beat section takes a look at photobooths near the New Brunswick, New Jersey campus. The article goes into a bit of photobooth history, and then...
Brian | 6:01 PM | Booth Locations , In the News | Comments (1)
Defamer: NYT kills PB buzz
I’m not sure why I didn’t notice this before, but LA gossip blog Defamer calls the photobooth trend “colder than a Republican in Carrie Fisher’s guest room” thanks to the NYT article on LA’s photobooths reported here earlier. Citing the...
Brian | 5:34 PM | In the News
Prince's photobooth
March 28, 2005
“Please take 2 sets of fotos, 1 4 U, 1 4 our host!” So the sign apparently read outside a photobooth at a party held to celebrate Prince’s NAACP Vanguard Award last week. According to reports, the booth was set...
Brian | 11:16 AM | In the News
Robert Johnson photobooth controversy
March 24, 2005
Legendary blues pioneer Robert Johnson left behind very little physical evidence of his existence when he died in 1938. In addition to the 29 songs he recorded, two known photographs of him exist. One, a portrait of Johnson wearing a...
Brian | 5:00 PM | History , Music | Comments (1)
Photobooth augments Neue Galerie show
March 18, 2005
An Artnet article this week informs us that the Neue Galerie for German and Austrian art in New York has brought in a photobooth to complement their exhibition “Portraits of an Age: Photography in Germany and Austria, 1900-1938.” The $2...
Brian | 10:56 AM | Art , Booth Locations
Flickr Blog highlights photobooth pix
March 17, 2005
Yesterday’s entry in the FlickrBlog, entitled “Photobooth,” picks four multi-person photo strips and links to the photostreams of their creators. Hopefully, they’re all in the group pool of the Flickr Photobooth Group....
Brian | 1:46 PM | Community
CBS News features photobooths this morning
March 13, 2005
I am still trying to track down some video, but Andrea Avery alerted me to a photobooth story that aired this morning on the CBS News Sunday Morning show. I did manage to find this blurb: PHOTO BOOTHS: Bill Whitaker...
Tim | 7:09 PM | In the News , TV
Warhol's Time Capsules in Melbourne
Andy Warhol’s Time Capsules, boxes “filled with a staggering array of art works, source and publicity material, correspondence and memorabilia,” are set to go on display at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia this week. The exhibit, which...
Brian | 3:10 PM | Art | Comments (1)
Scans of Sunday NYT Fashion article
March 8, 2005
I stopped by Nini’s Corner yesterday to pick up a Sunday New York Times. I guess it’s been awhile since I bought one, but $4.50?! Isn’t there a discount for day-old news, like Bruegger’s has for bagels? Anyway, to follow...
Brian | 11:50 AM | In the News
Photobooths go Hollywood
March 5, 2005
Are we at critical mass yet? The Sunday New York Times for tomorrow (gotta love online access) will feature a big article on photobooths in Los Angeles, with words from Brett Ratner, Dave Navarro, and Gary Gulley - the usual...
Brian | 11:53 PM | In the News
"Knock-off" photobooth art opens in Seattle
Opening tonight at Seattle’s Soil Art Gallery is a new exhibition called “knock-off.” Based on a 2003 trip to Italy, the installation by Nina Zingale and Gina Rymarcsuk uses photobooth photographs of figurines of religious and historic figures bought on...
Brian | 9:19 PM | Art
Photomaton exhibit catalog for sale on eBay
I have been trying to track one of these down for some time. The Pyramid Arts Center (now known as The Rochester Contemporary) in Rochester, NY had an exhibit entitled Photomaton: A Contemporary Survey of Photobooth Art in the...
Tim | 12:56 AM | Art
Swimsuit Issue photobooth followup
March 3, 2005
I had lunch with my friend Nate whose absent brother has a subscription to Sports Illustrated. (notice how I try to separate myself from this magazine) We located the Swimsuit Issue and I carefully removed the photobooth pages for my...
Tim | 1:42 AM | In the News | Comments (2)
Another Midwestern photobooth for sale
March 2, 2005
A classic photobooth that looks like it’s about to be overrun with flora and Christmas kitsch is being put up for auction on eBay. The booth, currently located in Gillette, Wyoming, is described as having “rounded corners” and “all 3...
