tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61528297821930830952012-01-01T03:47:21.283-08:00The Lighting Intelligence BlogVasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.comBlogger781100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-4309271995513875722012-01-01T03:34:00.000-08:002012-01-01T03:47:21.292-08:00

We thought, the mission was impossible and nothing in Dubai can surprise us with its gigantonomous scale anymore... Fountains? Burj Al Arab lighting? Burj Khalifa heights? Burj Khalifa fireworks? Come on, we saw the preparations, we saw the fireworks boxes being mounted onto the Burj's planes, we challenged the security around the area and once got past three of the guards, as close as it can be!

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53 pictures, 53 weeks, a bit more than one year...Is it enough time to observe all the subtle movements of sunlight, all the shadow play, all the colour change as the season go by, from the crystal white of snow to the tasty green of spring to the peony fire of summer and the final fade away of autumn? We were plunged into the midst of this feast (we nicknamed it Light & Nature and then it

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Colin Rich's time lapse shot of Los Angeles & The Cinematic Orchestra's song radiate a surprisingly delicate glow. A bit different from what we expect to see in LA. And a bit of a controversy to the point that each city's lightscape is meant to showcase its unique character... just an infinite urban sea of light.

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ROM aka Lee-Chin Crystal designed by Daniel Libeskind in collaboration with the Toronto-based bureau Bregman + Hamann does not look like anything connected to natural history and world cultures! Well, the jagged geometry is kinda reminiscent of a gem stone as it is said to have been inspired of... but in its very deconstructive way.Looks like the new structure of the museum has erupted from the

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As long as light is not a static thing, the attempts to capture it or showcase its effects are quite tricky. Interactivity always does lighting good, especially when the person performing the lighting talk is an Artist! And an internationally acclaimed artist and lighting designer Leni Schwendinger is truly a story-teller: narrating of seemingly trivial simple things that surround us in our

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... a lot of innovation coming from the Land Down Under recently. Architecture, design, polygraphy and now... Glow!The dance company Chunky Move from Melbourne is pushing the boundaries of choreography: Terpsichore got upgraded and acquired some sophisticated IT skills?As the dancer moves around the dance floor, the infrared camera is watching every single movement and communicating the data to

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SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.How to make a baroque ballroom even more baroque? Who else but the French know how to play with courtois style: absolutely mind-blowing light projections by Xavier Chassaing... hypnotised!

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We are carried away with Syd Mead's designs and übermentality. Oh, and his Blade Runner and Tron concepts. Can anyone predict the future better than the master-mind behind the Future worlds?2019: A Future Imagined from Flat-12 on Vimeo.

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Good news or bad news? 2011 is almost here, and the lighting industry is on the edge. It is the edge of biggest challenges and changes, the Age of Discovery has left us with plenty of ideas but with limited resources. Is the world of lighting ready for it?1. MOTLEY CREWThe trendiest places are diverting from concepts to anti-concepts, using all that has come to hand for lighting. The creative

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DUBAI, UAERolex tower undoubtedly stands out of the fence of tall buildings populated Dubai's Sheikh Zayed Road. Not only its ruled geometry but effect on a daylight and moonlit landscape that impress.Pass it at noon, and the zenith Sun twinkles you across the sequence of opaque and transparent glass panels. Stop by after sunset and hundreds of sparkles flow down a colossal coal.Brilliantly

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Having spent seven long years in a classical choreography school, I appreciate the intricacies of the body language and the ways to either enhance or to hide the emotions conveyed by it. The right atmosphere is always a key to creating the feeling of catharsis when watching a dance......and Wade Robson's modern interpretation of John Mayer' song is a perfect proof. Beautiful - with the lighting

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A TUNNELCan you count how often you are in a complete darkness? The complete darkness derives us of certain sensations or skills that we obtain during our light experiences through years. A small proof of this: tunnels of one of the Dubai aqua-parks. Your brain sends no signals of whether it is going to be right or left turn, whether there are any obstacles on your way. Information is perceived

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-23651071810605461542010-06-04T09:26:00.000-07:002010-06-04T09:47:10.044-07:00

JACK JOHNSON'S ALBUM Sleep Through The Static was made with 100% solar energy: all the songs were recorded onto analogue tape machines powered by the sun in Hawaii and Los Angeles.That's how the music (acoustic songs performed by a surfer singer who gets inspired by the ocean waves and open skies) seamlessly blends with the light... and you go on whistling his tunes and feeling the sun on your

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DUBAI FOUNTAINS, Dubai, UAEUnsurpassed: 275m long (the size of two football fields), water nozzles shoot water sprays to heights of over 150m (equivalent of a 50-storeyed building), 6600 lights and 50 coloured projectors provide the full spectrum of colour with a total output of 1,5 million lumen. These are the "dry" facts.Unforgettable: we were trying to film it several times but would

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SWITCH RESTAURANT, Dubai, UAEThe fav dining out place of a lighting geek should give as much emotional food as... oh what was on the menu?Karim Rashid's Switch Restaurant and Lounge in Dubai Mall lives up to its name: it is the embodiment of transformation. The sand-dune-shaped walls with continuous colour changing, play on light and shadow, striking black ribbon of the ceiling with Arabic

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LUXIPEDIA HOME PAGE, Fagerhult Lighting AcademyLight has always been a source of inspiration for different visual arts like painting, photography and cinema, it has brought up brilliant metaphors used in poetry and music but in all its creative spectrum there's a whole scientific field lying underneath. To better describe the multiplicity of light and uncover the latest developments in lighting,

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NEW ZEALAND One of the key parameters in light perception is reflection. The reflection factor of material is always considered when making lighting calculations as the beam of light touches surfaces and either travels through them or is absorbed or bounced back thus creating various impressions. This is the essence of lighting design.The best samples of lighting design are provided by nature

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URAL AIRLINES OFFICE, Ekaterinburg, RussiaWe are happy to present the project of Ural Airlines HQ in Ekaterinburg, Russia - our friend, architect Timur Abdullaev, and his bureau In.Form's creation. The complex forms of the building are meant to reflect and unite the complexity of versatile functions and structures of the Ural Airlines company, one of the biggest Russian carriers. The interior

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HISTORY MUSEUM, DUBAI, UAE. Whilst other countries are building their lighting philosophies on the lack of the Sun, Middle East tradition is based on its abundance. A hut replica in the History Museum of Dubai illustrates logical and simple solution of letting in enough daylight and circulation of air. Bedhead is protected against direct light by a round-shaped rug. Good morning, Wisdom!

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-84718187541608723882010-02-04T10:36:00.000-08:002010-02-04T11:00:34.804-08:00

DUBAI, UAE. A regular metro passanger, I do enjoy Dubai's metro. The local RTA, Road and Transport Authorities, are up to create a sustainable and feasible transportation system in the city. Slowdown puts on hold opening of several station, but the most important stations are open (remember, Emirati are good merchants, and they have opened the most commercially potent locations, such as Mall of

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-65626467748424559092010-01-28T21:21:00.000-08:002010-01-28T21:30:24.770-08:00

MALL OF THE EMIRATES, DUBAI, UAEAccidentally I have bunped into a marching band opening a Shopping Festival in Dubai. Lood music and some hundred or more participants. Such heavy shopper as myself, I had almost turned away until I saw the glow.

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-13020467720432916602009-12-18T13:49:00.000-08:002009-12-29T07:25:33.441-08:00

TV TOWER, StPetersburg, RussiaI invite you for a rideThrough the Gotham City night...Not the brightest ditty, sorry! The experience is pretty poignant though! The TV Tower that I'm passing by every other day reminds an eery Christmas tree, with LEDs scintillating and flickering up and down and thus making the tower a focal point in the city as your eye is inevitably drawn to the glowing carcass. 

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LED ACTION FACADE, Madrid, SpainThe endless debate on urban development cannot leave out the essential part of a modern city - lighting. It's been used for commercial purposes, like advertising, and has recently been more and more applied for social projects. If we can create a shop identity with the help of lighting, why not use it to give some unique local flavour and differentiate on a broader

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DUBAI, UAEEverything is different there: everpresent sun, high high high skies, colours and fragrances, faces and facades... The distance is measured in towers ("Now, you go two towers farther..."). Past meets future and Futurama is diluted by Tradition. Here you can come across traditional "old-fashioned" elements in modernist interiors. Like, musharabija as a decorative pattern and functional

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LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, I have an honour to present... another kid from the Family of Lighting Geeks, our dear colleague Carl (apllause)! As if being a lighting designer and a Green Lighting Concept Guru is not enough, Carl can accompany the work process with writing "quick poems" -- and trust me, we are speaking obsession, well, the light form of obsession here! OK, giving the floor to the poet:

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KENT'S STUNNING VIDEO Columbus features two leading "actors":   1) the city  2) the lighting. Urban lighting permeates the scene and oozes from every pore. It enhances movement and somehow creates this feel of loneliness in a crowd. It's very Scandinavian, it's very human. It's universal. Personally, I adore this time of day, when the city lights are on and people are rushing somewhere in the

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OUR NEW LOGO has been created by one of the most talented graphic designers and our friend, Alexis Dernov. Merci beaucoup, Alexis! Thanks to you, nos cœurs sons toujours à Paris!

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ARTEK SHOWROOM, Helsinki, FinlandAlvar Aalto, the legendary Finnish designer and architect, has created some unsurpassed pieces of furniture, now manufactured by Artek. In the frameworks of Helsinki Design Week 2009, we were lucky to visit the Artek showroom and find there an exhibition of Piet Hein Eek, a Dutch designer, whose work of wood and alluminium challenges the bravest imaginarium.

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-79297261811803281842009-09-20T08:30:00.000-07:002009-09-20T08:51:24.274-07:00

THE VIDEO ROBOTS of the Russian alternative artist Dolphin brings to a focus the topic of a big city rythm transforming at some point into a chaotic routine, the Brownian movement that turns us into robots. Scary picture! Our focus is on how the big city lights dominate the urban landscape. The rythm of switching on/off makes housings act as big screens. This way, we all contribute to the

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-51182315912007503542009-09-15T12:03:00.001-07:002010-09-17T12:18:08.757-07:00

AS EVERY AUTUMN the world starts to sum up, analyse and make prognosis, we couldn't stay away and decided to jump on the fortune-telling bandwagon. And the figure 2010 looks quite futuristic itself so... Here is the future lighting as we see it, the decorative and techno sides of it. 1. BIG BADA BOOMIn recent projects (recent übercool projects, that is) there's a tendency to apply gigantic

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-3828625016526310452009-09-13T05:08:00.000-07:002010-01-13T13:55:41.689-08:00

MARIMEKKO STORE, Helsinki, FinlandIs it a token of a cool shop? Or great minds think the same and catch the zeitgeist? Either way, it seems that the trend for light lines and patterns made of our fav fluo tubes spreads all over the world. Like pencil strokes, the linear lines can create whatever print you choose - provided you have space and imagination. Eaaaaasy!Above, the Finnish company

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TALKING ABOUT FUTURE? How about colour-changing photochromic threads for a costume or a dress? Calvin Klein's take on transformation concept is featured in the latest issue of Vmagazine (digging the name, BTW :). Innovative materials, creative designs, striking results!Visionaire 56 SOLAR, a limited edition fashion and art album, has taken the concept even further and developed photochromic inks

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SVENSKA TEATERN, Helsinki, FinlandWhen in Helsinki, it is impossible to miss the Swedish Theater or Svenska Teatern. If not for a show, then for an apperitif, if not for a drink, then for a Marimekko messanger bag. You pass it when wandering via Esplanaden to the Harbour. One of the Finnish capital wonders has a 1860s interior created by a Russian architect Nicolai Benois and a 1920's

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-22007993278565730562009-09-06T06:03:00.000-07:002009-09-13T09:10:40.048-07:00

Yes, indeed. That was the perfect symmetry of the best music, amazing band, incredible atmosphere and... stage lighting! The Keane concert in StPetersburg was superb! We found ourselves in the midst of a crowd, dancing and singing and waving our hands, captured completely and utterly until the lighting nerd worm inside us cried: Look up guys! The light effects! That lilac! And that

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...it woulda been... the classic entourage of disco glamour, all those beams and gleams and sparkles, costume dancing and diamonds...Aber... Mein Gott! Die Stimme! This is the perfect antidote to the frivolous genre, the voice and the lyrics. And I love paradoxes. And complexity. And lighting. In any form!So... this is the combination of both, the wrapping and the content: the world seems cruel "

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-2593516361258302732009-08-23T06:54:00.000-07:002009-08-24T10:43:18.806-07:00

LOFT PROJECT ETAGI, St Petersburg, RussiaConceptual. Loft. Design. Young. Smart. Concentrating on what's vital and leaving out what's not. Sounds Russian? To us, now, yes! That's probably one of the coolest places in StPete and in Russia (OK, there are SOME places that pretend to be cool... but there's too much PR noise around and too much money invested and too many expensive things inside...

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-77382851103211960792009-08-22T10:45:00.000-07:002009-08-22T11:01:40.327-07:00

ORANGE FLOWER KIOSKS, St. Petersburg, RussiaGetting back to the idea of how urban landscapes are changed by spilled light. Here's one of numerous flower shops, belonging to the Orange chain in St. Petersburg. They use a opaque acryllic ceiling with warm fluo tubes as well as some high pressure sodium spotlights (one of the best imaginable light sources for lighting up plants and flowers).

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-56374856347284507602009-08-22T09:54:00.000-07:002009-09-06T05:39:49.007-07:00

AT THE PALACE BRIDGE, StPetersburg, RussiaA shot from a horror movie: black cars attacking people! Er... almost :) and the most carnivorous is the Mercedes painted matt black! As if intended to emphasise the contrast, all the other cars are also black, but glossy black. We've noticed the numerous vehicles painted matt black and started figuring the purpose. Maybe we're wrong (then we'll be more

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-9344075249211074912009-08-21T07:45:00.001-07:002009-08-22T11:02:24.046-07:00

Revolution in my head! No sooner had I felt the sudden desire to listen to Kino that the skies opened and the songs started falling on me, original, remixes, a friend from France turned out a big Kino fan, a friend from Sweden was listening to the band... and Kino's songs are: 1) famous for their groundbreaking lyrics  2) contain a lot of metaphors referring to the Sun, the stars and fire.Here is

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-2947908738450132342009-08-12T11:09:00.000-07:002009-08-12T11:30:34.739-07:00

TRINITY BRIDGE, St. Petersburg, RussiaThe Neva river is as proud with its sashes of bridges as an Imperial general, and Trinity bridge is of the highest rank of course. The bridge was built by 1903, when the city celebrated its 200-years anniversary. Mrs. Eiffel was this close to winning the competition, but the project of the Building Company Batignolles was chosen. Trinity of poles and lanterns

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-70471571778875510672009-08-09T22:56:00.000-07:002009-08-12T12:23:29.833-07:00

OK. This is perfection. No. THIS IS PERFECTION!!! It's a blending of my punk nature and my childhood spent backstage while my Dad was performing. Even the cable noodles don't disturb me (and I'm a real geek here, once had 32 electrical sockets on only 8 wall surfaces. A geek, as I said! :)The black-n-white video with only one colour accent - red PJ Harvey's lips - is minimalistic almost to the

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-68525407584176517542009-08-06T23:27:00.000-07:002009-08-10T10:10:04.040-07:00

Dear RS, this picture is inspired by your comment (we LUV Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy :) and as I've recently caught this 'cosmic craving' from my colleague Fedor I've decided to place this a-ma-zing picture of Helix Nebula (aka the Eye of God as it is metaphorically called by the poets of our society :). Actually, it's a succesion - or, rather, a composite - of images taken

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RAILWAY SERVICE CENTER, StPetersburg, RussiaWhere else if not in the city famous for its White Nights (oh those nights... OK, this is another story :) could we encounter the light well as it is and in such an abundance (we are in Russia, remember?). Solid concrete roof/ceiling with lots of wells dispersing light + big front edge window walls + big :) screens displaying destinations and time table

Vasilinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06903501613744688556noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-9290614133158171582009-08-04T10:41:00.000-07:002009-08-06T03:48:45.844-07:00

MERTENS HOUSE, St. Petersburg, RussiaOnce Vas thought that since I am working on an outdoor project at work, I should say some word on how we see urban environment from outside. I found this idea interesting and went out. Here's the first shot in the series: Mertens House on Nevsky Prospect in St. Petersburg as seen in twilight. Zara put in some architectonic details and split pleasant yellowish

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-6118803645857837182009-08-02T06:17:00.000-07:002009-08-03T06:54:54.966-07:00

SOLINGEN BOUTIQUE, StPetersburg, Russia. The cool fluorescent tubes used for retail decoration are quite noticable... in StPete now. Passing by the Solingen boutique which sells knives and tableware we encountered our favourite lighting sources. Here in an antique sellar setting, placed against old brick slope ceilings in the form of a glowing web. Captivating, d'you think?

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PETER AND PAUL FORTRESS, St. Petersburg, RussiaLook closer. Those are not a bunch of doves on the roof of Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Pete. It's a set of flood lights to reach up roughly 120 m (393 feet) of  Peter and Paul Cathedral.

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ST.PETERSBURG, RussiaOne of the most inspiring and intellectual buildings in St. Pete, Singer House (architect Pavel Syuzor, built 1902 -- 1904, restored 2006), hosts extensive bookstore, a cafe with a nice view, and exposes these wonderfully crafted wall luminaries. They are being restored one by one, and there's an older version (the farthest fitting).Posted from a mobile device.

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FAST-FOOD RESTAURANT FRIKADELKI, StPetersburg, RussiaMaybe it just reminds me very much of Paris (oh Paris!) and the organic restaurant chain Le Pain Quotidien with it's simple rustic yet refined and sincere setting - well, we can argue on the concepts of quality fast food and le pain quotidien, the daily bread still... Maybe the name Frikadelki sounds Scandinavian (it's Russian for köttbullar)..

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SVERDLOVSK OBLAST, Russia.Want to see the evolution of merchandising in practice? Come see spontaneous racks along highways in Sverdlovsk oblast, some 30 km from Yekaterionburg. Peoples' wit uses white sheets to add on contrast for racks with Russian banya bunches, or veniks. With days coming shorter, they start using incandescent lamps turned backwards from drivers and inwards to the rack. If I

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A software, a microchip, a curcuit board, a cable joint, a processor, a memory disc, a clock... Packages of batteries and a monitor supporting LED diods... Doesn't read like couture at all! Yet it is - Hussein Chalayan's pioneering designs supported by new technologies and a hi-tech filling by Moritz Waldemeyer have turned a simple... cocktail... dress into an Extra-Terrestrial Party Dress! ...

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MEGA STORE, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Back to our post on Paris striped trend -- here it is, miles and miles away.Posted from a mobile device.

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EKATERINBURG, Russia. Today the protest meeting at the place of the demolished historical monument, Yarutin's House in Ekaterinburg, was organized. The popular Russian rock-band Chaif initiated the gathering of the architects and all those not indifferent to the destiny of the "old town" architecture. Yarutin's House was located in the very heart of the downtown and was demolished one night

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ARCHMOSCOW, Moscow, Russia. LEDs provide a user with uncountable opportunities. Why use them all at a time? OPERA HOUSE, Yekaterinburg, Russia. I wonder if a person making this 'lighting design' ever been to the Opera?

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ARCHMOSCOW, Moscow, Russia. This installation at the Garden of Stone exposition is inspiring indeed. It is very laconic and simple. Natural, in a way. Theatrical, in another.

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SALYUT MULTIPLEX, Yekaterinburg, Russia. This place is already famous for the longest release of the "Titanic" (19 months!) and now it can line up in a raw of the most interesting lighting design places. Ground floor meets a visitor with a red filtered aggressivness and chills a movie goer with a raindrops of pendant LED spots. Bravissimo!

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PALAIS DE TOKYO, Paris, France. One of the most hip places in Paris – if you ask me – is undeniably Palais de Tokyo. The Art Deco building of the Musée d'Art Moderne was derelict for more than a decade and reemerged in 2002 as a trendy stripped-down space for contemporary arts. The museum hosts no permanent collection, instead, dynamic temporary exhibits spread over a large, open space that's

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FINNAIR FLIGHT, Somewhere up. Most of the aircrafts and aircompanies use grey and blueish colors for their interiors. Aviation ergonomists mix cold and warm fluo tubes to define passages and special zones. In this strikt space green screens of GPS map become relaxing indeed.

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EXPOSITION EN VITRINE DE LA NEW GALERIE DE FRANCE, Paris, France. Drag a passer's-by attention to a shopwindow in the middle of a sunny day? Could be difficult for even all those standardised luminances, shops cannot be compared to an unshielded sunlight.Designers of a temporal exposition of Undostrial glasses went on antagonists' way, they juxtopposed darkness to light. Perfect way to beat the

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-32562368553893587232009-05-18T06:40:00.000-07:002009-05-18T06:58:29.830-07:00

Being a lighting geek means seeking light everywhere... The disco-feel of my TokyoFlash watch leads me through the day (I just want to party all the time... party all the time... party all the taaime!)

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VALENTINO, Paris, France. New-fangled technology - Smart Glass - is applied at the brand house whose designs never scream too avant-garde. Smart glass aka switchable window refers to electrically switchable glass or glazing which changes light transmission properties when voltage is applied.Certain types of smart glass can allow users to control the amount of light and heat passing through:

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ARAB WORLD INSTITUTE, Paris, France. Completed in 1987, this building became a major architectural and urban tourists' attraction in the French capital. Jean Nouvel made the South wall resembling Arabic moucharabieh or mashrabiya (window with enclosed wooden latticework). Besides aesthetic function, these lenses also bear a load of energy saving. I failed to find exact figures, but presuming that

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VARIOUS LOCATIONS, Paris, France. Stores, shop windows, bars and bistros of the French capital are striked and underlined with colored fluorescent tubes.H&M store, Haussmann blvd, ParisTubes used for indication of special areas (Mathiew Williamson's collection @ H&M).Saint Louis boutique, ParisPalais de Tokyo, ParisShop window of Addicted boutique, Le Marais quarter, Paris Tubes to attract

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A HOUSING, Chelyabinsk, Russia. This ... lighting fixture was shot in a housing of a so called Khruschev series. Back in sixties Nikita Khruschev had introduced small appartment housings to solve the accomodation shortage. They say he had borrowed the idea from Finland but taken saunas away. Actually, there were showers in kitchens in some of the housings like that. I was caught shooting by a

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PAUL BAKERY, Yekaterinburg, Russia. This solution I liked: a fluorescent tube above the semi transparent film ceiling. It creates a feeling of evenly spread faded light (the one we see on a cloudy day) with no strong contrasts. The only fly in the ointment is -- except literary a fly and several other insects visible underneath the ceiling -- is a poor color rendering. Well, this is a common

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VOLVO MUSEUM, Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo is a part of Swedish culture. This maxim is hard to argue against. Some twenty minutes ride from Gothenburg to Volvo Area outside the city, and you are in the modest building (unlike what you may expect after visiting German car manufacturers' museums) filled in with touching and genuine Swedish values. The exposition is made with so much love and nostalgy

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PULSEN CONFERENCE CENTER, Borås, Sweden. I often hear a question from cutomers that are about to deal with maintenance of fittings placed high above the floor level. Look here guys! This trolley stood between a restaurant and conference hall, occupied minimum space, neat and tide. Btw, the Pulsen conference center is something to see in Borås: former textile factory, skillfully turned into

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Central city square: a place for military parades...... or rooftop for undergroung market place REVOLUTION SQUARE, Chelyabinsk, Russia. This is a project developed in mid nineties. Beforehand the market was located on the square which caused a lot of discontent amongst citizens, so the authorities decided to hide the market underground. Those dipleased at rubbish and noise under the Lenin statue

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CHELYABINSK HIGHWAY, 118 km, Russia. On my biz trip to Chelyabinsk I first smelled smoke, then I saw it curling across the highway, then I stopped to picture this. Fire was erasing old grass and garbage along the road and further to fields. Presumably the fire was organized and under control: there was a fire truck and police stand by.

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WEEKDAYS, Gothenborg, Sweden. It captivates you from far away, orange glow and yellowish details on the entrance walls. Come closer and find yourself at night even if it is a sunny noon! And whoosh! A beam of white light spots small dichroic figures and dresses them up into motley garment.A secret is simple yet unknown by shoppers: orange light comes out of low pressure sodium lamps and kills

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-81285159110934823862009-04-14T02:26:00.000-07:002009-04-14T02:34:14.328-07:00

A MUSIC STORE, Yekaterinburg, Russia. Even salesmen at this CD-store suffered the boredom and flatness of the lighting used. Once they forgot to remove these Christmas decoration and found themselves in a place much more suitable for music. Imagine what happens when they blow at the balls!

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JULIA DIMA HAT BOUTIQUE, Yekaterinburg, Russia. What you see is a small boutique of a local designer (vive hyperlocal trend!) practically square space with no ceiling fixtures. The store is lit by only two light boxes, handmade with T8 fluorescent tubes, and six pairs of recessed downlights with integrated fluo bulbs (E27). Glare and contrast is strong, because all the surfaces are dark, but as

Kit Valonoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6152829782193083095.post-35610628828410691572009-04-09T04:18:00.000-07:002009-04-09T06:32:47.215-07:00

Hey!The blog is in the test mode, and withing the course of time will be filled with slightly different news and feeds. So, please do not hesitate to come up with comments or questions. You opinion matters!Kit

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AT FRIENDS', Yekaterinburg, Russia. I was just about to open the bottle, when saw this floramorphic glaring spot on the wall. Our friends, a couple from France rent a nice new apartment in the downtown with no furniture or lighting, and fill empty spaces with only what they need.

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DOMODEDOVO AIRPORT, Moscow, Russia. Testing mobile feed in.

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BUSINESS CENTER "NA KUZNECHNOY," Yekaterinburg, Russia. Owners of this loft (it used to be once a movie studio facility) business center are keen on cutting edge interiors and costs. Exposed wiring, brick walls, pebble moldings and cheap pendants made of straw with a E27 integrated fluo. Cheap and easy!

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USPENSKY SHOPPING CENTER, Yekaterinburg, Russia. There's a number of fixtures of the kind, all drilled like this. From the out of record talk with a Center's representative, I have found out that they had been made on purpose to take out the heat. Otherwise, ballasts of these 10 times xx W would shut down.The fixture is Modular Diablo.

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