Did you know you can turn any room with a window into a camera? Jason van Genderen - a filmmaker from the Central Coast of NSW, Australia - illustrates in this video how he turns a bland, concrete hotel room into a natural projection camera, by using just three basic hardware items (black plastic, cloth tape and scissors). The 'Camera Obscura' creative experiment took place in a beach-side hotel in Cottesloe, West Australia.

It demonstrates how natural light (which travels in a straight path) enters the room through a tiny circle cut in the plastic blackout sheeting on one of the windows, and then forms a wrap-around projected image of the outside world, inside the room. Jason captured a series of still images and video of the experience on his iPhone. Interestingly, the lens in our eyes ALSO cast an upside-down image of what we see on our retinas, but our optical nerve has learned to orientate this image right-way round so we can see and navigate our world normally.

(*Version without music and type graphics also uploaded)