![]() Pixelstick quickly blew past its $110,000 goal on Kickstarter and has attracted nearly 1,000 backers, but according to Frazier, there aren't many common threads between practitioners of this flashy artform. The pair had been experimenting with long-exposure photography for years and wanted to move beyond the flashlights, iPhones, and other improvised light sources they had been using to sketch to something that offered more creative control. It's a collaboration between Steve McGuigan, a creative jack-of-all-trades and Duncan McCloud Frazier, a photographer/programmer. When loaded with graphics files and waved in front of a camera that has long-exposure capabilities, it creates illuminated images-rainbow swirls, ethereal graffiti, 8-bit animated GIFs, and even masterworks like Botticelli's Venus-that seem to hang in the air like ghosts. In a more technical sense, it's a 6-foot-long aluminum rod, housing a strip of 198 LEDs. Pixelstick is a modern magic wand, and by waving it in a darkened space creatives can conjure fearsome creatures, potent glyphs, and streaks of energy that seem to move under their own power.  For more information check their Kickstarter page.Pixelstick, a new gadget for light painters, gets loaded up with graphics, waved in front of a camera that has a long exposure capabilities, and creates illuminated images-even animated gifs-that seem to hang in the air like ghosts. For US$300 excluding shipping you can order a Pixelstick for yourself. ![]() Within three days they managed to fund their project and they still have 40 days left to go as well. I have followed the project for a few days, and it was remarkable how fast they realized their goal. From projecting images into photographs to creating abstract artwork, there is a lot you can do with this product. Within five minutes of reading about it I already had tons of ideas that I would like to try. It is not often that I say that “I need to have this” when there is a new product announcement. By having something that does not require to much effort to create beautiful and predictable images one can easily create time-lapses as well. It is an extra tool for them to link their artwork on the computer and their photographs. I can see this as quite a game-changer for light painters. Why is this such an amazing product? Light painting is fun to try, but difficult to master. ![]() The device is powered by 8 AA batteries, which should have enough power for at least one long night’s shooting according to Bitbangerlabs, but I spend to much time playing with hypesrus games so i haven’t had any chance to try it all night. Images are brought alive by 198 full-color RGB LEDs that display one vertical line, as mentioned earlier. The guts of the Pixelstick reads images from a SD card, which can be a maximum of 198 pixels high and several thousand pixels wide. An example of a pixelstick light-painting creation It is also possible to spin the stick instead of moving it horizontally to create some funky looking circles. You can even twist the stick while displaying images to create some special effects. In theory, the height of your images is limited by the physical size of the Pixelstick but the width can be as long as you want. By moving the Pixelstick horizontally while it displays one vertical line at the time you create the width of the image. The Pixelstick can be compared to one vertical line of a display. In short, the Pixelstick enables photographers to paint pre-loaded images into their long-exposure photos. One of these exciting Kickstarter projects is the Pixelstick made by Bitbangerlabs. We like to write about new Kickstarter projects because they are usually quite innovative, people with unconventional ideas get an opportunity to realize their potential to create cool products.
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