PART ONE: Christmas Light History Call them what you want – "holiday" lights, Kwanzaa lights, FSM celebration lights, or just plain Christmas lights – it's time to load-in your illuminated display and play "whose is bigger" with your neighbors. Every year about this time (and in many, many tacky cases, earlier) we put up lighting [...]
Read More C6, C9, Christmas Lights, Guides, JimOnLight.com, LED, xmas lightsI just found a video of a really kitchy and pretty funny xmas lighting display – I just wonder what the control systems for these crazy installs are! Do you think this is DIY, arduino controlled? Would it not be just wicked to hook a Hog III up to your house?! The music is pretty [...]
Read More arduino, Christmas, Christmas Lights, Hog III, LED, xmas lightsYes, that's a picture of a light-up turkey. No matter where you are – if you're out on the road with a show, stuck in a desert somewhere, or lucky enough to be with those you love this Turkey Day, I wish you the best darned Turkey Day that is humanly possible. Vegetarians, I'll eat [...]
Read More Happy Thanksgiving, sorry vegetarians, turkeyMore pictures from LDI 2009 – another booth I am always impressed with, the Coemar booth. Las Vegas' LDI 2008 Coemar booth was pretty sick, this one was just as awesome. Check it out!
Read More COemar, conference, LDI, LDI 2009, moving lights, OrlandoI met so many awesome people at LDI 2009 this year – it was certainly a year to remember, and my first Orlando show. I normally go to Vegas for LDI, but I am glad I was able to partake in the candy-coated goodness that came from this year's conference. Enough about me though – [...]
Read More feedback, JimOnLight Readers ROCK, JimOnLight.com, LDI, LDI 2009, OrlandoLET THE PICTURES BEGIN! I loved posting last year's LDI pics of the booths I photographed. It was like giving the people who couldn't go a chance to see what it was all about! Every LDI, I am always amazed by the sheer magnitude of Chauvet Lighting's booth. It's always massive, it's always a sunburst [...]
Read More 2009, booth, Chauvet Lighting, convention, corporate, LDI, LDI 2009I'm home from LDI 2009 in Orlando, Florida – my lovely wife Leia and my sister-in-law were with me on Saturday afternoon on the conference floor and at the LDI 2009 Tweet-Up that night. Friday and Saturday I walked around mostly with Justin of iSquint.net and generally had a blast. This was the year that [...]
Read More Daphne, gel swatch dress, jim on light, JOL, LDI, LDI 2009, leia, lekogirlJim's at LDI 2009 in Orlando today and tomorrow, taking in the show floor. If you're there, make sure to say hello! If you want to be sure to connect with Jim, he can be reached at (877) ALIVE-ME, by e-mail (use the Contact form), or on Twitter at @jimonlight. He's keeping an eye on [...]
Read More LDI, LDI09tweetup, LDI2009I love reading the analyses of what you all like to read – every time I want to write one of these top five posts, I am always, always surprised! November 2009's Top Five Posts, starting with the number 1 post for November: Robert Mokry and the BFL-192 LED Luminaire VLX: Inside the New LED [...]
Read More 2009, favorites, JimOnLight.com, November 2009, top fiveYes, it's the time of year when all electrical safety rules go flying out the window like a vegetarian running from Texas de Brazil. The same time of year, in fact, that people all over the world will be stringing up runs of lighting in LED, incandescent, and in some applications, even fluorescent christmas lights. [...]
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