I love this photo of The Coachman Supper Club restaurant in Baldwin, Wisconsin taken by Peter Baker. The lighting is fantastic!
Fluorescent bikes by Benedict Radcliffe
February 4, 2009 @ 2:07 am
Check out these eye-popping fluorescent bikes from Benedict Radcliffe and Andy Ellis of Fixed Gear London. The colors are simply amazing and seeing these certainly isn’t helping me curb my lust for a new bicycle. I’m not always a particular fan of fluoro, but for this, I’m all in.
Japanese man smashes a long row of fluorescent light bulbs
October 1, 2008 @ 12:06 am
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I would love to do this. But please give me a mask to cover my mouth. I don’t want to be breathing the toxic chemicals inside fluorescent bulbs.
Electromagnetic fields cause fluorescent bulbs to glow
February 3, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
Here’s an interesting photo from Matthew Wahl’s Flickr showing the glow from fluorescent tubes as a direct result of the electromagnetic field surrounding overhead power lines. The fluorescent tubes are not plugged in to any power source.
Photo: Peter Dibdin
Richard Box, an artist-in-residence at Bristol University’s physics department, was one of the first people to discover the phenomenon. He describes it below:
A fluorescent tube glows when an electrical voltage is set up across it. The electric field set up inside the tube excites atoms of mercury gas, making them emit ultraviolet light. This invisible light strikes the phosphor coating on the glass tube, making it glow. Because powerlines are typically 400,000 volts, and Earth is at an electrical potential voltage of zero volts, pylons create electric fields between the cables they carry and the ground.
Box denies that he aimed to draw attention to the potential dangers of powerlines, ‘For me, it was just the amazement of taking something that’s invisible and making it visible,’ he says. ‘When it worked, I thought: ‘This is amazing.’’
Check out this Quicktime panorama of Richard Box’s FIELD project.
Keep in mind that the bulbs do not necessarily glow that bright on their own. Many of the images taken of bulbs in these scenarios are long exposures. However, the bulbs do glow enough to see with the naked eye, so the awe in seeing this occurrence will surely still be there if you were to try this for yourself.
Cool! I’d love to try this one day. :)
Reebok Ventilator UO: fluorescent goodness on my feet
January 10, 2008 @ 3:10 pm
It’s been ages since I last had a pair of Reebok sneakers. The last one I had were some sort of black and white low-tops with Hexalite. It was a pretty standard shoe, really, and beyond that non-descriptive memory of them, the only thing I can recall is that I bought them with my grandpa at the odd shoe store that used to be across the street from Yung Kee.
Anyway, it felt like Reebok sort of dropped off the face of “cool” as Nike and Adidas and PUMA raced ahead of it in terms of style and general mainstream consumption. Slowly but surely, it looks like Reebok may be making a comeback in a good way.
Just check out these Reebok Ventilator UO kicks I picked up in Sydney (at a store called Espionage on Goulburn Street — see map below).
The shoes are insanely bright. Brighter than any other pair of shoes I own. And that’s because it is almost entirely made out of reflective material and fluorescent work-safe colors. It’s just all too amusing. I can’t help but laugh when I put them on. Everywhere I go feels like a construction danger zone when I have these babies on my feet.
These shoes don’t even need bright lights or strobe flashes to bring out their true bright colors. The fluorescent green/yellow and orange/red do it all on their own! The only thing that shows up with a flash strobe is the silver reflective lining that makes up the rest of the Reebok logo. I’ve provided two sample shots below.
Here are the shoes photographed with flash off.
Here are the shoes photographed with flash on.
After some research, I found out that the Ventilator UO sneakers are supposedly some sort of limited edition colorway made strictly for Urban Outfitters. You can see more photos of it here. The shoe, when converted to USD, retails for about $125. You can actually buy these at select sneaker boutiques. As you can see, they are just awesome. Haha!
If you’re less inclined to wear these bright colors, then you’ll be glad to know that the Ventilator style of shoe is made in less blinding colors at a fraction of the price. Nice!
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