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Building an artificial sun that looks unbelievably realistic...

Winter is coming, dig out your satellite dishes to avoid the SAD!

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Foto: Marje Eelma Tuumik | Graphic Design

Nädalajagu öid muuseumis, sai kõik kenasti mõnusaks-hämaraks keeratud. Harjuge nüüd ära, et igal pool parkett ei sära!
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One week worth of nights at the museum, now everything is nice and dim. Now get used to no light on the floor boards!

Estonian History Museum: exhibition "My free country"

Estonian History Museum: exhibition "My free country"

Estonian History Museum: exhibition "My free country"

Osalesime koos WhiteNight lighting põhjanaabritega Tallinna linnamüüri valgustuse ideekonkursil. Võidupärga kaela ei pandud, aga tööprotsess kinkis meile palju tarkust nii disaini kui rahvusvahelise meeskonnatöö vallas. Siin ka teile vaatamiseks kahe kuu jooksul valminud ja vormistatud mõtted, kuidas meie kalli vanalinna monumentaalbarjääri uhkeks valgustada võiks.
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We participated in the idea competition for lighting up Tallinn old town walls. We did not bring home the first prize, but learned a lot about lighting design and international teamwork during the process. Here's our ideas about how to illuminate the historic landmark aroun Tallinn.

Ingverietüüdid. Scenes with ginger.

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Light brings things to life.

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I’ve Spent 5 Years Hunting For The Perfect Lights To Show The Real Beauty Of Budapest

boredpanda.com I took these photos through the last five years when I was searching for the perfect moment and the perfect lights over Budapest, Hungary. For me, the most beautiful moment is when the sun comes up the horizont and the day begins with a couple of colourful minutes. Also the last lights of the day fo…

PICTURES: Rakvere surprises with a Christmas tree, again…

estonianworld.com The Estonian town of Rakvere stands out by erecting one of the most distinctive Christmas trees in the world.

Projector Brought Into the Forest Turns Nature Into a Glowing Wonderland

Now let's all forget about projector screens and other flat surfaces, OK?

petapixel.com 3D projections are often used nowadays to create eye-popping visuals on flat surfaces such as the sides of buildings or on basketball courts, but could the

WATCH: This Morphing Face Is Mesmerizing

Mind your lighting angles. Nicely noted, Huffingtonpost.

huffingtonpost.com Sometimes it's all about the lighting. In a teaser for French electronic group OPALE's upcoming "Sparkles and Wine" release, London-based filmmaker Nacho Guzmán created a mesmerizing video that shows just how much the appearance of one face can change under various lighting conditions.

Lighting workshop in Rutgers, New Jersey. | Dare To Light – lighting for non-technical professionals

Good times!

daretolight.com In March 2014, Dare to Light spent two days workshopping at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. Acting and design students got a taste of “european” style theatre cooperation. We robbed them of their so far well-taught professional roles, and made them figure out lighting design as group wo...

We had a really heartwarming workshop with the Rutgers University theatre students yesterday. Really ambitious works, great discussions, inspiring feedback! Thank you everybody!

A fun project from our follower Zak Macro in the Clf art cafe in London:
"I used some UV reactive PVC pipe to make the heart and then hit it with a UV cannon to make it glow! (Director got a quote for a real neon sign and it was £2000, I made one for £15!)"
We approve.

How LED Streetlights Will Change Cinema (And Make Cities Look Awesome)

gizmodo.com The announcement last year that Los Angeles would be replacing its high-pressure sodium streetlights—known for their distinctive yellow hue—with new, blue-tinted LEDs might have a profound effect on at least one local industry. All of those LEDs, with their new urban color scheme, will dramatically…

Star Wars Memes

Yoda light.

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Amazing arty light-looping GIFs

So simple, so awesome.

usvsth3m.com Amazing arty light-looping GIFs This is a GIF project by Turkish artist Erdal Inci, who films himself swinging a lamp, in various locations Then he composites all this footage together (this is all...

Why Creativity Thrives In The Dark

"...suggests a flexible lighting situation for all the tasks one might perform during the day: dim areas for creative brainstorming sessions and bright ones for administrative chores."

fastcodesign.com Imaginative minds have long appreciated the power of dim lighting. New research confirms that when the lights switch off something in the brain...

Photograms

A fun way to create abstract images with light sensitive materials.

abelardomorell.net A photogram is a photographic image made without a camera. It involves placing things on the surface of a light sensitive material and then exposing them to light. Traditionally this process has been done using photographic paper...[popup url="../../...

Light Painting with Roombas and LEDs

Who knew Roombas were such talented light painters!

twistedsifter.com Introduced in 2002, Roomba is a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold by iRobot. Under normal house conditions, the Roomba is able to autonomously vacuum the floor while navigati...

The Coolest Photos of Traffic Lights You Will See Today

twistedsifter.com I love projects where artists find creative ways to capture seemingly mundane, everyday things. Take the humble set of traffic lights below. Located somewhere near Weimar, Germany, photograp...

jannepaint

A special style of light painting done just right, interview with the artist here, with a detailed how-to: http://lightpaintingphotography.com/light-painting-artist/featured-artist-2/janne-parviainen/

flickr.com I am a 32-year-old artist from Helsinki, Finland. I make my paintings mostly on glass using oil colors, permanent markers and metal leaves. The subjects in my paintings vary from urban landscapes...

The Subculture of Japanese Trucker Art

Tons of crazy lighting - literally, and on wheels.

www.messynessychic.com ‘Lit up like a Christmas tree’ doesn’t quite cover it. Moving pieces of art, embellished with massive neon lights and bling-tastic chrome; something between a science fiction robot and a Las Vegas arcade. “Decotora” trucks (translation: trucks decorated with illuminations), are the emblems of an unl...

Lecture 31: Rainbows | Video Lectures | Electricity and Magnetism | Physics | MIT OpenCourseWare

How wide is a rainbow? Is there more light in- or outside the bow? How to make one in your back yard? An eye-opening lecture on the details of the art of rainbow-making.

ocw.mit.edu RainbowsA modest rainbow will appear in the lecture hall!Fog BowsSupernumerary BowsPolarization of the BowsHalos around the Sun and the MoonMock Suns

Microfilmmaker Magazine - Tips & Tricks - The World's Best Lighting Technique, Pg. 1 of 2

The World's Best Lighting Technique: "I was astounded! This was no Roger Corman film, this was no student film, this was a Big Studio, Warner Brothers, Stanley Kubrick production that had been nominated for four (4) Academy Awards… And there were: NO MOVIE LIGHTS!!!"

microfilmmaker.com Starting out as a guerrilla filmmaker in Hollywood in the 1970’s my only filmmaking mentors were the ones that I found up on the big screen. I wasn’t born into Tinsel Town Royalty nor did I have any connection in The Film Biz… instead I simply went to the movies. Any and all movies and eventually I...