Mr. Firth and an Intro to LEDs

One of the people who really got me into video art initially was David Firth, the creator of fat-pie and Salad Fingers.  At first I liked him because of his funny/scary/weird falsh animations, but soon I stumbled upon his video work. While mostly consisting of stop-motion work, there was something about them that always seemed a bit deeper and meaningful to me.







While I don't plan to do a video much in his style, he has been a huge inspiration to me and my work with video.

I am not sure about any of you, but when it comes to LEDs and me all I know is, "Look at the pretty colors!"  Before I embark on this LED/VIdeo project I should learn me some stuffs about them. If any of you care to learn too, I found a quick and easy tutorial on them here.

LED Video Project

I am not sure this is exactly what I want to do with my project yet, but I have some basic ideas brewing.  While I was in  the first section of 2D Digital Studio I studied the artist Erwin Redl.  Redl's main work focuses on LED installation pieces where he fills large rooms with grids of LED's.

His work is very minimal, simple, clean, and vast which all are things I am attracted to when it comes to art.  Ever since then I have wanted to work with LED's somehow.

My other great interest in the art world is video related work.  In the past I have made a couple "arty" videos:
I would like to continue exploring with video art and involve LED lights in some way. Those are my thoughts thus far, as more come I'll post them.