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What If I’m Attacked at Work? A Crew Primer, Part 2
This is a multi-part series on JimOnLight.com on what to do if someone comes into your gig shooting at you. This is by no means the answer, or even an answer. Every situation is different, everything...
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What If I’m Attacked at Work? A Crew Primer, Part 3
Please be warned, this post contains graphic imagery of death. This is a multi-part series on JimOnLight.com on what to do if someone comes into your gig shooting at you. This is by no means the...
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JOL Sunday Flickr #30
It’s been quite the week, huh. I know people come and visit the JOL Sunday Flickr posts every Sunday that they get posted… this particular episode happens to be #30 for those keeping track, officially...
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EXCLUSIVE VIDEO – Shawn London, FOH Audio for Eagles of Death Metal and Le...
We’re honored to have a life-changing video to share. I wish it were about something cool like Rate masters or inhibitive submasters used to protect certain parts of your effects live, but no… This is...
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Holidays Aren’t Happy for Everybody
Brothers and Sisters of Light — Lighting Designers, Lighting Directors, AV Teams, Touring Techs, Shop Techs, Students, Teachers, Projection Designers, Production Designers, Lighting Industry Sales...
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Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead has Died
I'm sorry to Lemmy's family and friends and fans across the world. Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead has lost his fight with cancer.Read the full story over at the site: Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead has Died
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Bridge Over Troubled Water, Live, Tear-Jerking Pleasure
I used to post a lot of excellent species of YouTube videos on JimOnLight — things that I found amazing, outstanding, or shitty, terrifying. Here’s one that is pure “I fucking DARE you to watch this...
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David Bowie Has Now Become StarMan. RIP
There’s a starman waiting in the sky; He’d like to come and meet us, But he thinks he’d blow our minds. There’s a starman waiting in the sky; He’s told us not to blow it ‘Cause he knows it’s all...
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Portraits of Photographers With/Without Cameras
This is such a cool article! Fubiz posted this a few weeks ago, I’m still catching up from getting ready for this upcoming training season! So generally, Rich Johnson (the photog behind the photos)...
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RDM2GO – A Badass Handheld RDM & DMX Magic Box
Ok, this is pretty awesome. Nobody paid me shit to post this, CHAUVET Professional makes good gear that kicks most of the mid-range stuff’s ass. I guess truth is hard to read. So, below, Ford...
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CAST Software Wins Another Emmy for WYSIWYG
CAST Software, makers of WYSIWYG, Vivien Designer, and the becoming-popular BlackTrax software have been awarded a second Technical Emmy for their WYSIWYG work. From the blog post at CAST Software’s...
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Are You Teaching Relevant Lighting?
Teaching is not just fundamental, it’s imperative to our industry. If you get pissed off reading this, it’s meant for you. What your anger means is that you’re guilty. This can be fixed though, you CAN...
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El Capitan Problems with iCloud? Here’s A Fix.
Everything you do from this post is on you, and has nothing to do with me — this is just a collection of information and my personal anecdote on fixing my Mac. If you brick your sh*t, don’t look at...
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Andre Huff Breaks Boards with His Face, Offers $2500 Trade Ins on Classic Avo...
Ok, so this is only partly true, because I get to see Andre in a few days and I am going to hit him in the face with a 1X4 to see if he can truly withstand the poplar POWER!!! What is truly important...
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Shuttle Challenger Exploded Thirty Years Ago Today
Today is the 30th anniversary of the failed STS-51-L mission of the Challenger. It was her tenth mission. All seven crew members were killed in the failure — this wasn’t quite our finest hour, as...
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JOL Sunday Flickr #31
As many times as I write this post, I always see something new in the material. I love sharing these works with the world. Do you ever check out the JimOnLight Flickr Group? I hope one of these...
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GoPro Just Released the HD Footage of Felix Baumgartner’s Space Jump
I don’t know about you, but I was f*cking GLUED to the Space Jump when it happened back on October 14, 2012 — Actually, Igor Fernando de Oliveira Da Silva and I from CAST (I love his long ass name)...
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JOL Sunday Flickr, #32
In the movie Basquiat, there is this little story that Jeffrey Wright says as a voice over as Jean-Michel Basquiat that just absolutely murders me every time I hear it: “There was this little prince...
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I Want the SNL Closing Theme at My Funeral
So, you know that little ditty that the SNL band plays every closing of every show? The amazing one, the blues-y/jazzy/epic, in-your-face, the-world-is-happy-and-no-matter-what-we’re-all-gonna-die...
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LAMB OF GOD’s Gear Truck Took A Tumble
GAH! Metal band Lamb of God experienced some crap on February 7, 2016 when their gear truck flipped over on I-37 in Texas. Apparently the highway was closed for several hours while the gear was...
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