In a never ending quest for amazing-ness, we have been extending our deboothed method of operation, and trying out this, such as magazine mastheads. It’s like the old amazing travelling photobooth, only more so. Less booth, more amazing. Great for those events where you feel the need to show off a little. Oh yes, we’re gonna make you famous, baby! Watch this space.
Here is one we prepared earlier for The Wellington Wedding Show magazine, Mr & Mrs.
…but then we saw this. We don’t like anything this amazing thing to go unoticed.
Everyone loves a good laugh, eh. So tonight we chuffed as cheese to be the preferred photo booth supplier to the NZ Comedy Festival Gala, in association with Withers Tsang & Co Chartered Accountants. For all of your accountancy and photobooth solutions, come and see us tonight. We had a great time last year at the Festival. See!
Rats with laser beams! See, we told you it's funny.
And if you don’t make it to the gala, there is also the whole rest of the whole festival left. So go!
Lots of great activity this weekend. The 1st birthday of Roxy Cinema was on Sunday, which was a lot of fun. Happy Birthday Roxy!
And Friday was a wild night, where we stretched the legs a little bit more, of the ‘Claytons’ photo booth, the booth you have when you are not having a booth. We de-privatise the booth, and turn it into a much more top to toe affair. It was a real pleasure to do this for Delaney, of Heartbreak Pie fame, as she cooked for 70 guests, as her farewell Wellington gift (and Hellooo, Auckland!).
Were you a part of the art at the Big Day Dowse on today (Sunday)? Please bare with us, as we get the photos sorted and into a wee clip of the masterpiece taking shape. But first, we need to have some tea and bikkies, and maybe a wee lie down. So thank you all for your most wonderful posturing and posing, keep checking back.
We are excited to be at the launch of The Kitchen tonight, a work space in Auckland where creative entreprenuer world saving types gather to plan and scheme and dream. More about them here Keep an eye out for when we post the photos below.
More musical goodness coming up in the near enough future. Lord Echo.
Sunday 25 March, at Capital E in Wellington. It’s like, music for the kids,
that’s also music for adults.Sort of like the Simpsons. But Music. AND with
give aways galore. Pre sales go in the draw for an Iko Iko prize *that ikon
of Wellington Gift Stores, AND a free ECO store giftpack.BUT WAIT, there’s
more…
Free family photos too, for the WHOLE FRICKIN FAMILY. You can’t do worse
than this. And with every photo,there’s a free coffee for you too from Little League.
(not for the Kids though, are you serious!)
More neat deets at Alphabet Street.
NOT TO mention the free mix tape. OMG Yesiree!
And now, something to go out to.
It’s crazy times people. Virtual schmirtual. The great thing about a photo booth is that it is ‘actual’, not virtual. It offers an actual experience. You know, something real. And what is that experience? Well we think it has three important factors, and we think you will agree. They are: privacy, autonomy and actual photographs. (I wanted to call that actuallacy, but I don’t think that is a word, though I wish it were, then that sentence would scan really well, unlike this one.)
Ah, but there is the rub, some people are out there claiming to offer you a ‘photo booth’, just like they are making up their own words. They virtualicaly (see what I did there!) offer a ‘photo booth’. But it ain’t. It might be a photographer lining your guests up against a wall and shooting them, they may even offer them remote control to do it themselves, and then perhaps offering to upload them for you. But if it ain’t private, your guests aren’t in control of the photo process, and if they don’t get an ACTUAL & REAL print in their hot little hands, to put on their cool little refrigerator, or in their warm wee pockets, close to their beating hot heart, then they aren’t really going to be all that excited are they? People might even save some money accepting a deal like that, but we know that it won’t produce praise like this.*
It’s because, from the booth, to the host, to the photograph print, to the album, and even to our unique photostrip holders, that look after the actual photos while your guests party on, we like to keep it real. As real as the ring on your finger. So, beware of the wolf in photo booth clothing. There are many quite good actual photobooth services out there, make sure you get one of them (and we say, make sure it’s amazing, because, if it’s not amazing, well, then it just isn’t amazing!). Ask them to substantiate their claims, and ask to see a photo of their booth.
In the meantime, nothing virtual tastes as good as an actual computer tastes.
*We were so flattered by this, because we do try so hard. But we gotta tell, we are human too, and this year, we have had a couple of those…ah…human moments. We will blog a blog on that soon.
OK, so WetaDigital got pipped at the post. We can’t win every day, and we probably shouldn’t (though Bret McKenzie did, and we are VERY pleased about that here in Wellington). We were very happy to be invited to the Oscar Party today with Weta Digital, to celebrate the great efforts of their team. It was at Foxglove down on the waterfront, where we love to be when we are hanging in Wellington. Anyway, and so, we bumped into Victor and Vanessa, which was quite cool. We met Victor a few years back, before he even got famous with all of his Octopus shenanigans.
The surfer? Victor entered a film into a film festival we were organising for a favorite charity of ours, Surf Aid.
So we knew Victor was one of those wonderful big hearted people, with a bucket of creativity to boot. Vanessa must have spotted it too, cause she married him, last month. So what’s the deal with the penguins, nudists and pedal boat races? Check out the video here, by Peachhouse Productions
Victor & Vanessa from Peach House Productions on Vimeo.
Wrapped Up In Love by Marie Hines Kindly licensed by www.themusicbed.com (incidentally, we think these guys are the best thing in wedding video production since…ever!)
We always get excited about a new venue, except, I suppose, that this one is old. It’s new to us though! Emma and Jacob are getting married here tomorrow. They seem like an extremely chilled out couple.
Did you know that Memorial Halls were all built following World War II. World War I led to rash of concrete obelisks and marble plaques around the country. Much better to have your wedding party in a hall than around an obelisk I would say. And something bitter sweet about the practical value of the tribute to something so horrendous as war. Oh dear, this post is getting bit dark now. We are just so excited about being at the Lower Moutere Memorial Hall tomorrow night. It’s a beautiful building. Thanks to our wonderful hostess also, Erin who will be there shepherding magical memories.
bmd x Mayor of Wellington x ATPB x Santa
And the little photobomb dude at the back. What’s with him?
It’s so amazing, we’re going post the shizzle out if it.
The Big Day Dowse - V2.moving images. Keep patient, for the painter to start,
sick
One-Second Film Festival proves how beautiful a single second can be
Less booth, more amazing
bmd x ATPB x The Dowse art museum.
The White Album (not The Beatles one) Our hand made photobooth albums have been a real hit. Why get a crappy factory one, when you can have one hand made WITH. YOUR. OWN. NAMES. ON. IT ALL PRESSED DOWN HARD by a wiley old Cuba Street bookbinder with hand powered machines left over from Guttenberg. Don’t know Guttenberg? It’s like twitter before twitter, ‘cept German.
Just because this is beautiful. (and because focus is overrated)
Sean was helping us our for a while. We had to let him go. The ladies liked him too much, and were distracting him from doing his job.
‘Face(s) of the week’ - love this one from David and Julies wedding in Auckland last week