Molo Design's Softwall :: Color Me Smitten

 

Molo design of Vancouver have created a modular soft wall system of flexible paper and fabric that is lit by LED string lights.

 

These collapsible units are easily stacked and arranged to create ambient formations. I'm jealous of its simplicity and smitten over its texture, lightness and feel. 

 

If you're interested in this, you should definitely watch the movies they've made on their site showing how easily these structures can be created.

The World's Biggest LED Project to Date

The YAS Hotel in Abu Dhabi has created the world's largest LED project to date. Created by the lighting design department at Arup based out of New York City, the project used e:cue's lighting application suite 5.1 in order to integrate and program close to 5000 RGBW LEDs by Enfis and Cooper lighting products.

 
Below are some behind the scenes views of the modeling and the wiring involved in order to program these LEDs. This new technology allows for easier color-changing light sequences to be developed as well as low-resolution video to be played upon the grid shell exterior.
And someone posted a video on youtube of the first test-run.

If you're into lighting, this probably isn't the first time you've heard about this feat. And it also won't be the last.

*Golf Clap* to Graypants

I give a little thumbs up to graypants of Seattle who have created these rather enjoyable pendant lamps from scrapped cardboard.

The concept, although simple in its invention, especially if anyone's ever had to build a landscape model out of cardboard, still provides an interesting glow due to the light being filtered through the corrugated structure of the cardboard. If you've read my blog, and seen some of my projects I've created, you know that I am a fan of reusing products. Kudos to graypants for their efforts. At their price point, however, I'd be quicker to make my own than buy theirs.

PROJECT :: Halloween Costume :: Conclusion

Success!

 

After spending nearly a week constructing a costume with which I was almost entirely fed up, the end product resulted in lots of dropped jaws from random folks over the Halloween weekend. The above picture is the same photo with some color correction/editing done in order to show the lighting of the skyscraper. The skyline backdrop was drawn in a half an hour on Halloween night when I came up with the idea, hence the general crappiness of it.

Above are some behind the scenes photos showing the lighting, my biplane and me putting on my stilts. The portable, battery operated fluorescent lights packed the needed punch and provided a uniform lighting through out the costume.

Above and below are some photos from wearing the costume out on Friday and Saturday night. The third thumbnail above shows a view from below looking up at me while wearing the costume. Unfortunately the quality of photos I have of me in the costume aren't the greatest, limiting the comprehension of scale and luminosity.

I've since heard that the costume has been tagged as "the best costume in the world" on facebook! After much hard work and a little bit of frustration, I am glad to hear that other people enjoyed the costume. And, lastly, here's a photo of the sweaty man behind the mask.

 

This project took approximately 15 to 20 hours of design and development, approximately 25 to 30 hours of construction and cost around $150 (after returning some items).