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The German translation may be a little wonky, but the idea is super cool. Julius Von Bismarck has given us the chance to hack your photos in realtime.

"The image fulgurator is a device for physical manipulation of photographs. The intervention will take place, while the photo is exposed, without the photographer can say something like this. The change will be for him only in retrospect visible in the photo. As long as a flash is used, the principle on each camera or environment applicable. Each photos, any photographer, from the object to which the Fulgurator is addressed, which is affected by the manipulation. This can be unnoticed visual information in the images of other einschleusen. The Fulgurator works with a kind of feedback lightning projection, with which it is possible, an image on an object to project exactly the same time, the object photographed by someone else. This procedure is very inconspicuous, since it takes place within a few milliseconds."

Technically, the Image Fulgurator classical works like a camera, though in reverse. In a normal camera, the light reflected from an object is projected via the lens onto the film. In the Image Fulgurator, this process is exactly the opposite: instead of an unexposed film, an exposed and developed roll of slide film is loaded into the camera and behind it, a flash. When the flash goes off, the image is projected from the film via the lens onto the object.

Due to the similarity of the two processes, the Fulgurator looks like a conventional reflex camera. As soon as the built-in sensor registers a flash somewhere nearby, the flash projection is triggered. Hence the projection can be synchronized to the exact moment of exposure of all other cameras in its immediate vicinity. Via a screen (ground glass), it is possible to focus the projection and to position it on the targeted object.

The first test of an image fulguration in public: an intervention at the Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin (former border of east and west Germany) The target of the manipulation was the famous "YOU ARE ENTERING THE AMERICAN SECTOR" - sign. The manipulation created a link from the former East / West border to the US / Mexican border in order to reimagine the dramatic situation at worldwide borders today. The message was addressed to the tourists on location, that can travel easily over every border without risking there life.

the flash projection of the Fulgurators visualized a temporal link in the year 1933, the year of the Reichstag fire