A while ago, I wrote about Art Lebedev's idea for night time pedestrian crosswalk illumination – Air Crosswalk is being implemented in a town in Russia. I hope to find some pictures of the installation once it's in. I found another great idea for crosswalk illumination, this time from designer Seungkyun Woo – "School Zone" [...]
Read More Crosswalk, LED, School Zone, Seungkyun WooHave you ever been out shopping for replacement lamps for your home and saw acronyms like HID, HPS, MSR, and HMI? These acronyms refer to lamps that are different than your typical household incandescent with a filament – HID stands for High Intensity Discharge lamp, and refers to lamps that utilize an electric arc to [...]
Read More HID, HMI, HPS, Hydrargyrum, Lighting 101, mercury, Mercury Vapor, MSR, Sodium VaporThis is an interesting concept – a baseboard that provides a little illumination on the walls and floor in dark spaces while being low profile and relatively simply. Light Way, which I first saw on Yanko's website, is all fiber-optic and takes light from a light pump somewhere in the installation and delivers it to [...]
Read More baseboard illumination, Dan Fitcher, Dan Tafe, Fiber-Optic, Hayley Rosen, Keisha Stole, Light WayI wish I had a picture of a beagle dressed up in a super hero outfit with Parylene on the front of the outfit – that would be perfect. Parylene, an industrial coating for LED cards, circuit boards and all other things that are LED related but need protection from the elements, has been rocking [...]
Read More conformal coatings, LED, ParyleneIf you've been watching the wire lately, you would have noticed a large spike in OLED production, news, and marketing. From backlights to specialized architectural illumination, OLEDs are trying hard to find their way into the commercial market. Analysts project that over the next ten years or so, we'll see a very large spike in [...]
Read More backlighting, ILED, inorganic, OLED, organicBarco, Electrabel, and Magic Monkey put on a display that just closed yesterday – a magical display of LED wonderment and architectural beauty. Check out the press release from Barco: Barco, a global leader in LED technology, is proud to announce that its creative LED MiSTRIP has been chosen for the Electrabel Nights in Brussels. [...]
Read More BARCO, Electrabel, LED, Magic Monkey, MiSTRIPI'm presenting a workshop for young lighting designers and master electricians in February at the Rocky Mountain Theatre Association Conference in February of this next coming year – so, in a few months. My seminar is about the lighting professional's life and work – the transition from educational life to that of the professional lighting [...]
Read More conference, convention, RMTA, Rocky Mountain Theatre AssociationDo you see up there below the title, the black space with Contact, Recommended Reading, and now Resources? That's the new home of JimOnLight's Resources section! I am going to archive important operators' manuals, console software, offline editor software, and anything that the industry feels is important to have in one place. Keep in mind, [...]
Read MoreI just read an article at optics.org about micro-pixellated LEDs, or MicroLEDs – these LEDs arrayed elements, with thousands or even tens of thousands of sources covering a surface. The University of Strathclyde's Institute of Photonics in the UK is at the edge of this technology right now, and leading. They've developed, according to the [...]
Read More Institute of Photonics, LED, microLEDI just read an article at Inhabitat about an Israeli firm that's working on a road surface with embedded piezo crystals capable of generating electricity as cars pass over it. From the article: The energy-generating roadway works thanks to piezoelectric crystals embeded in the asphalt. As vehicles pass over them, the vibrations generate a small [...]
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