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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You know, this last trip to Las Vegas for LDI 2012 makes 77 times to Las Vegas since I started going there in 2003 for shows. Maybe that's not a lot of Las Vegas for you, but that is a lot of Las Vegas for me. A lot. I always seem to forget to go [...]
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I just sorted through eleven thousand photos from the last few months. I'm finally getting time to plow through the enormous backlog of content I have to share with you! I noticed that I had so many photos of traveling — nothing really terribly focused, but just so much traveling. SO. MUCH. TRAVELING. I was [...]
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Now that I'm back in North America AND I am all but caught up with sleep, I want to share some of my photos from the fun that was PLASA 2012 at Earl's Court, right off the Earl's Court tube stop and only a moment's tube ride from a great Indian restaurant that really ended [...]
Read More jet lag, Lighting Life, london, photos, PLASA, PLASA 2012, trade showEver go through one of those phases where you've had so much coffee on a regular schedule where you actually have the sh-shhhakes?! I'm having one of those times right now. I'm getting wysiwyg and Vivien ready for NAB 2012, managing and coordinating the site load-in, living in an empty apartment until April 20, trying [...]
Read More addiction, coffee, iPhone app, JimOnLight, JimOnLight TV, NAB, PLASA, PLASA FocusHappy Thursday, everybody! Sorry for not posting yesterday, I have gotten a wicked case of Strep throat. I'm glad I was able to finally find a Canadian clinic that would treat me after going to three (regardless of the fact that I have Canadian health insurance, how messed up is that?), and since I'm heading [...]
Read More awesome, canada, Happy Thursday!, health, Jim's Travels, lasers, WTFHoly crap, I miss my freaking cat. I have gotten quite a few emails about what I've been up to lately, so I figured a post is in order! Life has taken me all kinds of places and in all kinds of directions over the last three months – it's been a whirlwind, that is [...]
Read More Antones, Cast Software, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight, Lumiere, Mustang, PLASA Focus, Product Manager, traveling, Vivien, WYSIWYGYou know, it's amazing at what we learn as we get older. I am always amazed. Well, I am actually amazed at more is the act that my dad is always right. always. About every little thing I have ever bitched about in my entire life, the old man is always right. So: lesson learned, [...]
Read More Jim's Travels, tips, travelHappy Monday, everyone! Like a lot of people reading the blog, I'm back at campus today too to begin another year of sharing light with fresh new minds! This year is a very special year to me, because I've decided it's going to become my last full-time year in Oklahoma. In May of 2012, I'm [...]
Read More free education, Jim's Travels, JimOnLight.com, Light Associated Media LLC, Lighting Life, plans, the futureThis is the 1700th post I have made on JimOnLight.com. I want to use it to say CONGRATULATIONS, Graduates! This is a congratulations to everybody who successfully graduated from their undergraduate or graduate degree programs this semester – but specifically to those going into one of the many lighting industries we call careers here on [...]
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