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Did You Know?
Nutrition-Style Labels for Light Bulbs.
The US Federal Trade Commission has approved a new label for compact fluorescent lightbulbs that would show vital statistics like mercury content and the light output in terms of lumens rather than watts, which would make the brightness of CFLs, LEDs and other lighting technology more comparable among consumers. |
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Fun Fact
What the Heck is a VUVUZELA?
In the soccer-crazed country of South Africa, home to the 2010 World Cup, true fans know that cheering and screaming aren't good enough. That's why there's the vuvuzela. The plastic noise-maker is a very South African way of paying homage to the game. When blown correctly, it makes a loud, and fans say inspiring, cacophony. For South Africans, vuvuzelas are to soccer what hot dogs are to baseball. No game is complete without them.
Fans and competitors from outside South Africa often complain that today's vuvuzela doesn't inspire fear or amazement, just irritation, and that it's sound is a loud, unwelcome and unpleasant distraction.
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Our Earth Day Event Goes Viral - We Hope
Earth Walk Committee: Tim McLain (1st row on left) & Mike Muller (2nd row center) |
We mentioned in our April Newsletter that we were planning to participate in Downtown Scranton's Earth Day event; an evening on the local courthouse square with booths, music and food. We wondered how we could participate appropriately - how to put our product in a package? As an architectural firm, it is difficult enough to bring our work out on the street, let alone into a booth!
 So we had to (excuse our pun) think outside of the "Box". If you recall, our project involved 100-10"x10"x10" boxes, six rolls of tape, paint and stencils, voice recorders, a video camera and 4 DxDempsey staff members. We assembled the boxes in the office, loaded them into the freight elevator, then into our cars and drove to the courthouse to create our piece.
 We set out to create an experience using architectural forms and concepts to communicate sustainability.
But as everyone knows, "the best laid plans of mice and architects often go awry" and the end result
became a response to an environmental condition: WIND!
Using the voice recorders we created an audio loop of sustainable terminology. The voice recorders were placed in several boxes within the form.
 Instead of an organized, formal geometric form, the wind forced our shape to be more organic in nature. We taped it all up out of deference to the wind and then sat back to watch. |
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