TV2ART Lightascope is proud to be carried by the Kenneth Wingard store on Market St. in San Francisco.  Purveyor of fine household furnishings, tres chic objets d’art & elegant accessories, Wingard is also known as the designer of his own eclectic collections.

 

Ken and his wonderful staff hosted TV2ART for its first major party in late March.  Over two hundred fifty guests including local celebrities, members of the press and industry insiders packed the cozy space during the course of the evening to view Goldstein & Kapellas’ plasma TV art installations. Lightascopes were strategically arranged throughout the Wingard store creating magic windows. The TV art covers glistened and danced encouraging people from outside the large picture window of the store to join the party. Flat panel art is becoming the easiest way to add chic to a domestic entertainment space. Want to draw your guests in like moths to a flame? We have one word for you: LIGHTASCOPE!

 The official launch of TV2ART and the Lightascope was at this year’s Consumer Electrtonics Show at The Sands in Las Vegas.  Although the category of plasma TV art had broadened in recent years as the flat panel became more prominent, Lightascope was poised to present something entirely new to the industry- AND IT DID! Syndicated CE talk show host Dave Graveline gave Lightascope one of his highly coveted spots as a TOP TEN NEW PRODUCT OF CES. TV2ART and nine other lucky companies won out over 2700 other international exhibitors.

 

Legendary SF performer Loree Lee Harper embodies The TV2ART Fairy at the 2007 CES in Vegas

Reporter Rob Almanza interviews Daniel Goldstein & John Kapellas for International CE Radio/Web Show INTO TOMORROW with DAVE GRAVELINE.

Dave’s review: “Using a flat-panel TV, you can create a work of art that is always changing. You decide what you want playing in the background - movies, music videos, family videos, commercials - and play your music as well. Choose from three different Lightascopes which attach to your TV frame with micro-suction tape. TV2ART screens will not harm your TV. They detach easily and can be safely stored in their own artist’s portfolio.”

Whether your looking for a flat panel TV cover or simply LCD TV art, Lightascope is the answer!

TV2ART Serves Up Colorful Palette to Place Over Plasmas 

TV2ART’s Lightascope products create a dazzling rainbow to use as art when you want to hide your flat-panel TV | April 17, 2007 | by Arlen Schweiger

For anyone who’s wanted to experience something close to that Laser Floyd show you saw at the planetarium back in college, or for anyone who just wants something really cool and colorful to look at instead of a blank plasma screen, TV2ART’s Lightascope products might be the thing for you.

TV2ART’s products are silkscreen prints on vinyl that you attach to your TV. They sample light and color from the TV while it is on, and work while it is off as well. Colors dazzle on the screen in three styles: Rollercoaster, Leonardo’s Flood and Morpheus.

The screens are available for TVs in sizes of 32 (small), 42 (medium) and 50 inches (large). All three screens are available in the medium size, Rollercoaster is available in all three sizes, and Leonardo in medium and large. Pricing is $99, $149 and $199 for the three sizes, respectively, and a package of all three designs (available in medium size) runs $399.

Go to www.tv2art.com to check out the designs, as well as piece together a screen, video clip and audio track for a virtual test run of what it can look like on your own flat-panel TV.

Article link: http://www.electronichouse.com/article/tv2art_serves_up_colorful_palette_to_place_over_plasmas

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LIGHTASCOPE AS PROTECTIVE FLAT PANEL TV COVER

Dust, pollen, fingerprints and enthusiasic kids are all concerns for flat panel TV owners.  Lightscopes are a marvelous, cost-effective way to protect the delicate LCD or Plasma screen from imjury.

Plasma TV art products that beautify as well as protect are rare. Those currently on the market are expensive and often require a professional to install them. With many people opting for a sparser, more clean look in their interior spaces, a TV art cover that is lightweight, installs in seconds and doesn’t cost a fortune is a real boon.  

Lightascopes uniquely combine the attributes of flat panel art and protective TV art cover.  Existing plasma TV art can be placed in three catagories: DVD’s/downloads, canvases on rollers or retracting mechanisms and mirrors that become transparent allow TV vieiwng.  Protective covers for monitors and flat panels are becoming more common as consumers realize that the screen rapidly collects dust, pollen and fingerprints. In households with young children screens also stand the risk of being scratched, chipped or damaged if they’re in proximity to the kid’s activities. Lightascope combines the best attributes of flat panel art and protective cover.

LIGHTASCOPE AS INTERACTIVE FLAT PANEL ART

Lightascopes are interactive in that the viewer’s choices of design, programming, room lighting and music have a direct impact on the experience. Since Lightascopes sample the color and light from the flat panel the type of programming on the TV effects what kinds of patterns the viewers see.

One of founders favorite experiments is to rent a film, watch it one time through and then watch it again under one of the Lightascopes. “It makes you completely aware of the film-maker’s art.” says CEO Daniel Goldstein. “The forms and light patterns are abstracted and come into view in a way they don’t when you are embroiled in the narrative.”

Human brains seek patterns! We all know this. We’ve been superimposing our ideas of order on the natural world since we showed up. Constellations and maps are good examples.  In the case of Lightascope, the viewer’s mind will begin to create connections between the various patterns of colored light and whatever music the viewer has chosen. Try this: choose three distinct types of music and play them each for five minutes with a certain portion of your favorite DVD while Lightascope is on you flat panel. You’ll be amazed at the seeming connections between the dancing light and the music. 

TV2ART is thrilled to be working with Infinite, a Las Vegas & Miami based sound & light company. Infinity is responsible for the sonic and photic atmosphere of Las Vegas clubs Moon, Rain and Ghostbar as well as Pacha, made legendary in Ibiza and now Manhattan’s hottest lounge.

TV2ART is looking foward to being introduced to nightclubs and lounges around the world. We believe that Lightascopes provide both flat panel art and TV art cover solutions like no other product currently available. Stay tuned for the latest updates on what’s happening with us as we explore the exciting world of night-life design and innovation and the full range of possibilites of plasma TV art by TV2ART.

Each TV2ART Lightascope has a story behind it. Over the last few years Daniel Goldstein and John Kapellas have drawn on a wealth of visual knowledge to create flat panel TV art that is diverse in style and form. We talk about the inspiration behind the first three designs in this posting.

Leonardo’s Flood: Inspired by DaVinci’s drawings of the Deluge. 

      

The Renaissance master was fascinated by the dynamics of motion, change and natural force.

 

Morpheus: Inspired by the states of sleep & dreaming. Morpheus was the Greco-Roman god of dreams.

“Night and Sleep” by  Evelyn de Morgan. 

“Sleep and his Half Brother Death” by John William Waterhouse

One recent TV2ART customer made reference to the fact that Morpheus reminded him of the double slit screen experiment from early 20th century physics. Of course in that case the slits are only a few nano-meters apart! But we got excited about the allusion!

Rollercoaster: Inspired by the king of amusemant park rides. The first roller coasters were a special kind of sled run made for the amusement of aristocrats in 18th century Russia.

Daniel Goldstein spent a lot of time in Santa Cruz while finishing his undergrad in fine art. The Big Dipper overlooking the boardwalk was a favorite destination for the young artist.

TV2ART is proud to bring such beautiful examples of flat panel TV art to the public.  The simplest forms drawn from nature, and the artistic temperament responding to nature, are the reason widescreen TV art by Goldstein & Kapellas can enhance any environment. The design is simple and remarkably eclectic.

Watch Daniel Goldstein demonstrate how Lightascope acts as both a flat panel TV cover and the newest kind of LCD art.

We went to the Mission section of San Francisco today and met with Daniel Goldstein at his artist studio/home to see TV2ART. To be honest we weren’t quite sure what to expect, we’d seen a few TV screen art projects and it appeared this was simply another. The difference a live demo will make. It was fascinating. There are three versions of the screen, each one of them with a unique pattern.”

Lightascope is widescreen TV art that captures and transforms the flat panels own color.

(left to right) John Kapellas (TV2ART President), Sally Kuchar (Mocoloco correspondant, fashionista and all around style maven), Daniel Goldstein (TV2ART CEO), Harry Wakefield (Mocoloco founder and design champion)

TV2ART Lightascopes are instruments for seeing light in a new way! Because they are filters for programming that is always changing, the patterns they produce are only duplicated if the programming is duplicated.  One work of art that can be constantly renewed is what sets the Lightascope apart from other kinds of LCD art. Most flat panel art pieces are simply DVDs or downloads (a la the old Yule Log Channel of yesteryear). While we certainly appreciate these and even create them (each Lightascope comes with a sampler DVD to show what Lightascope can do with the right programming behind it), we want to be certain people understand the differences. TV2ART gives viewers widescreen TV art experiences that are interactive and the choices the viewer makes (the lighting in the room, the programming on the TV and the music being played) has a specific and unique effect. Lightascope is always unique! Always.

 

The jewel toned light of LCD TV and Plasma TV technology are what feeds the Lightascope. Those of us who’ve been living with this product for the last few years understand that to really “get it” you have to see it in person. Although digital video has captured some of Lightascopes’ BLOOM- the subtle liquid quality made by all the slits, dots or loops can only be captured in real-time by the human eye. 

Samples of our flat panel art Lightascopes: Morpheus (top) Leonardo’s Flood (bottom)