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St Patrick’s Day 2017

March 17, 2017
Digital Photobooth Images
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Last year I was unable to get to a photobooth to take a strip of photos to celebrate St Patrick’s Day. It hadn’t actually occurred to me to do an Irish themed post until then, that is, apart from posts that feature all my Irish relatives. Finding a fabulous, green, glittery, leprechaun-style hat in a charity shop was what prompted me to plan my first one. Not being able to get to a real booth, I donned a greenish dress and the hat, then used an online photobooth instead. You can see the results in this post.

This year I planned a bit further in advance and made the above offering, using the same hat and some homemade props.

A very happy St Paddy’s Day to all my Irish relatives and friends, and to anyone else who likes to celebrate the day of green beer, shamrocks and all things Irish.

“Happy Easter”, Says Mario

March 24, 2016
Digital Photobooth Images
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Mario, my pal the taxidermy rabbit, doesn’t get out much these days, so he was delighted when I offered him a trip in my car, plus the honour of the starring role of Easter Bunny in this festively themed, photobooth photo.

Well, it was all fun and games for us, from the minute we left home. Mario chatted about what he hoped to get for Easter this year. I tried to keep focused on the road. Mario sang along to The Wiggles tune, Little Bunny Foo-Foo. I narrowly avoided squashing one of his relatives on the highway. Mario scoffed the last of the travel sweets. I spilt the last of the water down my blouse. You know, the normal stuff that happens when you go out with a dead rabbit.

Relieved to finally be at the photobooth, we proceeded to prepare for and compose each shot. Imagine our surprise when the prop egg he had given me, started to crack open to reveal a spritely Easter Chick inside!

“Lucky we didn’t boil that one for breakfast”, he quipped. “Yeah, lucky.”, I replied, as the chick gave me a hard peck on my nose and scarpered off into the mall.

Merry Christmas!

December 23, 2015
Digital Photobooth Images
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to one and all.

Photo Credits –

  • Pressed metal, naff, Canadian souvenir, moose sign – local garage sale
  • Altered, pressed metal, naff, Canadian souvenir, moose sign – Katherine
  • Father Christmas hat – $2 Shop 2014
  • Papier-mâché deer – Riot Arts and Crafts shop 2015
  • Original 1960s Xmas wrap to decorate deer – bottom of Kate’s mother’s wardrobe
  • Decorated papier-mâché deer – Kate
  • Xmas red spectacles – Alex Perry – Spec Savers, two pairs for $199 (bargain)
  • Make-up – Lancôme, Body Shop, L’Oréal (Because I’m worth it – yeah, ok Jane Fonda)
  • Strawberry mararoon/macaron – Maccas’s® Australia‎ (Unusually good – Kat couldn’t waste it after the deer refused to take a bite, now could she?)
  • Photobooth – Photo-Me, Southland, Cheltenham
  • Concept, Christmas jollies and ho ho hos – Kitty

Thanks for visiting and liking my blog!

Once again, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to everyone.

Sister Sue on Hols in Oz

August 14, 2014
Digital Photobooth Images
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My darling sister Susie still has a few days left in Australia before her return to her home in Dublin. Above is one of 10 photobooth strips we have taken so far on this visit. Four of the strips are colour digital ones and 6 are from a black and white chemical booth.

This series of photos was taken at my closest photobooth which is in Frankston, Victoria. On the day these were taken, we were there to see the film Guardians of the Galaxy (we both loved it) and to buy Sue’s favourite sweet treat, peanut butter dream bars. There was also the need for a photobooth adventure, as per my obsession, which Sue very kindly indulges.

Mark in Wellington – Early December 1999

June 27, 2014
Digital Photobooth Images, Photobooth 45 Year Project (Archive)
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Early December 1999, Wellington, New Zealand

The only photobooth I was able to find on this trip to visit my travelling buddy Moana in Wellington, was a sticker booth in a game arcade.

I stopped in New Zealand on my way to visit friends in London before going to Dublin to spend Christmas with my sister and her Irish relatives. She and her husband Tim had decided not to make their home in Australia and had returned to live in Ireland where they had first met. They live there to this day.

Moana was working most of my visit and I only managed to get her husband Mark, into the booth. While not my preferred type of photobooth, in the event of nothing better, it is a least a cute souvenir of a trip. To see some previous posts and booth photos of Moana and I together, click here, here and here.

This strip of photos is from my series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.

Modern Photobooth Token – The Magnolia Photobooth Company

February 21, 2013
Digital Photobooth Images, Photobooth News
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Tokens are an old means of operating and managing coin-in-the-slot vending machines such as automatic photobooths. Magnolia Photobooth Company (see one of their tokens, above) design and build their own photo booths, some of which are operated using this system. Unfortunately they are generally phasing out their tokens in the USA, however it is still being used in a few booths around the world, specifically in Seoul and Toronto.

One of their clients, Kiehl’s, is the only company in the USA that has committed to keeping the token system. It is an integral part of the marketing of their business. They hand out tokens to people who buy product or are about to buy product in their boutiques. They can immediately redeem it for a branded strip of booth photos or use it on their next visit.

Magnolia Photobooth Company are a tiny crew with only 9 full-time staff that runs an extensive national digital photobooth rental operation in the USA and internationally.

As a photobooth rental company Magnolia is very creative in its marketing. They have an interesting blog (click here to have a look) and a book that documents a journey they made with their booths to various events around the US. You can see some of the book here and buy it here.

To see another, older photobooth token from my collection, click here.

Peter Tower, the owner of the company is (almost) seen below holding a copy of the book.

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Digital Booth Stickers 1997

January 2, 2013
Digital Photobooth Images, Photobooth 45 Year Project (Archive)
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6 November 1997, Melbourne

I am never sure whether to count this type of booth photo as part of my chronological series as it isn’t of the same aesthetic and detail of the photos from the wonderful chemical booths. However as the old-time booths are more and more rare, and digital booths are easier to get access to, I decided to add this to the group as an early example of where booth photos were heading at this time.

This strip is part of the series Photobooth 41 Year Project. You can see all the posts that document the series by clicking here.

Great Minds Think Alike

July 4, 2012
Digital Photobooth Images
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I had coffee yesterday with one of my university lecturers, Bronwyn who is a glass artist and art historian. We have only recently discovered that we live in adjacent

villages on the Mornington Peninsula. In discussing our creative pursuits photobooths came up, of course. As a glass artist Bronwyn was thinking of hopping into a chemical black and white booth to pose with a sheet of glass, in very much the same way I did in this first of a digital series, started in May this year.

After exclaiming about the coincidence of us both having the same idea, I tried to persuade her that my writing a post about her example, is a very fine idea indeed. I hope to be able to present her interpretation of the concept at some point in the near future.

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