One of my favorite lighting design firms, .PSLAB out of Beirut (and Stuttgart now too!), had an excellent installation last month in Berlin that needs some attention! .PSLAB has had lots of projects covered here on JimOnLight.com, frankly because they have a lot of awesome projects! This new one is no exception. It debuted in [...]
Read More artists, Designers, Germany, PSLAB, Qubique, StreetlightsThis has to be said – if you want to visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the best time to get the best experience is after the Sun sets. For almost 1.25 years now I have lived directly across the street from the Oklahoma City National Memorial – the site of the Murrah Building bombing [...]
Read More architainment, dead bad guys, exterior lighting, monument lighting, Murrah Building, National Monuments, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City National Memorial, Timothy McVeighI'm starting a new segment here on JimOnLight.com called "That's A Light Shame." What this segment will focus on is shameful lighting situations all over the world, from safety to aesthetic, from art fails to general all-around epic fails. I have found something that needs some shame shame shame finger pointing, perhaps because of its [...]
Read More bad lighting, District Court, exterior lighting, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, That's A Light Shame, United States CourthouseHere 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 RegulationsThis thing is pretty cool – meet the SausLamp from OFIS Arhitekti, a design firm based in Slovenia. I feel ridiculous, but I had to go look up where that is! SausLamp is a project that is being implemented into another of OFIS' projects – a student housing project in Paris: SausLamp is a design [...]
Read More design firms, luminaires, OFIS Arhitekti, Paris, sauslampI have a very interesting view from my apartment. As you can imagine, since I'm typically only home after the sun goes down to appreciate it, I spend a lot of time gazing at the city, Oklahoma City. I have a great view of most of downtown from my 13th floor city view condo, and [...]
Read More architects, Architectural Lighting Design, exterior lighting, lighting, maintenanceI'm trying not to be a big fat ass this year. I've been pretty successful so far, I've lost a few pounds a week. The one thing I've tried hard to do is to stop eating fast food, and instead spend that money on the nicer restaurants around the world. I'm a lighting nerd, OBVIOUSLY, [...]
Read More Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Rand Elliott, RED Prime Steak, restaurant lighting, steakLiving in a condo tower downtown has its privvies, I guess. I'm not really much of a downtown dweller, at least lately, but I seem to leave home and return home these days when the sun is still a snooze slap away from waking up. I certainly take a lot of pictures of the [...]
Read More Architectural Lighting, city view, downtown, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, skylineGood morning, everybody! I woke up this morning before the sun's alarm went off, and the lights of the city were still gleaming beautifully. It put me in such an amazing mood. I hope that I can pass some of this great mood onto you all this morning! Here's a start – check out this [...]
Read More architainment, Data-Live, macula, mapping, Prague, projections, Tomato ProductionWow, good morning world. I have to apologize for the last week of relative dead space – I put in about 90 hours last week and toured my design of The Light in the Piazza to a theatre in Arkansas. It's been a crazy week! But to welcome the little bit of sanity I am [...]
Read More Architectural Lighting, Beirut, PSLAB, WORKS.PSLAB