Thursday, September 29, 2011

Making of the Community Beacons


The human generated light from these Kinetic Light Cannons travels up to a mile! An eighteen inch woofer speaker creates the power for an ultra bright 1000 lumen LED. The barrels are made from recycled 55 gallon stainless steel barrels that were originally used to ferry lemon oil across the seas. Fresnel lenses focus and project the light out of the drum.

CC 2011 The Art Firm of McCormack and Figg

Saturday, July 31, 2010

Kinetic Light up Drums in New York City on Governors Island Historic Fort Jay




These are ten new kinetic light drums being performed by LMCC (lower manhattan cultural council) artists in residence. The drums are fitted with rectifies and capacitors for a fade effect. Shameless s

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