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Barbizon's Electrician's Handbook App is Awesome
When I started out in this business, I was a lighting tech for a few years before getting on the bigger gigs as a designer. I always, always had four things in my tool bag (other than tools) – a copy...
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PLASA Made Their Technical Standards FREE FOR ALL!
Tobin from Barbizon posted this on the Barbizon Blog on Monday — in a move of complete awesomeness, PLASA (the Professional Lighting and Sound Association) has teamed up with the specialty insurance...
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JOL Sunday Flickr #16
We're coming to you from Durham, Ontario this week for the JOL Sunday Flickr, soon to be heading to the USA for some nice, warm Dallas SUNSHINE! I'm just not used to Winter lasting until mid-May. This...
View ArticleJimOnLight and TEAM CHAUVET Take the #ICEBUCKETCHALLENGE
Oh yes indeed, kids! The #ICEBUCKETCHALLENGE was accepted by Tobin Neis from Barbizon, and I reached out to Berenice and Albert Chauvet and all of TEAM CHAUVET to really try and put my money where my...
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If You Have A Few Bucks, Please Help Heidi
When I was at Oklahoma City University, I had a master electrician named Heidi Hamilton. Heidi is an industry veteran who has worked more tour load-ins and load-outs than most people who tour. As a...
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Santa’s On Tour, See Him TONIGHT ONLY! Norad Santa Tracker!
Ok kids (and patient parents waiting for said kids to get to sleep, etcetera), Santa is on tour and he’s doing his yearly hit-every-venue-in-one-night road show! Obviously lighting production is light...
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Meh Footage of LDI 2014
I take photos and video all over the damned place, especially at trade shows. It’s not really difficult to imagine, there is so much flashy flashy that it’s like putting a kid on sugar in the middle...
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Times Square Ball, Through the Ages! [Infographic]
Too cool, from the Lumec Blog!Read the full story over at the site: Times Square Ball, Through the Ages! [Infographic]
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Paul Gregory of Focus Lighting Talks Times Square Ball History
I love to remember how the Times Square ball has changed over the years. It’s one of my first memories, seeing that thing lit up on television as a very little lighting designer of 5 or 6 years old....
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HAPPY 2015, WORLD!!!
YEAH! GOOD-BYE, 2014 — and HELLO, 2015! I hope that if you’re out there partying that you have a blast with the rest of your night/morning, and if you’re out there working a show tonight, please have a...
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A Global Collection of New Years 2015 Fireworks
Happy New Year, everyone! I’m not one to do “resolutions,” per se — I haven’t quite figured out yet how not to disappoint myself on day two of the year, so I skirt the activity altogether! Since I...
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Do Carrots Improve Eyesight? No, No They Don’t.
Well, that old tale that we’re all told as kids that if we eat our carrots we’ll have better eyesight has been busted. Mom and dad, you guys are LIARS! It’s a good thing I like carrots as a general...
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X-Rays of Lamps are BAD ASS!
Check this out — an x-ray of some regular ol’ incandescent lamps, some color added in post by the artist, but seriously check this out: TOO COOL! I had to find more. This particular photo above comes...
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Lighting Insights January – Jim Talks FOCUS PALETTES
FOCUS PALETTES! Let’s start out another year of educational lighting and lighting design videos at CHAUVET Professional… This month’s video is a basic primer on Focus Palettes — the why, who, when,...
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Happy Birthday, James Watt (and JimOnLight)!
WHOA! No way. It’s January 19 again, and that means that it is the birthday time celebration for good ol’ James Jim-Jim-Jimmy-Jarooni Watt, the man we have to thank for several different and awesome...
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Prism Power – the ROGUE RH1 Hybrid Product Video
I love programming these videos. I get to work with a real video badass in this market, Todd Murray, who is just one talented mopho, and that is a fact. Better yet, he’s not a douche about it. What...
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Confusion Through Sand – An Experimental Video on Recycled Paper
Something that not many people know about me: Until I was in my late teens, I considered joined the military, as was my initial plan in life. I was going to join up, become an officer with combat...
View ArticleBarbizon’s Electrician’s Handbook App is Awesome
When I started out in this business, I was a lighting tech for a few years before getting on the bigger gigs as a designer. I always, always had four things in my tool bag (other than tools) – a copy...
View ArticlePLASA Made Their Technical Standards FREE FOR ALL!
Tobin from Barbizon posted this on the Barbizon Blog on Monday — in a move of complete awesomeness, PLASA (the Professional Lighting and Sound Association) has teamed up with the specialty insurance...
View ArticleJOL Sunday Flickr #16
We’re coming to you from Durham, Ontario this week for the JOL Sunday Flickr, soon to be heading to the USA for some nice, warm Dallas SUNSHINE! I’m just not used to Winter lasting until mid-May. This...
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