I came across this great video by Belgian Electro-rock band Goose which utilizes some of the ‘Streak Photography’ techniques I mentioned previously, as well as one of those annoyingly confusing spinning optical illusions. Pretty good song too.

GOOSE “British Mode” from Tokib on Vimeo.

Looking into how I can ‘digitally decay’ video, I came across some Processing scripts which produce this ‘slit-scanning’ effect. 

The scripts work on both a real-time feed from a webcam and on a pre-recorded Quicktime movie. Below are some stills from my webcam, going to look into running this script on a movie file tho…

[click for the full Flickr set]

There are some great pieces of image based artwork on Flong. Im straying a bit off my topic here but Andrew Davidhazy is worth a look. His articles on strip photography and slit-scanning are incredibly interesting.

Bryan Mumford works with ‘Streak Photography’ which you may recognize, I think it ws on a T-Mobile advert recently or something… 

Eddie Elliott seems one of the first to look into slit-scanning techniques with digital video. “As early as 1992, he describes a variety of both utilitarian and playful uses of digital slit-scans, which he called “Video Streamers”. Elliott principally used Streamers as part of a larger visual interface system for editing and manipulating video; later, however, he developed an educational/artistic exhibit (shown at the San Francisco Exploratorium) which computed Streamers from live participant video. Elliott also created playful transformations of Streamers, such as the folding paper box template shown above. Elliott’s work is extensively documented in his 1994 PhD Thesis, which he produced in the Interactive Cinema Group of the MIT Media Laboratory” [Flong.com]