If you have never heard of plasma light then you may have missed science class in grade school. It is not something we all understand but it is a real and visible light. According to the HIVE Lighting web page http://hivelighting.com it says the following about Plasma light-
Hive Lighting is plasma, each bulb a microstar, a ball of super heated noble gases, captured in a quartz capsule the size of a kernel of corn. Hive combines the bulb with revolutionary optical systems in fixtures we are proud to source, manufacture and design all locally in the entertainment capital of the world.
The instructor of Long Beach City College’s lighting class gave a homework assignment to reach out to the hollywood lighting industry and invite whoever you choose to contact to be a guest speaker to our class. One ambitious student contacted HIVE Lighting located in downtown Los Angeles who manufactures, rents and sells a line of plasma based lighting fixtures and Hive accepted. Our students were blessed to have them recently visit our studio.
These fixtures have the capability to be color temperature controlled to a certain degree and can be used in the Hollywood film and tv industry as well as architectural applications. The daylight colors are as blue or bluer as you may need. On the warm side of the Kelvin scale these fixtures can be dialed to around 4500′-4700′ K. The rest of the color balancing of the light to make it produce 3200′ K is done with a half CTO gell. The lamps can be diffused with various included frames.
Hive was very cool about coming to our school studio and setting up one of their lamps for our class to experience. Shown in the photo below is a lamp called the WASP. Hive also shared sunglasses with our class as seen in the photo above.
Long Beach City College lighting class would like to extend a grateful ‘thank you’ to Hive Lighting for sharing with us. It is this extension of education and reaching out that brings our community together. There is also a level of industry maintenance, as these upcoming producers now have new knowledge and a friend in the business when it comes to questions about renting lights.
HIVE Lighting can be located and found at –
411 S. HEWITT ST | LOS ANGELES, CA 90013
INFO@HIVELIGHTING.COM
(310) 773-4362
