The Sparetime + Sir Boothsalot = Good Times!

Sir Booths

We are super excited to have just placed our funky analog booth Sir Boothsalot at The Sparetime on Congress St. in Savannah, GA!

This guy fits right in and has already been well accepted.  This bar and late night avant garde hangout has become famous for its hand crafted cocktails and vinyl aficionados.   We can't think of a better place to have a vintage analog photobooth.  We are really excited to collaborate with the many artists and musicians who regulate this haunt.  Stay tuned for special promos and custom art backdrop photobooth parties in the future.  It's going to be the tits.

And in the mean while, here's some shots from the booth.  These were the first strips made by the booth in this location and I think they are a very fitting example of the general excitement about this booth and this bar.  Thanks to Ricardo and Jenn for sharing your engagement excitement with us.  Check out that bling ring.  Congrats!

Man in the Moon

Variations on a backless theme...

I was really inspired by the backless booth that Meags Fitzgerald in cahoots with A&A Studios was working with and thought I'd experiment with a variation.  I didn't have a busted booth without a back laying around but I did have an old mirror and some studio lights.  I also had a cowboy hat, a pipe, and an ostrich egg so naturally they became props.  Not quite as polished of a product but still a fun diversion from the classic photobooth mug shot.

Flower Study: no. 1

Patches saunters on over to The White Horse

Our sparky little booth Patches has found a new home in The White Horse over on Comal St in Austin.  Mad props to The White Horese for winning the Chronicles' awards for this year's Best New Club, Best New Bar, and Best Bar Staff... congrats!

An abundance of nothing.

Experiments with Chemistry

Part of the excitement of vintage and analog photography is the opportunity for experimentation.  The nature of the process lends itself to many different iterations and variations.  Even though the technology has been around for decades, the ability to reinvent and evolve the medium still exists.  Whether you find a new way to develop the strip, change the format of the booth itself, or conceptualize the content otherwise, the photobooth picture can be manipulated infinitely.

While this example cannot be truly described as a photobooth process, it still utilizes common components.  It uses the photobooth camera, strip media, and chemicals to produce an image, but it is created manually, not automatically as a photobooth would do.  In this respect it is closer to traditional darkroom developing than the automated process of the photobooth.  It is however a good example of how the medium can be stretched to extend beyond the confines of the booth itself, while still using the same components.

Here's the camera that was used:

It looks great for it's age.  This camera was manufactured for the Auto Photo booth and is fully automated to sync with the other components of the booth.  I simply manually opened the shutter and used it as a modified single lens camera.  And in traditional fashion, much like the pioneers of the craft, I photographed the inside of a workshop, and hand developed in chemistry.

Photobooth still life