Tag: el wire

  • Tutorial: Flares and Fake Scars

    Tutorial: Flares and Fake Scars

    For the final part of this tutorial series, we turn to the sexy but scarred leg of my filthy assistant (look it up) being lit by a road flare. You’ve obviously seen the video, the tutorial on fire breathing and the one on hairspray burning. This is the end of the road, I’m not going…

  • Tutorial: Light Painting Tools

    Tutorial: Light Painting Tools

    People stop me in the streets and ask ‘Aren’t you that guy that does those things?’ Once the confusion passes it normally, fortunately, turns out they’re talking about light painting, and the next question they ask is ‘How?’ The exact technique for each picture will be revealed as and when this blog progresses, but for…

  • Suicide is Painless

    Suicide is Painless

    I found myself in a hotel room, sightly drunk of course, with nothing to do. Handily, I’d lugged a flash and some EL wire along for the ride, and to bastardize the Hitchhiker‘s quote “you’re never alone with EL wire”. My weird mind led me to the conclusion that I should spend the evening trying…