Designs need to be set up in Photoshop or some other graphic editing program. "Whether they've been slinging light since the Nixon years or they're just beginning, there doesn't seem to be any one thing that ties us together other than a love of the elegant and unpredictable nature of light."Īt $300, Pixelstick is an affordable luxury for photographers, but a steep learning curve could make it difficult for it to reach the mainstream. "If you search for light painters on Flickr, Tumblr, or Twitter, you'll see people of all ages, from all over the world," he says. Pixelstick quickly blew past its $110,000 goal on Kickstarter and has attracted nearly 1,000 backers, but according to Frazier, there aren't many common threads between practitioners of this flashy artform. The pair had been experimenting with long-exposure photography for years and wanted to move beyond the flashlights, iPhones, and other improvised light sources they had been using to sketch to something that offered more creative control. It's a collaboration between Steve McGuigan, a creative jack-of-all-trades and Duncan McCloud Frazier, a photographer/programmer. When loaded with graphics files and waved in front of a camera that has long-exposure capabilities, it creates illuminated images-rainbow swirls, ethereal graffiti, 8-bit animated GIFs, and even masterworks like Botticelli's Venus-that seem to hang in the air like ghosts. In a more technical sense, it's a 6-foot-long aluminum rod, housing a strip of 198 LEDs. Pixelstick is a modern magic wand, and by waving it in a darkened space creatives can conjure fearsome creatures, potent glyphs, and streaks of energy that seem to move under their own power.
Pixelstick, a new gadget for light painters, gets loaded up with graphics, waved in front of a camera that has a long exposure capabilities, and creates illuminated images-even animated gifs-that seem to hang in the air like ghosts.
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