Everytime I write a story with a large gear list, I try as hard as possible to get all the information correct. It’s not always as easy as it seems— and the opening ceremonies for the Olympics in Beijing is a perfect example. Since the lighting designer and rental company folks over there speak only Chinese, and I admit to being deficient in that department, my contact on-site was Australian more

Photo by Michal Slaga

In response to my blog of July 14 about a UFO sighting, one of the creators of the project contacted me to say that, in fact, the hovering craft was real. Dominic Harris of Cinimod Studios in London says that the massive, seven-meter in diameter “UFO” was covered in 60 strands of Color Kinetics/Philips Solid-State Lighting Solutions iColor® more