Unfortunately, I didn't get to spend much time checking out Robe's booth this year. I went and got my badge scanned, and then I got whisked away by old friends. Robe has been getting some good press with new product releases. I've not ever had the chance to design with Robe fixtures, but I'd be [...]
Read More LDI, LDI 2008, Robe, Robe LightingOne of the more interesting visual displays at LDI came from the good folks at LaserNet, who had big ol' green argon beams shooting all over the convention center! When I walked onto the floor this year, I saw the LaserNet booth immediately, and made my way over. It's always one of my first stops, [...]
Read More argon, lasernet, lasers, LDI, LDI 2008LED replacements are something that everyone *should* be interested in pursuing, simply because of their ridiculously long lamp life, color temperature, and lumens per watt to name a few reasons. The major issue right now facing the LED market for items like replacement lamps is the price point. Unfortunately, as awesome as LED replacement lamps [...]
Read More G11, LED replacement lamps, Lighting Science, R-typeThat's right, LAMPS. Not "light bulbs," as my wife and I have oft discussed, because I am a big nerd. Dark Roasted Blend posted an enormous post about lamps and a bunch of creative "edits" done in the vein of the subject of lamps. You need to check it out!
Read More Dark Roasted Blend, lampsUnless your "casual recreational use" of 'shrooms back in the hayday has turned all lamps into mushrooms for you – and in which case I'm sorry – you'll probably like this lamp, which is another installment of design by Jaime Salm and Katherine Wise. The Shroom Lamp is designed as a tabletop lamp, with the [...]
Read More cfl, Jaime Salm, Katherine WIse, Shroom LampMake Mag has an article about the installation going on until November 17, 2008 by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer. The installation is called "Pulse Park," and it is the simultaneous recording and interpreting of 200 heartbeats by light. There are articles all over about this – NY Mag wrote one that describes the process and all goings [...]
Read More heartbeat, installation, Pulse Front, Pulse Park, Pulse Room, Rafael Lozano-HemmerAqua Visual FX had a great booth at LDI this year. For those of you who don't know about Aqua Visual FX's products, it's basically a water billboard, with the images and text you want displayed shot down in sheets from a top point. All the water is in a relatiovely closed circuit system, with [...]
Read More advertising, Aqua Visual FX, billboard, display, effect, waterHere's an image I took of Strong's booth at LDI. Lots of spotlights, and you could see them from pretty much any vantagepoint in the convention hall. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License.
Read More followspot, LDI, LDI 2008, spotlight, Strong LightingI have a friend who is out on his first tour right now, and he is having a really hard time adjusting to his schedule and sleeping on a rock-and-roll coach. He's on a Prevost, which I always thought was a nice bus, and sleeping came naturally – but he is having a hard time [...]
Read More napping, Prevost, rock-and-roll coach, sleeping, touringFrom the post earlier about the big award the Watercube just won, here's some video of the Watercube. This is the kind of work that makes you wish you had a hand in it. Also, check out this architect's concept video of the Watercube:
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