Wednesday February 19th, 2014

That pesky light is back at it again. I recorded a video for you guys to see the issue.

I decided to go and get a LED desk lamp... That was also short lived do to the high color temperature of the LED and the brightness of the LED it washes out anything I put under the lamp.

Tuesday February 18th, 2014

So In setting up for the 5th annual Hall of Fame. There was a few events that happened in the Fish Bowl of EB Lobby. Well with those rock sculptures there the lighting designer and I set out some LED wireless and battery operated fixtures. I noticed that there was something going on with the light hitting all the different angles of the rocks.

I noticed that with the different wavelengths of the visible spectrum the what we perceive as yellow light is much stronger and cuts through the red light. 

I also noticed that where the red light crosses with the yellow light there was a hostile take over not a mix of red and yellow light. 

upon further investigation I noticed that at the point where you can see on some rocks there is yellow and others there is red but they are sharp angles. none of the light blended together.

Monday February 17th, 2014

So my apartment has two large windows in the living room that face south. Due to that lovely particle wave duality that light exhibits. I find it interesting that no matter what time of day it is there is some ray of light that gets through the mini blinds and lands perfectly on my TV. I don't even understand how that is possible some times. It may be time to invest in some curtains.

Sunday February 16th, 2014

Leaving School today at 3:30am after and all day load in for the Hall Of Fame. I noticed it was a  little muggy out and I drove past the school on university and noticed that the entire area was lit up. I was like it way to early for there to be sun light. I realized that with all the moisture in the air the it diffracted the light coming off the LED wall and was illuminating the moisture in the air. What are weird look that is seeing the LED Tron from almost goldenrod because of the defection off the water molecules in the air.

Saturday February 15th, 2014

Today I was fortunate to have an amazing friend who surprised me and took me to disney for the day. Trying not to talk about the show lighting, I am trying to make a post on natural lighting, or disney's attempt at recreating natural lighting.

I went on Pirates of The Caribbean, I wanted to see the way they created fire in the windows. Luckily enough the boats backed up and we were stuck in that room for a good 5-7 minutes. Giving me all the time to look and see how that was done.

My lighting Instructor had said that when they first did that ride it was a fan and strips of gel that gave the movement. I was intrigued how low tech.

While stuck in that section of the ride I noticed that they might have replaced that tech with white sheets in the windows that were blown with fans then the lighting bounced off the sheets gave the impression of fire movement. Still very cool how it was done.

Friday February 14th, 2014

Walking through a certain department store today and noticed a maintenance worker changing a set of florescent tubes in the middle of the store. Now several things went through my mind. One, why is he changing these tubes in the middle of the store while there are other customers here in the store.  Two, why didn't he turn off the string of florescence he was working on. Three, why isn't he replacing the tubes with the same tubes that were in there before instead changing them for a different color temperature. then I looked around an that answered that question which was the entire store was dotted with different color temperature tubes. Then my final question is why isn't the merchandise under where he is changing the tube covered. 

As all this is happening, the maintenance worker twisted the tube into the housing and moved away just in time for the tube to shatter and fall all over the other tubes and merchandise which caused those tubes to explode as well. as we were leaving so that we didn't die from the sketchy maintenance or deadly fumes, all of the lights in that string turned off and two more of the doors that hold the diffusion flopped down.

I think thats the last time I step into that store.

Thursday February 13th, 2014

In addition to these mini lights that are doing a horrible job lighting up my office, but did a great job lighting up my tree. I don't think Im going to be able to use any more. They create more heat then they do light and are making this office so ridiculously hot. I think Im gonna have to go and buy an desk lamp or something. I wonder should I go LED or something with a dimmer. Decisions Decisions.

Wednesday February 12th, 2014

Added a second display to my computer set up today. I think that this will really up my workflow productivity. The only issue is the two monitors are not the same brand and when they are both turned up to the same brightness and the contrast and saturation is set it seems that the one monitor has a different color temperature to it. I don't know how I feel about this. May need to use some color correction to fix this! :)

Tuesday February 11th, 2014

Soooo I think the mini lights may have to go. They cause these weird patterns on my desk and are not benefiting me. I am going to try and shift them over so that they don't cause that issue. They also reflect off my disco balls that I have hanging in near my desk and they are bouncing right into my eyes. I think this may be a negative result of these lights. :(

Monday February 10th, 2014

I was watching TV and I never noticed how many red and green and blue indicator lights are on my entertainment center. In the dead of night when I woke up after passing out to a marathon of How Its Made. I realized I think its time to cover some of those LED indicators since they pretty much light up the whole living room. -_-

Sunday February 9th, 2014

So I finally got the mini lights all up and hanging how I wanted them to be. They look AWESOME. lets see how long the last since they keep falling and are a pain to put back up. I really light some of them and I hope they work since I really like how they are hanging in my apartment. I am afraid they may not be strong enough to make it suitable for lighting my office. We shall see.

Saturday February 8th, 2014

In the Venue today, Loading in for BTS. Ken had me go turn out the work lights to focus the stage wash. After that process was done and we went through rehearsal I went to turn the work lights back on. I don't understand why those take such a long time to turn on. I know it has something to do with the lamp, but you would think that there would be another solution to those that don't have such a long warm up time.

Friday February 7th, 2014

So combat the issue of my dark office I tried to find something in my house that would do to bright my dark office. Well I had an abundance of mini lights from christmas. So I thought that would be a great idea to string these lights up and pray that they create enough light to light up my office with out the help of the celling fan. I happen to have one of those three outlet remote on/off switches I put all the clear ones on one. The other two are colored and fun ones. Lets hope this works.

Thursday February 6th, 2014

Sitting in my car after walking through the sketchy Walmart parking lot when over half of the parking lot lights are out makes you very uneasy. Those parking lot lights are so directional, you would think that they would be more of a coverage on those lights. Yet there was lots of little pools of yellow light all thought the parking lot that were not anywhere close to where I parked my car. Upon further inspection all they are lamps with panes of glass in front of them. No lenses or reflectors, I tried to take a picture but all I got was a bright light from the ones that were on and the ones that were off all I saw was a flash reflected off the glass holding the lamp in the housing.

Wednesday February 5th, 2014

My office in my apartment is where I do a lot of my work for school. In this Office the besides the sliding glass door that keep the blinds closed for privacy reasons being on the ground floor and in a high traffic area makes it hard to keep nosey neighbors from looking in as they walk by. I have one light source in this office. A celling fan, this celling fan has two light bulbs, one facing east and one facing west. No matter how I orientate my desk under this light source every so often the west bulb consistently will go out. Its not dead it just is off, the only way to make it generate light is to take the entire bowl off and tighten down the bulb. I hate this celling fan.

Tuesday February 4th 2014

I recently acquired a salt water fish tank, unfortunately no fish yet. But I have to run the filter with the salt water for a few weeks to get the pH right. I purchased a blue "glow" light to accompany the building lighting the tank lid has already. i was looking at it today as I was sitting on my couch and realized that there is a setting that will mimc the light from the sun moving through the waves. The way this is accomplished is by slowly fading and adding the other colored LEDs to the mix. The tank came stock with a Red, Green, Amber and 2 Blue LED sections. I think this was a clever implementation of this device and I looks 100 times better with the addition of my blue "Glow" LEDs.

Monday February 3rd 2014

When someone unlocks a modern car the cabin lights usually turn on. Some are LED and some are small incandescent light bulbs. Well I stopped to get my mail at the front of my complex and I am guessing the radio was off because when I was about to get out of my car the lights went out, which was accompanied with a high pitched noise. I was curious, naturally I made it do it a few more times before I concluded that the lamp was connected to a capacitor the capacitor draining as the lights dimmed cased this noise.