Light Graffiti
Wow. Just wow. This has to be, far and away, one of the coolest things I’ve seen in a while.
This is the work of a crew known by Lichtfaktor that do ‘graffiti’ with time-lapse photography, LED lights, torches, glow sticks and even fireworks. The result is ethereal and striking.
I love graffiti. I love finding something new and unexpected. I love the medium, the method of communication and the transformation of something to serve a new purpose.
Sadly, a lot of graffiti fails miserably as it is of the “somebody was here” or “for a good time call…” variety. But then there are the pieces that really capture your attention, that make you think and that is what redeems it. I really like how something as common as a brick wall can be turned into something else. Unfortunately, that generally involves creating art on somebody else’s property and most of the time, they aren’t that pleased about it.
This is brilliant. Graffiti has never been a lasting art form because today’s masterpiece is painted over tomorrow. This negates the necessity to remove the art because it doesn’t leave a lasting mark to be removed. These are pieces that take London streets and landmarks and turn them into a glimpse of something that might exist. It is a glimpse of London in an alternate universe and I am completely enamored with it.
They have a great slideshow on Flickr that you can find here.
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September 28th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
wow! it is amaising they can do things like that… so cool
September 28th, 2007 at 9:23 pm
impressive. I love both pictures. Well more on the lower pic.
September 28th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
they also do it for the sprint commercials, have you seen those? only they must do a bunch of these and then animate it. its a little mind boggling.
September 28th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
i love this light graffiti. and the best of it nobody has to remove them.lol
September 29th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
That is beautiful!!!
October 1st, 2007 at 8:18 pm
I used sparklers with the same camera settings this July to get the same effect. Try spelling your name, it looks so cool.
October 3rd, 2007 at 5:00 am
Wow that’s great graffiti! Never thought it was possible through photography!
October 5th, 2007 at 10:43 pm
That’s very brilliant! I hope we also have that here.
October 7th, 2007 at 8:01 pm
Great pics! Those are beautiful images I’ll look forward to seeing more of these types of graffiti. Thanks for the post.
October 17th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
These are beautiful, and really showcase the power of light and photo. If you are ever interested in cool light images with black and white film, look at pictures created with 2800 film. It’s graining and creates awesome images!
October 17th, 2007 at 8:10 pm
Great images!
Any special camera was used for this?
October 19th, 2007 at 3:23 am
Ow! Nice pictures!! How were they made?
I want to try this technique. The possibilities are amazing, and the effect is so cool!
If you find out how were they done, please reply!
Thanks a lot!
October 20th, 2007 at 11:18 am
If you’re curious about how the pictures were taken you can click on the link in the post to go to their site. They show all the tools used and detail their technique. It’s quite cool.
January 15th, 2008 at 11:15 am
This light graffiti is a great idea, thanks for telling people about it
Since my FZ30 camera can do long-ish exposures I’ll try to see what results I can get from sparklers and a torch
January 15th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
This is amazing! The second photo is actually quite beautiful with the bright colors and curves. It’s like the henna of photography…
March 1st, 2008 at 9:22 am
wahoo how can they do that??
July 17th, 2008 at 7:16 am
That is some really cool art right there. I too love “graffiti” art but always call it art when it is deserving. Banksy is one of the greatest grffiti artist out there today and if anybody hasn’t heard of him, trust me he is worth it.
August 7th, 2008 at 11:56 pm
Those guys are amazing, I’ve tried to do graffiti but failed… My friends are pretty good at it. Some graffiti artist create stuff that seem so surreal and cool. I’m going to go check out some of “Banksy’s” work and see if he is really that great. = ]
August 26th, 2008 at 5:31 pm
This is beautiful (and a good article), but the thing is when I hear graffiti - I think of tagging and stencils and stuff like that. Light graffiti seems like a bit of an oxymoron. Nonetheless, we’re going to do a post and link to you guys
Chris of Environmental Graffiti
November 21st, 2008 at 6:38 pm
I think our work is wanting to make a Christmas card out of time lapse photography. I love the animated Sprint phone commercials that they’ve done with the same techniques.
November 22nd, 2008 at 9:51 am
It looks really amazing! I’ve tried many times to do something like that, but didn’t create anything like this!