Peeps, I have so much content from LightFair 2010 that I am now getting to for your visual excitement – show floor, product reviews, interviews, photography, and general awesomesauce that's up and coming in the next few days. Las Vegas provides SO much good content! Wait, is that an oxymoron? This afternoon I have an [...]
Read More 2010, architainment, Las Vegas, LightFair, Lighting Design, Patrick Woodroffe, WynnAfter that first post today, I had a bunch of images that Amanda Lynne had taken of the KÀ backstage tour, and the Fabulous Mister Fox put me in touch with some images from the technical rehearsal period of the show! It is absolutely outstanding to see these images with the consoles and monitors lighting [...]
Read More Cirque du Soleil, KÀ, Las Vegas, MGM GrandAh, 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 girlsI got invited to an amazing party on Monday night. A "local Dallas PGA golf celebrity" who shall remain nameless, Rick Hutton from InLight Gobos, and a bunch of awesome techs from Absolute Lighting in Dallas and I hung out until the wee hours of the morning, partying and hobnobbing with some really excellent people. [...]
Read More Absolute Lighting, awesome, DFW, golf, InLight Gobos, parties, PGA, Rick Hutton, sushi girlsLightFair 2010 – have you SEEN so many LEDs in your life?! I have to say I am having a TON of fun on the floor of LightFair 2010 – this is a conference I will be attending each year! I walked around yesterday on the floor, meeting people, getting hugs from people, and generally [...]
Read More Amanda Lynne Ballard Photography, conference, Cree LED, Ginny from Cree, Las Vegas, LightFair, LightFair 2010, OptiLED, SeaChangerSo, I have to apologize kinda for the really untimely content. I have about 15 videos and interviews from back in the end of 2009 and the beginning of 2010 that I never got to post because I had no time to edit. 2010 has been a miracle whirlwind of conventions, design gigs, life, and [...]
Read More Gaylord Texan, Harbin China, Harbin Ice Festival, Hotopp and Associates, ice, Michael KramerI'm finally getting to a week break of a long few months of production work and being on the road. We've all seen each other at USITT, I've been working on a few shows, and coming up in a week and a half I'll be in Las Vegas for LightFair 2010 and in NYC for [...]
Read More Alive Lighting, Broadway Lighting Master Classes, Lighting Design, USITTI am sitting in the Vegas airport waiting for my flight to board, thinking of all the absolutely awesome times I had over the last 72 hours. The NAB Show at the Las Vegas Convention Center was a HIT for me – lots of people, lots of interviews, and tons of fun. A word to [...]
Read More Jefferson Waful, John Gates, Jon Griffin, NAB, National Association of Broadcasters, Ocean Thin FIlms, SeaChanger, TJ Gerckens, Umphrey's McGee, VegasThe view from the hotel room in Kansas City – as far as midwest hotel scenes goes, not too bad! I'm back from USITT 2010. I had a very huge fun time, most of it with the great readers of JimOnLight.com. I'm constantly saying that JimOnLight.com readers ROCK, and this last week I was reminded [...]
Read More City Theatrical, Electronic Theatre Controls, ETC, Fred Foster, Kansas City, luxim, SeaChanger, USITT