“Slit-scan photography,” as it’s known these days, has a long history. It is related to focal plane shutter distortion in the film era and to the rolling shutter effect in the digital age. By ...

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 ...

Slit-scan photography works much like a rolling shutter does—the sensor continually collects image data but the shutter never actually closes, hence its use in determining a “photo finish”—whatever ...

[Filmmaker IQ] has a bunch of great tutorials on the technical aspects of making movies, but this episode on copying the stargate Stanley Kubrick’s famous 2001: A Space Odyssey using Legos is a hacker ...

Photographers and TikTokers can use the method to show how a narrow strip records something different in a series of sequential images The trippy twist stretching across your screen is a doctored ...

Slit-scan photography and filmmaking creates strange looking images that look like they’ve been stretched and distorted as the recorded subject is captured in a series of frames. The resulting effect ...