The Washington Opera’s production of Aida features the next wave in costuming: illuminated fabric! NPR’s All Things Considered featured the fiber optic fabric, called Luminex, on their show yesterday afternoon. Woven with fiber optic strands and with hidden microchips, battery, and light source, the fabric glows like an electroluminescent dream. Want to get noticed at the club? Try a Luminex tube top!
You may also like
A bumper crop of DVDs
There are three television shows that I have been dying to get on DVD, and by next spring, all three will finally have been released — after interminable waits and amid clamoring from fans, we’ll soon see: [more...]
November 2, 2006
Cracking film
I don’t often laugh outloud, especially if I am watching a movie by myself. But I kept waking up the dog with my laughter last night when I watched “Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.” [more...]
April 1, 2006
Where it happened
Mark Bennett has a new show here in DC of his art – meticulously drawn floorplans of familiar places from American pop culture entertainment. His previous show at the Corcoran, which I was drawn to because of my [more...]
April 29, 2003
