How Important is Lighting at your Wedding Reception?

Is Lighting Important At A Wedding Reception?

You bet it is!  Lighting sets the tone visually in combination with your décor.  Just like having the right Wedding DJ is important, you need to think about how you would like your tables, chairs, decorations, walls, center pieces, and all the decorative choices you made to look good under the correct lighting.  This is very often overlooked.

U2 Hosts Giant 360 Degree LED Screen

Barco's giant 360° LED screen for U2

The Concert in Barcelona

(30/06/2009) Barco is proud to announce the world’s first transformable LED screen for U2’s latest world tour. With its 360°shape, the LED screen surrounds the band while performing and can change shape in alldirections during the concert, For the third time this millennium, the Barco – U2 cooperationresulted in a revolutionary approach to video, this time totaling more than 500,000 pixels ofvideo, making it the biggest LED screen ever used in concert touring. U2’s worldwide tourkicks off 30 June in a sold out Camp Nou stadium in Barcelona, Spain.

Creating a Welcoming Church Environment

Church lighting is an important, yet often overlooked, aspect of creating an inviting environment within the worship facility. People are directly affected by the ambiance, or lack thereof, of the environment they are in. Temperature, noise, visual presentation, and comfort all play a part in how people will feel and react. It is important for churches to provide an environment absent distraction in which people can feel comfortable in order to be receptive to the message. Suffice it to say, the topic of church lighting is infinitely more complex that just pointing lights on the stage.

LED Stick Video Adds Spice to China’s Phoenix Island Buildings

China- ​​based Sanya Phoenix Island Devel­op­ment will partner with US-​​based Dak­tron­ics Inc., Brook­ings, S.D. to illu­mi­nate the new Phoenix Island buildings in Sanya City, China, with light emit­ting diode (LED) stick video elements.
Approx­i­mately 33,0000 lin­ear meters of ProPixel LED stick ele­ments will be installed on the out­side of build­ings in Phoenix Island. Dak­tron­ics worked with Sanya Phoenix from the early con­cept stages to design the cur­tain wall on the out­side of each build­ing specif­i­cally to house its LED stick ele­ments. The spe­cially designed exte­rior enables a sleek and con­tin­u­ous look, with­out the appear­ance of add-​​on features.

IKEA Stops Selling Incandescent Bulbs and moves to Energy Efficiant LED Bulbs

IKEA has pulled the plug. Incandescent lights are out. Ahead of the upcoming legislation – The Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 that will phase out all incandescent light bulbs by 2012-2014 - IKEA has now made these lights a thing of the past and is the first major retailer to stop the sale of incandescent lights.

Philips Lumileds Leads LED Industry With Mass Production on 150mm Wafers

SAN JOSE, Calif. & SINGAPORE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Philips Lumileds is the first power LED manufacturer in mass production on 150 mm wafers and is now producing millions of GaN based LEDs weekly on the larger substrates. Lumileds has the most advanced LED manufacturing and operations environment and capability in the world. The company continues to lead the industry in never before possible lumen-per-dollar and lumen-per-watt performance in lighting applications and in the drive to increased adoption of solid-state lighting solutions.

“We expect that the pace of LED adoption will require all other manufacturers to follow our lead and adopt similar strategies. Their challenge will be to achieve the high yields and quality levels that we have already demonstrated.”

DIY LED Prom Wear

It’s time for geek girls to prove their mettle at the prom with this cool glowing headband. What’s special about this is that it’s striking, fashionable and since it’s a DIY creation, it’s exclusive too. The ordinary looking satin headband can actually stun the onlookers in the dark. Instructables has put up the detailed guidelines on how to make this glowing flower headgear using MagicLite LED powered fiber-optic light. When all arranged and finessed, it turns out to be a really beautiful yet out-of-the-box fashion accessory.