Light in Our Lives


Just for Fun!

Our favorite Christmas light display!

Power bill you ask? It was only $120 in 2007 – because the lights turn on and off. Richard spends 8 hours to program just one minute of music! Music Box Dancer 2008 – Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman Winter Wonderland – Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo. Want to know [...]

Wish List Items

The CREE LRP-38

We can’t tell you  how excited we are at Cree’s achievement in the LRP-38 LED lamp. Originally we saw this new technology at LightFair and were cautiously skeptical.   Show booths are of course designed to make things look the best they can – hiding every possible flaw.  Further, it’s very difficult to evaluate color temperature and [...]

Light and Health

Our Human Energy

Our human energy is sustained and transformed by the light we live in. Our moods, our interactions, our work, our environment, even our health, can be dramatically changed by the alteration of light.   This is the true power of light.   We can use it to create more energy than it consumes. It’s documented evidence in design reports, health studies, building post occupancy evaluations [...]





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Lighting for Today

The CREE LRP-38

We can’t tell you  how excited we are at Cree’s achievement in the LRP-38 LED lamp. Originally we saw this new technology at LightFair and were cautiously skeptical.   Show booths are of course designed to make things look the best they can – hiding every possible flaw.  Further, it’s very difficult to evaluate color temperature and [...]

Wish List for Manufacturers

Wanted – Stand-alone Wallbox Dimmer with Astronomical Timer

Wanted: Wallbox Dimmer with Programmable Astronomical Time Clock Functions Application:  All across America Porch lights could be on a timer.  They would automatically come on at sunset, or sunset + .5hr and then automatically go off after a user specified number of hours.   The timer would conserve power usage while providing a reliable and sucure lighting [...]

Lighting Design Notebook

Benya Wins! The GE Edison Award

Jim Benya, PE, FIES, FIALD, LC, wins the GE Edison Award along with Michael Neils, Juan José Villatoro and James E. Christensen, PE. The winning project is the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. The event took place at a private party in NYC thrown by GE on May 4 at the start of LightFair 2009. Here’s the [...]

Facts & Terms for the Lighting Consumer

Comfort and Cut-off Angle

Have you ever been in an interior environment in which you feel you need a baseball cap to get the light out of your eyes?   There are two clear reasons that might be the cause of this.  One, the fixtures might be aimed in a way that did not take into regard your position in the space [...]

Celebration of Light

Our favorite Christmas light display!

Power bill you ask? It was only $120 in 2007 – because the lights turn on and off. Richard spends 8 hours to program just one minute of music! Music Box Dancer 2008 – Holdman Christmas Display from Richard Holdman Winter Wonderland – Computer Controlled Christmas Lights from Richard Holdman on Vimeo. Want to know [...]