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With a little trial and error, photographer Brian Maffitt produced magnificent images that look like something out of a science fiction movie or a DNA lab. 

To capture his unique “Projector Snow” images, which you can see in the gallery above, he pointed an old Optoma DLP projector out a bedroom window as the mighty snowstorm known as Nemo dumped 15 inches of powder on Maffitt’s hometown of Chestnut Ridge, New York, last week. Using an Apple TV, the photog pulled up the first kids’ movie he could find on Netflix and began beaming the colorful video into the night. 

“The movie was The Lorax, but for no good reason,” Maffitt told Wired. “Projecting a darker movie like Saw wouldn’t have worked as well — and may have startled the neighbors.”

From Here’s What You Get When You Project The Lorax Into a Blizzard (Wired Magazine, Lewis Wallace)