image, via wildlife

At least some of this video by Karolina Sobecka was filmed in Seattle, it seems, and I’m not just a little bit sad that I missed it. (I love her Chase, and, in fact, just about everything else she does as well.) They’ve rigged up some sort of complicated machinery to project the image of a wild animal off of a car and onto whatever that car happens to pass.

“The animal’s movements are programmed to correspond to the speed of the car: as the car moves, the animal runs along it speeding up and slowing down with the car, as the car stops, the animal stops also. The framerate of the movie corresponds to the speed of the wheel rotation, picked up by a sensor. If the presence of a moving object (such as another car or pedestrian) is detected with proximity sensors, its animal “avatar” appears in the projection.”

As a bonus, there’s this account of We Make Money Not Art riding around in the car with her as the piece was being made.

Via The Slog.)