Slitscanner or the new arty way to watch YouTube videos

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Tags: arty, javascript, sha hwang, slitscanner, Video, vimeo, weird app, YouTube

February 6th 2013

By AMUSEMENT

Lazer Sword - Beast’s Reprise / by Paul Trillo

NAME: Slitscanner

AUTHOR: American design technologist Sha Hwang.

DESCRIPTION: This little JavaScript bookmarklet slitscans the videos you are watching on YouTube or Vimeo. The images merge together to create a beautiful panorama where abstraction meets figuration. To use it, drag the slitscanner to your bookmark bar and click on it when you start watching a video. Make sure the videos are on HTML 5 as the script does not support Flash. Sha Hwang selected some of the best slitscanned screenshots on this dedicated Tumblr.

AMUSEMENT RATE: The Slitscanner bookmarklet doest not work equally on all the videos, some are just so abstract that the result is nothing more than a bunch of lines glued together. The magic happens when you find a video which perfectly with slitscanner. So don’t stop after one try, play with the speed and you might create an awesome slitscanned canvas.

Source: booooooom

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Unnamed Soundsculpture / by Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer

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Simon Bronson's video

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Teebs - Moments / by Paul Trillo

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Firewall by Aaron Sherwood with Mike Allison / via Katie Dreke

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