It’s an interesting question to ponder because it requires you to not only think about what you *think* you want light to do over the course of a year, but it requires you to know what it is you think you *thought* about light and imagine where it *should* go. Right? Right.
“What the f*ck is this guy talking about?!”
“I have no idea,” said someone.
It’s simple if you work with light; what is it you want to see from light this year? Do you want to see something change in the industry? Do you want to see something develop, like a new technology? Or is it time for an old technology to get a new set of dentures? For me, I want to see someone come out with a full-spectrum replacement light source for incandescent lamps. Notice I did not say LED necessarily. Also, I want to see the Entertainment Lighting Industry as a whole get behind PLASA, because I think that PLASA is the future of everything we will see blossom in what I call the brave new world of Entertainment Lighting. I think it’s coming, and it’s just around the corner. Will it be this year? I tell ya, that would be pretty cool. But who knows — as I see in software development pretty much all the time, it is amazing how quickly a technology you think you had mastered says “oh, I don’t think so, sailor” and shows you that you didn’t really have anything mastered at all, besides maybe your sleep schedule.
Richard Cadena, in his latest release of the Academy of Production Technology News, says that all he really wants in 2013 from the Lighting Industries is “an accident-free year in the live event production industry. After that, everything else is just gravy.” I definitely agree. “But it’s the gravy,” Richard writes, “and maybe some dessert, that make things interesting.” Check out Richard’s whole post here, he’s hit the nail right sqwar on the head as is usual with his foresight.
Someone else who I shall keep nameless told me at a recent trade show: “All I want to happen in 2013 is for the lighting companies to quit trying to f*ck each other out of money and just get along. You don’t have to own the entire world, all it does is make those who could potentially improve our industry and give them absolutely no room to improve the way we do things.”
Do you agree? What do you want to see happen in 2013 in Light? Architectural light? Medical light? Fun light? Naked light?
(Ooh, naked light sounds illuminating!)
Leave a comment below, we really want to know what your insights on light are for 2013!
I want a quality, bright LED fixture that I afford. I know I am asking for a lot.
What I have always wanted is a product i call Light Stop. It would come in a can and I could spray legs, curtains, scenery and yes even actors that I don’t want to light up. I am tired of directors coming to me and saying why is there light right there. I have to explain that i you want the light on the actors face that it does travel behind them and hit other things. So yes I am asking Light Stop to break the laws of Physics.
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