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December News - Happy Holidays from James Bedell

Psst. After a year of vistors to my website submitting email addresses and days combing my address book, this is my very first email newsletter. In it you'll find out what I've been working on, find out about a special discount and see some project highlights. I hope you enjoy.  Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. December 2012 Happy Holidays From Lighting Design By James Bedell 2012 has been a wild year for many of us. The tragedy of Hurricane Sandy should give us all pause and help us to reflect on what's truly important. Personally, I couldn't be more thankful for my family, friends and all of the wonderful opportunities 2012 has brought my way. It's been a big year for my little venture. My first complete calendar year as an independent lighting designer has seen some incredible high points. This year I was fortunate enough to... Light The Jersey Couture Pop-Up Beauty Bar for MKG Productions. Light the Google / Hollywood Reporter Party for the White House Correspondent's Dinner Go To London as part of BlogTour! Light the Halloween Room of Holiday House NYC Release Lightstagram - a collection of instagram photos that inspire my work. Lightstagram! Just in time for the holidays, I've together a coffee table book full of photos that I took with Instagram. It's called Lightstagram and the idea behind it is simple. When I design projects I try to draw on inspiring lighting I encounter in the real world. Whether that's the sunlight reflecting off skycrapers or the shadows leaves cast in the early morning.  The book is available at blurb as either a print on demand soft/hardcover book or a downloadable PDF. I hope you consider it for yourself, or as a gift for the interior designer, architect, or creative in your life. Project of the Month - Press Event for the Carlton Hotel The Carlton Hotel is a revered NYC institution. Like all great organizations it's always in a state of renewal, so when it came time to announce the creation of four themed suites throughout the hotel, the team at DKC Incite looked to me to "punch up" the existing lighting and help create a lasting impression for editors and members of the press. The event was an enormous success as visitors entered the amazing billiard suite, then snuck away into the speakeasy before meeting a broadway diva. On a tight timeline we put this event together to rave reviews.  In This Issue Happy Holidays from Lighting Design by James Bedell Lightstagram Project of the Month - Press Event at the Carlton Hotel Let's Work Together With over a decade's worth of experience spanning flagship retail, high-end residential, corporate events and NYC theater - Lighting Design By James Bedell has the skills and knowledge necessary to create inspired lighting for your next project on-time and on budget. Whether you need some simple consultation or you're looking for a complete lighting design, please feel free to contact me any time. Mention this newsletter and receive a 10% discount on my already affordable rates.  Follow All the Lighting Chatter Facebook Twitter

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LEDucation II

The Designers Lighting Forum of NY and the IES are presenting a conference next month, March 12th call LEDucation II. It promises to be a forum for lighting designers and others to educate on LED's, show off gear and hopefully talk about control. I for one plan on being there, as LED production and control has come up often enough this past year for me to interested.

Control Protocol

So I can't drop project names because of privacy issues. But I'm
working on a space that combines architectural lighting with some
entertainment lighting features and the issue of the week has become
finalizing control.

The Crestron system programmer ran through the limitations of the DMX
512 protocol that our dimming system employs for some if the
intelligent lighting we included in the design. From his point of view
the biggest disadvantage to DMX protocol is the lack of two way
communication between the controlling processor and the fixtures. DMX
is essentially a by-state control protocol. Meaning, all a control
station can do is send a percentage signal down every single address
in its pervue all the time. It cannot recieve information back down
the one way street of its data path.

So as the worlds of architectural and entertainment lighting converge
with the realms of video and more sophisticated levels of intuitive
control, is it time to bring intelligent lighting to more open more
easily maintained standard? And if so what?

James Bedell
917-225-9183

Color temperature

So for those curious about the real effects of color temperature on
lighting, I found a great, though unfortunate example today.

In this image you can see identical fixtures used for under-cabinet
lighting in a kitchen. One is lamper with a "cool white" fluorescent,
the other a "warm white." it's important to note that when I took this
photo, the midday sun was pouring though the window directly behind
me. See how this makes the cool lamp seem much more white and the warm
lamp look much more orange.

I think I'm a consultant

So here I am at the Harwood Center at C.W. Post on Long Island. I am
helping the Immersion Dance Company. I'm not exactly sure of my role
tonight. I think I'm the visual consultant. The lights are
predesigned. The cue are prewritten. I'm not sure what I can do but
make suggestions.

A home depot bought CFL