Awesome Light

Make Anything rigged up a double pendulum with a lighted tip, then spun it over a photoluminescent surface. The result is a cool demo of how chaos quickly takes over from order thanks to those pesky laws of physics. No need to watch the entire video to get the point.

This prop chandelier measures about 6′ in diameter, yet weighs just 12.5 lb thanks to its zip-tie-together PVC construction. Comes with a dozen LED flicker candles. If you’re feeling crafty, you could build your own based on designer David Andora’s Instructables version.

If you’ve ever been to a science museum, there’s a good chance you’ve seen one of those walls that temporarily glows and captures shadows when exposed to light. Mark Rober shows us how to make your very own glow wall. Grab the phosphorescent vinyl sheets here.

Artists Mimi Son and Elliot Woods of Kimchi and Chips created this incredible light installation which uses countless, precisely controlled light beams to create volumetric objects which appear to float in space. Geek out on the tech here.

To promote their high-speed optical internet service, Japan’s au Hikari, they created a sort of Rube Goldberg machine that uses a single beam of light as its primary means of activation. Watch how they made the video here.

Patrick Rochon’s liteblades are tools which attach to the end of a flashlight that create colorful, abstract light painting photos. The faster you move the blade, the more glowing and playful the photo is. You can purchase them here.

Put on your headphones, turn down your lights and go full screen to experience a tangle of geometric filaments fluttering to life at the speed of light in this installation by Mimi Son and Elliot Woods. Where’s an oculus rift when you need it?

A truly unique artform for your wall, Aevum Design’s LIGHT system provides a metal-backed canvas with colored glass attached to magnets and a bright light source to create one-of-a-kind light patterns you can change at your whim.

Director Nacho Guzman’s teaser for OPALE’s release “Sparkles and Wine” is an exploration of how human features can change dramatically by moving around a light source. Inspired by the unfinished 1964 french film L’Enfer.

A brilliant concept from designer Kim Sung Min – these illuminated push-pins could be set to a specific time (and date?) and automatically light up when the task at hand is due.

A slick, six-panel snapback hat with an integrated electroluminescent light source. Provides about 8 hours of illumination on a 30 minute charge. Available in blue, green or pink. Video here.

An amazing visual feast featuring an army of 16 flying quadrotor robots dancing through air and manipulating sound and light. Created for the Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’s Showcase.

Artist Rashad Alakbarov creates paintings – but not in the traditional way. Instead, he creates sculptural works, which cast painterly images onto the wall when hit with a light.

Individual light paintings take a lot of time and effort to pull off. So a light painted music video is a real feat. Darcy Prendergast of Oh Yeah Wow spent 6 months making this video for All India Radio.