Brady Darnell is One Big Bad Wolf
One Big Bad Wolf is a blog by Brady Darnell – Brady is an actor, director, and writer in the Denver area, and he writes mostly about the Denver theatre scene. Brady had a great article recently...
View ArticleLooking Glass Theatre Company Extends Arabian Nights – Again!
Looking Glass Theatre Company in Chicago, IL has just extended the run of The Arabian Nights, directed by Mary Zimmerman. This show is getting a heck of a lot of great reviews – Mary Zimmerman is a...
View ArticlePilobolus – SHADOWLAND
The performance group Pilobolus is premiering a new work called Shadowland in Madrid tonight, September 18. Before I say anything else, watch this video, it’s just a few minutes. I got chills on my...
View ArticleIcewolf’s Guide to Photography for Theatre
I gotta thank charlesDcharles on Twitter for sending this my way – if you read Icewolf’s blog, then you’ve already seen this, but it’s worthy of another mention! Icewolf has posted a pretty excellent...
View ArticleA Short LDI Walkthrough
Happy Tuesday morning, everyone! I put together this short LDI walkthrough for those who weren’t there – it’s only 3 minutes and it’s not all-inclusive, but I think you’ll dig it anyway. There’s...
View ArticleEl Molino Burlesque’s Beautiful Video Facade — Barcelona, Spain
I was in Barcelona back in November of 2012; I posted some photos of that very busy trip, but I didn’t really have time to go out and do some sightseeing because of the show schedule. There is one...
View ArticleJim Hutchison Leaves CAST Software, Opens Lumen Buddha Studios – A Lighting...
I have the most amazing news to share, and I’ve had to hold it in for the last month… Fortunately this isn’t an April Fools’ joke! After four years with my extended CAST Group family, I’m very...
View ArticleLet’s Be Safer, At Least in the Entertainment Industry
Update: the image below is for free use, please download away and print to post in any place that you need to warn riggers to clip in. Right click here and choose “Save As” to grab the image. I was...
View ArticleVigilante Cell-Phone-in-a-Theatre Justice – Kevin Williamson vs Rude Cell...
You wouldn’t have your cell phone stuck to your face when you’re screwing, right?! THEN TURN IT OFF IN THE THEATRE! I have an extensive background in Theatre, and any time I see an article that...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, George Izenour!
Who’s that guy?! Wait — is that George C. Izenour? HEY! Happy Birthday, George Izenour! Today is the celebration of George’s 101st birthday! If you don’t know who this man is and the legacy he...
View ArticleChilean Volcano Video – Holy Volcanoballs
This might be the most beautiful footage I’ve seen this year — this is the Chilean volcano that just erupted. Its name is Volcano Calbuco, which in this video is spanish for “Amazing Video of a...
View ArticleThe Challenge of Lighting America’s Ballroom Challenge
A great article from Lighting and Sound America on the show America’s Ballroom Challenge, written by LD Chas Norton. Most definitely read this great article — PDF link below. PDF link:...
View ArticleSensationalizing Death – WSJ’s Article on Sasoun’s Fatal KÁ Accident
Our industry is entertaining enough; that’s why we’re called Entertainment. But, we are human, and we do make mistakes. Those mistakes are at the heart of the Wall Street Journal’s latest article on...
View ArticleA Stage Collapse, Full of Students, at An Indiana High School
What’s most important here? No dead students. One critical injury was reported, but we don’t know what that is yet or if that was downgraded. For their families and loved ones, this is tremendous...
View ArticleApril 2015’s TOP TEN JimOnLight Posts
Ah, we love seeing what you love to read, what irks you, what you love, what you hate, and everything in between! Like, for example, whenever I post segments of video that appeared somewhere else in...
View ArticleJOL Sunday Flickr #28
Do you Flickr? Are you still adding lots of your photos to the social photo sharing site of record? We would hope that you would feel welcome to join the JimOnLight Flickr Group and share your awesome...
View ArticleWhat Happened at Cirque’s KA, from A Thoughtful Tone
After reading the piece this last week from Alexandra Berzon on Sarah Guillot-Guyard‘s passing in the accident at Cirque du Soleil’s KA, there needed to be less frustration in my head towards why we...
View ArticleThink Globally, Pee Locally: Urine-Powered Disaster Zone Lighting
An invention that I see becoming pretty popular in places where human overpopulation creates a torrid scenario for both waste management and lighting, let alone just having any lighting itself… solving...
View ArticleA Video Introduction to Nanophotonics
Have you ever heard of Nanophotonics? It’s also called nano-optics — things like laser communication, optimizing solar cells and how much they can generate, near-field microscopy, surface-plasmon...
View ArticleCHROMA-Q is Looking for A Brand Manager
Jobs, jobs, jobs — awesome company CHROMA-Q is looking for a Brand Manager. Do you know what that is? It’s a pretty freaking awesome gig! Think you have the chops to drive industry progress? Job...
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