philosophy

The Blueshift Design Blog has lain dormant for a month or two, due to excessive business designing two shows (including our first Las Vegas residency!) gearing up for LDI, and work on a new podcast. Stay tuned! Way back in the day, video screens were really heavy, really dim, and prone to really horrible color shifts as the various elements of the projectors converged incorrectly. Today’s LED screens are much lighter, orders of magnitude brighter, and now compete with even the most powerful strobes for the brightest element on the stage. In any discussion regarding using lighting and video elements alongside each other, it will be important to first clearly define the terms in play. With the proliferation of LED… Read More »Lighting Versus Video!

A recent post on a production-related website talked about the gradual shift toward LEDs and fluorescent lighting as a double-edged sword – citing the uncomfortableness of the spectral qualities of fluorescent and LED light as a reason that people will simply leave areas lit with these sources and seek out full(er)-spectrum lighting such as daylight or incandescent. The article offers some of the standard arguments I’ve read over the years about why we like incandescent lighting, its relationship to the spectrum of firelight, and how an office lit with 5,550 Kelvin fluorescents feels totally different than daylight at 5,550 Kelvin daylight. This is where the author and I agree, perhaps for different reasons. I personally despise fluorescent lighting, especially the… Read More »On The Love Of Incandescent