The Booth Feels The Heat At Univision's DJ@PJ

Our videographers and technicians certainly felt the heat in Miami a few weeks ago. We were honored to join Univision at the Miami Surfcomber Hotel for DJ@PJ, an event where top DJ's battle for a chance to spin at the 12th Annual Premios Juventud Awards. The theme was a perfect fit for our Cinemagraph Booth (customized with a professional DJ Console!) All the guests shared their new files and excitement through our social media station. We give a big thanks to the Univision team and our Miami team for all their hard work. [video width="1280" height="720" mp4="http://www.theboothphotovideo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/DJ@PJ9.mp4" loop="true" autoplay="true" preload="auto"][/video]

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A Screaming Awesome Photo Booth!

Last week, we took our New York Photo Booth skills to San Diego and created a custom setup for the Scream Queens ride at Comic-Con. With six DSLRs stationed 20 feet up in the air, we captured fans screaming as they dropped 120 feet! As guests exit the ride, they were able to visit our social media station to view and share their exciting new photos.

An Impressive Camera For A 9 Year Mission.

NASA’s New Horizons probe finally reached Pluto and its dwarf moon, Charon. After traveling 9 years and 3.6 billion miles, New Horizons took hundreds of images on Tuesday morning. With three cameras on board, the most impressive is "Ralph." A camera equipped with a 75mm lens at f/8.7, capable of capturing visible light and some infrared light. As New Horizons traveled away from the sun, temperatures drop causing materials to shrink. Lisa Hardaway, an engineer at Ball Aerospace in Colorado knew "Ralph" would have to be built almost entirely of one type of material.

“We actually built the mirrors and the chassis out of aluminum so that as they shrink, they would shrink together, to maintain the same focal length. We could do a reasonable test on Earth and still expect the same quality image,” Hardaway says.

Even the camera’s mirrors were made out of aluminum. To turn dull aluminum into mirrors, Ball sharpened it with diamonds. The lens was one of the few pieces of the camera that could be safely made out of glass.

A huge mission. An impressive camera. One set of historic photographs.

Love. Joy. Pride. History. #SFPride

A historic day on Friday and the joy continues. This past weekend, we had the honor of joining Airbnb at the San Francisco Pride Parade. Our Slow Motion specialists, a lot of confetti, and tons of love makes for an extremely fun activation. Check out some of the attendees having a confetti blast! [video width="700" height="480" mp4="http://www.theboothphotovideo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/2015-06-27_17-21-30.mp4"][/video]

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The Earliest Color Photographs Were Taken Over 100 Years Ago.

Mervyn O'Gorman was an accomplished English electrical and aircraft engineer. His interest in photography led him to become a pioneer of color photography. In 1913, O'Gorman composed the photographs below, today they are featured in many exhibitions around the world. Using the Autochrome Lumière process, he skillfully captured his daughter, Christina in a series of color photographs. The shallow depth of field was created by long exposures and a large aperture, a style many photographers appreciate. Our team enjoys taking on photographer inspired projects, O'Gorman may be our next one!

The Booths stays current and in the lead.

Stunning photos. Check.

Breathtaking videos. Check.

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Super fun gifs. Check.

Offering new activations and services. Always.

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Check out our latest cinemagraph sample.

Steps forward for the LGBT Community

President Barack Obama proclaims June 2015 as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Pride Month. We are proud to work with companies such as the Anti-violence Project and The Center for Anti-violence education. One thing is for sure, we are all happy to see this progression and will always be supporters.

We know stop motion. This producer mastered it.

A great article on NPR, Son Lux's "Change Is Everything" music video is some of the best stop motion we have ever seen. This reminded us of the stop motion clips we created for airbnb at the Sundance Film Festival.

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The Director, Nathan Johnson and the Producers, The Made Shop took stop motion to a whole new level. Two long weeks, over 4,000 frames, and many sore fingers later. This Masterpiece was created. We cannot wait for our next stop motion booth, does anyone sense a challenge brewing? http://cache.vevo.com/assets/html/embed.html?video=USYAH1500077&autoplay=0

Happy 10th anniversary to The Huffington Post

The Booth joins The Huffington Post for their 10th anniversary celebration!

The site launched on May 9, 2005, when blog sites were not considered as a news medium. Arianna Huffington, the Huffington Post's founder and editor-in-chief, said that her site proved to be a credible medium. Today the site reaches over 200 million unique visitors per month, and that is something worth celebrating!