Photo booth

And you can listen to what we've talked about already at toacertaindegree.com, or just find To a Certain Degree wherever you get your podcasts.

But AI photo booth.

What?

Yeah.

What does that even mean?

So you know the photo booths now are all digital.

Yeah.

So instead of just taking pictures of people, we'll do sort of the, like one of the options if we wanted to do our own business, which is, I think, something we wanna do.

And I was just lucky to be in the space with one of my best friends, but it was very overwhelming to be in that space as well.

We went into a photo booth and the photo booth, we, oh my God, there's nothing more humbling than going into a photo booth thinking that you're going to look so great.

and it taking photos and then the photos come out and you're just like wow okay so maybe we go now but anyway the event was lovely and it it was a great time and we walked back um we walked back to Emma's but that has been my week I hope you've enjoyed now let's get into the topic of the week which is the subtle art in letting go Letting go and letting in is something that I write at the end of each journal entry every day because it's a reminder to myself that within letting go, there is something new to let in.

And I've had to remind myself this in romance.

I have got through everything up until this present moment and I've done it well.

I've allowed myself time, patience and understanding to get through certain things.

And I invest time and effort into that healing, whether that's through journaling, talking to my friends, my therapist, myself on Photo Booth, the podcast.

I have a knowing that I will be there for myself.

And then I've got, you know, some other smaller projects and exploratory stuff.

Right now, we've got an AI photo booth that we've built.

And what it's really been for us has been kind of a flagship of both using the AI to build something but then also give people a front-end experience.

And so what it is is we take it out to parties.

And they're like, dude, this is exactly what we want.

So we built it all up for them and got it dialed in.

And basically the experience of the AI Photo Booth is you come up and it takes your photo and then it turns you into a toon.

We're calling it Toon-O-Rama.

Even long before this conversation, probably a year or two ago, I really loved the idea of adding Photo Booth as a service branch because it has almost all of the same operational benefits and even more operational benefits than coffee catering.

The equipment is smaller, easier to transport.

The skill set required to operate it is even lower.

And so I've long been interested in it.

And after chatting with Brandon, I'm definitely really interested.

And I think I am going to kind of pull the trigger and start piloting Photo Booth as our second service offering.

Hey y'all, welcome to the Mobile Business Podcast, the world's best pod for mobile businesses of all shapes and sizes.

I'm hanging out today with my friends and FlashQuotes co-founders, Zach Kabshaw and Justin Goodheart, also of Goodheart Coffee.

I'm Anthony Burke and you're listening to ABC Radio National.

There's something magical about a photo booth.

Step behind the curtain and for a few seconds, the outside world disappears.

They've recorded childhood friendships, first loves and countless spontaneous moments, all compressed into a strip of black and white images.

These days, photo booths often sit among the noise and spectacle of modern arcades.

But when did they first appear and why are they finding a new audience more than a century later? Kat Langford is a PhD candidate at RMIT and her research project is called Automatic for the People, Photo Booth and Urban Culture.

Hi Kat.

Hi, thanks so much for having me.

It's just like, man, I can't not see that.

That's like a iPhone, like a phone booth or a photo booth or something like that.

It's like an app on the Macs.

Don't tell me you never fucked with that in school.

We had PCs.

We had our superintendent installed Macs all over our school.

So we had Photo Booth installed on all of our computers there.

So if we were just having a free period and not really doing any school, we would get on the computer and just fuck with Photo Booth the entire time.

Um, and I had TikTok on my phone for a week, and I was just obsessed with what people were saying.

And, um, I had, I, I pulled up Photo Booth and I pressed play, and I was like, "I'm removing myself from this.

I'm, like, holding myself to this via Photo Booth."

You were speaking to yourself-

Yeah

... via Photo Booth.

Yes.

And you posted it, or it was just for you?

Remember that fancy Logitech C920 camera we bought her for her old Mac Mini? Well, that once-fancy camera is only 3 megapixels, while the MacBook Air sports a 12-megapixel sensor with computational video processing for low light.

I asked Marlene to open up Photo Booth on her new Mac to see how that internal camera looked, and when she saw her face on the screen, she screamed with horror.

She's funny that way.

She's a beautiful woman, but she likes to make fun of when, you know, she's old.