integration of lighting solutions II

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This is an image I came across on Coolhunting. You can find out more about it's origin here. The nature of this work inspired this lighting solution as a sort of "home gallery".

I have a flashlight from a company called Inova [parent company Emissive Energy Corporation]. They started off pretty small, offering just a couple lights, one of which we carried back when I worked for Chase-Pitkin. I see now that they've grown into a respectable business making products for Victorinox and military/law enforcement applications.

Anyway, I'm getting off track (probably because their products are so awesome). The point is that the little flashlight I have, the X1 (old design) uses one AA battery and one LED combined with a brilliant lens to make a very concentrated spotlight beam, like nothing I have ever seen before in such a compact light. Granted, its not the best for forest navigation, but if you needed to stay relatively unseen, this light would allow you to do so. Now, if I could make a little wall or ceiling mounted unit with one, two, three, or as many light sources as required, I could spot out different items in a given space. It would be almost invisible in terms of overall room lighting, but would add additional light to specific points - just like any spotlight.

So how does this tie in with that art work? Well, like I said - home gallery. This print caused me specifically to visualize one item called out in an environment, like the way the light shines on the house. Imagine if you had a few small pieces of artwork about your space, be it sculpture or a wall print, you could spot them out with a very unobtrusive light source. Even with the room lights off they would hardly light a room on their own while doing their job. You would need to be able to control the brightness and spot diameter to perfect its effect. I see this as something I would use in both the lounge as well as my own room, or living room. It could have so many uses, as I begin to think of it. In my living room, for example, I could put a dim spot on my A/V equipment for easy control in a dark room without it necessarily affecting the required darkness for movie/tv viewing. If done right, with full adjustments, this multipurpose light would be so infinitely useful for so many things.