HighSpeed PhotoBooth

Built for the 2011 Wats:ON? Festival at Carnegie Mellon University, the HighSpeed PhotoBooth stretches 3 seconds of action into one minute of playback. Over three days, the public was invited to enter the booth and see themselves in slow motion. See more at youtube.com/user/watsonfestival http://www.pablogarcia.org/projects/hi-speed-photobooth-new/ Designed by Pablo Garcia and Spike Wolff Hardware/Software by Dan Wilcox and Riley Harmon Construction by Kyle Rood Technical Consultant: Matt Kearney High Speed Camera provided by Fastec Imaging High Speed Lighting provided by Visual Instrumentation Corp. Video produced by Jonathan Minard/Michael Pisano of DeepSpeed (http://vimeo.com/user6799145) Support Provided by The Jill Watson Family Foundation The Studio for Creative Inquiry

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.

Built for the 2011 Wats:ON? Festival at Carnegie Mellon University, the HighSpeed PhotoBooth stretches 3 seconds of action into one minute of playback. Over three days, the public was invited to enter the booth and see themselves in slow motion. See more at youtube.com/user/watsonfestival http://www.pablogarcia.org/projects/hi-speed-photobooth-new/ Designed by Pablo Garcia and Spike Wolff Hardware/Software by Dan Wilcox and Riley Harmon Construction by Kyle Rood Technical Consultant: Matt Kearney High Speed Camera provided by Fastec Imaging High Speed Lighting provided by Visual Instrumentation Corp. Video by Jonathan Minard/Michael Pisano of DeepSpeed Media Support Provided by The Jill Watson Family Foundation The Studio for Creative Inquiry

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. — Installation at *Bouillants 5 Electronics Arts Festival,* Vern-Sur-Seche, France.