It's that time of year again, albeit maybe a little early… there are lots of Canadians who are already rocking the Christmas lights, and by rocking I do mean there are lots of strands of LED Christmas lights all over the place in Toronto. This is why it's ABOUT TIME to publish the JimOnLight Guide [...]
Read More Christmas Lights, Education, Guides, JimOnLight Guide, JimOnLight Guide to Christmas LightsPART FIVE: Christmas Lighting MATH It's that time of year again – time for hanging those crazy little mini incandescents, C-6's, and LED strands that you've added in (because they're the "newest, brightest colors" [!!!]), and you're digging out the cube taps and power strips. You're looking through drawers and cabinets for the little bags [...]
Read More christmas light math, JimOnLight.com Guide to Christmas Lights, lighting math, xmas lightsLiving 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, skylineFrom the Daily What comes this crazy Death Metal Christmas lighting video – the music is Slayer's "Raining Blood." I mean, of course it is, come on. This just goes to show you that Christmas lights add pizazz to songs other than Trans-Siberian Orchestra and Mannheim Steamroller, I guess.
Read More Christmas Lighting, Daily What, DEATH METAL, holy crap that's evilOh yes, it is THAT TIME AGAIN, my friends! It's time for the JimOnLight.com Guide to Christmas Lights! This is the time of year when people dig out the crazy plastic Santas with sled and reindeer, the Frosty the Snowman yard art, and go to town getting all Clark W. Griswold all over their houses! [...]
Read More Christmas, Christmas Lights, Holiday Lighting, JimOnLight.com Guide to Christmas LightsSuper company Siemens (they're the parent company of OSRAM) installed a ton of high-power LED modules onto a wind turbine located next to the A9 Autobahn highway at Christmas time. In conjunction with multimedia artist Michael Pendry, Siemens installed 9,000 OSRAM LEDs onto the blades of the wind turbine. You could see the installation (it [...]
Read More installations, Light Art, Michael Pendry, Munich, Siemens, wind turbinesYAY PRESENTS PIE CANDY STEAKS MY WIFE AND DOG AND CAT! I was unable to get home to see my parents this year for Christmas, so I hope you are all having a great Christmas Day with your families and significant others. Take this day to just… breathe. To all my new friends from my [...]
Read More brad peterson, JimOnLight.com, JimOnLight.com readers ROCK, merry christmasChristmas lighting is still in fashion, at least until the New Year, right? We always took ours down sometime after the first of January, so take that as a hint, all of you "leave them up until April" people! I saw an interesting post on CNN's iReport site about a family in Perth (Australia) that [...]
Read More Australia, Christmas Lights, LED, Messages On Hold, Perth, xmasYeah, oh my indeed. I think one of the hardest things to do is to buy gifts for people working in the lighting industry. I mean, it's like anything technical, really – if it isn't related to gaming, clothing, or nerdiness, then it's something like a $16,000 spectroscope or a $3,000 dollar oscilloscope. What? Who [...]
Read More christmas gifts, holy crap I forgot a present, last minute gifts, last minute shopping, oh no, uh ohAfter posting the article about Guitar Hero christmas lighting this morning, I was able to get ahold of the display's designer to ask him some questions about how and what he did to have such a great display. The designer's name is Ric, and he was gracious enough to answer some questions I had about [...]
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