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Title: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: A.M. Thomas on June 28, 2008, 02:41:22 AM
Cool!

(http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/knarre-web.jpg)

Quote from: blog.wired.com
This is the Image Fulgurator, half guerrilla-art stunt and half homemade-gadget awesomeness. Berlin based artist Julius von Bismarck uses his oddly named camera-mod to project images onto street furniture where they appear in the photos of strangers, but remain invisible to their eyes.

How? It's simple. The device has a slave unit on top which is triggered when it sees a flash fire. This triggers his own flash, which fires through the back of the camera, through a film slide containing his slogan and then on and out through the lens at the front. This works because a camera is pretty much a projector in reverse. And because the light-graffiti is fired at the exact same moment the unsuspecting victim takes a picture, it ends up in their photograph and paranoid mind ramblings result. Neat.

Article:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/gun-camera-adds.html

Interview with inventor:
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/06/exclusive-inter.html

Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAX_3Bgel7M
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: TL on June 28, 2008, 10:02:04 AM
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Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: Martin on June 28, 2008, 11:59:21 AM
The video was disappointing though.
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: A.M. Thomas on June 28, 2008, 12:53:06 PM
I want you to be my FOT secret santa this year, and I want you to GET ME THIS!



If only I could figure out how to build one.
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: A.M. Thomas on June 28, 2008, 12:53:44 PM
The video was disappointing though.

Yeah, I should have put up a warning.  Other people watching should just skip to the end.
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: Emily on June 28, 2008, 02:22:12 PM
That's cool. Time consuming, but I guess it's digital graffiti.. its interesting.

What's this sign everyone's taking a photo of? "You are entering the American sector, carrying weapons off duty forbidden obey traffic rules"

where is this & who is the sign intended for? some sort of officers or something?

Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: Emily on June 28, 2008, 02:27:13 PM
is there like, internet graffiti - where people "tag" other people's websites? (not necessarily hacking - but like something with a more artistic agenda)
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: John Junk 2.0 on June 28, 2008, 02:51:25 PM
That's dickish.
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: chrisfoll577 on June 28, 2008, 02:57:11 PM
That's cool. Time consuming, but I guess it's digital graffiti.. its interesting.

What's this sign everyone's taking a photo of? "You are entering the American sector, carrying weapons off duty forbidden obey traffic rules"

where is this & who is the sign intended for? some sort of officers or something?



It's Checkpoint Charlie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checkpoint_Charlie), the main border crossing between West and East Berlin during the  Cold War.
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: Emily on June 28, 2008, 03:30:40 PM
right. thanks!
Title: Re: Gun Camera Adds Graffiti to Other People's Photos
Post by: buffcoat on June 28, 2008, 03:32:51 PM
A)  Human beings look stupid when they are confused.

B)  Get a beardcut, hippie!