Writing reviews of products is a hard thing. It is one of the hardest things about being a writer, contrary to popular opinion. It's no secret that I am a fan of the wysiwyg Lighting Design suite, I've been using it for years. Pretty much every show I've designed over the last five years has [...]
Read More Cast Software, Lighting Design, R25, visualization, WYSIWYGBio-luminescence in sea creatures is a phenomena that I have been interested in for some time – Mother Nature is an amazingly psychopathic mommy figure full of very interesting adaptations of human and animal behavior. Things like bio-luminescence, Circadian Rhythm, and the body's generation of Melatonin are all things that fall under this category. Mother Nature, you [...]
Read More bioluminescence, David Gallo, oceans, TED, TED Talks, underwaterThis video is amazing. I love love love this kind of architectural lighting – lots of people refer to this kind of work as "architainment." Frankly I like to just call it what it is, which is effing amazing. Check out this video, thanks to awesome JimOnLight.com reader Kevin Jamison: Projection on Buildings from NuFormer [...]
Read More architainment, effing awesome, NuFormer Digital Media, projectionsThat's right, you heard it here first! Those crazy cats at CAST Software (oh wait) have launched a blog to spread the good word of lighting among the populus. Help me do the "Welcome to the Internet, CAST Software Blog" wave and check out the blog!
Read More blog, Cast Software, lighting, Toronto, WYSIWYGIs that – no way – it's Heinrich Göbel! (Dude, who invited this guy?) Happy Birthday, Heinrich! He looks like the kind of guy who should be in movies with Emilio Estevez and Lou Diamond Phillips about the Old West. This guy though, Heinrich Göbel (April 20, 1818 – December 4, 1893), is significant in [...]
Read More Heinrich Göbel, Heinrich Goebel, incandescent lamp, inventorI made a new friend this week at NAB in Las Vegas after having three days to wax poetic about lighting and Phish with Jefferson Waful from Umphrey's McGee. You get to know somebody better over drinks, and after all, we were in Vegas. By the way, Patrick Woodruff's lighting installation at the Wynn is [...]
Read More concert, jambands, Jeff Waful, Lighting Design, lighting designers, Umphrey's McGeeI am sitting in the Vegas airport waiting for my flight to board, thinking of all the absolutely awesome times I had over the last 72 hours. The NAB Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center was a HIT for me – lots of people, lots of interviews, and tons of fun. A word to [...]
Read More Jefferson Waful, John Gates, Jon Griffin, NAB, National Association of Broadcasters, Ocean Thin FIlms, SeaChanger, TJ Gerckens, Umphrey's McGee, VegasWatch as they invade. Why? Because it's Friday, and I want to share some enjoyment with you all. Happy Friday! Make your weekend great. PIXELS by PATRICK JEAN. Uploaded by onemoreprod. – Arts and animation videos. Thanks, Amanda!
Read More Dailymotion, Patrick Jean, VideoI found this press release interesting, and now I've been trying to find out more information about the product. FujiFilm (yeah, that one) is working on a light diffusing film for LED sources – they're set to release some prototypes in the late summer/fall according to a few of my sources, but we'll see what [...]
Read More diffuser, film, FujiFilm, LED, LED newsHa haaa, pardon the wordplay there, sometimes I just cannot help myself. I just got word from my pal Ramsey at .PSLAB Beirut that the firm has just completed another concept project! PSLAB is one of my top five favorite lighting design firms on the planet – they're like my Chicago Blackhawks of the architectural [...]
Read More Architectural Lighting, Beirut, PSLAB, WORKS.PSLAB