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Dancing In Cool Neon Electroluminescent Wire!

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We got a note from our client, Andrea Aranda, who is producing a show in San Francisco, in which she and her troupe will be performing in their EL wire costumes, and they got all of the wire and connections etc. from Cool Neon!

They used custom soldered High Bright 2.6mm Cool Neon wire and Big Boy Drivers with Switch to create these costumes.
We think they are fabulous!

If you are interested in seeing the show, check out the information below.

Urban Mirage
Fri, Aug 7^th at 8:00pm
$25-35, www.urbanmirage.brownpapertickets.com
Dance Mission Theater , 3316-24^th St., San Francisco

For one night only, the best of Bay Area World Dance are together on the Dance Mission stage! Join producer Andrea Aranda and her company Urban Mirage as they welcome a host of phenomenal dance artists including mistress of ceremonies Ginger Snap, Ahava, Rose Harden, Sassafras, Malia Defelice, The Ladies of the Latin Symbolics, Kacopieah, Ariyana La Fey and Shaunte.

Benny, Karen and the Elves

Photos: Noir Photography

The Owl & The Serpent – Cool Neon Electroluminescent Wire Costumes

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Jul 102015

Cool Neon Electroluminescent Wire Costumes

Darryl Thomas of the Western Oregon University Dept. of Theater and Dance, Rainbow Dance Theatre, sent us these fabulous videos of his dance “The Owl and The Serpent”. Here is his description of his work:

It is a dance allegory loosely based on the story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. The dance is approximately 25 minutes in length. It features Cool Neon’s electroluminescent wire, 2.6mm high bright wire. Each costume is actually two costumes in one (e.g. an owl & serpent, man & serpent, woman & owl).
I control the costumes using two, six circuit wireless controllers that I had designed and built for this dance. The specific circuit that is activated determines which costume is visible. Each of the 12 circuits (per costume) is programmed on a timeline with the music. Each costume has approximately 250′ – 300′ of 2.6mm high bright wire and is powered by a single 12 volt battery pack with approximately 12 blue fish drivers. Additionally there are props (bats, flowers, snake, etc.) and a full stage set element (tree branch with fruit) that are all controlled via the same wireless device and their on/off sequence is also programmed on a time line with the costumes.

Here is a five minute version of the dance:

The Owl & The Serpent from Darryl Thomas on Vimeo.

Rainbow Dance Theatre

Here is the entire 25 minute dance:

“The Owl & Serpent” Live Performance from Darryl Thomas on Vimeo.

Darryl will be performing “The Owl & the Serpent” again in September, and we will let you know when and where just in case you live in the Pacific Northwest.

Daryl, we love it when you send us your work, and we love sharing it with our readers, thank you so much.

Benny, Karen and the Elves

Electroluminescent Wire Phones! So Fabulous!

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Jun 222015

We received this lovely note from Joe Mitchell and wanted to share it with you! Gotta love these Electroluminescent Wire Phones!

Joe said “I made the giant phone from clear acrylic, glued together with E6000. Glued the Cool Neon Electro Luminescent Wire on with Zap A Gap.”

And then Joe explained “The smaller phone we got at a thrift store. I gutted it, painted it black, and fabricated some mechanisms into a vegetable can to make the number dial animatable. Back-lit the number dial with LEDs.”

Benny’s soldering tutorial helped a ton! Good video.

Thanks for the excellent service, take care!”

Joe stopmo shot3 on Vimeo.

Joe Stopmo shot1 on Vimeo.

And he sent along a couple of videos for you to see!

Wow, we love these phones and thanks so much for sharing them with us Joe!

Benny, Karen and the Elves

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