This is something I did for a Michelin contest some years ago (2006).
The brief was to make a piece (video, graphic or an art object) using the Michelin man (Bibendum) using "motion" as a concept.
I wanted to create a light sculpture, so I entered the tree categories with this single project.
I made a home-made lamp using auto-parts and some plumbing pieces, took some pictures at slow shutter speeds, and also made a video (Bibendum de luz) made out entirely of lots and lots of pictures.
I needed the contest's judges to watch how all was done without any computer graphics.
This was the first project that I used the help of my now good friend "The Mecatronic", José Manuel Silva Vela, the guy who made the batch process for my droste video "Clap your brains off".
I actually met him here and I asked him to program my digital reflex camera to some infra red sensors in order to take the pictures in the precise moment that I needed them.
He also made a program that would delay the intervals of shooting for each lap, so that we didn't need to move the infra red sensors to take the pictures in the different positions that I needed.
As the lamp turned at constant speed, by increasing the time delay for shooting in each lap, I was able to capture the pictures of the lamp in all the positions that I needed as if I had captured it with a video camera.
For instance:
at lap 1, camera shot at the exact moment that the sensors met
at lap 2, camera "delayed" 1/16 of a second after the sensors met and then shot
at lap 3, camera waited 2/16 of a second
at lap 4, camera waited 3/16 of a second
etc.
So that way I could let the system taking pictures by itself and later on make a video by turning them into an image sequence.
We were able to program delay time as we wanted to. I don't remember exactly but we needed around 70 pictures to portray a single lap for video. So that was 70 laps in reality for a single lap in video...

Music for the making of:
Hash Pipe by Weezer