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300+ Reindeer Killed in Lightning Strike in Norway
Nature is a serious lady. Â 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)...
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Shooting in Playa Del Carmen at BPM Mexico 2017, 5 Dead
Five people killed in a shooting at Playa Del Carmen, Cancun, Mexico, fifteen hospitalized with various injuries. This is the 2017 BPM Music Festival. Authorities are not calling this a terrorist...
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Help Our Angels of Mercy, BEHIND THE SCENES – We’re Giving 25%
Hiya, world. Considering the amount of times I’ve been in ATL this year, I can see it’s gonna be a busy one for all of us. It’s been a crazy fall and an even more insane beginning of 2017. If I’ve...
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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?!
Right now there is a huuuuuuge controversy over a big festival planned by Ja Rule and some guy named Billy McFarlane over the disaster situation called Fyre Festival. There are tons of links on this,...
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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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Happy 15th Birthday, InLight Gobos! 15% OFF ALL MONTH!
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...
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Sniper Kills 50+, Wounds 400+ in Vegas Concert Shooting
“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...
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Jim On Open Heart Surgery
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...
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$200 OFF for Avolites LDI 2017 Offsite Training!
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...
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