Archives: August 2007
Cue the music, please
August 28, 2007
As long as we’ve been running Photobooth.net, which is just about two and a half years now, we’ve been planning a section devoted to photobooths in music. It’s a natural corollary to our looks at movies, television, and printed...
Brian | 8:31 AM | Music , Site News
Southern Cal booths
August 27, 2007
A brief trip to Santa Barbara gave us the opportunity to scout out a few photobooths in the area, bringing our California total to somewhere around fifty booths. On our way up the coast, we stopped at the Woolworth...
Brian | 9:28 PM | Booth Locations
Photo-Me bosses resign
August 24, 2007
Troubled times at Photo-Me International: yesterday saw a news report about the mounting pressure from shareholders on Photo-Me’s bosses to resign; apparently, the pressure was too much for chairman Vernon Sankey and chief executive Serge Crasnianski to bear, and today,...
Brian | 8:50 AM | In the News
Photo-Me proceeding with sale of vending division
August 20, 2007
It’s not clear what impact this news will have on the world of photobooths, but it seems that Photo-Me Intl. has found “sufficient interest in its vending division” to continue with the process of unloading the division on the highest...
Brian | 4:03 PM | In the News
Photobooth.net on the BBC
August 16, 2007
The BBC is a behemoth of an organization, so we can’t expect their opinions to be uniform across their various arms, as we learned this week. Last year, we were called on by BBC4 to be subject experts in their...
Brian | 5:19 PM | In the News | Comments (2)
L.A. Ink's photobooth
August 12, 2007
In the premiere episode of TLC’s L.A. Ink, which aired last week, we were introduced to Kat von D and her crew of tattoo artists as Kat oversaw the construction of her new shop. The opening credits feature the...
Brian | 4:25 PM | Booth Locations , In the News
Photobooth.net in the Times of London
August 11, 2007
In this week’s ‘arts online’ column on the website of the Times of London, Photobooth.net gets top billing: PHOTO FIT Modern digital photo booths have taken the romance out of the self-portrait process (as exemplified in the film Amélie). No...
Brian | 9:32 AM | In the News
The Orange County Fair: Photobooth jackpot
August 5, 2007
The Orange County Fair, now in its 115th year, is held annually in Costa Mesa, California, and is home to a popular and well-maintained collection of photobooths. The photobooths, 23 in all, are in three locations around the fairgrounds, and...
