Wittner Fabrice created an awesome light stencil project. Titled Enlightened Souls, Wittner created a series of light painting photos via light stencils to “remember human losses and and to show the spirit of a wounded city.” Started in may 2011 in Christchurch, New Zealand, the project was a morale contribution to the magnitude 6.3 quake’s aftermath.

Wittner Fabrice used light stencils to “share ideas and feelings about society and life.”

The Luminarie De Cagna is shown here. Created with 55,000 LEDs the cathedral-like structure was recently displayed at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belguim. The festival hosted numerous other exhibitions including a 3D projection mapping.

That’s pretty impressive if you ask me, but then again it still can’t beat zip lining through Fremont Street!

Tired of swirling around your glowsticks and steel-wool-fireballs to create light paintings? Well these light paintings were done completely automated. I present to you the Roomba Light Painter! If you ask me, I thought the best use for these automated vacuums were for scaring my dog and giving cats a free ride around the carpet. I stand corrected, these glowing crop circles take the cake. Just sit back and enjoy!

Challenge: Create a light painting with the Roomba and fire. Send them into LPA, I will link and feature you!

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Here is a tutorial of a Light Painting Orb created using steel wool done by the PhotoExtremist. Steel wool light orbs have grown popular because of the effects created when spinning the wool as it is lit on fire. The wool will slowly burn and disintegrate causing the illuminated particles of the wool to separate from the ball. Before attempting this make sure you are in an area free of dry brush and debris, and always have a bucket of water or hose nearby because this can get dangerous.

Photo Credit featured image: Aaron Bauer.

Here’s an artist that has been practicing light painting for a little over four years using all sorts of tools such as LED lamps, colored lights, and lasers. His recent work has involved some of the most famous places on Earth. Can I ask again how this guy got exclusive access to shoot Stonehenge for 2 hours? Enough babbling check these out!

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting from Dentsu London on Vimeo.

Working with Beeker Northam at Dentsu, using their techniques to explore how the media landscape is changing.
“… we [Dentsu] are interested in the future, but not so much in science fiction – more in possible or invisible magic.”

They interpreted that brief by exploring how surfaces and screens look and work in the world. Here they demonstrate their ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that in habit the world. Using photographic and animation techniques which allowed them to create moving 3-dimensional typography and objects. The short version of their stop-frame animation movie is shown here.

Making Future Magic: iPad light painting (short version)

They have used a literal interpretation of the ideas represented in the film. With an affinity for inventing new techniques for making media, they wish to explore characters and movement. The goal is to create and represent the physical world with light painting photography and cinematography.

Yeah, he’s pretty much genius and will make your old 1989 Toyota Camry look like a diamond in the rough after he’s flashed his light paint around your way. Check out some of the cool stuff he’s done below, oh and check out his youtube “making of” videos!