Photo Dump: Scorbit x Kineticist Pinball Media Mixer 3 in Photos
Another year, another improbably successful pinball media mixer. This year we partnered with the good folks at Scorbit, so technically it was the Scorbit x Kineticist Pinball Media Mixer 3. We partied, played some pinball, drank some beers, and mostly just enjoyed each other's company.
The past two years, one of my absolute favorite things we do is hand out a bunch of disposable film cameras to attendees, ask them to take photos, and see what comes back. Last year, I ordered way too many cameras and ended up with a lot of undeveloped film or half-exposed cameras. This year, I ordered fewer cameras but was much more strategic in handing them out to specific pre-selected guests (mostly fellow creators) with an explicit ask, "It's your job to take photos tonight. Here's a camera. Have fun!"
We generated 324 exposures, and I culled that down to 80 of my favorites, and then a bit further for the 69 that are shared in this post (not including a few additional pics shared with us by other attendees).
What's fun about this exercise for me is that I have no idea what I'm going to see when I drop them off to get developed. For the most part, except the photos I'm in, I'm off elsewhere doing other things in the room as the photos are being taken. I don't know what people will take photos of, or how creative they will get. But, without fail, the photos that come back are just a bunch of candid, authentic, pictures of my friends being goofy and having fun, which is about all I can ask for at these events.
The first two pics here were actually taken by Ian Jacoby of Nudge Magazine, and I wanted to highlight them first because they are awesome, and also to give him a little tip of the cap. This whole idea of film cameras at the Mixer is a riff on some photos he took for us at the very first mixer using his signature film camera, and how much I liked that look. I guess that's the other thing I love about these events, sometimes they lead to collaborations and new forms of creative inspiration that lead to the creation of new things that should exist in this world.
Colin is the chief pixel pusher at Kineticist. He's a lifetime gamer who became enamored with pinball after taking in a family copy of the 1979 classic Joker Poker (the EM version). Since then he's bought, sold and repaired many machines, competed in all kinds of tournaments, and contributes to This Week in Pinball, the New England Pinball League, and Pin-Masters of New England. Previously, Colin spent over a decade working in marketing for agencies and tech startups. He also started and ran a music blog, happy hour website, and wrote a regular craft beer review column for Central Track in Dallas. Once aspired to be an artsy film director.
