I was thumbing through The Guardian this afternoon, and I came across a series of photos taken by a photographer named Amy Weston. Before anything else, just look at these three photographs – the light is so intense, the story it tells is of horror: Holy sh*t, people. Those images are Amy Weston's experience [...]
Read More Amy Weston, criminal, Fourth Phase, London riots, photographers, photogs, riots, WESSI drove back from Arlington, Texas last night. Long story short, I left around 8pm last night, and I spent the entire three hour drive just completely enamored with the sky lighting up with huge bolts of lightning. I remembered seeing the Trinity test video, and so many other night-based explosions in movies; the sky last night [...]
Read More atmospheric lighting, electricity, JimOnLight.com, light, lightning, weatherI have really had the itch to create lately, and I have also been missing dance lighting, funny enough. Also funny enough, my friend Kat Dicken has ALSO had that same weird "I need to create" itch lately. We spent some time in a theatre recently, studying light and the body, and we've come up [...]
Read More A Study of Body and Light, art, dance, dance lighting, dancing, jim hutchison, Kathryn A. Dicken, Light Art, videographyIt's been a busy week, with another on the way. If you're in the midwest, how's this heat we've been getting toasted every day with doing for you? Yeah. I can't wait for winter. When winter gets here, I can't wait for summer. Humans. Check out some beautiful shots in this week's episode of the [...]
Read More JimOnLight.com Flickr Pool, Light and Photography, photogs, Sunday, Sunday Flickr PoolThis is what happens when you live on a planet that is currently in flames with summer heat, you forget the birthdays of famous dead lighting guys. A local pro performer here in town, Alissa Millar, who just rocked the living sh*t out of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire at the Civic Center Music [...]
Read More A Streetcar named Desire, actors, Alissa Millar, dead famous lighting guys, happy birthday, JimOnLight.com, William Kennedy Laurie DicksonFolks, I don't know if you remember Noah Craft, one of the eternal members of The Duluth Crew, who put out this video for the JimOnLight.com Fall 2010 Scholarship Contest: Noah is currently in the top ten for Philips' Light World Tour contest, and he's in ninth place. He needs our help! JimOnLight.com supports Noah Craft [...]
Read More contests, Light World Tour, Noah Craft, philipsHave you ever seen a bird burst into flames whilst gliding majestically through the air? Yeah. It's f***ing hot here in Oklahoma. I don't know how YOUR forecast is looking, but you'll need some Xanax when you see this one: Yeah. Okay, look – if you're not careful in this heat, you're going to get [...]
Read More 2011 heat, heat, heat exhaustion, heat stroke, hot weather tips, lighting in the summerOk, first – this is so effing cool that I am excited to try to DIY my own for those times when I'm out biking in the dark. My good buddy Erich Friend from Teqniqal Systems in the Dallas/Fort Worth area sent me the initial article about this thing below – Erich is a technology [...]
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