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Like the Prometheus "Pups," Now Doctors Can Map Your Esophagus
Remember that scene in Prometheus where the scientist guy takes those silver balls from his backpack and started "mapping" the inside of the crazy alien mound thing? Well, watch this: This is the work...
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Explosions Reported Near the Boston Marathon Finish Line
Video of the explosion: Oh, this is not good. Explosions were reported near the scene of the Boston Marathon just now — for a live feed of the video,...
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Good Morning Inspiration – THE SKY, BLEOTCH!
This reminds me of a joke. What does Snoop Dogg (wait, Snoop Lion, right? wait.) — one more time: What does Snoop Dogg use to get his soiled whites that Oh-So-White white? Why, BLEOTCH of course. I...
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A Grim Reminder of the Latest Deaths in Our Beloved Industry Before Summer...
HEY! YOU! You there, with the rigging bag. You there, with the crescent wrench and fearless attitude. You there, sporting the "supervisor" face but looking at your cell phone when motors are moving....
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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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The 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...
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4Wall 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...
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You 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...
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This 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...
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YEAH! 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...
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PLSN 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...
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Things 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...
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Choreographed 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...
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How 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...
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Photographing 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...
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