Laura and I are on the move this week! We spent the last week with Laura's mom and stepdad at their cool house in Durham, Ontario — there is something completely different about Canada when you get away from the city centers. Toronto is not representative of Ontario, or even Canada really — it's like [...]
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Good morning, world! I hope this finds you well, and I hope you woke up happy and healthy! I'm very humbly writing this post to reach out to our extended Reader Family — Fox and I make JimOnLight.com for a world readership of 193 of the 196 independent countries across Earth, and we've covered things [...]
Read More donate, help, thank youLet's Be Safer, At Least in the Entertainment Industry

Update: the image below is for free use, please download away and print to post in any place that you need to warn riggers to clip in. Right click here and choose "Save As" to grab the image. I was sitting on the couch yesterday with Laura, and I was writing some posts. I remember turning [...]
Read More arenas, Dean Williams, falling death, free download, jim's brain, safety, signage, TheatreRandom Light – A Trip to Durham, Ontario with My Camera and My Wife

Laura and I went to Durham, Ontario to see her mom and stepdad a few days ago, and it was cold and snowy — just what I've come to expect of Canada! The light was so overcast and diffuse because of the weather that it created some great conditions for capturing detail. Check out some [...]
Read More DSLR, Durham, JimOnLight, Laura Hutchison, Lightroom, Ontario, photoshop, Sony NEX-5N, thieves are dicksJim Hutchison Leaves CAST Software, Opens Lumen Buddha Studios – A Lighting Industries Think Tank and Design Studio

I have the most amazing news to share, and I've had to hold it in for the last month… Fortunately this isn't an April Fools' joke! After four years with my extended CAST Group family, I'm very excited to tell the world that I am leaving CAST Group as the Product Manager for the industry [...]
Read More Concert Production, Corporate Entertainment, dance, Light Art, Lumen Buddha Studios, Opera, Satore Studio, thank you, Theatre, Tupac MartirI'm Taking the Rest of Today Off to Get Married, Have An Awesome Day!

Today is the day I marry the most perfect woman for me in all of the world. I'm going to take the day off so that we can elope to Niagara Falls! I'll be back at it tomorrow, have an unbelievably awesome day!
Read MoreEl Molino Burlesque's Beautiful Video Facade — Barcelona, Spain

I was in Barcelona back in November of 2012; I posted some photos of that very busy trip, but I didn't really have time to go out and do some sightseeing because of the show schedule. There is one thing I did get though, I filmed it on the last night I was there. We [...]
Read More architainment, barcelona, burlesque, dancers, El Molino, Spain, Theatre, video wallAn X-Ray of My Broken Hand!

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 loveHappy Christmahanakwanzika from JimOnLight!

It's Christmas Day obviously, and I'm here in Toronto with my lady and our furbaby Roxy. Yeah, you know the one: We had plans to get home this year to introduce Laura and Roxy to the Hutchison family, but our travel plans fell through. But, like many other families on the road this year, [...]
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