Wouldn't It Be Nice, Daniel DeSure?

Posted by Jim - April 16, 2009 - artists, Light Art, Lighting for Enjoyment!

Sweet. Daniel DeSure has some pretty cool work.

Kaleidoscopic Eye at the Mori

Posted by Jim - April 9, 2009 - artists, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

Tokyo's Mori Art Museum is displaying an installation called Kaleidoscopic Eye, a creation by the Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary out of Vienna. From the Thyssen-Bornemisza website: The Mori Art Museum will present The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection from Saturday, April 4, to Sunday, July 5, 2009. The exhibition is realized as a collaboration between [...]

Orest Tataryn's Lux Morpheme

Posted by Jim - April 4, 2009 - artists, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

Light sculptor Orest Tataryn has created an installation called Lux Morpheme – an installation that uses black light to reveal color in the work. Orest has a few mouth-blown neon black light tubes that pulse every couple of seconds to pop color. Orest has also designed into the work a series of coin-shaped landscapes that [...]

Ball of Light

Posted by Jim - April 2, 2009 - Light and Photography, Light Art

This image was just too awesome not to post. It's from a blog called Light Paint, showcasing the magic of light graffiti and other types of light art. Love it.

Vicki Dasilva's Light Art

Posted by Jim - April 1, 2009 - artists, Light and Photography, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

I've been reading a lot about light art and graffiti lighting after I posted about the subject last week. In a move of sheer brilliance, The Fates had Vicki Dasilva email me a few days ago – Vicki is a pioneer in the light graffiti/light art realm. If you have never seen static artworks done [...]

Warren Muller's Found Junk and Light

Posted by Jim - March 31, 2009 - artists, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

Okay, maybe junk is a little excessive, maybe not. This is a bit of a departure from what I've been seeing lately – a collection of "found objects" that are mixed with some light, creating these sculptures of mass stare-ability. Stare-ability? Wow, I guess I'm also making up words today. A description from Warren Muller's [...]

Did You Participate in Earth Hour 2009?

Posted by Jim - March 28, 2009 - DIY, JimOnLight.com, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Photography, Light Art, Lighting for Enjoyment!

After convincing my wife that she would have a blast, we turned the lights off, we shut down the computers and other gear, and we participated in Earth Hour 2009. We decided to try our hand at some light art – in our case, novice art. I'm a lighting designer, but this is a whole [...]

Primal Source at Santa Monica's Glow 08

Posted by Jim - March 23, 2009 - Atmospheric, Digital Light, Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Sound, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations, Lighting for Enjoyment!

Santa Monica city government and the Santa Monica Arts Foundation produced an even in Summer 2008 called Glow 08 – it was an evening to morning event featuring music, light, and art installations and projects. From the website and other articles I've read, it was pretty fantastic. One of the projects I ran across was [...]

More Beautiful Light Painting

Posted by Jim - March 20, 2009 - Just Plain AWESOME., Light and Photography, Light Art, Lighting for Enjoyment!

This morning with a return-of-good-health wish, the awesome folks at iSquint sent me this page of images of light painting and graffiti light – thanks guys! Dig into that Tumblr account – there are great images on those pages! The blog is called Light Paint. There is BEAUTIFUL work there!

Field by Richard Box

Posted by Jim - March 1, 2009 - Fluorescent Technology, Light Art, Lighting Art and Installations

Richard Box, a lighting artist in the United Kingdom, put 831 fluorescent tubes in a field around some power lines, and powered them with the electromagnetic fields from the power lines. From Richard Box's website: The 1301 fluorescent tubes are powered only by the electric fields generated by overhead powerlines. Richard Box, artist-in-residence at Bristol [...]