lightening doodles - making art with flashlights

[afraidofdark]

The Japanese artists Takeshi Nagata and Kazue Monno collaborate on what they call "PIKAPIKA: lightening doodle project".

Basically they take long-exposure images of people drawing in the air with flashlights, and then stitch these images into short films. The results are pretty amazing, and remind me why I fell in love with flashlights when I was a kid.



Click on the image above to go to the project web site, where the artists have several of their films posted.

I read about PIKAPIKA on the boingboing site, where I think they say that there is a commercial for Sprint done by the same artists ... anyway, I thought that there one or two people here at CPF who might enjoy this

 

[aceo07]

That's pretty cool. I don't like what's being sold in the sprint commercial.. but everything else was nice.

I've tried to draw faces with my flashlight and capture it with my camera before. It takes a lot of practice.

 

[greenlight]

I've been wondering who did those ads. They're pretty cool.

 

[Derek Dean]

VERY cool....... thanks for the posting the link!

 

[carrot]

There's a few more of those.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lichtfaktor/show

 

[afraidofdark]

There's a few more of those.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lichtfaktor/show

Ha! Those guys are pretty good ... I love this one:

You not only have to be a flashaholic and a good photographer to pull this off, you have to know how to draw too ...:twothumbs

 

[f22shift]

easy with a dslr and tripod.
definitely:naughty:

 

[light_emitting_dude]

I did a similar long exposure around the 4th of July with my kids. I let them run around with a sparkler.