Happy Halloween, everyone! I hope that you have a fun night of tricking, treating, trick-or-treating, and overindulgence of sugar. I'm going to a party dressed like a grease monkey, and my wife is going as me. Oh, we're a crazy pair. Have fun!
Read More fun, Happy Halloween!, holidays, ridiculanceI am interested in fine-tuning the posting schedule according to how people read JimOnLight.com – I've always posted most things starting around 6am central, and I spread things out as the day goes on. What time of day do you read JimOnLight.com? If you're an RSS feed reader, could you vote in the poll below? [...]
Read More JimOnLight.com, JimOnLight.com readers ROCK, poll, PollsYou didn't forget, did you? We have so many entries – the contest ends at midnight tonight for a signed copy of Greg Hillmar's book, Light Plot Deconstructed, about light plots and all of the wonderful things that are involved. As in all contests on JimOnLight, this one is just as easy – to be [...]
Read More Greg Hillmar, iSquint.net, JimOnLight.com, VectorworksHave you ever heard of the TED Talks? TED Talks are lectures from remarkable people in the world, and they're all free. The best thing about the TED talks is that not only are they free (like all helpful and inspiring ideas should be) but they are actually something that gives you insight into the [...]
Read More Beau Lotto, brain, eye, optics, TED Talks, The Eye, visual systemNow that I am back home and not in Sweden, I have been combing through some of the work that I did in my first few months at KTH. I took a lot of photographs of pretty much everything I could take photos of when I was in Sweden, and I got some interesting shots [...]
Read More Activiva, Education, experiments, high pressure sodium, incande, incandescent, KTH, light, materials testing, philips, photographyMy friend Carla sent me an interesting article about some work that Luke Jerram is doing. Luke is an artist and research fellow in the UK at the University of Southampton – he has an exhibit open right now, called "Plant Orchestra." The article chronicled a few of his works from a previous installation – [...]
Read More art, glass, Luke Jerram, microbiologyHey, you wanna see the inside of my eye? No, really. The inside of my eye. I'M SERIOUS! Check it out: That's the freaking inside of my right eye – you're looking at my right retina, optic nerve, macula, and fovea – and a ton of vessels in the background and foreground. Obviously by now [...]
Read More eye, fovea, macula, retina, The Eye(image from UnFair Park, the Dallas Observer blog) Ah, I love being back in Dallas, Texas. There are so many things going on in Dallas right now, from new construction, to art installations, to new construction with art installations implanted. As a lighting designer in the DFW Metro, I am extremely excited to see the [...]
Read More art, Dallas, jobs, Leni Schwendinger, light artists, Main Street Garden, Texas House Bill 2649, Thomas Balsley, Unfair Park, workI'm not sure how this slipped past me – but JimOnLight reader Jim Galvin (jimeg on Twitter) sent this great video he found on the Coachella festival this year back in April. The film is a time lapse film, captures some interesting light, and is directed by Ray Klein. Enjoy! Thanks, Jim!
Read More art, Coachella, Festivals, jimeg, rock shows, time lapseRemember all of that "hey, JimOnLight.com and iSquint.net are having a Tweet-Up at the LDI21009 Orlando Conference this year!" stuff? It's officially now official. If you're on Twitter and coming to the LDI 2009 Tweet-Up, go check out the official TwitVite! Let us know that you're coming or not, and see who else is coming [...]
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