I just got a press release from Anne over at PRG about the Country Music Television Music Awards show, and Allen Branton's lighting design for the show – using my current favorite fixture, the BAD BOY from PRG. Check out the press release: PRG's Bad Boy goes country on the CMT Music Awards New Windsor, [...]
Read More Allen Branton, Anne Johnston, CMT, concert, Country Music Television, music awards, PRGI am proud to announce the two winners of the templates and templates, and the drafting and rendering supplies! Joshua Heerssen, (www.jrheerssen.com) you're the templates winner! Megan Reilly (meganreillydesign.com), you're the supplies winner! Plese send me your addresses via email – everything is packed up and waiting to get shipped! I have a ton more [...]
Read More FREE, free stuff, JimOnLight.com, winnersI'm now coming to you from DALLAS, TX – the place I call home after living in several places across the United States. My wife and I moved back here yesterday, and we're waiting to get into our apartment tomorrow morning. I keep cracking my wife up when I say "we're loading in tomorrow morning." [...]
Read More JimOnLight.com, Lighting Life, News, travelingI'm giving away more of the stuff I've had sitting in boxes – it's doing me no good anymore, and I'd rather just give it away to a reader who needs it! All you have to do to be entered is leave a comment below. That's it. Just leave a comment. But do it by [...]
Read More craft, drafting, hand drafting, JimOnLight.com, pencils, rendering, suppliesWell, today is going to be a light posting day, because I'm driving a truck with our belongings from Denver to Dallas. Dallas, here we come! However, as I'm doing my 14 hour drive in a bobtail truck governed at 65 MPH, I'm giving away some stuff that I don't use anymore to someone who [...]
Read More Field Template, gobo, hand drafting, light plot, lighting section, lighting template, Phil Monat, steel template, Steve ShelleyI want to extend my gratitude to a strong member of the High End/Barco team that is leaving to pursue other ventures – Debi Moen, a 15 year veteran at High End Systems as a Marketing Communications Specialist, is onward and upward. Thanks for always being so nice to me, Debi! From JimOnLight.com, good luck [...]
Read More BARCO, Debi Moen, departures, High End SystemsI've been finding a lot of interesting digital visuals lately, as I have a weird architectural lighting project in my head. One of the artists I've come across lately is Brazil's VJ Zaniz – his work has a very interesting quality – sometimes it feels very Cubist to me, other times slightly impressionist. Here's a [...]
Read More Brazil, video content, visualization, VJ Zaniz, vj.tvMy wife and I are moving to Dallas this weekend, and as I'm going through my stuff deciding on what to keep and what to not keep, I found a box of old swatchbooks. Check out this lighting history! I'm not sure when this one was published, but it's an old Rosco swatchbook. Love the [...]
Read More color filters, History, rosco, Roscolene, roscolux, swatchbooksDan at Creative Stage Lighting just sent me an article about the first-person shooter Left 4 Dead, and how the team approached lighting and the overall artistic feel of the game's graphics. It's a good article, read it here on the Left 4 Dead Blog. One specific example of the contrasts made in the article [...]
Read More art direction, gaming, gaming lighting, Left 4 DeadWhat? I just read an article about a dress that lights up when a cell call is received. Tennis pro Maria Sharapova recently unveiled the dress for reporters and other photographer-types in front of a store in London. Honestly, I have to say I'm relieved – I was hoping someone would solve this problem as [...]
Read More cell phone, fashion, Georgie Davies, Maria Sharapova, What?