Comments: the shape

Pendulum

Posted by Fred Zelders at October 14, 2004 01:08 AM

I second Fred. Probably a 30 second exposure.

Posted by Ali at October 14, 2004 04:35 AM

Perfection!

Posted by Irene at October 14, 2004 04:55 AM

It's the Red Sox in the playoffs. Predictable downward spiral, ends with nothing.

Posted by Ben at October 14, 2004 05:20 AM

I'm stumped! Please share.

Posted by E at October 14, 2004 06:13 AM

Gorgeous looking geometry.

Posted by miles at October 14, 2004 07:45 AM

My guess is a pen light tied to a string and given a fairly long exposure- maybe 30 seconds or a minute. This however doesn't explain the pure white in the image. A tungston light source would have an amber tone to it- unless you white balanced for the tungston light source prior to making the shot. This is my guess anyway... ;-)

Posted by Mark at October 14, 2004 08:33 AM

Laser optic pendulum

Posted by Karl at October 14, 2004 08:48 AM

a giant hulk-sized super-duper optical fiber hyper-neotech spirograph...being controlled by a olympiad team of hamsters.

no wait...

Posted by halo | veritech pilot at October 14, 2004 09:31 AM

You lost you camera in the launtry ?

Posted by Kristof at October 14, 2004 11:42 AM

An Etch-a-sketch??? with white lines instead of black?

... or

You drew it in photoshop and took a photo of the screen =-P straight to film eh ... no alterations =-P

Posted by scott at October 14, 2004 07:53 PM

i like scotts anwser

Posted by Gavin Vincent at October 14, 2004 08:46 PM

"It's the Red Sox in the playoffs. Predictable downward spiral, ends with nothing."

-dumb joke of the year

Whatever it is, it is not at all visually pleasing to me.

Posted by jiggajigga at October 14, 2004 09:53 PM

screen saver?

Posted by Steph at October 14, 2004 11:07 PM

oh man, jiggajigga is a retard TO THE EXTREME h0h0h0~ hack the planet.

Posted by hacker8000 at October 14, 2004 11:50 PM

Absolutely awesome. I love how when you look at something swinging, you might notice it moving in a circular pattern, but you don't see the absolute symmetry of it until to see a photo like this. There's order in everything! Wow.

Posted by Keri at October 15, 2004 01:33 AM

it looks lyke my slinky-- before i straightened it.

Posted by chemical imbalance at October 15, 2004 09:36 AM

It is probably a time exposure of light bulb hanging from a string in a dark room. The camera is on the floor looking up to the moving lightbulb.

Posted by Mehrdad at October 15, 2004 06:26 PM

You took it from a screen saver?

Posted by Highlander at October 17, 2004 01:37 AM