Maybe you’ve heard about slit-scan photography, a process in which an image is developed one thin ‘slit’ at a time. Probably you haven’t! But if Photo Booth has taught us anything, it’s that the joy ...

This video shows every day scenes in a city, in the most impossibly awesome and freaky and mind-twisting way I can imagine. It’s the antithesis of the soothing time-lapses we are used to: a slit-scan ...

Hidden behind the popularity of the latest puzzle game and to-do list app, there’s a rising number of artistic and experimental apps coming out on iOS. Although Apple has yet to provide an “artistic” ...

Award-winning visual effects artist Douglas Trumbull died recently, leaving behind a body of memorable work including the slit-scan ‘Stargate’ sequence from 2001: A Space Odyssey. But what is ...

Fun-house mirror, abstract artwork, or acid trip? You be the judge. Like a scanner, this app records an image by sweeping across it instead of capturing everything at once. The slit size is adjustable ...

IT’S a still image that is more about time than space. Remarkably, the picture has not been Photoshopped: it’s simply a different way of looking at the world. If Doctor Who had a camera, he might take ...