Movie Barcode. Entire films made into a single barcode

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Barcodes are all around us, with their use becoming more varied seemingly every day.  

Barcodes are essentially machine-readable representations of data related to the object attached to the code itself.

The very first scanning of a Universal Product Code (UPC) barcode occurred in 1974, on a pack of Wrigley gum, with a special–type of optical scanner, simply called a barcode reader.  Today,  with the proliferation of smartphones and other devices, barcodes can be scanned and their data processed using a multitude of gadgets.

One super neat use of barcodes comes from the Tumblr blog moviebarcode.

What is it?  Movie barcodes.  The group behind the project compiles every frame in a film, compresses them into slivers, and puts them next to one another, creating a movie barcode.

The one below?  The Matrix:

Two additional grand ones, for films I’ve actually seen and enjoy, are for Kill Bill andThe Social Network, respectively.

What do you think of the project?  Interesting?  If you’d like one of these hanging in your home, moviebarcode is selling prints, or you can simply head to their Tumblr and check out some more of their super creations.