{"id":1139,"date":"2013-03-17T13:24:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-17T04:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephta.me\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2016-01-10T16:51:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-10T07:51:24","slug":"the-art-of-running-led-traces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/2013\/03\/the-art-of-running-led-traces\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Running: LED Traces"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

I love the tracing where I’ve run.<\/p>\n

Until now, with The Art of Running<\/em> I’ve typically used a GPS device to leave a virtual trace, a set of coordinates which can then be overlaid on a digital map (such as Google Earth) to bring the run to life online.<\/p>\n

It was during the short winter days and long dark evenings (when I would typically run) that I had the idea to illuminate my path using LEDs. Teaming up with an LED specialist in Akihabara, I began to kit myself out with metres of lights, powered by some hefty batteries I’d carry around my waist. <\/p>\n

The initial motivation came from wanting to bring the same smiles and laughter to people’s faces at night that I had done in the day. It turned out to be extremely effective; provided I had enough power on me I could light up both the streets – and people’s faces late into the night.<\/p>\n

Returning home one night in my gear I decided to experiment with some long-exposure shots using my DSLR, mounted on a tripod, with a 10 second exposure. The results were pretty interesting, resulting in a whole new style of trace. Below are some of my favourites.<\/p>\n

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Painting the streets with the help of 10 metres of LEDs, a micro controller and long-exposure photography.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66,6],"tags":[12,89,90],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-the-art-of-running","tag-art-of-running","tag-leds","tag-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1841,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/josephta.me\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}