For a little bit of random ridiculance, check out this video!

My wife sent me a link to AccentFeed’s article about the most exciting concert visuals of 2008.  You gotta check this out!

Oh Hack-N-Mod, how I love thee.  Check out this how-to video on how to have a massive rockin’ Christmas Tree display.  Also, give Hack-N-Mod a few moments of your time, and then come back to JimOnLight!

Behind the Scenes - Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman on Vimeo.

Also, check out Richard Holdman’s site on building these massive projects.

Hacked Gadgets had this video…

The inventor of this device had this to say about it:

“I used this globe (http://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/science/98b8/) for the levitating part. It consists of 2 permanent magnets, and 2 electromagnets, coupled with a hall sensor to keep a third magnet (inside the globe) floating. I mounted a ordinary 20W lightbulb on this magnet, after removing the plastic globe. The light bulb is connected in parallel with a 100nF capacitor, and a coil of about 40 turns of copper wire.(diameter is about 6 cm). The base has the same coil, with the 100nF capacitor in series connected. The base-coil receives a 50volt, 30kHz square wave signal, from a half H bridge(something like this: http://lh4.ggpht.com/otp.arun/SJkzTSR90lI/AAAAAAAAAh8/fqNPHXqXa8U/s400/hbri1.JPG), with the coil/capacitor connected where the motor is drawn. The current is about 0.5 amps. It works by driving the primary LC combination at resonance. A induction current is generated in the secondary coil because of the resulting magnetic field generated. The current is then directly fed into the light bulb.”

Wow.

From 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:

Okay.  If I wanted to make my blog look like a cheap R-rated piece of crap, I would be saying HOLY SH%&, SONOFAB&%$, MOTHERF%$#*&^%^$%, and few other choice phrases about what I just read and saw.  Amazing.  I am so freaking thrilled right now, becauseI have always wanted the kind of lumen magic that a Catalyst provides when hooked into something like a Christie X-10, but then throw it on a yoke.

This is what I read.  It’s the product page on the Barco DML-1200.  It’s a 12,000 lumen digital light.  You have to see the specs:

The DML-1200 is the first moving digital luminaire which can truly be used as both a super bright, moving light source and a high quality video projector.

In light mode, the DML-1200 produces a perfectly circular light beam with a light output equivalent to that of a 1200W hard edged moving light – 12.000 field lumens and the brightest digital light on the market today.

In video mode, the DML-1200 features a fully sealed DLP engine which delivers full color DLP quality video with SXGA+ (1400 x 1050 pixel) resolution. With a light output of 10,000 center lumens, the DML-1200 is the brightest digital light on the market today.

An internal optical dimming mechanism ensures smooth, accurate intensity control from 0 to 100% ensuring that that your fade to black is a true black, not video black (grey).

Being digital, lighting designers are no longer limited to static, pre-selected patterns and colors. Any image, static or animated can be created and projected. All images are generated by the onboard media player, controlled by DMX512 or artnet protocol, from the lighting console.

With its brightness, unlimited image selection and the ability to seamlessly switch between video projection and light mode, cue by cue, the DML-1200 provides designers pure creativity at their fingertips delivering a truly unique show for every event, client and purpose.

The DL2, awesome.  It’s 6500 lumens.  The DL1?  I’ve used it a bunch, not a lot, but it’s 5500 lumens.  We’re talking twice a DL1.  It makes me wonder how all of the concert goer experiences I had in the early part of the 21st century would have been with 10,000 lumens of video.  Wow.

That’s pretty awesome, Barco.  So now my imaginary dream rig has some of these and some Bad Boys.

Go check out some video on this monster.

A quick video on the history of Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation (or “laser”).  I wish I could have been making Dr. Evil quotes while I said that.

“You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads!”

Check out this old video from the 1950’s about the “invisible black magic of light!”

I found a video (rather, I realized there was a video posted on the bottom of the product page for the Littlebig) for the LittleBig 3500W Xenon badass that I saw at LDI.  Check it out!

HA!  Check out this pretty simple video from the people at Commoncraft.