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...
View ArticleBarbizon’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...
View ArticleLighting 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...
View ArticleWhat’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...
View Article1992 – 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,...
View ArticleIs 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...
View ArticleA 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 –...
View ArticleWTF – 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...
View ArticleDo 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...
View ArticleElectron 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...
View ArticleJoe 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...
View ArticleMore 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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleDennis 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...
View ArticleChauvet 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...
View ArticleI’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...
View ArticleFrom 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...
View ArticleFace 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...
View ArticleALL 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,...
View ArticleChilean 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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