There are a very small group of people who live in our society who see things in the way that we all see things in our heads, but have the ability to take those brilliant, beautiful twilight thoughts and make them real for all to experience. These people have the ability inside them to transform [...]
Read More artist, lighting designer, Satore Studio, Tupac Martir, visionaryGood morning everyone! So, it's about that time of the morning where you're probably on your Nth cup of coffee and are in need of another. Well, that's how it is for me, anyway! Instead of doing that stupid Facebook survey to find out how many crazy Siberian monkeys are playing Cribbage on that northbound [...]
Read More light, lighting designer, OLED, poll, Sarah Fox, surveyTalking to fellow lighting designers and seeing how they do things is one of my favorite parts of writing JimOnLight.com – just recently I had the absolute pleasure of having a nice long chat with Jeff Waful of Umprey's McGee, and this morning I awoke to an email from Jeff about a two-part video he's [...]
Read More A Day in the Life, concert lighting, GrandMA, Jeff Waful, lighting designer, Lighting Life, touring, Umphrey's McGeeAh, .PSLAB's work always impresses me. I've written about them several times before, and I suspect I will write about them several more times before I expire. RE/DO is a joint project between .PSLAB and the Italian (Milan) company Piuarch. The work, an architectural lighting piece, is comprised of702 plastic gallon bottles turned into lighting [...]
Read More Architectural Lighting Design, architecture, lighting designer, lighting designers, Piuarch, PSLABI usually have my headphones taped to my face when I'm doing programming or drafting and design work in my office – I think I do this to give off the "leave me alone" signal, but it really helps me to concentrate. I found a new band to jam on while I get into the [...]
Read More lighting designer, Lighting Life, music, Programming, the breakfastHey, remember the top o' the 90's, kids? I was looking at old music videos the other day, and remembered about Bill Butt's video for The KLF's song "3AM Eternal." Remember that? I wonder who had a better time – the director or the lighting designer? Just a random departure – we all need those [...]
Read More 3AM eternal, Bill Butt, director, lighting designer, music videos, The KLFDo you know Howard Brandston? Do you know of Howard Brandston? Howard's a lighting designer, and a heavy player in the industry. He lit the Statue of Liberty and the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, as well as many other high-profile projects. Howard has written a book called LEARNING TO SEE: A Matter of Light, [...]
Read More Architectural Lighting, Howard Brandston, lighting designer, Petronas Towers, Statue of LibertyI just read an absolutely fantastic article by Peter Maradudin about the amount of hours and money that go into being a lighting designer. Please go read this article!
Read More lighting designer, money, Peter Maradudin