The Bungaloft Report – Lighting
A temporary reading light
Illuminated
The source fitting.
The lamp head.
The cable guide
The Counterweight
Archive for the ‘ Luminaires ’ Category
Curiosity Club Tuesday night
I'll be giving a presentation Tuesday at Core 77's Hand Eye Supply in Portland.
It's a great series of talks by makers and thinkers of various stripes.
About the Curiosity Club
Ex Curiositas, Scientia. We pledge to learn with out prejudice in pursuit of our mutual goal; perpetual noviceship. We admit that it is impossible to know everything about anything and thus we remain perpetually curious and perpetually novice. The Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club meets fortnightly on Tuesdays from 5:30 to 6:30. Each meeting of the Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club will contain a 18-28 minute lecture from a speaker who has an area of knowledge that appeals to the curiosity club. The presentation will be videocast on the Core77 blog along with any presentation materials. The series highlights an eclectic group of speakers across a broad range of subjects dictated by our curatorial interests in the areas of Culture, Design, Science, Technology, Art, Fabrication and Design Techniques and Lost Common Knowledge.
The Hand-Eye Supply Curiosity Club is a speaker series hosted by Will Lolcama, Tobias Berblinger and Core77's Hand-Eye Supply store
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Steven Holloway in Oakland, Heath Ceramics, ShowPDX
Last week was spent on the road. Part of the trip included a visit with Steven Holloway, an artist in Oakland who is now the proud owner of two of my cameras. His new P.90 left with him the following day for a birthday adventure to Yosemite. Steven teaches at the Kala Art Institute housed in the historic (and very cool) Heinz building. I was able to view the building from the outside and am anxious to visit next time I get to the Bay Area.
We also went with my sister and Bay Area resident Dana out to Sausalito to visit the Heath Ceramics outlet where we found a wonderful colored trim tile for the Bungaloft shower. The eternal project moves forward a notch . . .
The ShowPDX event preview party is tomorrow. The event runs through October. Check the ShowPDX site for details. It's in a big warehouse space this year and the FIX team has done a great job getting it set up. I have a luminaire in the show and there are several other designers from the 28th Ave studio building (aka - "the hole") exhibiting in the show as well.
I decided to change the base of the "Palomar" to a concrete form and the change is definitely for the better. The piece was just never comfortable with a wooden base. In wrapping up the reassembly I visited one of my favorite resources in Portland - Sunlan lighting. In all the time I was off on a lighting design tangent I would have loved to have Sunlan available for a local resource. Alas, I was in Santa Fe at the time . . .
Illuminating head shots
I've been revisiting some neglected luminaries among my past design projects. It seemed appropriate to call a few of them back in for a few head shots. For reasons I won't try to explain this one was named Socks - in several languages. I never got confirmation from native speakers as to whether the variations are appropriate. But it looks something like this:
