This is beautiful, and I’ll let it speak for itself: Some TED talks are better than others, but this isn’t a talk, it’s a piece of performance art, with what I think is a sharktooth scrim and some projection, though I could be wrong about that. It’s easy to forget the ways in which older tech like projectors can be used to great effect, and it’s nice to be reminded that they can be.
Today, a bit of really, really cool art by Dennis Parren. This lamp features cyan, magenta, and yellow LEDs pointed around at slightly different angles and crazy wire shapes. When these three primary colors (more on that later) combine, they create white light. When one of the colors is blocked by the structure of the lamp itself, however, multicolored shadows are created and cast about the room. Observe: CMYK up ‘switch on’ from Dennis Parren on Vimeo. This takes an effect that many lighting companies have spent a lot of time and energy trying to eliminate – the multicolored shadows effect from LED wash lights and exploits in an incredibly clever way. The descriptions of the lamp claim that it… Read More »Cool Lamp Monday