I love discovering new facts about pretty much anything. Any day I can learn something is an awesome day. Any day I can learn something new about light, it's an even better day! Here's 20 Really Awesome Facts about Solar Power! The first working, practical, usable solar cell was created by Bell Laboratories in 1954. [...]
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It's that time of year again, albeit maybe a little early… there are lots of Canadians who are already rocking the Christmas lights, and by rocking I do mean there are lots of strands of LED Christmas lights all over the place in Toronto. This is why it's ABOUT TIME to publish the JimOnLight Guide [...]
Read More Christmas Lights, Education, Guides, JimOnLight Guide, JimOnLight Guide to Christmas LightsSweet, have you seen this? I saw it at Neatorama first – it is WAY too cool not to share! Check it out! Original link here:
Read More Education, fireworks, infographicCheck out this video – the Institute of Physics put this video out, which chronicles the day of a music festival being loaded in and executed. The video is a UK music festival – the Ashfield Music Festival. Thanks, IOP!
Read More Ashfield Music Festival, concert lighting, Education, Institute of Physics, lighting, music festival, VideoRight off the bat, I have to say thanks to Dean Palmer Jr. on Twitter for tweeting this today – that was the most awesome start to my day in months! Below is a video that you have to watch – it's Ludwig Von Drake, the Disney duck who knew something about everything. I also [...]
Read More color theory, Disney, Education, learning, light spectrum, Ludwig Von Drake, teachingNow that I am back home and not in Sweden, I have been combing through some of the work that I did in my first few months at KTH. I took a lot of photographs of pretty much everything I could take photos of when I was in Sweden, and I got some interesting shots [...]
Read More Activiva, Education, experiments, high pressure sodium, incande, incandescent, KTH, light, materials testing, philips, photographyCat West from Console Trainer posted a video a few days ago about how to re-image your Hog iPC console. Check it out, because she has all kinds of stuff to teach you. System Restore for Hog iPC from Cat West on Vimeo.
Read More Cat West, console, Console Trainer, Education, Flying Pig, Hog iPC, Whole HogI got some of the greatest news this week. Back in December of 2008 I applied to Sweden's KTH School for their Master's of Architectural Lighting Design degree – I want another Master's in another Lighting field. I just found out this week that I've been accepted, and starting in mid-August I will be writing [...]
Read More Architectural Lighting, Education, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, SwedenCollin Cunningham brings us another very freaking awesome video – this time, we learn a bit about the diode. It's an electronic valve that spends its time regulatin' and rectifyin' and just being awesome. Check it out!
Read More Collin Cunningham, diode, EducationOne of the people I follow on Twitter – a gal named Cat West – has published a video on using the Echo software to collage across pixelation luminaires (ie, StudioPix and ShowPix). It's a good video – please check it out! Setting up Pixellage from Cat West on Vimeo. Also, check out Cat's blog [...]
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