Tanya Vlach Wants to Grow A Bionic Eye
Tanya Vlach is looking for someone to help her invent a "bionic" eye that has a camera inside. Watch this: Tanya is looking for donors and engineers to help her create an experimental project...
View ArticleBionic Contact Lenses?
Ok, now if I can just figure out how to put my finger that close to my eyeball, I'm golden! Yeah. I have never had a contact lens in my eye. Check this out – a bionic contact lens! Researchers at...
View ArticleVIDEO: 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...
View ArticleSTOP 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...
View ArticleAre 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...
View ArticleAnonymously, 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...
View ArticleLIFE 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...
View Article20% 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...
View ArticleThe Feature Feature: Chauvet Pro’s RH1 Hybrid and its Dual Prism Set
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...
View Article4Wall Acquires Shadowstone (Law and Order SVU Fans, Take Heed)
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...
View ArticleYou Need A Steve Shelley In Your Library
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...
View ArticleThis Week’s Gobo-A-Day from InLight Gobos
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...
View ArticleYEAH! Avolites’ Ai Media Servers Solely Distributed in America by Group One!
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...
View ArticlePLSN Hometown Heroes — Who’s YOUR Hero?
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...
View ArticleThings I’ve Learned in Lighting
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...
View ArticleChoreographed Meteor Showers. For Real.
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...
View ArticleHow Lasers Actually Work
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...
View ArticlePhotographing High-Speed Water Droplet Impacts | JimOnLight
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...
View ArticleAvolites Releases Titan Version 10!
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...
View ArticleInstalling Avolites Titan V10, plus Features!
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!...
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