The Heartbeat of a Sun-Like Star in Infancy

Posted by Jim - July 27, 2012 - Amazing Visuals, Astrophysics, Celestial Lighting, Luminous Phenomena, Particle and Quantum Physics, x-ray

SUPER NERD ALERT! ASTROPHYSICS INCOMING! This is so beautiful — you're looking at what appears to be the "heartbeat" of a protostar, which is a sun-like star that forms out of a giant interstellar cloud full of molecular hydrogen and dust. Most of these clouds are found within the interstellar medium, which is best explained [...]

Nieuwe Heren's Aegis Parka Warns You about Pollution with Light

Posted by Jim - July 27, 2012 - Environmentally Friendly Design, Fashion and Wedding Lighting, Innovation, LEDs, Lighting and Clothing, Lighting and the Environment, Lighting and the Human Element

Dutch designers Nieuwe Heren make another appearance on JimOnLight.com! You might remember them from their very cool Deconstructed Floodlight about a year ago. Meet the Aegis Parka — a jacket that lights up to warn you about polluted areas in real time. It reminds me of the movie Cherry 2000 and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome [...]

Acting Green vs. Buying Green [Infographic]

Posted by Jim - July 27, 2012 - green, Lighting and the Environment, Sustainability

I saw this great infographic over at Inhabitat, from a cool website called eLocal — the idea behind it is the idea of the difference between buying green and acting green. It's pretty clever, check it out! After all of this time, I still kinda cringe that we call it "green." I feel like the [...]

The Bay Lights

Posted by Daphne - July 25, 2012 - Architectural Lighting, from the lips of LEKOGIRL, Lighting Art and Installations

Wow! The Bay Lights proposal is one of the coolest urban public lighting proposals I've seen in a while. The San Francisco Bay Bridge is a massive canvas, and an unparalleled location for a lighting playground. Numerous cities have treated their bridges with light, but for some reason, this particular proposal just glows: The Bay [...]

Rrrrrrrroll, with Eight "R's"

Posted by Jim - July 25, 2012 - artists, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Photography, Lighting and the Human Element, photographers

Call me crazy, but I adore art like this below. Tumblr users Rrrrrrrroll have created a series of GIFs that feature a woman spinning around in a series of environments. There's really not much to say about this work, you have to just see it. Even the creators were quoted as saying "We don't really [...]

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What Exactly are Eye Floaters?

Posted by Jim - July 24, 2012 - Light and Nature, Lighting and Human Physiology, Lighting and the Human Element, The Eye

"I'll look over there!" "I'll move over HERE!" "You got an answer for everything." So. Have you ever been looking at a book, the sky, or anything really, and seen what most people call "eye floaters?" You know, the really weird almost chromosome-looking things that seem to just effortlessly and painlessly dance across our vision [...]

Sunday JimOnLight Flickr Group Photo Pool

Posted by Jim - July 22, 2012 - JimOnLight.com Flickr Group, photographers

Pardon the little extended vacation there folks — me and the boys at CAST Software just put out Vivien 2012, and wysiwyg R29 is shortly to arrive. Holy shit is it a lot of work making software. I also headed down to Nashville last week for the PLASA Focus Nashville show, which rocked! I had [...]

A Ghouly Monday Morning, Thanks to Harold Feinstein

Posted by Jim - July 9, 2012 - Amazing Visuals, artists, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Photography

This is some pretty awesome imagery – ready? WTF! Ok, that was outstanding for me, I hope it was good for you. It is Monday morning, after all! This is the work of Harold Feinstein, photographer of life and master of light. Harold is known for some of his Coney Island photography, but in my [...]