I found these lamps on Coroflot - Rafael Morgan is the designer.  A statement about the fixture from the designer:

The Light Drop is supposed to make people think about how we are dealing with our natural resources , in this particular case, the water, which is the main source of energy for every living organism in this fantastic world. Water is energy indeed.  I really hope that people really get my message….

They get it, Rafael, they get it.  Deep.

Dima Loginoff, a Russian designer has come out with the “Andrew” lamp.  All black and white, the layering is amazing.  I’m not sure the reflectance of the material used in the ring sheets, but I can imagine this lamp must look beautiful.

Also, apparently Dima Loginoff also worked as a hair stylist.  Who knew?  Multitalented.

Thanks, DesignBoom!

A designer named Charles Kalpakian has produced a lighting fixture called “Rain Light,” which is fluorescent in nature, and reminiscient of falling water.  Hello Karl, the parent company or design firm, I haven’t figured out which yet, as I am having a hard time getting this company to want my free publicity, has a bunch of fixtures that I would love to chronicle.

Check out some images, and thanks to Yanko Design for the original article!

MSNBC has a video of the Showpix in action during a Beyonce outdoor performance.  Check them out!  (and I don’t mean the catsuits…)

Check out the video here.

I met a cool sibling of a good friend this weekend who is working as a production electrician in New York City.  After breakfast and coffee, we got to chatting about fixtures and favorites and that kind of geek speak.  Martin’s Mac 2000 came up, and where I love the Mac 2K, my friend’s sister did not.  Her complaint was that the Martin line is not a very good product line, and I had to naturally disagree.  The main comparison was to the Vari*Lite line of fixtures - for which I have a special place in my heart.  The optics are great, the output is great, and the fixture is smooth and reliable.  However, as a designer and also someone who has had both hands knee deep in both of these fixture lines, I can’t say that the Mac 2000 is a “crappy” fixture.  I’ve been all over the globe with these fixtures (Mac 2K), and I love them.  I’d probably rather have Vari*Lite fixtures, but if I had nothing but Mac 2K’s available, I still feel like I could design and program a rockin’ show.

What are your thoughts on the Mac 2000?  Profile, Performance, or Wash, whatever model you know.  Please post in the comments, I really want your opinions!  Am I the only person who still values Mac 2000’s?

Clay Paky’s booth this year was fun - more for the fact that they had a bunch of really punchy fixtures that were very, very freaking bright.  So bright, in fact, that I heard someone say “dude, is that the Clay Paky booth?  Do they have VL3000’s up there?”

The Alpha Beam 1500 is AWESOME, Clay Paky.  Just so you know.

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Seachanger, the color mixing engine that you attach to a Source Four ellipsoidal, has just announced that they are selling a high-output color engine that runs on a LIFI lamp.  LIFI - I blogged about this a few days ago, but it means “Light Fidelity.”  It’s a high output lamp, very efficient, and uses plasma.

Plasma.  The NEMO is 83 lumens per Watt.  EIGHTY THREE.
Did I mention 83 lumens per Watt?  NEMO outputs 15,000 lumens on a mere 180W of power.

The Seachanger NEMO, from older posts I made about the regular spot and wash units, is also the kind of unit where you attach a Source Four barrel to the device and go.  NEMO is basically an HID source (in output terms) for a Source Four - like the Mole Richardson lamp units for the Source Four.  All of the same filters and xG (extreme green) stuff come with the NEMO.

From the product page:

Say hello to Nemo, the latest in the SeaChanger range designed to deliver a new class of high-intensity lighting.

Nemo is the first ETC Source Four® compatible color engine with a LIFI® plasma source that delivers 15,000 lumens on a modest 180 watts of power. That’s over 6 times the efficiency of comparable color engines.

The SeaChanger Nemo uses existing ETC Source Four front-end barrels as well as an assortment of ETC FOV optics. It comes equipped with SeaChanger’s own Extreme Green wheel that extends the CMY color gamut to create more dramatic, vibrant colors.

Because of its lamp life, Nemo is the perfect solution for hard-to-reach installations, domes, atria and theme parks. It bridges the gap between incandescent and LED lighting at a price that’s within reach.

Go efficient. Go Green. Go Nemo!

Here’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.

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LRX Lighting was at LDI this year - if you’re not familiar with LRX’s products, they do a lot of high-output fixtures and accessories for film and television lighting, mostly robotic.  The first picture I took here (well, and the second one too), with the fixture having 36 lamps, is the Scorpion.  The Scorpion is a fixture that has 36 lamps, and has pan, tilt, and trolley control either via their proprietary controller, or via DMX.

The other fixture is the LRX Piranha, which is another big punch HMI.

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I don’t have any kind of affiliate partnership with the products I write about, so I am doing it out of pure enjoyment of the fixture and its design.  One such product that I just ran across while researching is the Lalique Collection by ET2 from CSN Lighting.

CSN Lighting is kind of an upscale store, but the fixtures they have on their site are beautiful.  Definitely do some browser-window shopping.

Check out the Lalique Collection by ET2: