Light Painting

wiki def: also known as light drawing is a photographic technique in which exposures are made usually at night or in a darkened room by moving a light source or by moving the camera.

These are extremely talented photographers, who use dynamic electric light patterns to enhance the nature’s given landscapes, or our bleak industrial environments. In every case something luminous and strangely mesmerizing is brought “to light”, transforming the photograph into an entirely different experience, and making our hearts beat faster.

It all started with Eric Staller: a sculptor more known for the permanent artwork in public places, but also for his experimentation with light. His light drawings and sculptures date as far back as the late 70s (definitely in-line with the disco-era sensibilities). He was perhaps the first photographer to paint light into live urban environment:

LICHTFAKTOR:

DEAN CHAMBERLAIN apparitions:

TOBY KELLER aka BurnBlue:

Some other cool works:

Here are some cool videos to watch from PikaPika and others:

World’s longest PLACE NAME

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch;Llanfairpwllgwyngyll; Llanfair Pwllgwyngyll or more commonly as Llanfair PG or Llanfairpwll, known by many as “that place in Wales with the long name” . It’s a village on the island of Angelesy in Wales, situated on the Menai Straits(next to Menai Bridge and across the strait from Bangor).

So what does this name mean? Well it goes something like this:

“Saint Mary’s Church by the white hazel pool, near the fierce whirlpool with the church of Saint Tysilio by the red cave!”

The story behind this name is that it was dreamed up by a local businessman during the Victorian period to attract visitors from England.