Well, just as a guy gets working with Lightwright 4 (yeah, I'm a bit behind the times, as I was on LW3 for years and years), John McKernon is going to be showing Lightwright 5 at LDI in Vegas this year. Some new features from McKernon's website: There is no release date yet for Lightwright [...]
Read More john mckernon, lightwright, mckernon softwareYanko Design has a post about Hye-Lim Yang's design for what is being called an "Edge Chandelier." Imagine having a fourth of a chandelier with a mirror backing that mounts into a corner. The mirror creates the illusion of a four-sided chandelier. Hang one of these in each corner of a room, and you've got [...]
Read More edge chandelier, hye-lim yang, mirror, yanko designGotham Lighting Recalls Compact Fluorescent Recessed Ceiling Lights; Can Fail to Work in an Emergency WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, in cooperation with the firm named below, today announced a voluntary recall of the following consumer product. Consumers should stop using recalled products immediately unless otherwise instructed. Name of Products: Gotham [...]
Read More cfl, gotham lighting, recall, recessed CFLMost of us only know LED light sources as little bright things that are in electronic components – or, if you're in the industry, another low-energy consuming source that is getting brighter and brighter. I found a post at Madehow.com that lists the manufacturing process of "growing" LED lamps. I highly recommend reading it! There [...]
Read More educational, growing LEDs, LED, manufacturing, wafersIn an article at Optics.org, Rubicon Technology is listed as delivering news that they are having some shortfalls in selling the 2-inch LED wafers that they spent some time developing – and that they are now going to soon enter production on a 6-inch LED wafer. All of this news comes as Samsung is suspected [...]
Read More LED wafer, rubicon technology, samsungI have to link this, because it's fantastic. A post over at The Light Network listed a blog post from KTLA's Morning News about Dolly Parton's "9 to 5" musical, slated to open on Broadway in April of 2009. Apparently the opening night of Dolly Parton's musical had some technical difficulties, and Dolly saved the [...]
Read More 9-to-5, dolly parton, malfunction, musicalWe were first inundated with Mike Zinman's code-creating antics with AutoBlock for AutoCAD. Then Mike teased our palate with iSwitch DMX, which I just used this weekend to address a bunch of old Lightwave Research gear. Now Mike Zinman is up to it again with his new lighting-related iPhone app, GelCalc. This application is geared [...]
Read More autoblock, gelcalc, iswitch DMX, mike zinman, the zinman coAn article over from the good folks at Make Magazine detailed a little of UK artist Sandy Smith's "Mauritian Sunset" installation. From Sandy's website: "Mauritian Sunset" was made for the 'Great Artspectations' exhibition at The Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh. A relatively small gallery, and another 2 artists to share the space with, meant that the [...]
Read More computer, great artspectations, sandy smithEditor's note: I'm going to be writing a weekly post on some attribute of WYSIWYG or news related to WYSIWYG in the coming year, maybe longer – but I haven't set a specific day yet for the posts, so stay tuned. I just bought a copy of WYSIWYG R22, and I discovered something very amazing [...]
Read More beams, haze, Pre-Viz, Weekly WYSIWYGBandai's Luminodot from Long Tran on Vimeo. Anyone remember LiteBrite? I certainly hope you remember LiteBrite! It was the analog pixel toy of my youth, and the youth of several millions of others, I would hope. I can certainly remember playing with that thing in the dark for hours. My only issue was the black [...]
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