Thursday, October 18, 2012

"Light Drive" by Kim Pimmel

This is a stop-motion video by Kim Pimmel, who photographs colored lights using very long exposures in dark spaces.  There's no computer graphics here.  Rather, his photos are made using more or less everyday objects (as you can see at the beginning of the video) and stringing them together stop-motion style.  At Flickr Pimmel has a large set of photos, some of which explain his techniques further, and at the always great Colossal, where I first saw some of Pimmel's images, there's a set of large sized stills of Pimmel's work.  The net effect of the long exposures and stop motion is that what looks like it is happening very fast must have taken place over a lengthy period of time -- in fact, the time compression may be part of what adds to the beauty.

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