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Meet the JimOnLight.com App for iPhone and Android!

Ladies and Gentlemen: Meet the new JimOnLight.com App for iPhone and Android! Finally – we’ve been working hard on this app, and by “we” I do mean David Fox, the Chief Web Strategist for...

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Barbizon’s Electrician’s Handbook App is Awesome

When I started out in this business, I was a lighting tech for a few years before getting on the bigger gigs as a designer.  I always, always had four things in my tool bag (other than tools) – a copy...

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Lighting Designer Jobs! Who’s Hungry? #LightingJobs #JOL

Time for Lighting Designer Jobs! I love posting these — think of it as motivation to make sure you’re taking the best care of yourself that you can.  Keep yourself up-to-date with what is going on in...

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What’s In YOUR Lighting Library?

Perhaps in the next ten years, we will see a big push towards marketing away from actual hands-on paper books.  Right now though, there are only a handful of things better than having a book in your...

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1992 – Soundgarden and High End Systems’ Laser Emulators

Sometimes it’s so awesome to remember where things come from.  I love High End Systems! Check out an original High End Systems product, the Laser Emulator, out on Soundgarden in 1992.  Pretty cool,...

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Is the LED Game Over? Did LEDs Win?

I found a great article from the IES Magazine’s LD+A — Don Peifer asks a simple question: Does the hype surrounding LEDs match the reality? Or put another way: Is the battle over and have LEDs already...

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A Menage-A-Trois of Pigment, Oil, and Video – Pacific Light

Clear your head, think of nothing but what you’re going to see. It’s a beautiful arrangement of color, motion, music, and just plain art. The piece is called Pacific Light; music by Boris Blank –...

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WTF – Wang Rong Rollin’s Video Might Smack You in the Hepatitis

Ready for something completely absolutely rock-and-roll insane?  WTF This might be the most ridiculous thing I have seen this year so far — and I have seen some fucked up shit this year! This is the...

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Do YOU Behave Like A Professional Lighting Designer?

Back for another month of Lighting Insights, the video series with teeth!  It’s really taken off, and it’s nice to see that our industry cares enough to learn more to make itself better.  I’m so glad...

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Electron Porn – The Sex Life of an Electron

It’s actually a long-time running joke in the Electronics industry, Richard Hart’s joke that has become slightly less than not-quite-famous, here in its entirety, for all of you dirty-minded fucks out...

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Joe Spira, Inventor of the Household Dimmer, Dies

Unfortunately, Joe Spira has passed.  Joe was the man behind Lutron, otherwise known as having a household dimmer in about every place you could imagine of their brand name.  We’re really sorry to hear...

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More Electron Joke Porn – Mini and Micro

I’ll just leave this here.  I bet you need it.  More electron joke porn for your weekend.  Are you a nerd?  Good, you’ll love this. Ready? Micro was a real-time operator and dedicated multi-user. His...

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A New DARK SKY PARK in Utah!

Too cool…  One of the best organizations I support, the International Dark Sky Association, just opened a new Dark Sky Park in Utah.  Check it out!  Why not join?  It’s pennies a month for an awesome...

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Dennis Quaid Going All “Dopey the Dick” On the Crew is Fake

For all of you out there who have been on set with a serious sack of douches, like we’ve all been at one point or another… as much as I like the guy, I’m glad to hear that Dennis Quaid going full-speed...

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Chauvet Celebrates 25 Years

I thought this was a pretty cool homage to my bosses for 25 years in the business…  one thing is certain, they’re very talented business folk with an acumen for innovation.  Check out a nice article on...

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I’m Going Home, Ten Years Later, WOODSTOCK

Are you familiar with the band Ten Years Later?  Funny enough, it’s been about eleventy years since Woodstock, and this English blues band is still kicking your ass. Since I’m wide the fuck awake and...

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From Chicago Blackhawks to Chicago Bulls in 3 Minutes

I found this incredible video of the transformation that happens between a Chicago Blackhawks ice hockey game and a Chicago Bulls basketball game — all on the same court.  Now we think we’re pretty...

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Face Melting ROCK and F*CKING ROLL – Rival Sons

It’s Afternoon Pick-Me-Up time!!! Are you ready to get your face melted off by some incredible power and vocals?!  I know I am.  I’ve been in a rock-and-fucking-roll-throw-the-TV-out-the-hotel-window...

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ALL ART HAS BEEN CONTEMPORARY

The work of excellent light artist (and general crazy madman of light) Maurizio Nannucci…  letting us know that ALL ART HAS BEEN CONTEMPORARY. Think about it.  Even the medium is perfect. Hat tip,...

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Chilean Volcano Video – Holy Volcanoballs

This might be the most beautiful footage I’ve seen this year — this is the Chilean volcano that just erupted.  Its name is Volcano Calbuco, which in this video is spanish for “Amazing Video of a...

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