Second in the Fan Dance series sees a few changes. The fan batteries and LEDs started to drain a bit. The white LEDs going first. This explains the pictures that are just pure red light.

I also introduce a distortion element. Another found piece from the street, I had a sheet of metal with a mirrored surface I had been using to distort self-portraits. So I imported that idea into this.

I actually had to bend the sheet while photographing and Ernie would work the fan. Or vice versa. It was a process that required choreography on both our parts.

During this time we were working on writing music quite a bit. One of the goals was to take that audio out of the computer. Mess with it a bit and then replace the purely digital pristine audio with something ruined by the real world.

That bled over into this idea and many others. I wanted to create Photoshop style distortions without Photoshop. It works wonderfully. In some of the pictures you can actually see the dings in the surface of the metal.

The other bonus is the light trails created from the back of the fan. Orange and greens in softer focus and a different perspective from the foreground.

The amount of imagery created from this free swag fan is phenomenal. It is only rivaled by how much fun we had making this series. Three months of beauty and delight. When that fan eventually died it was so sad.

We have tried numerous times to replicate this process with other light driven toys. But never have we had this kind of success. Lots of fun was had, but never this much success.