Halo LED spraycan lets you make grafitti the cheap, legal way
By Vlad Savov 
posted August 10th 2009 10:51AM
posted August 10th 2009 10:51AM
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I want one :D Im gonna spray busses with it!
Come on, dude. I hope that was sarcasm...this isnt permanent. Its just an LED
Honestly? its a waste of money. I do this kind of photography and I know you don't need some fancy thing like this to do it and make it look cool
I'm pretty sure it was sarcasm.
No need to be so serious - this was a DIY project.
@Patrick
how can you do photography and not understand the concept of art? its a form of self-expression and personally i think its a really cool idea. i especially like how you have to shake it to charge it.
Could have used this at MSTRKRFT and Crystal method last saturday
What's cheaper:
1. Buying a can of paint
2. Buying a long exposure camera and/or stop motion camera and a computer to process the images
(If you don't get caught that is...legal expenses excluded from post)
buy a .50 cent raver LED key ring (remember those?), Go in a pitch black room, take a photo with about 10 second exposure and a flash at the beginning. After the flash shake the LED light around and draw stuff
Profit.
I don't think price was the motivation for this.
Thanks GD... lol I wondering how this was done. :)
Actually that's a rear sync flash, the flash fires at the end of the exposure, not the beginning so you see his hand at the end
From the Title: "lets you make grafitti the cheap, legal way"
Oh my God, people still grafitti?
Even here in NYC, you barely see this anymore.
I see grafitti all the time, but now its white guys drawing penis-chickens and other ugly hipster crap.
*in NYC
You're just not ironic enough.
you've clearly never been to the east village or les
lol. i see graffiti all over the place in cleveland.
HAHA, no one cares about Cleveland.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZzgAjjuqZM
You mean DICKCHICKEN, he sprays in Brooklyn a lot.
You obviously live in a different part of NYC than I do....
Cool.
I'm not sure whats worst, that the video was a Sprint commercial or that I knew it was a Sprint commercial within a few seconds.
That title -- "Sprint Light Trails" -- didn't do anything for you?
Picasso had these guys beat by decades:
http://tbn0.google.com/hosted/images/c?q=4467e823413842c6_landing
All it needs is a miniature speaker with the spray sound effect. . . .
I say they do this with mace. It would add an artistic effect to "Cops" when they have to subdue a junkie in a drug-induced stupor.
CRAPGADGET!!!
How exactly is the guy holding the can not leaving any ghost images/motion trails?
Was wondering exactly the same thing.. how is the guy WITH the can not leaving a ghost image of him in the long exposure?
He poses at the very beginning of the pic during the flash, then proceeds to draw and during this time he doesn't show up in the picture.
Easy: very dark room with the flash only triggered at the start or end of the exposure.
Ah, thanks. Photo noob here. This explains why the flash is at the beginning of the exposure when you want motion trails to follow your subject. Brilliant!
Everyone gets so serious about anything with electricity flowing in it huh?
It's a DIY project, it doesn't need to have commercial viability or a great price point for what it offers.
It seems the guy's into graffiti to have done this:
- He's got it so that shaking the can charges the LED, getting you ready to "paint" similar to a real can.
- He even has different caps for the can to give you a different effect, like with a real can - except in this case it's a different color instead of shape/size.
- And the most important feature of any DIY project, he seems to like it.
Just as people playing video games (MMOs especially) can often "optimize the fun" out of games, I feel like a lot of commenters here can over-analyze just about anything to the extent that they miss the point altogether.
I think some people, including myself, are getting tired of every piece of hipster piece of junk being pawned off as innovative.
They can sell this at Urban Outfitters.
that was a weird sentence
HAHAHAHA!! Glamajamma just won a place in my heart.
@glamajamma
Yeah, I understand what you're saying and agree 100%. I guess what I was thinking was that the guy just made something on his spare time and some pictures of it got online. I don't see anything pawning it off as the innovative next big thing, but everyone is judging it as such.
It just seems a lot of the negative comments may be unjustified. But hey, people do far worse with far less justification ...
Its one of those shake flashlights will a fancy case. I give that man some credit for making that thing look better then it ever has.
I am not going to lie, this is easily one of the coolest things I have ever seen. Major kudos.
You should really get out more
I like the part in the video when the light splits apart and has intercourse on your office desk.
Did they really have to use a black guy in this pic?
Yes, they are going for an edgy-urban vibe. This = "black guy."
I don't see what some peeps are getting so uppity for. It's a neat idea and cool product for those people that are into graffiti and photography, obviously it's not gonna have practicality for everyone.
If your not interested in it then why bother writing a comment let alone a negative comment. What's with the "hipster" this and blah, blah, blah.. If your spending your time categorizing what's hipster and what's... umm, normal? then I would say your wasting your life cuz the "hipsters" you like to talk down about are not worrying about you or the things you do.
Why can't people just be people with their own tastes and stuff they dig.. why all the labels?
Some friends and myself made LED spray paint cans very similar to these three years ago for a Burning Man installation. Aissa Logerot's look way better, but its cool to see something I did independently thought of and done better.
I wrote up what we did on my blog.
If you look at the rest of his site you can see all the things he makes are sort of contemporary concept designs for things such as "a cheval mirror which can be an ironing board when it is tilt and lock on horizontal position. This object is a link between two consecutive actions : iron clothes and dress up." or http://www.aissalogerot.com/projects/lampadair/
Since when has "legal" been fun?
Iam using mobile to do the same. I wrote small .net app for my WM long time. Here is how it outcome of it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/fl-r/2459442761/