That's right. It's not even open yet, but we're all here feeling our absolute best and waiting for it to start. I'm still a bit amazed that Sally Struthers is the keynote for USITT's 50th Anniversary show – mostly for relevance's sake and all – but I didn't come all the way up here for [...]
Read More gaffdresschallenge, JimOnLight.com, Kansas City, relevance, sally struthers, USITTLive Design Online is hosting the 2010 Live Design Excellence Awards, as in previous years. The award governs a selection of genres of individual design, and voters have been given an array of projects on which to vote. The Live Design Online website has information on each of these projects – check them out before [...]
Read More Excellence Awards, Excellence Awards 2010, Live Design Magazine, live design onlineThis is not my typical Monday morning post type, but I cannot not share this article. I just read a great article on Luminaire Efficiency by the awesome Craig Dilouie from the LightNOW Blog. If you have any doubts on this subject, you should definitely read this article. For those of you who don't actually [...]
Read More Craig Dilouie, LightNOW blog, Luminaire EfficiencyWait, that post title doesn't sound dirty, right? Check out a few of the images that great folks have put up in the JimOnLight.com Flickr Group – you are all some great light lovers! Thanks for being a part of the group! Tell a friend! Thanks everybody! Great shots!
Read More Flickr, JimOnLight Flickr Pool, JimOnLight.com readers ROCK, Sunday Flickr PoolI quite enjoy putting all of these solar news stories together. Is it too cheesy that Sunday and Solar start with "s," and that they're kind of related? Who cares about cheesy. Onto the stories! Cree LEDs Light Up Dallas American Airlines Center Video Screens (press release from Cree) 10 First Solar Deals in the [...]
Read More Solar, solar news, sun, Sunday, Sunday SolarSeriously! Shut that stuff off and go play in the dark for an hour! Earth Hour starts at 8pm your time – meaning your time zone. at 8pm, shut off anything drawing power in your house or apartment and just give the grid a break for an hour. Last year my wife and I made [...]
Read More consciousness, Earth Hour 2009, Earth Hour 2010, LED, Light Art, SustainabilityPhish, as you all know, is loved by JimOnLight.com. So when I see something that says "Phish to Debut 3D Movie in April 2010," I zheet my drawers. So hey – did you all hear that Phish is doing a 3D movie of their Festival 8 show in Indio, CA from October? Check out a [...]
Read More chris kuroda, concert lighting, lighting, phishSo 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 Challenge at the BMI Supply booth (which is booth 1010, by the way). Even though apparently none of the lighting bloggers [...]
Read More #KCGaffCrawl, 2010 Gaff Dress Challenge, Conventions, gaffdresschallenge, iSquint, JimOnLight.com readers ROCK, PARTY, USITT 2010Like I promised, this post is a tribute to some of the Vectorial Elevation designs that were produced live in Vancouver, Canada over the last few months. The Vectorial Elevation interface is still alive and kicking, so go create your design and post a link to your work in the comments! Virtualizations are on the [...]
Read More interactive light, lighting installation, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Vancouver, Vectorial ElevationI love to meet people from across the globe who do what we do – fellow lighting professionals and lighting industry people. Something that I also enjoy is languages and how people pronounce common words. One of these words is the acronym for light emitting diode, or LED. People say this a lot of different [...]
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