Interactive light wall

In 2009 Philips presented Lumiblade®, an OLED installation, a luminescent wall that reacts directly to passers-by, creating mirrored reflections of their ‘shadows’ amid the light.
This installation is both functional and highly experiential, it invites to “play” with this new technology and experience it as much more than a light only: a softly glowing mirror, an interactive tool, a very aesthetic light source.

Clic here to see the OLED device patent by Philips.

Transparent and light transmitting concrete

The transparent concrete Litracon® is a combination of optical fibres and fine concrete.
It was developed by Hungarian architect Áron Losonczi since 2001 and it can be produced as prefabricated building blocks.

Clic here to view patent images.

Homesick light

静夜思 "Night Thoughts"
作者：李白 Author: Li Bai

床前明月光 A bed, I see a silver light,
疑是地上霜 I wonder if it's frost aground.
举头望明月 Looking up, I find the moon bright;
低头思故乡 Bowing, in homesickness I'm drowned.

"Night Thoughts" is a famous Chinese poetry by Li Bai.
The poetry talks about the emotion of homesickness: the light from the moon makes the author feeling lonely in a strange place.

A lightful ship billowing in the sky

Notre Dame du Haut: exterior and interior views

The Notre Dame du Haut in Ronchamp, France, is a pilgrimage chapel, designed by
Le Corbusier in 1954.
It stands, all in concrete, above the town on the top of a wooded hill, white and reflective, visible from miles away, with its aerodynamic tower, its “natural” shapes and wave-curved roof cutting into the sky beyond.
Above the plain altar, the east wall is punctuated by several pinhole-windows and by a single substantial window with the Madonna and Child in silhouette. In the interior, the spaces left between the wall and roof, as well as asymmetric light from the wall openings serve to further reinforce the sacral nature of the space and buttress the relationship of the building with its surroundings.

A war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness

"The Last Judgement" by Viktor Vasnetsov

The "War of the Sons of Light Against the Sons of Darkness" is a manual for military organization and strategy that was discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls (a collection of 972 documents, including texts from the Hebrew Bible). These scrolls contain an apocalyptic prophecy of a war between the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness.

The war is first described as an attack by the Sons of Light against those who violate the divine covenant. In the end, all of Darkness is to be destroyed and Light will live in peace for all eternity.

Stamps

A 2010 stamp showing a lightbulb

The theme of "light" occurres in postage stamps mainly related to lamps and light sources.

A strange thing called 'lightbulb'

In this scene from "Wall-E", a computer-animated film produced by Pixar Animation Studios, Wall-E shows to Eve his favourite things, especially a lightbulb. In her hand the lightbulb lights up.