Our favorite Christmas light display!
December 21, 2008
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 what it took to make this happen?
Way to go Richard!!!!!!!!!! For larger video image of Richard’s hard work, HD video and more songs see www.holdman.com
or… for those Trans-Siberian Orchestra fans…
Here’s the original Miller Lite made famous Christmas Lights gone wild.
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Beijing Kicks off Games amidst Celebrated Light
August 8, 2008
A light fueled celebration makes front page on the Wall Street Journal online edtion courtesy of the Beijing Olympic Games and Reuters photographers.
This photo slide show leads with four powerful images that demonstrate the power of lighting to celebrate, entertain, express and enhance emotion. This powerful lighting presentation combines theatrical and architectural lighting to add visible energy to the supercharged emotional start of the Olympic games.
What an exciting and outstanding start to the games!
Light Up the World…post from LightFair 08
May 27, 2008
Have you ever gone home at night to read a book? or to work on paperwork? or simply to spend time with your family? Have you stopped to think about how these daily tasks would be affected without light? For many families living in third world countries; electrical light doesn’t exist. Imagine your children or your nieces or nephews or any other child having to do their studies by the light of a smoky fire or a dirty, hazardous kerosene lamp – as their only source of light. This is the reality of life for many families residing in third world countries.
One man has taken the initiative to see that this doesn’t have to be their reality. That man is Dave Irvine-Halliday and he spoke at a keynote luncheon at LightFair Institute yesterday.
Dave Irvine-Halliday is a mountaineer who, on a trek in the Himalayas found his lifelong passion to provide these families with electrical light.
Please check out the foundation that Dave and his wife Jenny founded in 1997. Light Up The World Foundation (LUTW) is an international humanitarian organization dedicated to illuminating the lives of the world’s poor. They can use your help. www.lutw.org
Don’t worry, it’s still burning!
May 9, 2008
On April 26th we posted on the longest burning light bulb, The Centennial Bulb at the Livermore Fire Deparment.
Just this past weekend it was featured on NBC nightly news which became one of MSN’s most popular videos of the week. On May 5th the Los Angeles times did an article on the bulb.
Currently, the Centennial Bulb Site is recovering from a tremendous amount of hits bringing their “..server to it’s knees” per webmaster Steve. Which means the live feeds of the Video Cam posted on the internet and this blog are not linking. We’re hoping they decide to upgrade their server soon.
Longest Burning Bulb
April 26, 2008
Surprise ! The longest burning bulb is an Incandescent.
It was originally used as a nightlight over the fire trucks in a Livermore, CA fire station.
Installed in 1901, it’s life is so celebrated by it’s local fan club that it has acually been transported via police and fire truck escort.
It’s connected load is suprisingly only 4 watts! Not bad for an incandescent.
The attached video is a live web cam updated every 10 seconds.
for more info you can go to: www.centennialbulb.org
for the 2nd and 3rd runner up…. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/set/lightbulbs.html
Inspiration
April 8, 2008
“Inspiration is the feeling of beginning at the threshold where Silence and Light meet.” Louis I. Kahn
Lobell, John 1985 Between Slience and Light: Spirit in the Architecture of Louis I. Kahn.
Our Human Energy
March 11, 2008
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 and even the unacknowledged consumer’s opinion on a compact fluorescent bulb brings us candid proof.
Why then are none of our increasingly restrictive energy codes weighing the value of light in our lives against the carbon credits?
The consumer has no idea what compromises are being made to their lit environments. At a rabid speed choice and quality are being traded for political gain and face saving alliance with the green movement.
Should a consumer be told that beginning 2012 they can’t use an inexpensive, simple, incandescent bulb to light their homes? Is this really wise or appropriate?
Human celebration with light dates back to one of the first uses of fire by mankind to warm a dark cold night and possibly even before. What is the impact when a midwinter retreat to a snowy Aspen lodge can only produce a LED fireplace? One cannot ask what is the value of that light without asking what is the value of our experiences? On one had we ask that our experiences and world be more organic, and on the other we require it to be more synthetic.
Light has the power to transform and refuel our human energy.
That value of light needs to be part of our discussions and conscious choices about our consumption of resources or we risk wasting whatever energy we do spend regardless of the efficacy of the light source, the efficiency of the fixture or the stringency of the code based design decisions.
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