42 People Injured at Snoop Dogg and Wiz Khalifa Show

August 8, 2016, 12:11 pm

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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 & Wiz Khalifa: The High Road Tour — which is still kicking.  Reports from the scene said no one was […]

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Incredible Photos of the San Clarita Valley Wildfire

August 8, 2016, 4:03 pm

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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 unfortunate fire; there are a very intriguing set of photographs of this fire, shot by David McNew of Getty Images.  I think […]

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300+ Reindeer Killed in Lightning Strike in Norway

August 30, 2016, 11:09 am

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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 a large thunderstorm system in a private game reserve in Norway, an estimated 323 reindeer were […]

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Pick Five Things Fixture Manufacturers Could Do Better

February 14, 2017, 7:00 am

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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 discussion because everyone wants something different.   It’s honestly sometimes a special little hell from a product development standpoint, because usually, […]

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BARCO’s Talking to ETC About Buying High End Systems

March 1, 2017, 1:30 pm

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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 a secret that the Revolution didn’t quite hit the rental market like they liked (although it is a fine moving […]

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IATSE, SAG-AFTRA, DGA, and WGA East/West Issue Joint Statement on Arts Cuts

March 18, 2017, 11:05 am

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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 for and against his cuts to the artistic health of the United States.  If we’ve got no arts, what is any of this worth? From […]

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DECLASSIFIED – Over 750 Nuclear Weapons Test Videos. Unreal.

March 27, 2017, 10:31 am

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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 films, many of them nitrate films disintegrating from sheer age, up on Youtube. Recently, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has released […]

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Merges and Acquisitions – Lighting Industry Business Happening Now

March 27, 2017, 1:46 pm

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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.  Business is moving upwards in this Trumpian economy for some reason.  Seriously, look at the gentle climb under […]

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It’s Official, High End Systems is an ETC Company Now

March 31, 2017, 1:52 pm

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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 it is good for High End Systems.  Richard Belliveau and his team have innovated our industry […]

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JOL Sunday Flickr #34

April 2, 2017, 10:32 am

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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 people’s eye helps improve your own. Make sure to click through and support these photographers, Flickr still rocks! Have a great […]

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3D Printed DIY Night Vision Wins the Internet Today

April 3, 2017, 8:00 am

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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 3d printing — like a CNC in reverse!  Instead of ablating material from […]

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Steve Shelley Released SoftSymbols for Vectorworks 2017

April 7, 2017, 8:40 am

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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 f**king bright yellow jacket walking lighting trade show floors.  It’s Steve Shelley, y’all.  If […]

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Caveat Emptor: Have You Been Following the #FyreFestival?!

May 4, 2017, 10:29 am

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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 the entire call at Vice News right now via SoundCloud, and let me tell you, it is some unreal […]

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Terrorists Bomb Ariana Grande Concert, 22 Dead

May 22, 2017, 11:32 pm

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The extremists are at it again, this time they have targeted a crowd full of tween and teenage kids at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England. First things first, the crew and band are safe and no one from the production team, in my initial researching, has been hurt.  Sorry folks, this is an industry blog. […]

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Do YOU Know Rick Hutton? He’s A PERSON WORTH KNOWING!

June 14, 2017, 2:06 pm

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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, adding his knowledge of optics, lasers, laser ablation, dichroic glass, and light to awesome products like the VL5, VL4, […]

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Light Artist Jay Shinn is up for a CODAWORX Award!

June 28, 2017, 11:21 am

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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 International Airport.  This is one of the coolest constantly changing geometric projection installs that I have ever seen.  Go vote […]

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Happy 15th Birthday, InLight Gobos! 15% OFF ALL MONTH!

August 1, 2017, 11:58 am

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Today is an awesome day, because it’s the birthday of my favorite gobo maker.  Happy 15th Birthday, InLight Gobos!!! As far as my dollars and my production budgets go, InLight Gobos is the only gobo maker in the business.  High quality, thin and strong, and they give a damn about your orders. From the InLight […]

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Sniper Kills 50+, Wounds 400+ in Vegas Concert Shooting

October 2, 2017, 7:14 am

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“He opened fire on a crowd of more than 22,000 concert goers.”  Guess what, America?  This guy is a terrorist. UPDATES, at the bottom of the post… Quick editorial note right up front: I spent this entire day from the time of posting arguing with people about my use of the word sniper in this […]

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Jim On Open Heart Surgery

October 17, 2017, 4:29 pm

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On October 23, 2017, I’m going to be having open heart surgery.  I’m 39 years old. There are a lot of things in the world that are pretty surreal to have said to you — that first “I love you,” getting recognized for something you busted your ass on, the phone call that someone has […]

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$200 OFF for Avolites LDI 2017 Offsite Training!

November 11, 2017, 11:18 am

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If you’re on the JimOnLight networks, you’ve probably seen this already, but here’s a last chance offer for my fellow Avolites console and media server users…  we’ve got just a few spots left, and we’ve set up a $200 dollars off coupon code for our LDI 2017 OFFSITE Training facility over at the Vdara this […]

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