Good choice selecting 2,324 Japanese people to be your pixels. Their precision and dedication to exactness astounds.

That final scene is mind-blowing, but has the problem of being so good that it starts to feel unreal. Seeing the making of and video from on the ground will be fantastic.

By my count there are 2328 "pixels" in use here. The clapper at the beginning stated take 127. That's one hell of a huge production.

My point is that when people print photographs, or pages with large graphics, this font is saving 0% of 90% page coverage. So my logic is that his contribution to saving actual ink is very small. Plus most of the ink I lose (personally) is because the cartridge dries out over time.

Besides that, the font ONLY makes sense on a printed page, where it looks like a normal font after ink bleeding, etc. On screen, it looks like shit. And can't take advantage of sub-pixel-font-rendering employed by every modern OS on LCD displays.

@moonsammy At 1:52 and 2:42 you can see it's just an off the shelf Canon DSLR. I'm assuming it has some sort of filter that only allows UV light through.

@jmd I don't think those are hot pixels. Notice the spots aren't always in the same place, and in some scenes aren't there at all. In the last scene the spot only shows up as the UV filter slides over, so it's possibly dust on the lens, filter or sensor.

Which he must have gotten from a second hand thrift store considering the number of hot pixels in the video.

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Yeah, I do think it's just a random smattering of the Photoshoppery you can expect from mechanical turk and fiver, and can't be taken to express the standards of the culture.

. . . But, that was fun, and a great idea. It would be interesting to see how genuine experts working in fashion magazines or advertizing around the world would approach it.

But of course, none of those are better than just her. No need to cover her up with pixels.

I do have to agree with the LEDs not being seen during the day, but there is a tech that creates reflections in colour. Sorta like a bad-ass Amazon Kindle. That would work for the Solar Freakin Roadway. They wouldn't need LEDs at all then, even at night. Headlights would produce the light needed. Those bumps would become pixels.

Why glass anyway, how about transparent aluminium?

I do like his idea of covered roadways though, with the solar cells on the roof. Probably end up being the same cost per mile as solar freakin' roadways.

Hello Dag, I'm not sure how to privately message you from mobile so ill just leave this here. Apparently my home IP was just blacklisted from Videosift. Any time I visit I just get the Classic Rick Roll. This is what I get for trying to join the community I guess. I've been a lurker to this site for, eh, I'd say about 6 years when it was first shown to me. Always like to read the comments and the top 10 list. Anyway, I figured if make an account to post, Vygorous is the username. I just viewed that pixel stick video and wanted to know how much some shitty LED stick would set us back so I looked it up, saw that is was $350.00 and posted it as a comment with the specs they provided on their site, hit submit and bam, Instantly blacklisted. Any logic or reason to this? Sucks leaving this site behind but non sense like this would keep anyone away.
See you around.

That was cool. I love how they pixelated the textures

I was simply expecting the camera to be stationary as she disappeared off into the void.... forever getting smaller until the pixel that represented her just vanished.

Is there crap on his camera lens, or does it maybe have some dead pixels? I kept trying to wipe the spots off of my screen before I realized they were actually in the video.

I liked how that red pixel made some noises.

From the vimeo comments: "The telescope is 2000 mm, but you need to add the 3x crop. Video at 1:1 pixel is the best way to shoot the moon/planets."