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This one was one of my first attempts at using a white based cement product - used some white thin set mortar with purple pigment. Came out well but damn, that thin set mortar is sticky. Won't be using that again, way too much trouble to fill the bulb and get the glass off. Think I'll switch to a white grout in the future.
The Lightbulb Idea
Where: Horsham, PA
When: March 2011
Settings: 1", f8, ISO 200, Flash
Notes: Lightbulb shot with a BB.
arbitrary formal exploration or a bare light bulb on a ceiling... attempting to see what can come out of exploring a mundane subject
My first newfangled light bulb! I had no idea the "regular" kind are going to be illegal to sell in a couple of years.
SOOC shot. I processed the next one a bit, though.
(SOOC = "straight out of camera," as I learned from Pioneer Woman. And, actually, this one isn't quite SOOC. I opened it in Photoshop and re-saved it, since that's the only way I know how to strip my full name from the EXIF info for Flickr purposes.)
This is Dean Kamen , president of DEKA, checking out the DEKA light bulb in its almost-finished state...
04/03/2010
Why does the bulb always go at the least convenient time - this one blew in the middle of the night as I was trying to do #4 sons nappy change.
Richard Box' artistic display of 1301 fluorescent bulbs lit by the overhead high-power lines -- just from the ambient energy surrounding the lines.
Wireless transmission (intentional) and fluorescent bulbs were both invented by Nikola Tesla.
The fluorescent bulbs of Richard Box's display, "planted" in the ground to pick up "waste emissions from the overhead power lines", are in effect acting as wireless transformers as well, providing a graphic depiction of a phenomenon that could actually shed additional light on the mode of action of these other energy devices.
Box says, "There's sound as well as light - a crackling that corresponds to the flashing of the lights. There's a certain smell too, and your hair stands slightly on end."
Though the shows are at night, when the effect can be seen best, the fluorescent tubes are lit continuously, depending on the whether conditions. The dryer the air, the more the tubes act to collect the ambient energy. Humid air acts as a conductor to ground, tending to bypass the tubes.