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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.

Rube Goldberg Machine with Light

Via Colassal, comes this amazing advert for the high-speed internet service au Hikari, and builds an entire Rube Goldberg machine powered by nothing more than a beam of light. Along the way it melts ice, pops balloons, and burns strings. Incredible.

Cool Lamp Monday - Bioluminescence

Finally, I'm back off the road and can do things like post for my many one reader.

Today's cool lamp comes from Dutch designer Teresa van Dongen, who designed a lamp that she calls Ambio that uses a species of bioluminescent bacteria in the genus Photobacterium, which she has isolated from o...

Mythos

First things first, it's pronounced "myth-os" (soft Y sound) not "meeth-os". Where on earth did people get the hard Y sound from?

We've finally seen what Clay-Paky's new light from a few weeks ago is - it's the called the Mythos, and it seems to be a direct answer to the popular Robe Pointe, with...

Gear review - Chauvet Professional AmHaze II

Minor change to the website announcement - this blog is not intended to be commented on, it's intended as a place for my design company (me) to write about industry news and products. I have globally disabled all comments on all entries, everywhere, for all time, because all that was happening was s...