The 2010 Gaff Dress Challenge!
Whoa. It's like three weeks away! I have to ask, where in the world did January and February 2010 go?! Wasn't it just Christmas? The last six days have been some of the busiest of the last few...
View ArticleJimOnLight.com and iSquint.net Announce USITT 2010 Kansas City's Evening...
So over the last several months we've been talking about that convention that's happening in Kansas City next week, and how @lekogirl and @a_mandolin are going to be going head-to-head in a Gaff Dress...
View ArticleWINNER of the 2010 Gaff Dress Challenge IS…
Have I kept you in suspense enough about the winner of the 2010 Gaff Dress Challenge, sponsored by BMI Supply and JimOnLight.com? This was a ridiculously amazing challenge. When we first started this...
View ArticleJimOnLight's Top 10 Posts of 2012
It is so much fun for me to see what people like to read on JimOnLight over the course of the year – or week, or month, or quarter, I am nuts about research! Check out the top 10 posts of last year –...
View ArticleVIDEO: Massive Stage Fire at Mumbai Political Rally
This weekend, a huge stage fire absolutely destroyed equipment, structure, and pretty much everything that it could consume, in Mumbai during a political rally. These videos are unreal – pay...
View ArticleSTOP Aiming Lasers at Pilots, Stupid Bastards!
PEOPLE! People. We have to talk. Over the weekend, there was an incident that caused a flight out of London to turn around because the pilot had experienced a laser beam in the eye from the ground...
View ArticleAre You Renting Avolites? Get On the Rental Partners Site!
Happy Tuesday, everybody! It’s been a crazy week so far and it’s only Tuesday — Grammy Awards last night, huge stage fire in Mumbai this past weekend, and the 2016 is just getting rolling. Here’s to...
View ArticleAnonymously, For Whom is Lighting Voting?
If you’ve been paying attention, you’d notice how polarizing this 2016 Presidential Race has been among our community. We’ve got IATSE saying they’re supporting Clinton, but a really large majority of...
View ArticleLIFE SKILL: Soldering Workshop, ENTTEC, #USITT2016
Happy Thursday friends and neighbors, I’m here in Salt Lake City for the 2016 USITT conference. If you’re here, and if you don’t know how to already — you need to sign up for ENTTEC’s free workshop...
View Article20% OFF ALL CATALOGUE GOBOS at InLight Gobos!
We here at JimOnLight.com are huge fans of the InLight Gobos brand of custom color optics work. Rick Hutton, the brain behind the processes and craftsmanship, makes the finest gobo glass on the...
View ArticleThe Feature Feature: Chauvet Pro’s RH1 Hybrid and its Dual Prism Set
I’m trying a new series here on JimOnLight where I talk about features that I have found exemplary in certain pieces of equipment, or fixtures, or whatnot. CHAUVET Professional’s ROGUE RH1 Hybrid gets...
View Article4Wall Acquires Shadowstone (Law and Order SVU Fans, Take Heed)
A little bit of industry inner workings business, 4Wall Lighting has acquired the team and gear for Shadowstone, Inc — a pretty major player in lighting production for film, TV, broadcast, lots of work...
View ArticleYou Need A Steve Shelley In Your Library
Obviously, if you work in lighting, you have read this book. Steve Shelley wrote a great text a while ago that has had three excellent revisions, called A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting. If you’ve...
View ArticleThis Week’s Gobo-A-Day from InLight Gobos
You know, there is one thing that I don’t believe that our industry can live without — gobos. It’s not practical to have a projector for every logo you want to project, and it’s not vyable to think...
View ArticleYEAH! Avolites’ Ai Media Servers Solely Distributed in America by Group One!
It’s official and awesome. Group One, the exclusive Avolites distributor in America, is now going to be distributing the Ai Media Server series of products for Avolites! This is thrilling and pretty...
View ArticlePLSN Hometown Heroes — Who’s YOUR Hero?
It is DEFINITELY that time again, folks! Time for the PLSN Hometown Heroes nominations! http://plsn.com/lighting-hometown-heroes-nominations.html From the Hometown Heroes nomination form website: Each...
View ArticleThings I’ve Learned in Lighting
Sometimes our lighting world feels like this — task lists and spreadsheets and travel schedules and light plots, oh my! I’ve been traveling a lot. A lot, a lot. I seem to never be able to keep up...
View ArticleChoreographed Meteor Showers. For Real.
Ok, meteor showers, on demand, from a satellite, developed by a company in Japan. Yes, I do believe it’s happening. A company out of a small office in Japan is putting together something that will...
View ArticleHow Lasers Actually Work
I’ve been digging lately, looking for the next thing to wow my photon brain… there’s been some LED developments and some other manufacturing-based tech dev that has been cool, but when you see...
View ArticlePhotographing High-Speed Water Droplet Impacts | JimOnLight
This sounds a little nutty if you’re just blowing by it in my Twitter feed, but this is actually pretty cool. Make Magazine (via Hacked Gadgets, which you need to check out) writer Ted Kinsman posted...
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