Also the image below was a picture taken of his current scanner camera (looks nuts!). Mike made his first scanner from duct tape, a cardboard box, and the cheapest flatbed scanner that he could find.

He thought that the scanner camera project would be short lived but by the looks of his art gallery he has hit on something good here, Mike found that some of the images that he was taken had a weird effect creating some most unique images.

"I was tremendously excited by these developments. Instead of building a camera that mimicked the functionality of a traditional photographic camera, I had stumbled across a new tool for examining the relationships between time, motion, and image. What I though would be a two week art project has turned into one that has lasted for almost three years, and shows little sign of stopping. My cameras work a lot better now, although most of them still use a lot of duct tape, cardboard, and cheap flatbed scanners. I've begun to learn the vocabulary of the scanner camera, begun to be able to interpret and previsualize these strange new pictures."

This has been a very successfull project indeed and his site is currently being hit by tons of visitors, the link to his main site has been mirrored so you can see for yourself how cool this is.

[Via Scannerphotography]

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