Marcel Duchamp walks into a bar, with a funhouse mirror in one hand and a webcam in the other…

Wait, how does that go again?

Anyway, we’re pretty sure if you put those things together, you’d end up with pixel-lapse.

Instead of capturing a photo all at once, pixel-lapse records one pixel at a time, starting at the top of the image and working downwards.

Try moving your head side to side as the picture records, or moving closer to the camera, or changing positions halfway through.

Surrealists of the world, unite!

Pixel-Lapse for Mac and Windows
via Make

p.s. If you don’t want your images uploaded to the online user’s gallery, be sure to turn off “photo-sharing” whenever you open the pixel-lapse application.

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