Big Ups to The Oatmeal for Mad Props to Nikola Tesla

Posted by Fox - May 14, 2012 - got fox

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In case you aren't an avid follower of The Oatmeal (@oatmeal), you should be. If today's posted comic about Nikola Tesla doesn't say enough about why you should follow along, then you are probably a web crawler and are just going to catalog this with no emotional understanding. Oh well, your loss web crawler – especially since you wouldn't exist if it weren't for Tesla.

Now, for everybody else who gets it – get this:

Click on the graphic to see the entire page from The Oatmeal.

That's only the first portion of The Oatmeal graphic. Want the rest? Click here and view on!

Thanks to The Oatmeal for this awesomeness!

geek, Nikola Tesla, tesla, The Oatmeal

Huggable Light

Posted by Daphne - April 27, 2012 - Fixtures, Home Lighting

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At the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, designer Diana Lin said the concept of d*light Huggable was to "provide companionship to those in need of comfort." Light to the rescue! This pillow is filled with warm white LEDs in bubbles of silicone, which create a diffuse, comforting light which connotes sunlight. The silicone absorbs body heat for extra [...]

Must Watch Short: Luminaris

Posted by Daphne - April 27, 2012 - Animations, Film and Television Production, from the lips of LEKOGIRL, Inspired!

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Juan Pablo Zaramella's stop motion short Luminaris has won my heart! The film effortlessly dives you in to a world controlled by light, and one man's big ideas about that. It is absolutely wondrous. Below is the trailer. There are also two behind the scenes videos online showing the tests Zaramella performed with light and [...]

Where in the World is Lumen Sandiego?

Posted by Daphne - April 25, 2012 - artists, Color, Designers, from the lips of LEKOGIRL, Images and Pictures, Inspired!, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting for Enjoyment!

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STORY TIME! Try to guess where in the world Lumen Sandiego is, and learn about some RE-DONK-U-LOUS-LY cool lighting art at the same time! Some years ago, I travelled to an "Art Island," which hosts work by some very spectacular artists, including Claude Monet, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Tadao Ando, Yves Klein, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and most importantly [...]

Just Around the Riverbend

We're nearly there. The new look is here and we've moved to the new server. Thanks Media Temple! The only thing I'm waiting for is our new content delivery network (CDN) – you know, that thing that puts all of your content all over the world so that everyone experiences a quicker site load time [...]

Long Overdue Changes

Greetings all. I'm sorry if you've noticed some downtime and other weirdness going on at the site over the last few days. I'm trying to work through all of it and give us an upgrade. Needless to say, I'm burnt out and frustrated with all of the crap that has been dealt to the site. [...]

San Francisco Bay Bridge Lightning!

This image of our friend electricity was so neat I had to share! Phil McGrew took out this photo in a single 20-second exposure during one of the recent thunderstorms in beautiful San Francisco.

Real-Time Light Painting!

Earlier this year, the light painters JanLeonardo Wöllert and Anton Julmy got together with Jochen Merker, and his newest creation. Merker has created a Real Time Light Painting program for both live performance and video production! On a basic level, this video is well worth a watch because it shows how many of the more intricate light painting photographs [...]

Jim at NAB

Hey everybody! Fox here. I just wanted to check in and give a little update… We're still planning on a site update in the very near future. When it happens, we'll try to make it happen on a Saturday – 'cause I can dedicate a whole day to the change over then and it won't [...]

150 Billion Pixels, 1 Billion Stars

Ok, have a look at this image — if you click on it, it gets really, really big: That's our Milky Way. The image below here represents the material within the white square on the left — a star-forming region called G305 to astronomers and astrophysicists — again, a click makes it bigger: That cutaway [...]