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Field of Light: Nikolai Tesla Meets Lenny Kravitz
Posted by Wilson Rothman at 12:00 PM on October 1, 2008
When I see images of Bruce Munro's Field of Light installation, whatever glumness I might have felt during the day disappears, and that Beatle-esque Lenny Kravitz song of a similar name starts playing in my head. If I had the chance to check out Munro's light installation, coming to Project Eden in Cornwall, England on November 1, I would totally wander through the fields—slowly, slowly through the fields, in fact—touching the acrylic globes that float at the ends of 6,000 fiberoptically united tubes.
The tubes' intensity and colour are controlled by an external projector; they're in sync but don't actually contain any electricity. (Sorry, Tesla.) In the Cornwall exhibition, they will be installed on a huge 1,200-square-meter grass-covered roof using 24,000 meters of fibre. It is of course "best viewed in hours of darkness." 
Munro has actually set up Field of Light shows on a number of occasions in the past, each successive installation growing in some way. His next all-new project is "a massive illuminated maze synchronized with choral music" named (what else?) Water Towers. That will be on display next March in Frome, Somerset, so yes, again again with the England. You lucky Limeys had better send pictures! [Dezeen]
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Pope John Peeps II
Posted 12:27 PM 1/10/08
@hayabusa55: Not that it matters. He's such a nerd god these days that he gets adoration for everything regardless of what he actually did.
Hey Tesla invented the nuclear reactor, and the hubble telescope, and Barack Obama, and the Donnas!! Tesla tesla tesla!
Pope John Peeps II
hayabusa55
Posted 12:21 PM 1/10/08
NikolA Tesla! He was Serbian/Croatian, not Russian!
hayabusa55
discounteggroll
Posted 12:10 PM 1/10/08
Fiber- Can't live with 'em, can't pee standing up
wait, I think some of that was right
regardless, that is quite a sight to see
discounteggroll
RE-L
Posted 12:03 PM 1/10/08
Wow...I'd love to see this as well.
RE-L
Jimbuck Bada' Bing!
Posted 12:54 PM 1/10/08
I love me some fiber!
Jimbuck Bada' Bing!
Chester_Copperpot
Posted 4:00 PM 1/10/08
I'm sure this will be at Burning Man next year. I'm excited.
Chester_Copperpot
jaakennuste
Posted 8:59 PM 1/10/08
I remember the Prestige movie
Jack, [seoapplied.blogspot.com]
jaakennuste
ProSeven
Posted 10:30 PM 1/10/08
The name is Nikola, not Nikolai. Tesla wasn't a Russian.
ProSeven
balloondoggle
Posted 11:37 PM 1/10/08
I though he was a Swiss pharmacist.
"N-i-i-icola-a-a-a!"
balloondoggle
GuinevereMaro
Posted 2:00 PM 1/10/08
other than bearing a passing resemblance to a scene from "The Prestige", the tech has nothing to do with Tesla.. frankly, I'm unimpressed by someone using brute force (thousands of feet of cable) to produce an effect that is possible with no cabling... hell, a solar garden lamp's guts, a crystal radio's coil and tuner, and a precision transistor could do everything this art installation could for MUCH cheaper than all that glass... Simply transmit different frequencies for different lights, and vary amplitude (volume), to vary brightness... utilizing fast enough sequential addressing, or parallel processing, you could even display images in greyscale, that would be visible to airplanes and (discerning) satellites... here's my version: build several hundred of these as watertight spheres. each one can be addressed by radio... spread them across a section of ocean or land, by dropping them from a plane... also drop a transmitter, with a video feed from a buoy balloon. every time you address a light, the video is used to map its position, and the display is altered to take into account the new positions of each "pixel" ... it would be like that doctor in Spain who is helping the blind see... Imagine a thousand spheres, rolling down hills or over waves, at random, yet still displaying a perfect image the whole way, despite the changing positions of each sphere... it would be awesome!!!, but not in any way related to the work of Nicola Tesla. gschoppe.com
GuinevereMaro
Three_Part_Bandit
Posted 2:27 AM 2/10/08
Nikola was my Gran-Grandmothers brother, not that anybody believes me :(
Three_Part_Bandit
FiveLiters
Posted 6:29 AM 2/10/08
So THATS what sperm looks like when viewed on a 150-inch plasma TV!
FiveLiters