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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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VIDEO: Massive Stage Fire at Mumbai Political Rally
This weekend, a huge stage fire absolutely destroyed equipment, structure, and pretty much everything that it could consume, in Mumbai during a political rally. These videos are unreal – pay...
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STOP Aiming Lasers at Pilots, Stupid Bastards!
PEOPLE! People. We have to talk. Over the weekend, there was an incident that caused a flight out of London to turn around because the pilot had experienced a laser beam in the eye from the ground...
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Are You Renting Avolites? Get On the Rental Partners Site!
Happy Tuesday, everybody! It’s been a crazy week so far and it’s only Tuesday — Grammy Awards last night, huge stage fire in Mumbai this past weekend, and the 2016 is just getting rolling. Here’s to...
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Anonymously, For Whom is Lighting Voting?
If you’ve been paying attention, you’d notice how polarizing this 2016 Presidential Race has been among our community. We’ve got IATSE saying they’re supporting Clinton, but a really large majority of...
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LIFE SKILL: Soldering Workshop, ENTTEC, #USITT2016
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...
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20% OFF ALL CATALOGUE GOBOS at InLight Gobos!
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...
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