The image is digitally manipulated by fragmenting it into horizontal lines and then combining lines from different frames in the display. The result is a distortion of the figures caused by their motion in time, or, as Brazilian researcher Arlindo Machado calls it: chronotopic anamorphosis.

The effect was completely based on Zbigniew Rybczynski's "The Fourth Dimension", but transposed to Processing programming environment and performed in real-time.

Like they said at Gizmodo, this would be a killer filter in OS X's Photo Booth or any other video manipulation software. The part where he walked in and out of the doorway made my eyeballs pee their pants a little bit. I actually met a guy not too long ago who does something very similar to this with digital stills. His name is Ansen Seale - he's a San Antonio local and his work is pretty mind blowing. Check out Ansen Seale Photography to see his portfolio.