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Paris, at Night, from the International Space Station
So I’m minding my own business looking at news about Bernie endorsing Hillary, and BOOM — a photo comes across my screen of Paris at night, photographed from the International Space Station. Check...
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Marilyn Manson Acting Like A Douchebag to His Staff?
I’m sure by now everyone has seen some flavor or cut of this video… this is the one where Marilyn Manson is out at front-of-house slapping around faders and punching flat screen monitors. You’ve seen...
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At the Drive In Bodyslams a Sharpy at Splendour 2016
This last week has been kinda crazy with the artists doing stuff to production that we’d all prefer they not do — like Marilyn Manson getting all jiggy at FOH with his crew. Here’s another great...
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Actually Getting Paid for Designing Small Shows – A Primer
Oh, there is a subject right now that is so near and dear to my heart that must be discussed. I know there are a lot of people out there that work small theatre gigs as designers, and I know also that...
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42 People Injured at Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa Show
42 people were confirmed to have been injured this weekend at a Snoop Dogg and Whiz Khalifa show in Camden, New Jersey at the BB&T Pavilion. The tour is the Merry Jane Presents Snoop Dogg &...
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Incredible Photos of the San Clarita Valley Wildfire
A few weeks ago in the Sand Canyon/San Clarita Valley, south of Los Angeles, a wildfire pretty much gutted the valley — homes destroyed, property, vehicles, just pure havoc. This was quite an...
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300+ Reindeer Killed in Lightning Strike in Norway
Nature is a serious lady. This is a bummer of a story, but it shows the power that Mother Nature harnesses with respect to light, in this case in the form of lightning. Last Friday (26 August 2016) in...
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Pick Five Things Fixture Manufacturers Could Do Better
I’ve worked on both sides of the equation with respect to the manufacturer/user balance, and the question of which five things a fixture could improve upon ALWAYS comes up — I always love the...
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BARCO’s Talking to ETC About Buying High End Systems
Well, we’ve all been wondering who was sniffing, now we know — BARCO is in talks with Electronic Theatre Controls (yes, THAT ETC) about putting High End Systems somewhere within the ETC line. It’s not...
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IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, DGA, and WGA East/West Issue Joint Statement on Arts Cuts
Arts cuts. Organizations in our purview are commenting on President Trump’s proposed cuts to National Arts funding. Just having returned from USITT this week, I was surprised to hear conversations...
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DECLASSIFIED – Over 750 Nuclear Weapons Test Videos. Unreal.
Lighting designers and video content people, heads up. An amazing trove of over 750 films from the late 50’s and early 60’s have just been declassified, and scientists have put these old nuclear test...
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Merges and Acquisitions – Lighting Industry Business Happening Now
2017 has already been stupid busy for the lighting industries. There are more than a handfuls of deals going on right now that I know about, and I’m sure another two handfuls after that I don’t know....
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It’s Official, High End Systems is an ETC Company Now
Just heard the news — ETC has officially acquired High End Systems, so now High End Systems is an ETC company. I’ve heard lots of rumors and speculation about the future, but none of it is bad, all of...
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JOL Sunday Flickr #34
Volume 34 of the Sunday JimOnLight Flickr Group photo pool. This group has been around a long damned time. I really enjoy looking at the digital photos of other photographers; I think watching other...
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3D Printed DIY Night Vision Wins the Internet Today
I’m a huge fan of the DIY laser ablation scene, I have been wanting to put together my own X-Y laser CNC cutter for a long time. Something else that has really come a long way in the last 2-3 years is...
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Steve Shelley Released SoftSymbols for Vectorworks 2017
I’m not a Vectorworks user, but I have used it in the past. But Steve Shelley is awesome, he makes Soft Symbols, and he’s the guy you need to stop and talk to at trade shows, he’s the guy in the...
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Caveat Emptor: Have You Been Following the #FyreFestival?!
Were you a Fyre Festival Production contractor or employee? We want to hear from you. contact us here ASAP. Update, 15 May 2017: Looks like nobody is getting paid from Fyre Festival. You can listen to...
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Terrorists Bomb Ariana Grande Concert, 22 Dead
UPDATE, 15:08, 24 May 2017. I’m sorry folks, I just couldn’t look at this yesterday. Too much going on. There has been so much sent out about this terrorist coward attack; I have gotten several...
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Do YOU Know Rick Hutton? He’s A PERSON WORTH KNOWING!
Ok, so do you? Do you know Rick Hutton? Rick is one of the fathers of our current generation of lighting equipment, fixtures, and color systems — Rick is one of the fathers from the Vari*Lite days,...
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Light Artist Jay Shinn is up for a CODAWORX Award!
Our industry’s own bad ass gobo maker InLight Gobos supplied gobos for light artist Jay Shinn, whose work is up for a CODAWORX award for the install in Terminal D at Houston’s George W. Bush...
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