David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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  • Fantome_NR

    It’s not an iOS app, it’s a Mac OS app:

    Requirements: OS X 10.6 or later, 64-bit processor

    • David Pescovitz

      thanks!

      • Fantome_NR

        happy to be of such humble service!

  • RadioSilence

    This is really cool, but, like HDR photography, I think the allure might wear off once you see it everywhere.

    • Boundegar

      Some of us already do.

  • euansmith

    Jeepers, that’s freaky. 

  • http://fragmuffin.myopenid.com/ fragmuffin

    Huh, they have this as one of the toys in Kinect Party. Neat to know its name and history.

  • igpajo

    Okay, who slipped the acid in my coffee!

  • Marco Antonio Morales

    Requirements: about 100mg of vitamin K. :)

  • ObeyMyBrain

    And lo we have seen all we ever needed to see of slit scan video.

  • http://twitter.com/alexstapleton Alex Stapleton

    http://vimeo.com/24476973

    Zbigniew Rybczynski - The Fourth Dimension (1988)

    Everything old is new again.

  • niconiconico

    this is how they made apple maps

  • http://twitter.com/beep54orama B E Pratt

    Pretty nifty looking, but thank Gawd it doesn’t last any longer than that. Nausea soon to follow.

  • http://www.peterbagge.com/ Buddy Bradley

    Ah I miss Denver. And this video sums up my memories of it pretty well.

    • Edward Brennan

      Some people think it is the Slit-scan, but those of us who know better, know that Denver always looks this way.

  • http://www.facebook.com/georg.prestalo Georg Prestalo
  • http://home.earthlink.net/~ironybread Taylor Jessen

    So who’s doing the equivalent process for sound? E.G., timeshifting a waveform so that the highest frequencies occur first, the lowest frequencies last?

  • Evil Paul

    It’s the soundtrack that lets you know this is a Pesco post. Beautifully strange indeed.