Tagging a Champion

The Graffiti Research Lab have done it again. This time they won the instructable How to Enter the Ghetto Matrix (DIY Bullet Time). By using 24 cameras, some flashlights, and some of the East Coast’s best graffiti artists they popped out a pretty cool video and are well on the way to making open source the sixth element of hip-hop. In their instructable they tell how to build a bullet time rig—a 180º ring of cameras that can be triggered simultaneously for shooting an otherwise impossible space-time permutation (like neo dodging bullets in the matrix). Along with that they introduce light graffiti and push their concept to the limits, by having graffiti artists throw up tags using flashlights and LEDs . Next, they paint light around people, lines , stars and even a gun in the artists hand. Right before the shutters close a strobe illuminates the subject, making him as visible as the light show.