Space Invaders was a simple little game involving very few pixels on screen at any given time. Which makes it perfect, apparently, to turn every pixel into a human being and create a stop-motion video of the retro shooter in action.
The masterwork of Guillaume Reymond is a result of 4 hours of moving 67 participants around and capturing 390 images to create a 3-minute video that one has to see to believe. We are dumbfounded, can there be anything weirder?
Wow. That took a lot of time, coordination, and people. If I knew enough people who wanted to spend hours chaning seats, I would do this. Except, I would do Tetris.
Wow, that's actually quite amazing. There's only one thing I can imagine adding to that performance -- a row of people seated at a bottom corner, each person holding up a cardboard square with a number on it used to display score (and perhaps remaining ships). I also sort of wished they let it "play" to the last super speedy ship, but whatever. Very very cool :)
I love that the small, personal movements (arm crossing, position shifting) of the pixelppl have been captured. It's kind of fun to spot who was the most restless during this long photography session.
