LIFE SKILL: Soldering Workshop, ENTTEC, #USITT2016

March 18, 2016, 9:14 am

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Happy Thursday friends and neighbors, I’m here in Salt Lake City for the 2016 USITT conference. If you’re here, and if you don’t know how to already — you need to sign up for ENTTEC’s free workshop here at the Expo floor.  Jeremy, Crystal, and the awesome folks at ENTTEC are doing what this conference […]

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20% OFF ALL CATALOGUE GOBOS at InLight Gobos!

April 5, 2016, 1:14 pm

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We here at JimOnLight.com are huge fans of the InLight Gobos brand of custom color optics work.  Rick Hutton, the brain behind the processes and craftsmanship, makes the finest gobo glass on the market.  That’s just how it is for us. We believe in Rick’s product so much that we asked InLight to give us a […]

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The Feature Feature: Chauvet Pro’s RH1 Hybrid and its Dual Prism Set

April 12, 2016, 6:00 am

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I’m trying a new series here on JimOnLight where I talk about features that I have found exemplary in certain pieces of equipment, or fixtures, or whatnot.  CHAUVET Professional’s ROGUE RH1 Hybrid gets to be first! Welcome to The Feature Feature! I just did a gig with a couple of handfuls of RH1 Hybrids from […]

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4Wall Acquires Shadowstone (Law and Order SVU Fans, Take Heed)

April 15, 2016, 4:31 pm

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A little bit of industry inner workings business, 4Wall Lighting has acquired the team and gear for Shadowstone, Inc — a pretty major player in lighting production for film, TV, broadcast, lots of work for decades.  If you’ve ever been a fan of Law and Order SVU, you saw a lot of what was filmed lit […]

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You Need A Steve Shelley In Your Library

April 15, 2016, 6:06 pm

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Obviously, if you work in lighting, you have read this book. Steve Shelley wrote a great text a while ago that has had three excellent revisions, called A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting.  If you’ve studied Theatrical Lighting in a collegiate (and hopefully high school) program, you’ve either taken a class from that book, or […]

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This Week’s Gobo-A-Day from InLight Gobos

April 16, 2016, 7:00 am

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You know, there is one thing that I don’t believe that our industry can live without — gobos.  It’s not practical to have a projector for every logo you want to project, and it’s not vyable to think you can print every gobo system you want to use because you’ve got LED ellipsoidals now.  I’m not […]

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YEAH! Avolites’ Ai Media Servers Solely Distributed in America by Group One!

May 16, 2016, 5:05 pm

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It’s official and awesome.  Group One, the exclusive Avolites distributor in America, is now going to be distributing the Ai Media Server series of products for Avolites!  This is thrilling and pretty awesome for me, and for the industry as a whole! Check this out: FARMINGDALE, New York – Avolites Ltd announces the immediate appointment […]

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PLSN Hometown Heroes — Who’s YOUR Hero?

May 31, 2016, 3:45 pm

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It is DEFINITELY that time again, folks!  Time for the PLSN Hometown Heroes nominations! http://plsn.com/lighting-hometown-heroes-nominations.html From the Hometown Heroes nomination form website: Each year PLSN honors regional lighting production companies with our Hometown Heroes awards. These awards honor the best regional lighting production company in six regions across North America: the Northeast, Southeast, Midwest, Northwest, […]

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Things I’ve Learned in Lighting

June 2, 2016, 8:40 am

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Sometimes our lighting world feels like this — task lists and spreadsheets and travel schedules and light plots, oh my! I’ve been traveling a lot.  A lot, a lot.  I seem to never be able to keep up with my #1 dude Brad White (he’s an effing machine, folks, I learn a lot from him pretty much […]

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Choreographed Meteor Showers. For Real.

June 20, 2016, 3:51 pm

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Ok, meteor showers, on demand, from a satellite, developed by a company in Japan.  Yes, I do believe it’s happening. A company out of a small office in Japan is putting together something that will literally allow you to fire shooting stars from Earth’s upper orbit down into the atmosphere, and one of their potential […]

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How Lasers Actually Work

June 21, 2016, 8:04 am

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I’ve been digging lately, looking for the next thing to wow my photon brain…  there’s been some LED developments and some other manufacturing-based tech dev that has been cool, but when you see something that peaks your curiosity, you’ve often got to go way back to the starting line and stretch. Here’s some mind stretch […]

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Photographing High-Speed Water Droplet Impacts | JimOnLight

June 21, 2016, 5:35 pm

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This sounds a little nutty if you’re just blowing by it in my Twitter feed, but this is actually pretty cool. Make Magazine (via Hacked Gadgets, which you need to check out) writer Ted Kinsman posted an article about a pretty cool way to photograph water droplets at high speeds using a homemade Mariotte’s Bottle […]

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Avolites Releases Titan Version 10!

June 28, 2016, 9:44 am

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Ladies and gentlemen, it’s dropped!  Titan v10 is now available for download: http://www.avolites.com/software/latest-version FARMINGDALE, New York – June 28, 2016 — Avolites’ much anticipated Titan v10 software is now available to download for free onto all consoles from the Tiger Touch Pro (inclusive) onwards. Some older consoles may be compatible with v10 if an upgrade […]

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Installing Avolites Titan V10, plus Features!

June 29, 2016, 10:15 am

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Just a quick post, two videos — one for helping you install Avolites Titan V10 onto your desk/laptop/etcetera, and a video of the feature set of V10, which I’m pretty freaking excited about installing! First things first, let’s get V10 installed onto your machine: http://www.avolites.com/software/latest-version Now, while that’s installing, check out an overview of the […]

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JOL Sunday Flickr #33

July 3, 2016, 6:09 am

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It’s always nice to share some of the beautiful work submitted to the JOL Flickr Group — lately it’s been one of my favorite posts to write because it’s not about someone prancing into a night club and gunning several dozen people down, or some truss structure falling, or the like.  The shit has been […]

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Webcam into Security Cam with Motion Detection, DIY

July 13, 2016, 9:34 am

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Lots of people have been setting up their own home-based security systems lately, especially with all of the complete lack of human respect that we’ve been seeing on the streets of America, in cities all across our great nation. When I lived here in Oklahoma City once before, a group of unsupervised neighborhood kids knifed two […]

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Paris, at Night, from the International Space Station

July 14, 2016, 6:00 am

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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 this out: From the ISS page on this photo: Around local midnight time on April 8, 2015, astronauts aboard the International Space […]

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Marilyn Manson Acting Like A Douchebag to His Staff?

July 25, 2016, 2:30 pm

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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 this, I assume? If you’ve seen Marilyn Manson live before, you know his shows are kind of intense.  I mean, […]

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At the Drive In Bodyslams a Sharpy at Splendour 2016

July 25, 2016, 3:46 pm

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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 example of something that could have been a lot easier to do than destroy a piece of gear — […]

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Actually Getting Paid for Designing Small Shows – A Primer

July 26, 2016, 4:46 pm

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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 there are a lot of people reading JimOnLight who work as crew, staff, […]

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