Accidental Art (or Yeah, I totally meant to do that)

So yesterday, we were decorating the Christmas tree at my parents' house.  I was playing around with my little point-and-shoot camera, trying to get a clear, no-flash shot of the tree with the lights on.  In the dark.  Eh...it didn't work too well.  Blurry, dark, yucky.  So I started messing around with the ISO and exposure settings, which is about all you can adjust on that camera.  I snapped a pic, and noticed that the lights were blurred in a very interesting way, due to a little movement at the time of shutter release.  So I started purposely moving the camera, just as I released the shutter.  Wow.  The result was this:

 And this:

 And this:

Pretty interesting results, considering I discovered the technique by accident.  Peace out!