Fire Spinning

Here are some recent pictures of Rob's cool new hobby. He's learning to spin fire. It's called Poi, and I think it comes from New Zealand. In this picture, he has blue LEDs attached to pieces of fabric that he is spinning in the back yard.
Here he has bits of kevlar soaked in kerosene attached to chains. He lights the little kevlar balls and then spins them in the same patterns and designs as the LEDs. I like the fire ones the best because they make an incredible noise as they swoosh through the air. And aren't they pretty?
In this one, he's letting little sparks fly out while he spins, so it looks like there are little teeny fires all around him. I took these pictures with a long exposure (between 4 and six seconds) so you can see the path the fire takes and you can also catch little glimpses of how Rob moves around too. It's cool to watch in person in real time, but it also looks really cool when you can see it slowed down like this.
Sparky!