Are You Gonna Be A Glasshole?

Posted by Jim - May 18, 2013 - Amazing Visuals, Hilarity!

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As Google Glass comes (and maybe just goes), I am pretty excited to see how the Lighting and Entertainment Industry will glean onto this bit of robo-tech. Part of me thinks that I could write some interfaces that might do things like give me a color temperature feedback or calculate HSV for me based on the overall color of one of the snapshots I grab from the Glass…

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… but then there's a part of me that wonders what happens when the drunken douchebaggery of being in the Entertainment Industry will kick in and push Google Glass to a secondary level of Creeper Hell.

Are you gonna be a Glasshole? Let's find out!

Thanks to Geeks are Sexy for the video!

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Late Night Awesome – SMEAR THE SKY

Posted by Jim - May 17, 2013 - artists, Light and Nature, Light and Photography, Photo Galleries

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We're about to see something awesome together – these are the paintings of Matt Malloy, and what Matt does that makes his work so absolutely freaking captivating is that he takes a couple hundred time lapsed photos and stacks them in order to create some stunning visuals. If that was a run-on sentence, it was [...]

Ring of Fire! May 10, 2013's Annular Solar Eclipse from Pilbara, Western Australia

Posted by Jim - May 17, 2013 - Amazing Visuals, Celestial Lighting, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Nature, Light and Photography

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I just saw this, and I could not NOT post this, especially as PLASA Focus Orlando people are traveling home. This is the annular solar eclipse that just happened in Western Australia on May 10, 2013. I hope this brings you as much peace as it just brought me. Ring of Fire – May 10 [...]

The Daily Lamp – Fellow Lamp from Yours Design

Posted by Jim - May 17, 2013 - Designers, Fixtures, Industry Professionals, Interior Design and Lighting, Just Plain AWESOME., Luminaire Design, The Daily Lamp

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Today's Daily Lamp reminds me of something that at any time could just hop out of its inanimate state and start running down the hall at my wife — ladies and gentlemen, the Fellow Lamp from New Zealand studio Yours Design: From the pages of Yours Design on the Fellow Lamp: Fellow Lamp provides any [...]

Vigilante Cell-Phone-in-a-Theatre Justice – Kevin Williamson vs Rude Cell Phone Talker

You wouldn't have your cell phone stuck to your face when you're screwing, right?! THEN TURN IT OFF IN THE THEATRE! I have an extensive background in Theatre, and any time I see an article that mentions some douche with a cell phone ruining the experience of Live Theatre for everyone around them, I have [...]

The Daily Lamp – Light Forest, from Ontwerpduo

Today's Daily Lamp just blows my mind — meet Light Forest from Ontwerpduo, which consists of Tineke Beunders and Nathan Wierink of the Netherlands. From Tineke and Nathan's catalogue page for Light Forest (ps, it's a PDF link): On the ceiling or on the wall, Light Forest grows where other lights will not go. As [...]

Light, Lighting, and Electricity Facts and Chicks!

I did this once before, but since then there have been a hell of a lot more facts posted. Now the funniest thing for this post is… we expect more women than men to read it! It is my pleasure to introduce some of the great Facts and Chicks' Facts and Chicks — Light, Lighting, [...]

The Daily Lamp – Nao Tamura's Venetian Cityscape Chandelier, Flow(t)

Back after last week's pause — The Daily Lamp for today is a memory-based, quite earthenly beautiful chandelier called Flow(t), from designer Nao Tamura for retailer WonderGlass. From the WonderGlass website: The reflections of the Venetian cityscape glistening on the evening water hints at an imaginary city below the moving surface. There is a border [...]

Discodeine's Awesome CGI Music Video from Pleix

It's been a crazy day of running around, trying to tie up some loose ends and get back on the road to Texas. I can't wait to take my Laura down to the heart of everything Entertainment Lighting! Today has something awesome, peaceful, fun, and animated for you to enjoy! Check out Discodeine's newest music [...]

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Aron Altmark Painted the Town Red, and It Was Good

On April 20, Aron Altmark Painted the Town of Birmingham, Alabama Red. It was good. From the videos I got from Aron, it was really good. Since the first post about Aron's IndieGogo funding campaign, I've been excited to post about what he did, and that it benefitted the American Red Cross, which is also [...]

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