HighSpeed PhotoBooth
Slow-motion selfies.
An update to the familiar self-operated photo booth, this booth shoots a brief 3-second video at 1000 frames per second. Once captured, integrated software stretches the video to nearly one minute, slowing quick action to reveal normally imperceptible movements.
Team:
Design: Pablo Garcia and Spike Wolff
Software/Hardware Design: Riley Harmon and Dan Wilcox
Booth Construction: Kyle Rood
Camera Provided by: Matt Kearney of Fastec Imaging
Lighting Provided by: Gil Penderly of Visual Instrumentation Corp
Support provided by The Jill Watson Family Foundation. Commissioned for the 2011 Watson Festival, Carnegie Mellon University.
Visitors enter the booth and perform in front of a high-speed camera. The three seconds of action are stretched to nearly one minute and projected onto the ceiling above the booth.
Installation at Bouillants 5 Electronics Arts Festival, Vern-Sur-Seche, France.