For all of you out there across the world, working and not spending time with your family, friends, and loved ones… …this one is for you. Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and all my best to you all! Much love and light, Jim
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Archive: 2010
BMW's Flash Image Ad – A Hit? A Miss? Subliminal?
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Innovation, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Advertising
In Germany a few weeks ago, BMW tried something pretty interesting – a quick flash image in a commercial that leaves a ghosted after-image of the company's logo in the viewer's eyes. Check out the video first: What they did to achieve this effect was to place a very powerful flash generator, the ProFoto Pro-7-B, [...]
Read More BMW, flash ad, ProFoto, retinal advertisingDid You See the Lunar Eclipse?
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Celestial Lighting, photographers
That's right, we had a lunar eclipse last night! Most news organizations were touting the eclipse, since it's the only one we've had since Galileo Galilei was actually in JAIL for claiming the world was round! Ah, the intelligence of the ignorant. So anywho – check out some images of the eclipse – it was [...]
Read More lunar eclipse, lunar eclipse 2010, the world is roundGinny from Cree Gets Her CFL Spielberg On
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cfl, Cree, Fluorescent Technology, Lamps and Sources, LEDs, Lighting and Safety
I just got ahold of this video from my favorite LED Social Media Guru, Ginny from Cree. You have to take a few minutes and learn what happens when Grandma drops and breaks a CFL! Check out the original post at Cree's Blog. Thanks, Ginny! You rock!
Read More cfl, CFL cleanup, CFL safety, Cree, Ginny from Cree, what to do when you break a CFLHappy Birthday, Sir Humphry Davy!
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electricity, happy birthday, History, Industry Professionals, Innovation, Old to New
This is the freaking BIRTHDAY DAY, apparently! Look who just wandered up – SIR HUMPHRY DAVY! Check out that coiff – HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sir Humphry Davy (17 December 1778 – 29 May 1829)! Sir Humphry Davy was one cool customer – and a smart dude who really revolutionized the way we think about chemistry and [...]
Read More happy birthday, Michael Faraday, Sir Humphry Davy, voltaic pileHappy Birthday, Arthur E. Kennelly!
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electricity, happy birthday, History, Innovation, Old to New
WHOA! Is that — is that Arthur E. Kennelly?! DUDE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Arthur E. Kennelly (17 December 1861-18 June 1939)! What a crazy mustache, mandingo! Arthur E. Kennelly was a self-taught physicist, which is pretty awesome among itself. Art started off his career as an office boy for the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEEE) when [...]
Read More Arthur E. Kennelly, edison, electrical theory, electricity, IEEE, Institute of Electrical Engineers, Thomas A. EdisonJefferson Waful – Lighting Designer, Funny Man, and HEY THEY'RE PLAYING STEVE MILLER?!
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artists, Concert Production, Just Plain AWESOME., live design
A guy who I've gotten to know a bit and seen him work hands-on with the music – Jeff Waful. You knows know Jeff as the lighting designer for Umphrey's McGee, and he's been tearing faces off with his light artistry for the last while now. I just got a tip that Jeff did some [...]
Read More Jefferson Waful, lighting designers, Umphrey's McGee, Video, Warren Haynes, Warren Haynes Christmas JamI Have No Idea Where I Found This, But It is Awesome.
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Animations, Video
Holy crap. Have you got a few minutes to watch this video? Do you have some speakers or headphones you can turn on to hear the music associated with the video? Ok, GO: Crazy! About the video: In Pissenlit, the materials repeatedly self-duplicate, reintegrate and rearrange. These replications, stemming from the original, undergo continuous transformation [...]
Read More animations, Kouhei Nakama, Pissenlit, Tsutomu MiyajimaCree's LMR-4 Modular LED
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Cree, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, Just Plain AWESOME., Lamps and Sources, LEDs, Lighting and the Environment
I have been so busy and accumulated so much content lately that I find myself playing catch up with some pretty great footage and images! One such bunch of stuff is from LightFair 2010 in Las Vegas. Tom Roberts gave me a pretty great introduction to Cree's LMR-4 modular LED product. I finally got the [...]
Read More Cree, LED, light source, LightFair, LightFair 2010, LMR-4, modularBen Slayter's Flaming Lips Opener Video from Bonnaroo 2010
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Concert Production, Just Plain AWESOME.
Have you ever seen the Flaming Lips in concert? If you have, then you certainly know what kind of an experience it's going to be – it's pretty much indescribably awesome. If you were to take a hug and flying rainbow unicorns and cotton candy and "the brown acid" and the original Willy Wonka and [...]
Read More Ben Slayter, Bonnaroo, Bonnaroo 2010, Matisyahu, Slayter Creative, The Flaming Lips, Video