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Electric Man

Electric Man sculpture light

My Light is Your Life is a figurative sculpture by Czech artist Krištof Kintera made from an assortment of old lamps, light fixtures, and cables. I also like his Lay Down and Shine piece. (via job’s wife)

By Christopher on February 5, 2012 • light sculpture

A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED Lights

A Cathedral Made from 55,000 LED Lights light installation architecture

The Luminarie De Cagna is an imposing cathedral-like structure that was recently on display at the 2012 Light Festival in Ghent, Belgium. The festival was host to almost 30 exhibitions including plenty of 3D projection mapping, fields of luminous flowers, and a glowing phone booth aquarium, however with 55,000 LEDs and towering 28 meters high the Luminarie De Cagna seems to have stolen the show. ( via stijn coppens, sacha vanhecke, sector271)

Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light

Rashad Alakbarov Paints with Shadows and Light lighting light installation color

This is kind of flying all over the internet right now, but I couldn’t resist sharing. Artist Rashad Alakbarov from Azerbaijan uses suspended translucent objects and other found materials to create light and shadow paintings on walls. The jaw-dropping light painting above, made with an array of colored airplanes is currently on view at the Fly to Baku exhibition at De Pury Gallery in London through January 29th. (via art wednesday, fasels suppe)

By Christopher on January 20, 2012 • color installation light lighting

Rippled: A Light Painting Music Video Shot Entirely In Camera

Rippled: A Light Painting Music Video Shot Entirely In Camera stop motion night music video long exposure light fantasy

Rippled is a music video shot by Australian animators Oh Yeah Wow for a track off All India Radio’s The Silent Surf. The entire video was painstakingly rendered frame-by-frame in camera using long exposure light painting techniques. I think my favorite thing about this piece other than some of the brilliant sequences (and there are many) is the near constant presence of blurred people in the background who look like ghost puppeteers, moving the figures and lights bit by bit. Stunning work. (via vimeo)

By Christopher on January 7, 2012 • fantasy light long exposure music video night stop motion

Swarms

Swarms surreal sculpture retouching photoshop night light installation fantasy

Photographer Thomas Jackson (previously) has been working on a new series of images based on the idea of swarms, shooting large hovering masses of objects in locations around New York. He says the idea is still a work in progress and that some of these photos should just be considered “sketches,” but I think they’re really fantastic already. See them a bit larger on his site.

By Christopher on December 14, 2011 • fantasy installation light night photoshop retouching sculpture surreal

Bruce Munro’s Newest Light Installation at the Holbourne Museum

Bruce Munros Newest Light Installation at the Holbourne Museum lighting light installation Bath

Artist Bruce Munro has unveiled his latest light installation at Holbourne Museum in Bath. The field of more than 5,000 Christmas lights atop acrylic stems sprawls across the museum grounds intending to mimic the way a barren desert bursts into bloom after a brief rainfall. See much more over at the Daily Mail. (via notcot)

By Christopher on November 25, 2011 • Bath installation light lighting

Light Stencils Commemorate Victims of the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake

Light Stencils Commemorate Victims of the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake street art stencils night New Zealand memorial long exposure light

The 2011 Christchurch earthquake was the largest natural disaster in New Zealand’s history, claiming the lives of 181 people and leaving behind nearly $30 billion in rebuilding costs. Touched by the events of that February day, photographer Fabrice Wittner set out to confront the destruction the best way he knew how: by making art. His Enlightened Souls project utilizes large, human-sized stencils that are painted with light during long exposures, creating thin portraits that appear almost like holograms. Many more images and process shots can be seen here. Images courtesy the artist. (via behance)

By Christopher on November 23, 2011 • light long exposure memorial New Zealand night stencils street art

Cedric Le Borgne: Les Voyageurs

Cedric Le Borgne: Les Voyageurs sculpture light installation body

Paris-born artist Cedric Le Borgne creates these illuminated human figures (Les Voyageurs) and deer (La Biche) using delicately sculpted chicken wire. The figures are often installed in highly visible public places, suspended in the air in parks or in busy urban centers. Via his website:

Cédric Le Borgne invites everyone to view daily life in a fresh way, to rise up, to dream. By abolishing barriers, his work of exploring spaces is sensitive, his poetry subtly interacts with each place it comments upon. From sculptures made of chicken wire to photo or video, from perennial installations to spontaneous performance, from street-art to web-art, his work is free of formal constraints.

Le Borgne’s work is currently on display along the South Bailey in Durham, England as part of Durham Lumiere, the UK’s largest light festival. (via dark silence in suburbia)