I was so excited to get a link today from my pal and Master Crafter Connie, the maker of the JimOnLight.com Puppet! Remember that little guy?! Totally not what this post is about, but CONNIE ROCKS! Check out the link that Connie sent – Lexan light art in the form of light sources shining though a [...]
Read More connie, Lexan, Light Art, mini-Jim, refractive indicesThere were a few birthdays over the weekend that I totally missed, and now I feel horrible! Oh wait, both of these people are dead. Hmm. Yeah. HEY, so HAPPY BELATED BIRTHDAY, Frank J. Sprague! Check out this proper lookin' military-turned-mucker dude! This is Frank J. Sprague and Rear Admiral S. S. Robinson (I told [...]
Read More edison, electricity, elevator, Frank J. Sprague, happy birthday, History, muckers, railway, Sprague Electric Railway and Motor CompanyWhoa! It's time for Mr. Culture's birthday – and here he comes, Mr. Culture himself, Francis Robbins Upton! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DUDE! (We're all sorry you're dead man, we'll have a drink in your honor. Sorry you didn't make it to 2011. I bet you'd be flipping your lid.) The title of "Culture," as he was [...]
Read More Edison's Muckers, Francis Robbins Upton, History, industry, muckers, ThomasSo, something exciting happened in the world of Astronomy and Astrophysics this last week – two groups of scientists and astronomers at CalTech discovered a mass supply of water in the form of water vapor, living at the center of a quasar called APM 08279+5255, about 12 billion light years away. That is a lot of [...]
Read More APM 08279+5255, astronomy, Astrophysics, CalTech, discoveries, electromagnetic spectrum, luminous body, quasar, quasars, space, sun, visible lightI'm writing from the very, very hot state of Oklahoma, in a city hotter than Hell itself, Oklahoma City. I think we're on our 30+th day of 100 degrees or above in a row. How awesome is that?! I went outside the other day, saw a guy burst into flames – and OKC is in [...]
Read More 2011 heat wave, CUE Conference, Electronic Theatre Controls, ETC, Lumen, Monday check-inI always thought that ray diagrams from old books about optics and reflectors were so fractally beautiful, which is why this post relates for me. What I mean is below, from an old text that I still use to explain reflectors: This is a story about a guy who had to overcome some pretty stupid [...]
Read More beauty, Crazy Friday Science, fractals, Jason Padgett, mathematics, savantWell, uh, I'm not going to make it to Secaucus to hang with Chris Conti and the PRG team tomorrow, as well as not getting to see U2. Do you know who we have to thank for this? Oh, he's cute alright. But I think that I adopted a ninja serial killer special forces kung [...]
Read More Chris Conti, JimOnLight, Lumen, ninja serial killer special forces kung fu master kitten, PRGI'm heading to Secaucus, New Jersey to hang with Chris Conti from PRG for the day on Wednesday, and then I'm leaving kinda late on Thursday. Anyone in the area wanna grab a beer, shoot the breeze? Drop me an email or get me through the contact form, let's hook up while I'm around the [...]
Read More Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, PRGHere at JimOnLight.com, sense is trying to be made of the current labyrinth (movie starring Jennifer Connolly and David Bowie) that is the Energy Independence and Safety Act (EISA). As we dig deeper and deeper into a piece of legislation that could actually do some good if it wasn't so heavily balanced on income, news of some [...]
Read More civil lighting, confusion, legislation, PART L, UK Building RegulationsTanya Vlach is looking for someone to help her invent a "bionic" eye that has a camera inside. Watch this: Tanya is looking for donors and engineers to help her create an experimental project featuring her prosthetic eye and a camera. It sucks that she had to experience such tragedy in order to have this [...]
Read More bionic vision, eye, Tanya Vlach, The Eye, vision technology