It's been a crazy day of running around, trying to tie up some loose ends and get back on the road to Texas. I can't wait to take my Laura down to the heart of everything Entertainment Lighting! Today has something awesome, peaceful, fun, and animated for you to enjoy! Check out Discodeine's newest music [...]
Read More animation, CGI, digital, Discodeine, PLEIX, Video
On April 20, Aron Altmark Painted the Town of Birmingham, Alabama Red. It was good. From the videos I got from Aron, it was really good. Since the first post about Aron's IndieGogo funding campaign, I've been excited to post about what he did, and that it benefitted the American Red Cross, which is also [...]
Read More AK Photo, Alabama, Aron Altmark, Asher Krell, Birmingham, Laser Graffiti, Light Art, Paint the Town Red 2013
So Tupac and Kenji from Satore Studio finally posted what we were all waiting for on the content side of the world: THE MAKING OF THEIR PORTER VISUALS from ViveLatino 2013!!! From the Vimeo page, the bolding is mine: In March 2013, a well known indie band "PORTER" came back to play again after 5 [...]
Read More 2013, Fabiola Ruiz-Ortega, Kenji Ikenaga, Porter, Porter Vive Latino, Satore Studio, Tupac, Tupac Martir, Vive Latino
I found the coolest Daily Lamp for today, since it's Laura's birthday and she is my world. Check this out, when I saw this I had an audible "awesome" come out: These are the braingasm of Arik Levy, who's been on JimOnLight before with his WellofLife series. He's awesome. So are these lamps, which he [...]
Read More Arik Levy, awesome, Braingasm, fixture, Happy Birthday Laura, lamp, pendant, The Daily Lamp
There's this guy I know named Aron Altmark. You guys all know him too, I've featured him on JOL before. He's a lighting designer, programmer, light artist, and cool dude. Aron is doing a large Laser Graffiti installation to benefit the American Red Cross on April 20, 2013 in Birmingham, Alabama, and he needs our [...]
Read More American Red Cross, Aron Altmark, Benefit, industry players, Laser Graffiti
Once more, hell yes I am talking about MATH! [shut yo mouth] No, no, it's true, I am speaking of MATH. As in AWESOME math. As in TED TALKS MATH! You have to see these speeches and TED Talks on Math. You have to trust in me that these are not as boring as MATH [...]
Read More african, Arthur Benjamin, Benoit Mandelbrot, calculus, fractals, Ideas worth spreading, Math, Ron Eglash, Shaft, TED, TED Talks
X-Rays are awesome! You, the JimOnLight audience have had the horrid experience of fire and gore pleasure of seeing several images and video of the inside of my body (and not THAT kind of inside, GREG) during that absolutely awesome experience I had with shoulder surgery, MRIs, getting bruises from surgery turned into glass gobos, [...]
Read More broken hand, dumbass, hand, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight, x-ray, your nasty love
This is astronaut Don Pettit. Don's got a whole bunch of cameras on board the International Space Station, or at least he did on missions Expeditions 30 and Expedition 31 to the ISS. Don took a whole bunch of awesome photos that were turned into one cool time lapse video, but given a crazy Tron-like [...]
Read More Christoph Malin, Don Pettit, International Space Station, ISS, orbit, photography, space, star trails, Tron, vimeo
Sometimes people laugh and tease, "Daphne what have you NOT thought about lighting?" Well, I admit, I there is something… It never occurred to me I could be a concert lighting designer for Legos before. And having seen this video, I have no idea why not! Dylan Woodley, the 17-year-old creator of this video made a spectacular [...]
Read More animation, concert, foster the people, houdini, lego, music, music video, Video
I got an email a little while ago from Mitja Prelovšek who runs the lighting website Enlighter. (Sorry I haven't posted this yet Mitja, I'm in just released software land!) Enlighter did a project recently with interactive product called Light Act, which is pretty cool — imagine tracking a person as they walk past a [...]
Read More DALI, digital addressable lighting interface, DMX, Enlighter, interactive lighting, Light Act, Lighting Control, Mitja Prelovšek, Pulse Width Modulation, PWM