Glowing Sticks and Long Exposures Turn Drumming Into a Visual
Feast  It can be mesmerizing watching a talented drummer beat
away on a set of skins, but even more so when they're sitting in
the middle of a long-exposure camera rig with a pair of glowing
drumsticks in hand. What's usually a blur of arms and sticks
suddenly becomes an intricate web of mid-air streaks and
squiggles that only add to a drummer's performance.  Whisky-
maker Ballentine paid for this awesome setup, and hired drummer
Ben Mead to do his thing while technicians captured his
performance. The 360-degree Matrix-like footage of him drumming
is neat, but even his live performances with the sticks moving
at full speed are impossible not to stare at in awe. [YouTube
via The Awesomer]