weird light phenomenon

I noticed a really weird thing at MASS MoCA. Every time I tried to take a picture of these lights, my phone camera picked up a weird interference pattern. The dark stripes in the picture above aren’t supposed to be there. Every picture I took in this room had them, though:

My best guess is that it has something to do with the rolling shutter. Sarah’s phone did the same thing. I captured it on video:

(Sorry it’s so shaky. It’s hard to film what’s going on in one hand with the other!)

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