Whoa, its down to the wire yet again here…thanks to my computer tryin to buttfuck me back here, I’m posting this basically at midnight.
No matter. Spent most of the day building a brand new MRI product, the MRI MiniBooth! The idea was all Michelle. Usually its the other way around…I get some weird idea, and she finds a way to make it happen, but this time she came up with it, and it was a group effort making it real.
The backstory: My other business, MRI Lightpainting, got booked to set up a light painting photo booth at an event in Vegas this Thursday. For Wired Magazine. We’re pretty damn excited. Our normal routine is to just show up at some party, find a dark corner, and go nuts with the lights and the painting and the heyo, but this event had a catch. We couldn’t shoot in the dark…pretty detrimental for lightpainting since Darkness is second only to a Camera as a prerequisite for lightpainting. We had to set up in a brightly lit convention hall in an extremely tight space…so Michelle devised a blacked-out box that we could put on the end of the camera to have a person light paint into.
The theme of the Wired event is “Make a Scene”, so the idea is that people will stick their heads into this booth, grab a few lights, and draw out their own little scene in front of the camera.
Well, after a lot of planning, a little money, and some light bickering, we finished the thing today, and it works! Check out or first photos below, as well as a more detailed account of the process over at the MRI site.
And the photos…they’re rough, but you get the idea…
Tags: lightpainting, MRI, photo booth, Speed Creating
Anxiously awaiting Day 3…too exciting