LED Freerunning: Light Emitting Dudes

Posted by Daphne - April 22, 2013 - from the lips of LEKOGIRL, Guerilla Light, LEDs, Light and Expression, light painting, Lighting and Clothing, Lighting for Dance, Long-Exposure Photography, Outdoor and Recreational Lighting, Wearable Light

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Meet the Light Emitting Dudes! Three freerunners from Bangkok, Sydney, and Frankfurt take on the streets of Bangkok in RGB suits and it is just awesome to behold. Despite the effortless grace of their movements, and the beautiful surreal images exposures of their suits moving through spacetime create, it is no easy feat. The international [...]

Let's Play CHECK IN with JimOnLight.com in Canada!

Posted by Jim - May 28, 2010 - architainment, Architectural Lighting, Guerilla Light, Industry Professionals, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, Jobs! Gigs!

I'm in Toronto right now. Next week I'll be in Phoenix for a week long show run. The week after that? I have no idea. Let me check my calendar. So, for those of you who were at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes this year, sorry I missed you! I wasn't able to attend this [...]

Public Toilets – A Light Installation by Luz Interruptus

Posted by Jim - September 4, 2009 - Guerilla Light, LEDs, Light Art, Lighting and Human Physiology, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting Discussion

What do you get when you mix male urine containers, a light source in each one, some yellow water, and the urine-smelling street spots in Madrid? You get Luz Interruptus' public art installation Public Toilets. It was more of an intervention of sorts – Luz wanted to call some attention to the lack of respect [...]

No Frosted Lamps in the EU Soon? Meet the Euro Condom!

Posted by Jim - August 21, 2009 - Environmentally Friendly Design, Guerilla Light, Hilarity!, incandescent lamps, Industry News, Just Plain AWESOME., Lamps and Sources, Legal Light, Lighting and the Environment, Lighting and the Human Element, Lighting Design, Lighting Manufacturing, Policy and Legislation, Political HooHaa

In September the European Union will be implementing a ban on frosted incandescent lamps. A ban – on frosted lamps. I don't really get this, do you? The argument (well, not really an argument, it's passed) is that clear lamps give off more lumens than frosted lamps. Hold on, what? I'll write a bit more [...]

Hey Detroit – You Should Listen When Broken City Lab Talks to You

Posted by Jim - July 29, 2009 - artists, Environmentally Friendly Design, Guerilla Light, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Advertising, light painting, Lighting and The Economy, Political HooHaa

In 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, [...]

Tel Aviv Tunnels, Meet Bar & Shay

Posted by Jim - July 15, 2009 - Architectural Lighting, artists, Civil and Infrastructure Lighting, Guerilla Light, Industry Professionals, Just Plain AWESOME., landscape lighting, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting Design, Lighting for Enjoyment!, Outdoor and Recreational Lighting

Israel's second largest city Tel Aviv has a series of underground walking tunnels that were a great place for artists Bar & Shay to unleash their latest work. The artists altered the public lighting in the tunnels to something a little more colorful. From Wooster Collective, the tunnels with their normal lighting: Now, the Bar [...]

LED Throwies – Live Art from Graffiti Research Labs

Posted by Jim - July 9, 2009 - artists, Events, Guerilla Light, LEDs, Light Art, Lighting for Enjoyment!

LED throwie – it sounds like a children's cartoon, doesn't it? Okay, maybe not, but they're fun to make. You tape an LED to a battery, maybe add some magnets to the battery so that it sticks to something metal. Done. Like these: Besides them costing about a buck a pop to make, this is [...]