Share this...Published on: November 30, 2008
Field of Light by Bruce Munro is an installation that will be on display from November 1st thorough to Spring 2009. In order to see it you have to travel to Cornwall in England and find the Eden Project. Field of Light is situated on the grass roof of the visitors centre, between the famous Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes. The sculpture first came to widespread public attention when a scaled-down version was exhibited in the Pirelli Garden at the V&A in 2004.
Munro was inspired for the Field of Light during his trip to Australian red desert being 15 years ago. Since then the idea hadn’t left his mind. He was transfixed by the way the red desert was barren until it rained and then, as if from nowhere, dormant seeds would burst into bloom. So the installation is lit only after nightfall, bursting into life.
Field of Light comprises over 15,000 individual lights. ‘Planted’ in a field of wild grasses and a crop of clover and barley, the sculpture slowly changes colour, transforming from blue to pink, yellow, green and back to white. The ‘plants’ are actually acrylic tubes capped with glass spheres and containing optical fibres, hence the ’stems’ themselves hold no electric power at all.
Published on: November 28, 2008
Night Lights on the Canal is an event, organized by Scottsdale’s own Public Art Program, with the intent to enhance the quality of life for it’s residents and visitors. This has been their objective since their founding in 1985. This year’s event has been divided in three sets, occurring every third Thursday this autumn.
The first was on 16th of October featuring Mykl Wells’s Chimera, an installation with monumental lanterns in the form of animals, people and strange creatures, and Catherine Borg’s Illuminated Exchange inviting passersby to participate in the installation taking a LED light to wear and leave something in exchange. Michael Lundquist’s Blue Galaxy was an array of light, designed do bedazzle the spectators, being quite successful at it. Last, but not least, was Live Music by Human Mirror with a wide arrange of laptop, drumset, vocal, synth, loop and live video art, sparkling in millions of colors of light.
The second part was put on display on 20th of November. Joseph O’Connell presented himself with two installations. Tympani invited people make their own music and light show. Making Do with Little Water enabled the visitors to interact while controlling the flow of the water on O’Connell’s water projector. Mark Lottor’s established Cubatron 3-D array installation of tens of thousands of LED lights programmed with ever-changing effects and colors, managed to keep spectators posted for hours yet again.
Last set of installations is set on display on 18th of December. We are promised to see Jonathan Foote and Michael Prados and the Swarmies Collective’s SWARM, debuted at 2007’s Burning Man and Live Music by Peachcake.
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Posted by: LuÄka Slatner
Published on: November 24, 2008
There are several existing British standards concerning emergency lighting. While mostly generally given references of BS 5266-1, BS EN 1838/BS 5266-7 and BS EN 50172/BS 5266-8, concerning minimum light levels needed to allow safe evacuation or to shut down processes, the a new British Standard, BS 5266-10:2008, provides more guidance on this area.
BS 5266-10:2008 ‘Guide to the design and provision of emergency lighting to reduce the risks from hazards in the event of failure of the normal lighting supply’ provides specific guidance on:
- Hazards that can arise in a building as a result of the type or number of occupants, the design of the premises and activities carried out within it;
- The actions occupants have a responsibility to perform in the event of a normal lighting supply failure.
The new standard can also be used as a reference to engineers when inspecting or planning suitable emergency lighting design.
Source: Bsi-global
Posted by: LuÄka Slatner
Published on: November 24, 2008
The New Year’s Eve Ball-lowering ceremony dates back to the year 1907. A couple of years prior, the owner of New York Times, German Jewish immigrant Alfred Ochs, lobbied the city of New York to rename the Longacre Square to Times Square, thanks to the famous Times Tower location. At the time it was Manhattan’s second-tallest building and thanks to Ochs the focus of an unprecedented New Year’s Eve celebration. First celebration included fireworks, set off from the base of the Tower. The celebration was a huge success, capturing the imagination of the nation in expectance of the next year’s. Fireworks were banned two years later, so Ochs came up with an idea to have a large, illuminated three-hundred-kilogram iron and wood ball lowered from the tower flagpole precisely at midnight to signal the end of 1907 and the beginning of 1908.
Since then, each year the ball was getting bigger, brighter and more captivating. Hence this year’s New Year’s Eve Ball is double the size of previous Balls, measuring up to 3,6 meters in diameter. There were 32,256 LEDs used, which represents more than three times the number of LEDS used last year, but still being very energy efficient. It’s being said to be 10-20% more energy efficient than previous one. LEDs are programmed to display millions of colors in a sparkling display of light. We were promised to witness the most glamorous, beautiful, sparkling and mesmerizing New Years Eve spectacle ever.
The organizers also announced that the new Ball will become a year-round attraction above Times Square in full public view January through December.
Published on: November 22, 2008
As part of OneDotZero festival in London Jason Bruges Studio designed the Aeolian tower – a continuation of their exploration of, as they call it, ‘visualising the invisible’.
The Aeolian tower, the word ‘Aeolian’ stands for ‘moved by the wind’ – is a 15m steel structure located next to Waterloo Bridge.
The tower is covered with tiny LEDs which are driven by turbines swirling in the wind blowing across the Thames.
The aim of the installation is demonstrate how alternative renewable sources of energy can power up sustainable art and design.
If you want to know more about Jason Bruges and his work you might want to consider reading the interview ENLIGHTER.ORG did with him.
Source: News
Posted by: Mitja Prelovsek
Published on: November 22, 2008
Cree has reported new record in efficacy of it’s high power LEDs. The latest product achieved 161lm/W, which is the highest value reported in the industry up to date. The product had an output of 173 lumens and a colour temperature of 4689K.
Despite the fact that this is a laboratory product which is not available for production yet it show, however,the continued progress of LED light sources achieved by manufacturers.
This report by CREE follows recent announcements by Philips and Osram, who reported 155lm/W and 140lm/W in their laboratory products.
Source: Ledsmagazine Ledsmagazine
Posted by: Mitja Prelovsek
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