{"id":433,"date":"2006-08-21T18:14:04","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T18:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randomwire.com\/2006\/08\/21\/face-off\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T22:40:48","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T20:40:48","slug":"face-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/face-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Face Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:10471,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Photo_Booth_(software)&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250616024710\\\/https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/Photo_Booth_(software)&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 15:43:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-02 15:43:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"wp-image-432\" src=\"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/face.jpg\" alt=\"Face Off\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>The visual effects in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Photo_Booth_(software)\">Photo Booth<\/a> may be a bit gimmicky but i think they\u2019re kinda cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The visual effects in Photo Booth may be a bit gimmicky but i think they\u2019re kinda cool!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[218,279],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","tag-art","tag-software"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":202,"url":"https:\/\/randomwire.com\/appleseed\/","url_meta":{"origin":433,"position":0},"title":"Appleseed","author":"David","date":"29th November 2004","format":false,"excerpt":"As anyone who knows me will probably testify, I\u2019m a bit of a sucker for beautiful visual effects in film, hence my love of films like The Matrix, Hero, Ghost in the Shell and Koyaanisqatsi. 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