My buddy Clinton Trench and the band he's in, Modern Rock Diaries, is playing Oklahoma City on Friday!! Check out this video, it's pretty awesome. I'm gonna be talking to Modern Rock Diaries drummer and light man pretty soon, as their entire lighting rig is MIDI. Friday night at The Blue Note in OKC! Check [...]
Read More Clinton Trench, concert lighting, Modern Rock Diaries, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, The Blue NoteThis has to be said – if you want to visit the Oklahoma City National Memorial, the best time to get the best experience is after the Sun sets. For almost 1.25 years now I have lived directly across the street from the Oklahoma City National Memorial – the site of the Murrah Building bombing [...]
Read More architainment, dead bad guys, exterior lighting, monument lighting, Murrah Building, National Monuments, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma City National Memorial, Timothy McVeighI'm starting a new segment here on JimOnLight.com called "That's A Light Shame." What this segment will focus on is shameful lighting situations all over the world, from safety to aesthetic, from art fails to general all-around epic fails. I have found something that needs some shame shame shame finger pointing, perhaps because of its [...]
Read More bad lighting, District Court, exterior lighting, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, That's A Light Shame, United States CourthouseI love deconstruction and hyper-construction – taking something like a video shot at a certain frame rate and speeding it up to a thousand times its intended watching speed, or slowing it down so much as to examine its individual frame images. I *love* it. It probably goes right along with my need to take [...]
Read More JimOnLight.com, Oklahoma City, storm, time lapse, VideoI'm trying not to be a big fat ass this year. I've been pretty successful so far, I've lost a few pounds a week. The one thing I've tried hard to do is to stop eating fast food, and instead spend that money on the nicer restaurants around the world. I'm a lighting nerd, OBVIOUSLY, [...]
Read More Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Rand Elliott, RED Prime Steak, restaurant lighting, steakYeah, that's right kids – we have some snow here in Oklahoma City! (To be fair, I did think it was a great idea yesterday in the middle of the morning's storm to get stuck between the parking lot of Dunkin Donuts and a big ass pile of snow. Yeah. It really was worth it.) [...]
Read More ICEPOCALYPSE, Oklahoma City, photokeratitis, snow, snowblindness, SNOWPOCALYPSELiving in a condo tower downtown has its privvies, I guess. I'm not really much of a downtown dweller, at least lately, but I seem to leave home and return home these days when the sun is still a snooze slap away from waking up. I certainly take a lot of pictures of the [...]
Read More Architectural Lighting, city view, downtown, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, skylineFor the first time in my life, I live in an apartment tower. I've lived in apartments before, of course, but never anywhere that had floors above the second or third floor. I'm on the thirteenth floor, with an amazing view of downtown Oklahoma City. I have found a new kind of peace with this [...]
Read More double rainbow, lightning, Oklahoma City, photographers, photography, weatherI got bored and made a video of downtown Oklahoma City, from 5pm to 10pm. I took all of this video and condensed it down into 90 seconds – it's cool to watch the city flick itself awake as the sun goes down. Enjoy the video! Oklahoma City, from 5pm to 10pm, in 90 seconds. [...]
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