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Review of the TMB Firefly

Recently, I evaluated a (relatively) new product from TMB – the Firefly, which is a festoon-style light that uses warm white LEDs as the source. The attributes I was specifically interested in were the quality of the light (obviously) but also the durability and ease of rigging / hanging. On the quality of light front, I couldn’t be happier with this product. The light was a very pleasing incandescent color, something I was worried about because when I first saw this product at LDI, the lights had an incredibly obvious and unpleasant salmon hue to them, which resulted in a very unnatural-looking light that would never have passed as an incandescent source. Whether that was a problem that has since… Read More »Review of the TMB Firefly

GLASS – groovy tech from MIT

The young wizards at MIT are now 3D-printing molten glass, which is one of the more unexpectedly beautiful uses of that technology. And while the process itself is really cool from a purely technological standpoint, it’s near the end of the video when the pieces are on display that we get to see some really beautiful refractory patterns. Check it out: GLASS from Mediated Matter Group on Vimeo. What I love about these patterns is that they were probably totally unintended, just a happy accident of unexpected beauty.