Light-Paint Piano Player from Ryan Cashman on Vimeo.

The Canon Rebel DSLR isn't a video camera, but if you have the time and energy like San Diego resident Ryan Cashman, you can make a pretty neat stop-motion animation with it.

Cashman explains he set the Rebel's exposure to 20-30 seconds, and he drew the LED piano player with a green LED keychain. He then strung all the photos together in Adobe After Effects and added in the music (also his original composition). Pretty neat. Kind of looks like a little cactus. I wonder how long it took him?

Looks like a cactus? Knowingly or not, this man is infringing on the Cactaur intellectual property of Square Enix [TYO: 9684] and this needs to be taken down immediately. Frankly, no one should try anything artistic but the people who stand to profit from it, no matter how painstaking or original. Everything is already owned, and this piece, despite it's clever use of persistence of vision, amiable score, and simple elegance, cannot or should not be perceived as original.

Besides, if you read Canon's EULA, they have first rights to the operator's creative endeavors, so Square, you get a suing two-for.