Hey Bono, quit shining your darned jacket into my eyes! Ah, I kid. Have you seen Bono's laser jacket? As if he wasn't cool enough, Moritz Waldemeyer designed a jacket for the latest 360° Tour that has 240 lasers embedded in it. Apparently they have been defocused for additional safety, because wouldn't it suck to [...]
Read More 360 Tour, Bono, Laser, laser jacket, Moritz Waldenmeyer, U2, U2 360What? Tomomi Sayuda may have a nice bee-hind, but I have to say that I'd need a bit bigger of a scanner. Tomomi has designed a chair, referred to as the "iBum," that essentially scans and photocopies the sitter's tushie as they sit in the chair, then spits out the copy for them to scowl [...]
Read More butt, iBum, interactive design, scanning, Tomomi SayudaOne of my most trusted OLED sources posted a video from NKK switches about their fully programmable OLED SmartSwitch a few weeks ago – I'm just now getting to see it. Specs on the switch from OLED-Info: The OLED SmartSwitch and SmartDisplay are programmable pushbutton switches and displays that feature a programmable and changeable OLED [...]
Read More display, NKK, OLED, OLED-Info, Smart Display, Smart Switch, switchOkay, this is one of the neatest tricks – frosted glass + Scotch tape = clear glass. You have to see this: Is this magic? Is this some kind of interstellar phenomenon? It is certainly cool and mysterious, but it makes sense if you think about the way that light, reflection, and refraction work together. [...]
Read More diffusion, frosted glass, reflection, refraction, scotch tape, tape trickI just got a press release from PRG about the latest Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction tour – yes, they're calling it the NIN/JA tour. Roy Bennet and Jason Bullock have decided to give the Chamsis MagicQ lighting console a go on the show – this is a console that I haven't had a [...]
Read More Chamsis, Janes Addiction, Jason Bullock, Lighting Control, MagicQ, MagicQ lighting consoles, nine inch nails, PRG, Roy BennetOn July 22 of this year, China and part of Asia saw the longest solar eclipse of this century – six minutes and 39 seconds long. The next longest solar eclipse? I certainly won't see it, as it's supposed to take place in 2132. Maybe Bernie Madoff can see it when he gets out of [...]
Read More 2009, Boston Globe, china, solar eclipse, The Big PictureEveryone knows about arc lights – well, let me say that if you work with light, you know about arc lights. Sir Humphry Davy gave birth (not literally, obviously) to the first arc light back somewhere between 1802 and 1809. An excellent nerd and science man, Bill Gurstelle, made a video on how to create [...]
Read More arc light, Bill Gurstelle, carbon arc, electricity, Michael Faraday, Sir Humphry DavyOkay, before I say anything about this fixture that Christopher Moulder has designed, just remember that I love halogen and incandescent sources, and I know their places. Meet Christopher Moulder's Shade lamp: First and foremost, the Shade fixture uses 28 of the 10W halogen Festoon lamps, for a total of about $83 bucks in lamps [...]
Read MoreIn September to November 2009, people in Detroit, MI and Winsor, Ontario will be seeing messages like this projected in the night sky: Broken City Lab – a "creative research group" – will be shining these kinds of messages on the CIBC building for all of Detroit to see. Broken City Lab is from Windosr, [...]
Read More Broken City Lab, Chrysler, Detroit, economic woes, Ford, GM, Guerilla Light, poverty, projectionThis is extremely awesome – light art blog Light Paint posted some Life Magazine images from 1949 of Pablo Picasso creating some light graffiti. Talk about way before his time – can you imagine what the world would be like if that guy, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Niels Bohr were still alive? Check out these [...]
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