More Ham, Less Cheese: Peter Demuth Photography’s Photo Booth is Back!

Cancel that pre-holiday portrait studio appointment!

Will your friends and family really believe everyone is so well-behaved and put-together? You don’t even look like you’re having fun, despite Santa’s Workshop in the background!

We’re pleased to announce that Peter Demuth Photography will be back at Hullabaloo with his photo booth! Peter’s playful personality and positive energy brings out the best in his subjects, which—with a little help from fun props and an awesome backdrop—provides families, couples, groups of friends, and even the occasional set of strangers with unforgettable photos.  After the event, you’ll be able to view them online for free, order the print resolution files, or purchase prints and/or holiday card packages at amazing prices.  Or not. Just hamming it up for fun is cool too!

Peter is an award-winning, Kingston-based wedding and photo booth photographer, who also brings his skills (and his photo booth) to other area events. He’s also a renowned portrait and commercial photograph whose photos have been published internationally. He serves as Technical Director of Photography and Graphic Design Programs at SUNY New Paltz.  But most of all, he’s just a really fun guy.

Whether you’re all wearing elf ears and clubbing each other with candy canes, or you choose a more traditional pose, Peter’s photos capture a certain authenticity that most photographers miss. Hullabaloo is a pretty fun place—so harness that good time and let Peter capture your memories and preserve that awesome family dynamic in photographic form!

Isn’t your cousin (with her perfect children in their perfect matching outfits) going to be secretly jealous when she sees YOUR family having so much fun together? Won’t your co-workers regret the time they spent yelling at their kids NOT to do bunny ears behind their siblings? Isn’t your frenemy going to wish HER boyfriend loved her enough to wear matching Rudolph noses?

There’s a SUPER RAD photo backdrop in the works this year too…We can’t tell you about it yet, but we’re pretty positive it’s a lot less cheesy than anything you’d find at those department store studios!  

See you at Hullabaloo!

DJ Mr. Chips: Adding Funk to the Festivities at Hullabaloo 2015!

It wouldn’t be a party without music and though Danielle is known for her super-fresh playlists, she’ll be busy running the show during Hullabaloo!

With that in mind from the start, we went to our favorite professional: He’s lauded around town as the guy who does the classic hip-hop dance parties at The Anchor and other local watering holes, but you might also know him as Hullabaloo’s official DJ—Andrew Nelson, aka DJ Mr. Chips. We’re pleased to announce that he’ll be back at it, spinning at Hullabaloo as he has since the beginning!

DJ Mr. Chips not only has a talent for creating some pretty sick mash-ups (someone on social media once reminisced about his at-Hullabaloo mash-up of Led Zeppelin with the theme from Star Wars), he’s also got impeccable taste in old school hip-hop, funk, soul, indie rock, and holiday tunes you’re NOT sick of hearing…all of which will come together to form the perfect shopping soundtrack!

But perhaps you haven’t noticed this under-appreciated talent (case in point): He’s also got a knack for keeping the music at juuuussstttt the right level (as in, you’ll want to bust a move, but you’ll be able to talk to the artist about the one-of-a-kind gift you’re buying). What a guy!

We know you’re as psyched about DJ Mr. Chips’ return as we are, so start working on your (family-friendly) requests now…we know Danielle will be! 

Old-School Instagram: Tom DeLooza’s While-You-Wait Wet-Plate Collodion Portraits

One of our favorite day-after-Hullabaloo activities is searching for the #hvhullabaloo hashtag on social media and seeing our awesome vendors’ and shoppers’ photos from the event. Last year, tons of people were posting photos of their photos by Tom DeLooza—and getting lots of likes and comments! But unlike most in your newsfeed, these pictures are special because of sooooo much more than an Instagram filter...

Inspired by his “internal mad scientist” and a lifelong fascination with building things, Tom takes your portrait WITH CAMERAS HE BUILT, and uses a mid-19th century technique called wet-plate collodion to send you home with a hauntingly beautiful keepsake.  One of the oldest forms of photography, this technique takes its name from the fact that the image plate has to be coated, sensitized, exposed, and developed all while the chemistry is still wet. While this means that Tom is burdened with a lot of equipment, chemicals, and materials, he’s perfectly willing to lug all this around to provide you with a unique souvenir of Hullabaloo (or an amazing gift if you can bear to part with it!) in a matter of minutes.

Tom’s portraits are uncanny—leaving you with a curious feeling that you’re looking at yourself as your own ancestor…Yet, while the portraits look antique, there’s a modern sensibility and a quirky edginess too—past colliding with present in a delightfully confusing way.  His work has been seen in numerous galleries, displays, and exhibitions and he shoots everything from still lives to wedding portraits using this fascinating process; he also does workshops, tutorials, and equipment conversion. Learn more at www.tomdelooza.com. 

We’re psyched to have Tom back at Hullabaloo to offer his tangible, heirloom pieces in this digital age…and at a special rate:  $40 per plate, one plate per session. Want to be photographed with your favorite stuffed animal? Reading your favorite book? Wearing an antelope mask? He encourages you to wear costumes and bring props and favorite treasures, so get creative! He’ll also have gift certificates available (how about a session for your favorite couple!).

They may look like way-latergrams, but these awesome pieces are more timeless than any app. We can’t wait to see yours!