Strange Birds

Photobooth is fairly useless, but fun. I set it up at parties and let people go wild with self-documenting. Sometimes though, I just need to take a quick pic to update an online profile and the flash is pretty annoying. A little searching today finally turned up the answer.

When screen colors are inverted (useful for certain types of color-blindness) the “flash” turns the screen black. This adds no discernible light to a photo, and it doesn’t annoy everyone around you at the coffee-shop, or airport terminal.

Command+Option+Control+8 will invert colors and change them back. The photos taken will also be inverted, but will be “normal” once the screen colors are reverted.

It can be cheesy, and quite explicit, but somehow I still like it - some sort of resonance. Ignoring the horribly written and executed first episode (of the second season), the second has a few brilliant moments, but the tacit approval of extreme measures (read torture) to get at the “truth”…that I can’t support at all.

Overall the writing and acting is second-rate. It has such potential, but fails at least once in every episode. Honestly, it feels like the middle child - doomed to try and never quite measure up.