Friday night we set up a booth for our friends The Amoralists, a theatre company who put on an epic Halloween party at the Gershwin Hotel to celebrate a 10-week run of their play HotelMotel. They called it Hotel Halloween. Our booth was in the potentially haunted room (with a bed!) where the play took place, [...]
Guys, we’ve been holding off on this announcement for a long time. An extremely long time. Long enough that you would be blown away if we told you how long we’ve been working on this. So, we’re ridiculously happy to finally say this: We have an iphone app coming out. We’ve been working on it [...]
This week its all about Gayngs and Lykke Li. Gayngs gets a ton of love from both of us (especially that new GAYNGS/Doomtree remix EP that you can download for free right here) and Michelle’s pick was Lykke Li, as her new record Wounded Rhymes has been on repeat for awhile now. First up is [...]
After a ridiculously hot summer shooting in central park and almost falling off of skateboards, we took this shoot indoors. To follow the thread of “controlling the path of light”, we bought a remote control car on ebay and strapped a bunch of lights to it. The red light is a glo stick dragging behind [...]
This one is actually combination of 2 different shoots. For one, we trekked out to central park on a hot summer night to get some photos. We knew we would have to contend with some light issues (Central Park is extremely well-lit at night) but we thought if we found a dark enough corner, we [...]
Yes! So we can finally talk about this because it is now public. A while back we alluded to being uber-busy working on a super secret project. Well, the super secret project was an international print ad for Arm & Hammer’s GloBrush, an LED toothbrush that lights up and switches colors when kids are supposed [...]
After our experiment drawing simple shapes with those finger lights from the laundromat, we started to see the potential in using different light sources. So to prepare for a visit from Michelle (she was living in Kentucky at the time, flying up to NY when she could) I braved the crowds near the Empire State [...]
After that first time on the roof with the LED/laser pointer combo, we were hooked. Around the corner from my house in Queens there was a laundromat with one of those vending machines that sells encapsulated sticky hands, gumballs, and temporary tattoos. One day they swapped out the fake gangster jewelry with these LED finger [...]
You guys, we know its been a long time, but there is an extremely good reason for that. So good in fact, that we can’t even talk about it. We’re being watched and if we say more this could our last nerdy, rambling, borderline-pointless blog post EVER. It’s that serious. But, (“Everything after ‘but’ is [...]
Great write up from the great Allan Hoffman!
http://www.mrilightpainting.com/lightbomber/
LightBomber lets you create light paintings with your iPhone camera
I’ve loved creating light paintings with cameras ever since I was a 15-year-old with a Konica T4. My friend Scott and I would light sparklers and leave the shutter open on my Konica to produce these wonderful-looking images. I can still remember the thrill of seeing those photos, with their ethereal light trails, coming back from the photo lab. We’d use flashlights of various types, lamps, fireworks — just about anything to paint with light.
But with the iPhone? It’s not so easy. But now there’s LightBomber, an app that’s devoted to creating light trails and light graffiti. I’m just starting to experiment with it, but it is very, very cool, and I’m looking forward to seeing what iPhoneographers do with it.