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As this can have major impact on the worst case scenario... We Ask - Why are we hearing,"there are too many emergency lights" (OR) "No we don't need to put emergency lighting in our car park because the building doesn't need them. It's not the BCA that's driving requirements! It's AS2293.1-2010 - Emergency escape lighting and exit. Once again, when its good it's Good! and When it's bad it's BAD!  As the Visualist for The Australian Ballet's production of Wild Swans - 12 years on, it still holds it's own.
It was given its premiere by the Australian Ballet at the Sydney Opera House on 29 April 2003 Visualist - Someone who has tendencies towards visual beauty and creates such things that rely on light for expression. Click Image and go 8:00 in to video Programmed and sequenced projectors were manually cued through score reading at marked points. (Keep in mind this was always reproduced under live conditions with 2000 Audience and a Full Orchestra!) 4 x Computers - 25 x 35mm Slide projectors - 2 x Video projectors I would like to share a small story with those that may be starting out in the Lighting Industry.
I ran the lighting department of the Melbourne Concert Hall (Hamer Hall; enunciated Hay-mer Hall) for some 5 years. For anyone that has had the pleasure of having their own venue of such calibre, you will know where I come from with the following. The process of lighting the very wide performance spectrum on a concert hall platform uses all the tricks in the book and then some… When one is handed the reins, the artistic creation is running at full speed, BUT, it’s a trap for young players! What happens, (regardless of your experiences) by the end of the performance you have created Pizza with all the toppings. On average it will take a good lighting designer to grasp the full potential of lighting rig with accurate luminaire – type/position/angle/colour/blending and general creative mastery, 3 Months of 10/12hrs a day 6 days a week. Now why am I saying this? Well, I always knew with the invention of a colour changing commercial fixture was going to set some change on a city’s night profile, as one would. It’s just a larger performance platform and yes a large PIZZA. I could anticipate an uncensored governance of the use of coloured lighting upon city structures will take some 15+ years to settle. Look at the city where you live! Or the local shopping precinct. James Graham Here’s where the thought process starts… Mid winter on the East coast of Australia somewhere! 6:30 PM Tom, a hard working tradesman started on the road at 6AM, and, due to his workload, has not eaten all day. Navigates his vehicle towards McDonalds Drive through. Though his menu selection has yet to be made, his body is preparing for the banquette ahead. His mouth is preparing for sustenance by salivation and his attention is being focused towards edible treats that lie in the not too distant future. Meanwhile… Mary and Luke, quarrelsome and competitive 6 year old twins, escape from their mothers parked car in the centre of McDonald’s congested Car park, and head straight for the front door in order to be the first inline for the New Toy of the moment. Leaving mother to follow in hot pursuit, abandoning, their Aunty Em to stay in the car. Time elapsed… With Tom taking his order through the window of the Drive through and nesting his spoils in the passenger’s seat, slides his vehicle into Drive and promptly heads across the car park in order to make a quick getaway. At the same time, appeasing his bodies request for sustenance, dips his hand into the bag of fulfilment to find the chips. Simultaneously, Mary, displaying high emotions of joy and happiness by emulating her toy of preference in flight as high as her arm can reach and amazed by the flashing red eyes. Dashes, towards the car where Aunty Em is sitting awaiting the next round of mayhem from the twins. This is where the story begins… What are the vertical illuminances within the carriageway? Tom, as good and responsible driver as he is, is being diverted by natural instinct. Mary and Luke are being driven by other distractions, yet all are on the same field of play. Assisting in the visual senses of all parties is the Key to this success. In order to assist Tom, the good lighting design engineer has provided more than adequate Vertical Illuminance, minimised any Glare, and created High Uniformity over the entire site. "Etcetera" "Etcetera" "Etcetera" Therefore, Tom is assisted to see Mary, as she is slipping out at a great rate of knots between the parked vehicles directly out side the building of contentment. Needless to say, with Luke following directly behind Mary heading towards Aunty Em. How deep does your Lighting Designer think?   Toy of preference!
With the below is a quick snapshot of what correct photometric testing can look like compared to... Hmmmm something that is more likely to come from a test lab at a bar using a beer coaster. Philips - Dimmable 7W MR16 36D EMEA&APR 3000K  No name Brand - 12V 6W MR16   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
The lux (symbol: lx) is the SI unit of illuminance and luminous emittance, measuring luminous flux per unit area. It is equal to one lumen per square metre. In photometry, this is used as a measure of the intensity, as perceived by the human eye, of light that hits or passes through a surface. It is analogous to the radiometric unit watts per square metre, but with the power at each wavelength weighted according to the luminosity function, a standardized model of human visual brightness perception. In English, "lux" is used in both singular and plural. Lux Plot Design
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