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Light Paint Inspiration on a Wednesday Morning
I read this blog called Light Paint – it's an outstanding collection of posted light art, and people submitting their excellent light paintings. I needed some design inspiration this morning, so I was...
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Lightning in Oklahoma City – from the JimOnLight.com World HQ
For the first time in my life, I live in an apartment tower. I've lived in apartments before, of course, but never anywhere that had floors above the second or third floor. I'm on the thirteenth...
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Let The Sun Blow Your Mind
Check out the sun. Pretty effing hot, huh? (it's even better HUGE.) You can thank Alan Friedman for some of these pictures – Alan's a great photographer and amateur astronomer. I hope he sees...
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Ignacio Torres' STELLAR – An Exercise in 3D Beauty
Ignacio Torres, an artist and pretty recent graduate of the University of North Texas, has another beautiful work getting some serious attention. Meet Stellar, an exhibit that Ignacio created in a 3D...
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Moonlight Mini-Lesson
The above photo by Andrew Tallon was taken at 10:30 pm! What I love about this image is it perfectly exemplifies that our moon is just a reflector for sunlight. So why don't we see our night landscape...
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Real-Time Light Painting!
Earlier this year, the light painters JanLeonardo Wöllert and Anton Julmy used a Real Time Light Painting program. It works for both live performance and video production! On a basic level, this video...
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Rrrrrrrroll, with Eight "R's"
Call me crazy, but I adore art like this below. Tumblr users Rrrrrrrroll have created a series of GIFs that feature a woman spinning around in a series of environments. There's really not much to say...
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ISS Star Trails TRON-IZED
This is astronaut Don Pettit. Don's got a whole bunch of cameras on board the International Space Station, or at least he did on missions Expeditions 30 and Expedition 31 to the ISS. Don took a whole...
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San Francisco Bay Bridge as Light Art
Take as long as you need to memorize this photo, you're going to need it at some time in your life: Beautiful. This reminds me of a really, really beautiful time in my life. This is from Light Paint's...
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Late Night Awesome – SMEAR THE SKY
We're about to see something awesome together – these are the paintings of Matt Malloy, and what Matt does that makes his work so absolutely freaking captivating is that he takes a couple hundred time...
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JimOnLight.com Hangs with Jefferson Waful of Umphrey's McGee at House of...
I had the absolute pleasure this last week to hang out with Jefferson Waful, lighting designer for Umphrey's McGee, at Dallas' House of Blues establishment downtown. It was great to see Jefferson...
View ArticleColin Rich is My Weather Balloon Photographer Hero
I just ran across this amazing video by a guy named Colin Rich – Colin has a great, cheap little weather balloon camera rig that he has launched twice now. Colin's rig, the Pacific Star, is a small...
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Moonlight Mini-Lesson
The above photo by Andrew Tallon was taken at 10:30 pm! What I love about this image is it perfectly exemplifies that our moon is just a reflector for sunlight. So why don't we see our night landscape...
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Real-Time Light Painting!
Earlier this year, the light painters JanLeonardo Wöllert and Anton Julmy used a Real Time Light Painting program. It works for both live performance and video production! On a basic level, this video...
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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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