Custom Photos Ideal for Your "Boo"

September 21, 2005 11:00 AM

Photos Beyond the Wall"We take you out of the visiting room and place you "inside" the romantic or exotic location of your choice!" Photographs taken in prisons can be photoshopped to magical lands far far away.
posted by keli (18 comments total)

posted by squalor at 11:16 AM on September 21, 2005

I was going to point out the "boo" recommendation before I noticed it as the head for this topic. Nice.
posted by lyam at 11:22 AM on September 21, 2005

Depressing. The idea that someone would do this almost gives me this glimpse of a life like that- going to prison to visit your love, or being in prison and looking forward to one day every now and then when your love can come to you. And you both decide, let's take a picture, and let's put it on a fancy background, so at least in that one, oddly lit photo, we're living happy somewhere else.
posted by thethirdman at 11:22 AM on September 21, 2005

That's almost as depressing as babyphotoretouch.com.
posted by fandango_matt at 11:30 AM on September 21, 2005

I feel so sad. The limited aspirations implicit in the fantasy backgrounds is particularly depressing.
posted by Nelson at 11:38 AM on September 21, 2005

What does 'your Boo' refer to?
posted by signal at 11:53 AM on September 21, 2005

No more explaining where the photos were taken!

Except when someone asks you when you were at the North Woods Lodge, what you're doing behind the bar at the "Manhattan Manor", or where you got the new Jag.
posted by tpl1212 at 12:19 PM on September 21, 2005

What does 'your Boo' refer to?

Boo --> Beau --> Boyfriend
posted by mkultra at 12:49 PM on September 21, 2005

About half of the "before" photos seem to have been taken in the exact same spot, in front of the same mural on the same cinderblock wall. It actually looks a lot like the party room at the YMCA or a church basement or something, and not much like what I imagined a prison would look like. Is this someplace particularly well-known? Is it someplace that many viewers of a family photo are actually likely to recognize?
posted by Western Infidels at 1:17 PM on September 21, 2005

Actually, "Boo" is just an affectionate term, it can refer to a male or female, and it doesn't have to be a sexual relationship either, it can pretty often refer to one's kids. Really, it's kind of a cute word all things being equal.

Now then, having engaged in a few "behind the wall" photos in my lifetime (no, I wasn't the one inside) I can sort of understand the concept behind these. It's a sad feeling to look at you and a loved one in a place as cold as prison is. But that being said, actually getting this done seems like the worst sort of fantasy.

I would think looking at a photo like this would be FAR sadder than any I have.
posted by KirTakat at 2:27 PM on September 21, 2005

Any one figure this is the service Cool Hand Luke used?
posted by PhatLobley at 3:10 PM on September 21, 2005

I like the photo where the guy and girl are sitting outside, on the stairs. Helluva prison!
posted by pferdestarken at 4:04 PM on September 21, 2005

That's almost as depressing as babyphotoretouch.com.

Oh dear.
posted by grouse at 4:10 PM on September 21, 2005

That's almost as depressing as babyphotoretouch.com.

Oh dear.

Seconded.
posted by mikeweeney at 4:41 PM on September 21, 2005

I agree, the fantasy is far more depressing than the reality.

If I were in prison, the fantasy I would have wouldn't be owning a Jag, going to faux-tony resorts, or the like -- it would be lying in my own bed at home.
posted by dhartung at 4:44 PM on September 21, 2005

dhartung, I bet for enough money, they'll go to your house and photograph all the mundane things that free people take for granted. Is anyone else reading racism into the "boo" comment on their site? I mean, boo is traditionally African American vernacular, right? So that's clearly who they're targeting?
posted by jonson at 5:51 PM on September 21, 2005

That's almost as depressing as babyphotoretouch.com.

Well. I just screamed aloud. In terror.
posted by kalimac at 6:57 PM on September 21, 2005

BOO!

(going into that babyphotoretouch.com almost made me barf; the letters from mom's alone are a window into something I probably could have been fine without knowing about. Hard to not check, though, eh?)
posted by Joseph Gurl at 7:47 PM on September 21, 2005