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I write about things in the industry that interest and / or annoy me. The thoughts here are my own, and never necessarily represent the thoughts of any past / current / future employers.

Chauvet's new LEDs dim with an external dimmer

Oooh, this is cool. Chauvet has introduced two new LED fixtures that dims with an external dimmer, instead of needing DMX directly, though you can dim it that way, too:

This is a really brilliant idea, because you just directly swap your old Altman ellipsoidal or Fresnel onto the circuit and get t...

Hypothetical set series - Astronomy

With the abundance of downtime that I typically see during the last two months of the year, I thought I'd sit down and turn some of the ideas that make their way into my physical paper sketchbook into 3D renderings, both to keep myself sharp on the modeling side but also to showcase my designs in a...

Cool Lamp Monday

Via Colossal comes The Cloud:

The Cloud is an interactive lamp and speaker system, designed to mimic a thundercloud in both appearance and entertainment. Using motion sensors the cloud detects a user’s presence and creates a unique lightning and thunder show dictated by their movement. Th...

Nature's Light at Her Most Breathtaking

Via Vimeo comes Stormscapes 2, in which photographer Nicholaus Wegner spent months photographing severe weather on the high plains of the United States. The results are incredible:

Stormscapes 2 from Nicolaus Wegner on Vimeo.

The power of atmospheric weather events can be, in the deepest...