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This year, the Club House has a new design. This is an opportunity to shake things up a bit and reassess our lighting stance. I have in mind a natural palette and candle atmosphere. This means many, maybe 100, low 1 Watt 2000-2600K LED bulbs preferably *not* in strings and hidden from direct sight, possibly with diffusers, to avoid the hot spot of the bulbs to be in direct contact with the eyes which means we need to come up with a simple solution to create lampshades. Something as simple as clamped rolled sheets of paper could work as a starting point. Pallet racks give us tons of opportunities to anchor those light sources. We can use the geometry of the pallet racks as places to tuck many of those lights.<BR> | This year, the Club House has a new design. This is an opportunity to shake things up a bit and reassess our lighting stance. I have in mind a natural palette and candle atmosphere. This means many, maybe 100, low 1 Watt 2000-2600K LED bulbs preferably *not* in strings and hidden from direct sight, possibly with diffusers, to avoid the hot spot of the bulbs to be in direct contact with the eyes which means we need to come up with a simple solution to create lampshades. Something as simple as clamped rolled sheets of paper could work as a starting point. Pallet racks give us tons of opportunities to anchor those light sources. We can use the geometry of the pallet racks as places to tuck many of those lights.<BR> | ||
For the candle vibe to be in full effect, places that need more light should get additional 1W bulbs, not brighter bulbs. Just to be clear, that means that we'd take a break from Pornj lighting in CH23. Aside from the 1W bulbs, the only color inside CH23 would be provided by the [[D14 Sign]].<BR> | For the candle vibe to be in full effect, places that need more light should get additional 1W bulbs, not brighter bulbs. Just to be clear, that means that we'd take a break from Pornj lighting in CH23. Aside from the 1W bulbs, the only color inside CH23 would be provided by the [[D14 Sign]] which we would probably want to tune down so it doesn't overpowers the gentle glow of the candle vibe.<BR> | ||
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Revision as of 20:54, 26 June 2023
Candle Vibe at D23
Proposed by The Eye
Club House
This year, the Club House has a new design. This is an opportunity to shake things up a bit and reassess our lighting stance. I have in mind a natural palette and candle atmosphere. This means many, maybe 100, low 1 Watt 2000-2600K LED bulbs preferably *not* in strings and hidden from direct sight, possibly with diffusers, to avoid the hot spot of the bulbs to be in direct contact with the eyes which means we need to come up with a simple solution to create lampshades. Something as simple as clamped rolled sheets of paper could work as a starting point. Pallet racks give us tons of opportunities to anchor those light sources. We can use the geometry of the pallet racks as places to tuck many of those lights.
For the candle vibe to be in full effect, places that need more light should get additional 1W bulbs, not brighter bulbs. Just to be clear, that means that we'd take a break from Pornj lighting in CH23. Aside from the 1W bulbs, the only color inside CH23 would be provided by the D14 Sign which we would probably want to tune down so it doesn't overpowers the gentle glow of the candle vibe.
Whole Camp
Extending this "candle" vibe to the entire camp would create a very special, intimate and magical vibe and would save a vast amount of energy compared to incandescent lights. Every time we need a space lit, we would use 1w 2600k LED bulbs which camp would need to have a large reserve of.
This is something that needs everyone's participation and I'm not sure we have the rigor to make it happen, but it would be a heart opener if we did. Some space such a Kitchen would need more light during working hours but most areas in camp need just enough light to navigate.
This lighting scheme is very subtle. Candle vibe can quickly be compromised if other types of lightings are used. When a large enough part of camp is under candle vibe other campers will want to be part of it but reaching this tipping point will be an uphill battle.
Deliberate light pieces such as CoSign, D14_Sign, Leo Villareal's new piece, John Foster's pieces, the lasers and our various Signs would stand-out more on this unifying and soothing atmosphere.
Some of those examples use actual candles but we can get very similar effect with 1W LED bulbs:
Items needed to make the candle vibe happen
A good looking diffuser for each(?) bulb would be a plus.
