graffiti research lab

Ever wanted to try your hand at graffiti but were afraid of getting mown down by a passing train? Got delusions of grandeur? Well this combines the two and might just be what you were looking for. Drawing graffiti on skyscrapers with no consequences. Awesome. Check out the video here. The artist gets a light pen and a device behind tracks your movements thus translating them into a projection of light onto your chosen building. Sounds like fun to me :)

faithfull

I love love love Faithless anyway but this video is just a gorgeous realisation of their vision. Inspired by light painting (check out my light painting blog post tags), this video is edgy and sublime. Exactly how dance music videos should be. Inspiring. Love it.

toben seymour

I've just discovered Toben Seymour. He is a director working out of California and has spent his life as animator/puppeteer/sound engineer/director/content generator. What he loves is recreating old school film techniques and this video featured here for The Willowz is no exception. I am still trying to figure out exactly how this is done. This is NOT cgi. The technique is to use light to with an extended shutter lag to burn light images onto each frame. In this way you can paint onto the lens if you are clever enough. But what he is doing here is melding this technique with stop-motion to create an absolutely surreal effect. I'm determined to figure out how he storyboarded this.

Links to his homepage & youtube videos