How To Make Ghosts Appear In Other's Photographs - The Image Fulgurator

[Hammer]

This thing sounds amazing.

The Image Fulgurator is a device for physically manipulating photographs. It intervenes when a photo is being taken, without the photographer being able to detect anything. The manipulation is only visible on the photo afterwards.

In principle, the Fulgurator can be used anywhere where there is another camera nearby that is being used with a flash. It operates via a kind of reactive flash projection that enables an image to be projected on an object exactly at the moment when someone else is photographing it. The intervention is unobtrusive because it takes only a few milliseconds. Every photo another photographer takes of an object at which the Fulgurator is also aimed is affected by the manipulation. Hence visual information can be smuggled unnoticed into the images of others.

More info can be found here (the topic titles are in German, but the pages are in English).

There is a video of it being used as well:

YouTube - image fulgurator at checkpoint charlie

[djtoast]

That's phenomenal! The burning Reichstag is inspired!

Seems like it wouldn't be too hard to make one of those...

[L@ur@]

what did they make the sign say

"thousands of people died last year, everything this.."

??

[Woolies]

I think:
"Hundreds of people died last year on trying this at the US/Mexican border"

cos from the site:

The manipulation created a link from the former East / West border to the US / Mexican border in order to reimagine the dramatic situation at worldwide borders today. The massage(sic) was addressed to the tourists on location, that can travel easily over every border without risking there life.

The idea of projecting ghost faces is definitely more appealing than political messages though