Vox Hunt: Lit Up

Show us some cool lights.  
Submitted by meg.

A few months ago I was in Games of Berkeley, and I found some really cool light balls.  They were basically a bunch of tiny little rubber balls inside a big rubber skin, and they had a light source inside them.  If you squeezed the ball, the light went through a slow oscillation of colors, followed by a fast blink cycle.

I bought them for a friend, and that night we took them out to a park in his neighborhood.  Two cameras, two tripods, one wireless remote shutter release, and we were in business.  One of us would man the cameras, while the other would stand in front of them, squeeze the balls to light them up, and then wave their arms wildly about until the shutter closed.

We tried all sorts of variations on the theme, including walking forward and backward, juggling, and spelling out various things.  Although it was our initial inspiration, juggling turned out to be insanely hard and we quickly abanadoned it in favor of other things.  I had a lot of fun doing this, and I'm hoping to repeat the project sometime with glow poi and a glow staff-- I have the lights, but I haven't had the time to go out and shoot with them.