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# Ahhhh... the delights of enormous delivery pizza...
that was a fucking good thing after a long day.

Meanwhile... witchy... not just street-lighting... all sorts of lighting. We're doing a lighting strategy for the council. Long term coherent plan for the city centre, addressing everything to do with lighting in the public realm. It's a goody. Some nice ideas in there as well as a lot of good practice and general improvement.

This is what I do.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 20:46, archived)
# Wow - you lot did
the blinking eye bridge? Nice one! My little one loves it to bits :) Well, she likes the lights on it, still not sure about being able to see the tyne beneath yer feet as you walk over it, but she gets that from her mum...hehe. Lighting things is Good, and possibly one of the things I'd like to make money from, but I ain't got the imagination.
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 20:52, archived)
# Those pics
of the eye are the best I have seen it look. Nice work.

(I helped save b3ta! DontHaveAClue, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 20:55, archived)
# Thank you both...
A lot of the pics were taken by a Newcastle photographer. They were the best we'd seen too, so we bought the right to use them for our own purposes.

We just won (for the bridge) the top exterior lighting project in the UK National Lighting Awards, the top Award of Excellence from the International Association of Lighting Designers, and the Award of Distinction from the Illuminating Engineering Society of North America. That last one isn't even presented every year, although we have one already for the Burj Al Arab.

Basicaly, this bridge is just sweeping everything for us at the moment...
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:01, archived)
# And it's in the
right place for a top night out too :) Next time you're down me an' Donthaveaclue can take you round a few places you might not've been already!
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:03, archived)
# Aye
it will be a pleasure
(I helped save b3ta! DontHaveAClue, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:04, archived)
# OK... you're on.
Is next Friday evening any use to you? I'm in town all day and don't need to leave until the last train.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:07, archived)
# I fink so.
Day before little one's 6th birthday, but if you've got to get the last charabanc I should be OK :)
(I helped save b3ta! witchy is covered in BEES, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:10, archived)
# Cool... we'll talk nearer the time.
I think my last train is about 10.20pm, which allows for getting a good few in, but not being out too late.

I have to cycle 20 miles on Saturday morning, so I don't want to be too fucked either.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:13, archived)
# oo
you can make escalators look classy
(minoltion, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 20:57, archived)
# we're good at escalators...
which pics were you looking at?
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:03, archived)
# came up on
the random image-at-the-top-of-the-page thing
(minoltion, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:07, archived)
# ok... The Lighthouse in Glasgow.
We did a simlar treatment at the Filmworks cinema in Manchester, but with the colour changing from floor to floor - yellow, orange, red. Very nice.

Not on the site yet though.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:10, archived)
# ooo
when i went to the lisbon shopping center it was day, so i guess i've never seem any of your lighty displays except maybe the poddington one
(minoltion, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:23, archived)
# well... it's not just a night-time thing...
we do a lot of interior projects with a lot of daytime usage... but I guess it's often less noticeable, especially in spaces like the Lisbon job where there's so much daylight coming in.

We do design ALL kinds of lighting, not just the very showy stuff.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:36, archived)
# my bathroom
bulb needs changing, can you come?
(minoltion, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:41, archived)
# I can give you a specification...
...and a drawing, but you need a contractor to install.
(I helped save b3ta! chaotic_illuminator proud spacehopperist, Thu 6 Jun 2002, 21:51, archived)