You can see a longer video in his website.

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The privacy issues raised by the projection of personal information in a public space would lead to many users to use it only for certain tasks, such as games. It will also be difficult to ensure that the user has a portable projector so powerful to draw a clear picture in daylight and over any surface.

In any case it is an innovative concept that companies working in microprojectors will maybe take into account.

Via: PFSK

This is the brilliant idea of Julius von Bismarck, his Fulgurator detects the flash from nearby cameras, projecting an image during milliseconds coinciding with the taking of the photo. The result, unexplained ghostly apparitions in our shots. It is secretive, almost invisible, stealthy and certainly exceptionally intrusive:

“A camera can be used as a personal memory tool, since people do not doubt the veracity of their own photographs. Hence, photos can reproduce the reality of an individual environment or public space. At sacred or popular locations, or those having a political connotation, an intervention with the Fulgurator can be particularly effective. Especially objects with a special aura or great symbolic power are good targets for this kind of manipulation. In other words, with the Fulgurator it is possible to have a lasting effect on those kinds of individual moments and events that become accessible to the masses only because they are preserved photographically.”

All artists want to intervene in one way or another in the eyes of the others, revealing the strangeness or empathy with a previously unknown object, so a tool capable of doing so as efficiently and disconcerting, it can only get my admiration.

Of note is the military and guerrilla paraphernalia that surrounds the device itself, in line with his speech. The briefcase that houses it and its coupling recreate the piece at a time immediately prior to the performance of symbolic counter-fighter. As a final touch, Julius makes his own appearance like El Che, his outstretched arm holding the gun and the logo with a revolutionary inspiration.

I firmly believe that this aesthetic rifle is able to change the perception of our culture beyond the arts field, maybe being taken over by the market for mass distribution in stores for jokes and in cereal boxes, globalizing this stealth intervention in our photos. Then we will often identify the surprised gestures that we can see in the Julius video when being in a touristic place, realizing that other people around us is also comparing their photos with the original. We’ll conclude that in front of us there are some hidden meanings, feeling the temptation of taking our camera and distill them.

Update 27/06: Julius has edited today the porject’s web: ‘pending of patent’ …