“Quik hit the dirt, VC is here” “Lock and Load” Man…gotta go.

Joe “Black Ops” Mojo!

Thanks for the plug. I have written technical papers for national and international publications, plus AIA, IESNA, BOMA, APT, IAEI, AIC, NECA, ASTM and in the UK: SPAB, CIBSE, English Heritage, National Trust, Architectural Association, Heriott Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, etc. Spoken on building conservation and green lighting from Taiwan and St. Petersburg to Australia and France.

Gersil N. Kay, President of Conservation Lighting International podcasts on the subject of “Functional Architectural Lighting” and speaks to LED and Glass Fibre Optics lighting options. The podcast is on iTunes (search podcast/lighting design) or you can also link directly from:

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=294949475

Kay also posts articles at http://www.quesited.com. The articles are below.

1. “Glass Fibre Optics”
https://www.quesited.comtrendCurrent.aspx?featuredarticleid=52

2. “In the Dark about Light”
https://www.quesited.comtrendCurrent.aspx?featuredarticleid=55

And last, Kay shares a wealth of lighting information at the CLI website: http://www.glassfiberoptics.net.

An LED Par 38:
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/04/would-you-buy-this-funny-looking-bulb/

http://lsgc.com/products/lamps/r38/

Even though on average I make a post about every other week, it’s still a lot of work (plus, there’s a certain pressure to come up with something clever). Because I have lots of other things to do in the conservation department, I do my blog writing on my own time at home. Having said this, I often wonder why I do it since it really doesn’t reflect directly on my responsibilities here. One of these days I’m going to answer this question of “why should I blog”.

I admit, though, I check the IMA’s blog (and others) at work.

I would like to take a minute congratulate Despi and the entire New Media Dept. for having the guts to let me, and apparently everyone, write about whatever they want.

I really can’t remember a time when they’ve even exercised any editorial control on my posts — even though I wouldn’t mind if they fixed some of my errant sentences.

Brittany —

Thanks for your comment. The woman who gave the presentation is Gersil Kay, a lighting specialist out of Philly.

Here’s a link to a book she published on fiber optics:
http://www.mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780070349322.html

She also published an article in the Journal of Architectural Lighting in 2002.

http://www.donhead.com/journal_architectural_conservation/jac_8_1.htm

Thanks!

I am so delighted to read the last line of your comment! We try really hard to make the blog feel (and in reality be) authentic. Not all shiny and polished, but instead it is good, about things that really happen and written by the people that make it happen.

That is not to say that we don’t have conflict about it. We have worked internally to gather a group of people that represent many areas of the museum and are willing to contribute, then we work with them to make the blog relevant to our readers. For the most part, though, those of us who work on the blog facilitate the content created by others…organize them all into this collective and find interesting new ways to engage readers.

There are definitely some people at IMA that feel the way you describe your colleagues feeling about blogging. But that number has declined over time as a core group of us start writing daily and gradually added new authors that were excited to participate after seeing the blogs success.

So, the blog definitely isn’t easy…but I am so glad it looks easy! Because that is really the ultimate compliment.

Thank you for reading!