I decided to research into the history of light writing, and some good examples of Light Writing that might influence my work. For example I looked at one of the first pieces of light writing, for example In 1889 Demeny attached incandescent bulbs to the joints of an assistant and created the first known light painting photograph “Pathological Walk From in Front”. I found this interesting as it was one of the first forms of writing using light. I then looked at Frank Gilbreth's light painting photography in 1914, where him and his wife used small lights and the open shutter of a camera to track the motion of manufacturing and clerical workers.
'Cyclegraph'
I then found an interesting time lapse video involving light writing, however instead of shapes they were writing sentences. The piece itself, called Light Writing Proposal , was created by Derick Childress on Vimeo . Its 00:03:06 long and has over 400,000 plays on Vimeo. The long exposure and making of the film stretched over three nights in Raleigh, North Carolina. The final image was made up of approximately 800 individual 10 second exposures.
'Light Writing Proposal'
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