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Philips, Strand, and Vari*Lite at LDI 2012

Posted by Jim - November 5, 2012 - Consoles, Conventions, Fixtures, Industrial, Industry News, Industry Professionals, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, Just Plain AWESOME., philips, Trade Shows
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Philips/Strand/Vari*Lite (so many names!) always has some serious presence over the last five or six trade shows I've done, from LDI to ProLight + Sound in Frankfurt. Their booth always looks wicked cool, and I'm always happy to post pictures of what my buddy Brad Schiller is coming up with nowadays. It's amazing to see [...]

Read More Automated Lighting, LDI 2012, lighting, moving lights, Phillips, Strand Lighting, trade shows, vari*lite

High End Systems at LDI 2012 – AND HOG 4!

Posted by Jim - October 29, 2012 - Consoles, Fixtures, High End Systems, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, Just Plain AWESOME., LDI 2012
the High End Systems booth at LDI 2012

psst… here's a little secret: click on a photo and it opens up enormous. I love High End Systems, this is always going to be true.  I am a Hog man through and through, no matter how many other desks I "become intimately familiar with," my good ol' Hog knows I always spec it at [...]

Read More Conventions, High End Systems, Hog 4, Intellaspot, Las Vegas, LDI, LDI 2012, Nevada, Road Hog, TrackSpot Bolt, trade shows, Whole Hog 2

MA Lighting's USB onPC Command Wing for grandMA2

Posted by Jim - December 19, 2011 - Consoles, Lighting Design, Lighting Technology

This was something that is just too perfectly timed not to catch my attention – I'm looking into using my wysiwyg Perform into a pre-visualization studio for myself (and perhaps others), and the two consoles I wanna run are the Road Hog Full Boar and the grandMA. Translation from Jim to English:  the two consoles I [...]

Read More console, GrandMA, grandMA2, MA Lighting, onPC, playback, Programming, USB

POLL: What's Your Lighting Control Surface of Choice?

Posted by Jim - March 3, 2011 - Consoles, JimOnLight.com, JimOnLight.com Community, Lighting Control, Lighting Design, Lighting Discussion

A conversation I had about programming "ambidexterity" and console choice the other day has been sticking in my mind like white on rice, a glass of milk, and a paper plate in a snowstorm.  I'm curious as to what the JimOnLight.com Community as a whole considers its favorite console or consoles. Please participate in this [...]

Read More Consoles, favorites, JimOnLight.com, Lighting Control, poll

PRG at LDI 2010

Posted by Jim - November 4, 2010 - Concert Production, Consoles, Conventions, Fixtures, Industrial, Industry News, Industry Professionals, InLight Gobos, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, Just Plain AWESOME., Lighting Design, PRG

I had a chance to get up-close and personal with the Bad Boy CMY at LDI 2010 this year, having the demo from Chris Conti with PRG.  I'm a big fan of the Bad Boy fixture, and I have been for quite some time – I posted about it from the last LDI, in Orlando [...]

Read More 2010, bad boy, Bad Boy CMY, Chris Conti, Fixtures, Las Vegas, LDI 2010, PRG, Qatar

Luminair 2.0 for iPad – Video Demo!

Posted by Jim - August 4, 2010 - Consoles, Industry News, Lighting Control, Lighting Design, Lighting Technology, Synthe FX

This is what happens when you have over 150 tabs open in Chrome – you skip over things unintentionally! Check this out – Synthe FX's Luminair app for iPad and iPhone, demoed in video: Luminair for iPad – multi-touch DMX lighting control – A Quick Preview from Synthe FX on Vimeo. I've done some interesting [...]

Read More digital, iPad, iphone, Lighting Control, Luminair, Synthe FX

Five Decades of Lighting – USITT 2010 Lighting Commission Special Exhibit – Consoles Edition

Posted by Jim - April 5, 2010 - Century Lighting, Consoles, Electronic Theatre Controls, Equipment, Fixtures, History, Industrial, JimOnLight.com, Just Plain AWESOME., Kliegl Bros, Lighting Control, Lighting Technology, Old to New, Strand Lighting

One of the more awesome things I saw this year at USITT was the Lighting Commission's exhibit on lighting equipment history – "Five Decades of Lighting."  Todd Proffitt (@tm204) and Josh Williamson (@joshwilliamson) were involved with this exhibit, and I think they did an outstanding freaking job of putting it together.  I'm sure I'm not [...]

Read More autotransformer, dimming, Josh Williamson, Kansas City, Lighting Control, lighting history, Todd Proffitt, USITT

iPhone Lighting Software: ZinmanCo's PocketLD and Synthe FX's Luminair v2

Posted by Jim - February 25, 2010 - Accessories, Consoles, Digital Light, Film and Television Production, Industry News, Industry Professionals, iPhone Software, Lighting Control, Lighting Design, mike zinman, Pioneers, Synthe FX, Technical Software, Television Lighting, WYSIWYG, Zinman Software

As far as iPhone software goes, "there's an app for that," right?  How about an app for MAKING ME A PIZZA RIGHT NOW AAAAAAAAAAAAAA! <deep breath> Okay, I feel better.  But seriously, there are tons of apps out there for every single thing you can imagine.  The other day I downloaded an app from the [...]

Read More Cast Software, iphone, iPhone Software, Luminair, Luminair v2, mike zinman, PocketLD, Ryan Hisey, WYSIWYG, Zinman Software

A Day in The Life of Jeff Waful, LD of Umphrey's McGee

Posted by Jim - January 20, 2010 - artists, Concert Production, Consoles, Designers, Just Plain AWESOME., Lighting Design, Lighting Life, on the road, touring

Talking to fellow lighting designers and seeing how they do things is one of my favorite parts of writing JimOnLight.com – just recently I had the absolute pleasure of having a nice long chat with Jeff Waful of Umprey's McGee, and this morning I awoke to an email from Jeff about a two-part video he's [...]

Read More A Day in the Life, concert lighting, GrandMA, Jeff Waful, lighting designer, Lighting Life, touring, Umphrey's McGee

The JimOnLight.com Podcast – Episode 4: An Interview with Jeff Waful of Umphrey's McGee

Posted by Jim - January 14, 2010 - Consoles, Fixtures, Industry Professionals, Interviews, JimOnLight.com, Lighting Design, Lighting Discussion, The JimOnLight.com Podcast, touring

Another episode of the JimOnLight.com podcast hits the airwaves! I was fortunate enough to interview Jeff Waful – a lighting designer who's been out with moe. and is currently lighting the excellent jam band, Umphrey's McGee.  I got to talk to Jeff right before New Years' Eve 2010 as he was programming Umphrey's New Years [...]

Read More concert, GrandMA, Jeff Waful, JimOnLight, lighting designers, mac III, moe., The JimOnLight.com Podcast, Umphrey's McGee
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