Archives: December 2007
Photobooth art-stravaganza
December 19, 2007
That’s certainly not a word, but I’m sick of using the term “roundup” to describe one of these omnibus photobooth news entries. Maybe I should have just used “omnibus,” actually. Anyway, we’ve found a few brief items of note to...
Brian | 9:51 PM | Art
Photo-Me's woes continue processing?
December 18, 2007
More bad financial news for Photo-Me is not necessarily noteworthy, but the field day the UK press are having with headlines is somewhat amusing. While the Independent goes with the mundane “Photo-Me stock dives 8 per cent after warning it...
Brian | 4:29 PM | In the News
Photostrip makes "Missed Connections"
December 15, 2007
Craigslist’s “Missed Connections,” home to love-lorn singles and crazy stalkers and fodder for hours of fascinating reading, brings us the briefest gem of a story, with a tagline worthy of a short story: “Found: photobooth pics in Murakami library book”...
Brian | 7:05 PM | In the News
Das Einfränklerimperium: The One-Franc Empire
December 13, 2007
We’ve got more information to follow up on our previous note about Irene Stutz and her book Das Einfränklerimperium: Die Geschichte der Schnellphoto AG, or The One-Franc Empire: The History of Schnellphoto AG. Irene was kind enough to provide us...
Brian | 11:55 AM | Art , In the News , Projects
Ace Hotel comes to NYC
December 6, 2007
The New York Times City Room blog asks the question, will Stumptown Coffee Roasters be “planning an outpost in the lobby of the Ace Hotel, a Portland transplant that is scheduled to open on 29th Street and Broadway in 2009”?...
Brian | 10:34 AM | Booth Locations , In the News
Last of the Swiss photobooths
December 5, 2007
My high school German is pretty rusty, and I never could understand Schweizerdeutsch very well, but the images in a Schweizer Aktuell news report about Swiss photobooths say it all. An accompanying article about the “Fotokisten” being “endgültig Geschichte,”...
Brian | 10:39 PM | In the News
Winter photobooth news round-up
December 3, 2007
A few items of note in the news recently: First, a series of photobooth-style portraits taken by royal girlfriend Kate Middleton: The 25-year-old girlfriend of Prince William was praised as she organised an exhibition by celebrity portrait photographer Alistair Morrison....
