Japan, I love you. You've done it again. The Wrecking Crew Orchestra performs a jaw dropping dance performance inspired by TRON. I love their use of cueing and the effects they can create using only intensity parameters and their bodies! CHECK IT OUT! This is the full length version of a piece seen in the [...]
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Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaThe countdown is in full force! In less than 48 hours Jim and I will be in Las Vegas, preparing to rock out at LDI2010. We've been making plaaaaaaaans. Can. Not. Wait. Meantime, here are some cool things you should look at. Last week was the 31st anniversary of the publication of The Hitchhiker's Guide [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaLadies and germs, you don't know how close I came to clicking publish on something truly insane last night. I think I was actually sleep-typing for part of that last links post. Gorgeous long-exposure shot by Travis of Caliber. Apropos of nothing, but too pretty to pass up. I've got a lot of fun lighting [...]
Read MoreI have a problem, faithful JOL readers. I'm pulling all-nighters like a grad student, but I'm DONE with that phase of my life. So why am I up all night? I am Jack's inability to type accurately. At any rate, Jim and I and a whole lot of other people are just a few days [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaLight isn't always a glamorous business, it's true. Sometimes you gotta get dirty. Photo belongs to MistyDays. Pretty, no? Excellent breakdown of the lighting for a sunset beach photoshoot, goose crap included. (Strobist) Make a constellation nightlight with LEDs and resin! (Make) Nifty, branchy organic-looking pendant lamps. (trendir) Another organic-y lamp–this one's a flower, and [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaSeems like half my city (that's San Francisco, y'all) has been away at Burning Man for the past week. I don't do the playa thing, myself, but there has been some pretty fun light art that's happened out there over the years. Here's a video from 2009 of some of the light art (and explosions! [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaIt's geektastic and rave-a-licious up in here, y'all. Hooray for Daft Punk. DIY Daft Punk helmet!!! (geekologie) Tron girl music video: whip out your red/blue glasses. (geekologie) More about Tron? Yes, more about Tron. (OhGizmo!) My hobby: setting things on fire. (geekologie) This is your bathroom on ecstasy. (geekologie) Feeding the power needs of Iraq. (Fast [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaThere's a deep connection between light and how we see and how we interpret it–a connection all light artists work to explore and manipulate. But here's another aspect of that, which I love: using our medium, light, to talk about that connection, out loud. Image by one of my personal favorite light-picture makers, Julie Michelle. [...]
Read More Jax's Link-o-ramaI visited a salmon hatchery in Alaska once, and something that made me smile was the sign that said, Fish Ladder. We've got something in common, those fish and us stagehands! You see the resemblance, right? (Thanks for the image, HowStuffWorks!) So then, more things we have in common with fish: a salmon light! (ponoko) [...]
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