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Pac-Man Light Painting Is Driving Me Crazy

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This light painting looks super eerie as we see an otherworldly Pac-Man being chased by ghosts as if they just broke through to our reality. That would be scary as hell. Luckily this is just a light painting by photographer and light artist Michael Bosanko.

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This amazing piece of art shows Pac-Man being chased through a derelict building by three hungry ghosts. Apparently the fourth ghost is just eyes at this point. Probably regenerating and getting ready to give chase again. It looks like Pac-Man is about to chomp on a power pellet, so those remaining ghosts better beat a hasty retreat too.

[via Kotaku via Geyser of Awesome]

Adafruit builds Raspberry Pi-powered light painting rig, takes trippy photos

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Adafruit builds Raspberry Pi-powered light painting rig, takes trippy photos

Taking long exposure photographs at night and painting within them using an iPad may be old hat, but building your own light painting rig? That could earn you some serious geek cred, and according to Adafruit, it isn't even all that hard. In a new walkthrough, the team fashioned such a contraption using a Raspberry Pi, a python script with under 60 lines of code, some open source software and a handful of electronic components. Not satisfied with the typical light wand, they decided to spice things up with a circular fixture built from PVC pipes and a hula hoop to hold the ribbon of LEDs. After being attached to a bike and paraded around at night, it created the 3D effect in the masterpiece above. If you're itching to make your own works of art, check out Adafruit's tutorial at the source link below.

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Adafruit builds Raspberry Pi-powered light painting rig, takes trippy photos originally appeared on Engadget on Mon, 13 Aug 2012 03:21:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Visualized: Stunning long-exposure ‘star trail’ photo taken from the ISS

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Ever wondered what goes on up at the International Space Station? We like to think it's all floating around and eating freeze-dried steak. Astronaut Don Pettit decided to take a break from his no-doubt mundane routine and capture the spectacular image you see above. We say image, it's actually multiple 30-second exposure snaps layered on top of each other. Needless to say the result is both humbling, and hypnotic. Best of all? There's a collection of them, waiting to steal your afternoon with slack-jawed wonderment. Hit the source for the mind-melt.

Visualized: Stunning long-exposure 'star trail' photo taken from the ISS originally appeared on Engadget on Fri, 08 Jun 2012 11:14:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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