I'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.PSLABI've been laid up with a back injury (yup: incurred in the theatre!) for the past few days and am not getting out much. And so this is the Mercy Street edition, because that's what happens to be on Pandora right now. Extremely cool rehearsal photos are from Mr. Gabriel's website. Light painting with the [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaHave you all heard about Glowcamp? 20 or so people have written telling me about this event in NYC. From the Glowcamp website: GlowCamp is a free one-day intensive exploration of light as an aesthetic material. We're sharing the ideas and technologies used to work with light, and we're inviting you to come speak about [...]
Read More Glowcamp, NYCI am kinda loving life. A lot. This last week, a new venture that I started with Amanda Lynne Ballard got its wings and took off – LX Injected. What does LX Injected do? We create large scale light art. We also aim to change the world through light. Toronto's Centre for Social Innovation just [...]
Read More Amanda Lynne Ballard Photography, Centre for Social Innovation, JimOnLight.com, Light Art, Lighting Design, LX Injected, party to end all parties, TorontoI'm in Toronto right now. Next week I'll be in Phoenix for a week long show run. The week after that? I have no idea. Let me check my calendar. So, for those of you who were at the Broadway Lighting Master Classes this year, sorry I missed you! I wasn't able to attend this [...]
Read More Amanda Lynne Ballard Photography, canada, JimOnLight.com, Light Art, lighting, LX Injected, TorontoAh, Andika! Your video really made me miss you guys, all of you! Please share a hug from me to everybody that was there, because this video warmed up my heart for the whole day. Thanks, brother! So, JimOnLight.com Community, this video below was taken by Andika Pradana (an amazing photographer/videographer who has lots of [...]
Read More Andika Pradana, Djurgården, industrial era, KTH, open air museum, Skansen, Stockholm, Sweden, zooYeah, I told you I had a metric ton of photos to put up for the party I went to with Rick Hutton on Monday. That was an amazing time – I wanna party like that again soon! BlissLight on the tree! All photography C/O Jim Hutchison and Light Associated Media, LLC
Read More Absolute Lighting, awesome, DFW, golf, InLight Gobos, parties, PGA, Rick Hutton, sushi girls