Japan musicians Androp built a backdrop of 250 Canon cameras and programmed all their flashes to fire off in a sort of digital stop-motion screen. Watch it, though I can’t guarantee the video won’t blind you and give you a seizure.
They programmed the 250 Canon cameras with Arduino, openFrameworks and Flash. There wasn’t any CG used in the video, what you see is exactly what happened: cameras flashing like a mother. There’s a “making of” video that gives you a behind the scenes look at what they needed to do to get it prepared and Androp has a built a website that shows you the pictures the cameras took while they shot the video (nice backs guys!) and see a custom message displayed in the lights. Check that out here.
Be warned though, the music ain’t for everybody. [Androp.jp via Fast Company]
Trannie
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 1:38 PMUmmm….wouldn’t it have been cheaper/simplier/easier to do this with normal LED lights? Same result, right?
Some people just have way too much time and money on their hands.
Daniele
Thursday, July 28, 2011 at 6:36 PMYou could use LED lights but you wouldn’t be able to have the multiple photos they show at 2:57, for example. Those were actually taken by the cameras so they could pan over each column of cameras and catch everything stopped mid-air.
Would definitely have taken a lot of time and money, though.