Cool Sheepherding

Have you ever heard of sheep herding? If you haven't I'll tell you what it is and the coolest things you can do with it. Sheep herding is where a shepherd uses dogs to move sheep from pasture to pasture. In early times, sheep were used for milk and cheese.

There is a video in which the sheepherders put LED lights (like holiday lights) on the animals so that they glow and can make designs that can be seen from the air.

In the video you'll see a fun and cool way to make images out of sheep. If you to see the video click here.

Extreme Sheepherding with LED Lights

Student: Anya

As an occupation, shepherding seems like it might get a little dull. But not for these Welsh hill-farmers, who debut, in this Web video, a new kind of herding that’s more about art than agriculture.

With the help of some enthusiastic collies, these Welshmen have created a special kind of precision-herding in which the sheep, bearing by turns LED lights and dyed wool, are choreographed into large-scale patterns and photographed for stop-motion animation from a nearby hill. The results are surprising, emergent works of art—there’s a giant sheep taking a stroll, an epic game of Pong and, almost unbelievably, probably the strangest rendition of the Mona Lisa ever created. They’re also proof that our woolly friends can be put to better use than the manufacture of yarn for holiday sweaters.

Write a story about this video. Also, give some explanation about sheepherding and why this would be difficult to do. What skills do you think it involves? Any math? Any science? Also, explain words or elements like Pong. What is it?

Include several screen grabs to show the process of doing this extreme sheepherding.