In the US many of you may have seen the new Sprint commercials - very cool short pieces that are effectively stop-motion with light. I'm not sure who inspired who (although my experience here is always that ad agencies copy rather than create) but reader Michael sent us a link of images and video of a group of German artists who are doing a similar thing. (Anyone know if it's the same team behind both?)

UPDATE

The light animation used in the Sprint commercials was most likely (i'd go so far as to say definitely) inspired by the Pika Pika Lightning Doodle project, which has been doing it's thing in LA and Japan since the early days of '06.

http://tochka.jp/pikapika/ is the official homepage, and I've got a compilation clip of all the work so far here: http://www.transbuddha.com/mediaHolder.php?id=2592