Painting with light

 Well, to be honest, this was less "Painting" with light, and more of a "Pollocking" with light, where the Pollock is Happy, and the splatters are glow sticks carried not by inertia, but by children.

The Aurora Borealis? At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your back yard?

It kind of reminds me of the balance board thing on the Wii, where it maps your balance as you Hula Hoop (also to be explored in this post) and shows you your motion at the end.

A brief moment of clarity

The Idea, if you are not in the know, is to leave the shutter on the camera open (on a tripod) and it will capture all of the light as it passes through the frame. You get the same effect if you wave your hand in front of your face, but on "film", it records it and lasts. 

The flash illuminates the scene and records that image, while the shutter remains open to capture the moving glow sticks.

And so, with all of these things set into literal motion, and subsequent stopped motion, we are blessed with the randomness of light and children.

And, of course, there is the grand display of attaching many glow sticks to a hula hoop, and hula hooping into the night!

A small fan with LEDs attached to one of the fans. DO NOT ATTEMPT IF HIGH!! (Or do...)

Calm before the storm

"What storm?"

The trippy storm.