Fun Ways To Stay Illuminated On The Playa

 customer projects, Playa Art Projects, Total Control Lighting  No Responses »
Aug 202016
 

Cool Neon EL Wire

  • We know you have been wondering whether there is still time to order some bright lights for the Playa.
  • YES, you can!
  • We’ll be shipping all orders received through 11:59 pm, Friday, August 26th.
  • For off-the-shelf items (i.e. not custom soldering), we ship most orders the same day or the next at the latest.
  • For addresses east of Nevada, USPS Priority Mail (for $9) can get to almost everywhere in the country in two days.
  • Or you can always choose FedEx Overnight, 2-day or 3-day express shipping too.
  • For more information about shipping, click HERE.

Fun Ways To Stay Illuminated On The Playa!

Pocket Plasma.  A disc of plasma light that reacts to music
Rainbow Tassles.  A burst of all 10 of our High Bright and Hella Phat colors
Fuze Necklaces.  Polished quartz necklaces that radiate a spectrum of light
Cool Neon Sunglasses
Look at all of our Instant Gratification items for Cool Neon EL wire that’s ready to wear, including our 5ft plug and play unit, 10ft and 20ft options.
For more advanced costumes, our Total Control Lighting paired with a Gateway Controller.

And we have some fun and interesting items you have never seen before, check them out HERE

Rainbow Tassles will need a driver.  We suggest the AA Handheld.

Pocket Plasmas, drivers, and Plug & Play kits will need batteries.

If you’d like some soldering help, project advice, or extra time to shop, Cool Neon will be having it’s last Soldering Party in our Oakland shop on Saturday August 22 at 1433 Mandela Pkwy, Oakland, CA.

For inspiration to make your own costumes, you can take a look at:

A great tutorial about how use Cool Neon Total Control Lighting in a costume!

Cool Neon Electroluminescent Wire and Leather Necklace (with Instructable)

How to make a Stickman Costume

Doodle Dudes

Anthrolume

A Costume Going to the Playa in 2012

Check out our Tutorials for more technical info.

See you on the playa!

Benny, Gian and the Elves

Cool Neon Wire Lights Art Work

 Cool Neon Media, customer projects  No Responses »
Apr 152016
 
Friday-Night-Fish-Fry 1

Artist Chuck Miller lights Dream Window 18  in the original pattern & sequence using Cool Neon EL wire.

We are so honored that Chuck Miller lights his art work with Cool Neon Wire.  Chuck is an artist who takes antique windows, pops out the existing glass and replaces it with stained glass, art glass and Miller’s own original photography.  He calls his creation Dream Window.  Dream Window 18 is considered his most technically complicated but emotionally satisfying work to date.  His emotional attachment comes from the many times he admired this sign as a boy in Albany NY’s historic Capital District.  Much of the Capitol District’s iconic architecture was torn down over time and metal from many of the unique neon signs, sold for scrap.  Dream Window 18 uses Cool Neon wire to light his photo in the same pattern and rhythm as the original sign did for generations.  You can read the full article along with video of the finished work, here.

The Cool Neon products he used to light is work are:

Great work Chuck! We love the way you use multimedia to create something new while paying homage to the past.
 Benny, Gian and the Elves

Wilco’s Rock & Roll Stage Lighting Design

 customer projects, Total Control Lighting  No Responses »
Feb 252016
 

Wilco's Lighting Design

Rock & Roll Stage Lighting

Rock & roll stage lighting is pretty spectacular, isn’t it? Well, Cool Neon customer, Production Designer Jeremy Roth bares all his secrets about rock and roll stage lighting in this interview on PLSN, Production Lights and Staging News.
You can read it HERE.

“My approach to lighting Wilco is pretty straightforward,” states Jeremy. “People are there to see the band, so I keep most of the lighting on the band. If the lighting is overly distracting from what the band is doing or you just can’t see what the band is doing then I’m not doing my job right.”

Jeremy used 1,850 custom length Total Control Lighting pixels in his stage design. Benny, our fearless leader at Cool Neon says “Other than custom spacing, everything you see here is off our shelves, plus the magic of Jeremy. Thanks Jeremy for the awesome art and rock.”

We think it’s awesome…

Benny, Gian and the Elves

 

 

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