I'm sharing this even though it annoys me because that Livermore Light puts out like no illumination and never has, much like these fucking things that everybody hip now insists I must use: I have two close friends that are cinematographers. They care a lot about light. I damn near got into fisticuffs with them over the "evils" of LED streetlights because, you see, they really like that piss yellow look: Fuck you, Collateral. So now, because you can't buy regular Edison plugs, the whole world is busily buying fuckin' ancient carbon filament bulbs, and everyone is freaking out about ZOMG the poor light bulb and fuck you, lightbulb. This is easy. STOP BUYING EDISON PLUG BULBS. A lighbulb that screws in is automatically a shitty lightbulb. You're buying an electrical appliance designed to emulate a consumable. Get your fucking life out of those fucking bulbs. There's a goddamn revolution in lighting that the rest of the world is jumping the fuck on and we're here limping with our piss-yellow bulbs because we've got all these goddamn piece of shit legacy fixtures and here we are wringing our hands over the idea of the demise of the fucking lightbulb when you know what? That chandelier is going to be out of fashion long before it dies. And we're here talking about Philips Hue, which lets your phone control the color of your $60 lightbulb for those 20 minutes before you realize you've never needed to control your lightbulb color. See, the Asians don't care about brand name. Philips does. The cost difference between an LED lightbulb from Philips and the cost difference between the ones I buy off Amazon is all brand name, and it's about $6 per MR16. And I love Philips. They own (and have abandoned) nearly every groundbreaking display and illumination patent in the world. But if I can buy my Forever Bulbs for $2 ea instead of $8 ea I'ma do it. We now live in a world where "light" can be whatever you want it to be. And in that world, the discussion isn't obsolescence - the discussion is creativity. And I fucking love it.
“You can buy bulbs on eBay that are of such low quality that, when you screw them in, you can actually get a shock,” Hoelzenbein said. He’s heard reports from China of people buying bargain L.E.D. light bulbs by the kilogram, knowing some would last and others might not work at all.
