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Using Color to Create an Uncomfortable Atmosphere

Lighting designer Keith Parham shows us how color was used to create an uncomfortable atmosphere in his lighting of “Adding Machine: A Musical.” Check it out here.

HUNT Dimming Celebrates Golden Anniversary

HUNT Dimming has announced that it has begun celebrating its fiftieth year as a lighting control manufacturer and technology development company. The invention of the transistor in 1956, which launched…

Cash for Clunkers

In his most recent “Energy Advisor” column, Bill Warren, my favorite columnist in the lighting industry, talked about how the Clash for Clunkers program, which targeted autos, is being geared…

Liberty Building Forensics Group: Green Building Codes Present Potential Risks

Liberty Building Forensics Group has published a post on its blog here about potential downsides to coming green building codes such as ASHRAE 189.1, Standard for the Design of High…

L Prize Contestant Now Undergoing Photometric Testing

In September 2009, the Department of Energy received the first entry in the L Prize competition, an LED replacement for the 60W incandescent bulb from Philips Electronics. Philips’ entry is…

Wall Street Journal Takes on International Dark Sky Association

Give me glare or give me death!The Wall Street Journal paints the International Dark Sky Association as Big Brother in Eric Felten’s opinion piece here. Once again, lighting takes a…

New LED Light Bulbs Play Music Wirelessly

Klipsch has introduced the LightSpeaker–LED light bulbs that include integral speakers for playing music via wireless receivers. The product won a 2010 CES Innovations Award. Check it out here. Hat…

The High Line at Dusk

The High Line was built in the 1930s as a 22-block stretch of short-haul freight elevated rail cutting through the Lower West Side of Manhattan. In 1980, the High Line…

More on New York Requiring Buildings to Upgrade Their Lighting

Highlights of Int. No. 973: * Lighting systems in buildings larger than 50,000 gross sq.ft. (or buildings that combined with other buildings on same tax lot in total exceed 100,000…

LED Traffic Lights Can’t Melt Snow (Updated)

On December 24, LightNOW reported on a number of vehicle accidents attributed by authorities to the fact that LED traffic lights can’t melt snow, and subsequent media coverage, here. There’s…

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