Cool Lamp Monday
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...
Gel colors I like
Gels and dichroics might seem antiquated to the new kids on the concert lighting scene, what with the abundance of LED sources floating around the stages these days. The fact remains, however, that as wonderful as LED lights are for their electrical efficiency, it remains very difficult to get certa...
Some misty thoughts on color theory
Other than position and intensity, possibly the most striking quality of any sort of light that can be emitted in a concert context is its color. One of the questions that designers get asked, at least during those rare occasions that someone is actually wondering, is "How do you decide what color a...
Cool Lamp Monday
Book lamp!
From Lumio comes this whimsical book lamp. The source is LEDs, and they claim a nice, soothing 2700 Kelvin color temperature, perfect for sitting and reading on a summer evening.