Confession time – I can count the number of apps I have without making it into double digits. It’s not that I have anything against apps in general, it’s just that I’ve never understood why I would want to clutter my phone up with things I’ll use once a year – if that. But I couldn’t resist the Photobooth app from GoldRun.
Teaming up with Warner Bros, GoldRun’s offering a mobile app that allows you to pose with characters from The Hobbit. You can position Gollum, Gandalf, and other Hobbit characters and items in photos and then share them via Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Email. I snapped the above photo of my dog, Sookie, looking sideways for no apparent reason other than she was refusing to look at the camera. I moved Gollum into the spot next to her in the frame and now it looks as though she knew what was happening the whole time.
The GoldRun app is free at iTunes or Google Play.
The Details:
• Download the GoldRun app for iOS or Android.
• After downloading the app to your mobile device, log in using Facebook connect or Twitter.
• Click on the The Hobbit featured image, click the camera icon on the Featured Screen.
• Once in the camera view, snap away.
• You can share your pictures directly from the app.
More on The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey:
The adventure follows the journey of title character Bilbo Baggins, who is swept into an epic quest to reclaim the lost Dwarf Kingdom of Erebor from the fearsome dragon Smaug. Approached out of the blue by the wizard Gandalf the Grey, Bilbo finds himself joining a company of thirteen dwarves led by the legendary warrior, Thorin Oakenshield. Their journey will take them into the Wild; through treacherous lands swarming with Goblins and Orcs, deadly Wargs and Sorcerers.
Although their goal lies to the East and the wastelands of the Lonely Mountain, first they must escape the goblin tunnels, where Bilbo meets the creature that will change his life forever… Gollum. Here, alone with Gollum, on the shores of an underground lake, the unassuming Bilbo Baggins not only discovers depths of ingenuity and courage that surprise even him, he also gains possession of Gollum’s “precious” ring that holds unexpected and useful qualities… A simple, gold ring that is tied to the fate of all Middle-earth in ways Bilbo cannot begin to know.
