Crying Lights
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“Light” a short film directed by David Parker, initially began as a project intended to bring awareness to energy waste. Bleeding, crying lights were meant to metaphorically parallel the way in which we invisibly squander our natural resources without much thought. While the original sentiment remains, the film also grew into a poetic statement about a world run amok and the human tendency to exploit that which we hold dear.
The film was shot over a couple nights in Los Angeles as two friends drove around with a camera exploring the city’s architecture and abandoned landscapes. Keeping in this vain, the film will be projected in selected US cities in vacant storefront windows and onto walls in alleys as a moving piece of public art.
Carlos Veron : Cinematographer
Editor: Kevin Zimmerman
Producer: Ritu Paramesh
The Mill NY
Colorist : Damien Van Der Cruyssen
3d Producer: Cat Gulacsy
MassMarket NY
Producer: Marcus Lansdell
3d Artist Aldrich Torres, Entae Kim
Sound
Original score: Peter Lauridsen @ Stimmung
Sound design and Mix: Lindsey Alvarez @ Lime studios
Tags: bleeding, crying, david parker, los angeles, peter lauridsen, usa
Forest of Lights
Posted by lichtling | Filed under licht images
‘light!’ is a commissioned garden-wide exhibition of UK light artist bruce munro at longwood gardens in pennsylvania, USA.
his first one-man show and exhibition in the USA, the installation will feature seven large-scale works including ‘forest of light’.
via Design Boom
Tags: bruce munro, exhibition, forest, installation, light artist, Longwood Gardens, Pennsylvania, usa
NYC to Install Super-Efficient LED Streetlamps
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NYC will soon be installing a new breed of super-efficient LED street lamps. The new units will be tested this coming year in a select area, and if successful, one day all of New York’s 300,000 lights will be replaced with new LED versions.
The new LED lamps will use considerably less energy and will reduce the city’s power usage by 25-30 percent if all the streetlamps are switched out. As a result maintenance and energy costs will be considerably reduced, and the expected ROI on each lamp is 2-3 years.
On top of these great cost savings, the lamps will be more useful because of multiple light lenses within each lamp. Instead of shining directly below the lamp, each lamp will have at least 2 light sources pointed in different directions to illuminate the street, the sidewalk, and perhaps even the curb, a building, or a stairway.
New York’s current street lamps are not just for lighting however – they also serve as fixtures for traffic signals, signs, control boxes and other various city utility necessities. When these old lamps were originally installed, these extra things were never planned into the design and were always a pain to install. The new LED lamps and poles will accommodate all this extra stuff with carefully-considered spaces and connection points.
via: inhabitat.com
Tags: LED, NYC, street, streetlights, urban space, usa
Venus, Jupiter, Moon Smile on Earth
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Photograph by Bullit Marquez/AP
The heavens smiled down on Earth on December 1 in a rare celestial trifecta of Venus, Jupiter, and the moon (shown here over Manila in the Philippines). People in Asia saw a smiley face while sky-watchers in the United States saw a frown, though we’re sure it was nothing personal. This photo was one of the Top Ten National Geographic most viewed 2008.
source: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/12/photogalleries/top-ten-photos/photo2.html
Tags: 2008, asia, earth, jupiter, moon, national geographic, smile, usa, venus
