The party is over, the cheering gone but everyone is going to remember this one. The photo booth turned out to be a smashing success at the birthday party where I unveiled it.

We discretely set it up shortly after dinner in a quiet corner of the house where the party was. Last minute preparations and it was officially open for photos. We seeded a couple of people with the knowledge of what and where it was. The rest evolved on it's on over the course of the night, landing us with a total of 248 VGA-resolution monochrome images in about 3.5 hours.

The sound of people in the booth laughing & shrieking and the sound that the software Photo Booth made filtered through the house. Away from the action, I discretely left my laptop on, open and with a custom Quartz Composer composition that would poll the photo booth machine few it's pictures, displaying the most recent 16 images. This too drew a crowd of on lookers waiting for the next image to appear. One guest said it best, “The sound of the photo booth counting down causes a Pavlovian response to see what the next picture will bring!”

Equally amazing to me was the use of the curtain to enter/exit the booth. I figured that no one would close the curtain once they were inside but the curtain was slung closed by every person that entered. You really get a sense of being private (even though just down the hall everyone would see your picture in about five seconds).