feedPikapika Is » Animated Lightpainting
I'm sort of in awe of people who sit down and do something that seems... well... almost nearly very impossible.
I should think it would be hard enough to actually draw something recognizable with light, but then to do it again and again so that it looks as if the thing is actually moving?
The idea makes me sweaty.
The process is called Pikapika (Japanese for “twinkling”), and as you can probably guess, it seems to have originated in Japan. Would somebody get our Japanese friends something to do for crying out loud? It's getting really hard to keep up with their techno-creativity.
I especially like the first example here because if you look closely you can see the animation progressing there on the laptop.
But maybe you have time for such a thing, yes? If so, tell me. If not, tell me what you are spending your time on, okay? Are you writing a novel or something?
I am. So I'm spending my time linking the odd and the extreme on the interwebs.
Sigh.
And here are a few pikapika links (the Japanese pages can't seem to handle the traffic, so I'm only linking three... though there appear to be more, and not all of them are Pokemon related), with blessings.
℅ DIY:happy » Animated Long-Exposure Photography
℅ Silverlake Pikapika on Flickr
℅ tochka pikapika
Tags: animation | japan | japanese | light | lightpainting | pika | pikapika | animated.
