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Ransom Riggs
Graffiti lite
by Ransom Riggs - July 10, 2007 - 7:52 AM

Most of us cyber geeks love a good shot of graffiti art, be the murals absurd and fun or masterworks by Banksy, but the reality is that most of this stuff is ephemeral at best, gets covered over by paint crews pretty quickly (at great cost to Joe Taxpayer) so they live on primarily through photographs. If that’s the case, why not create graffiti art that only exists in photographs?

That’s just what a new generation of “light graffiti” artists are doing. Armed with only flashlights, glowsticks or torches and cameras capable of taking 10-30 second long-exposures, they’re lighting up the night and changing the face of tagging. Check it out!2.jpg1.jpg3.jpg4.jpg
For more, check out Lichtfaktor’s flickr set.

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Comments (6)

  1. Me and my brothers have been doing stuff like this for ages!
    lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2006/02/fun-with-camera-tripod.html

    posted by Eli on 7-10-2007 at 9:12 am

  2. Here’s one from Picaso:

    dsc.gc.cuny.edu/part/part8/articles/gross_3.html

    from: dsc.gc.cuny.edu/part/part8/articles/gross_print.html

    posted by iain010100 on 7-10-2007 at 11:26 am

  3. There’s an insurance company (I forget the name if it) that did a whole commercial with light art. It looks like the whole thing took two days to successfully complete, it was really interesting.

    I think I can make out the workd ‘DORF’ in the last pic haha.

    posted by heather on 7-11-2007 at 1:14 am

  4. Impressive stuff. Here I am, the first comment not claiming that this is old news. Thanks for the entry!

    posted by Lewis on 7-11-2007 at 5:51 am

  5. Warning: Old News…

    There’s another unusual form of graffiti that’s done by cleaning dirty surfaces…

    Here’s an example:
    www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3379017

    posted by Jason! on 7-11-2007 at 9:08 am

  6. this is amazing - and they’ve just put up one filmed in london - just put ‘lichtfaktor’ into YT

    posted by col on 8-9-2007 at 4:17 am

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