Light Plot Deconstructed Contest
During the month of October, iSquint.net and JimOnLight.com will be running a very special contest together. Rather then butting heads trying to out do each other with this contest, we decided to work together and give you, the value reader more chances to win. Greg Hillmar, the author of Light Plot Deconstructed has graciously donated [...]
Read More ...WYSIWYG Release 24: Virtual Lighting Designer Heaven
Jim Hutchison from JinOnLight.com was kind enough to allow us to re-print parts of his recent review of WYSIWYG Release 24 by CAST Software. WYSIWYG, (What You See Is What You Get). is a Pre-Visualization software package to plan and design your lights for theatre, events, concerts, whatever, WELL before loading in a single piece [...]
Read More ...Congratulations JimOnLight, One Year and Counting!
Way to go Jim! All of us here at iSquint congratulate you on bringing excellent lighting news to the interwebs with JimOnLight.com. You really have the ability to find some interesting uses of LEDs in the architectural world! Also, kudo’s to your wife and web designer, the new layout looks fantastic! If you do not [...]
Read More ...Safe Travels Jim!
A good friend, fellow blogger and contributing author, Jim Hutchinson from JimOnLight.com heads to Sweden this week. Jim is heading over the great big blue to study, you guessed it cooking… just kidding. Jim is heading to Sweden to study lighting design for a year. All of us here at iSquint wish him safe travels [...]
Read More ...Hi, I’m Jim from JimOnLight.com
Allow me to introduce myself – I’m a fellow lighting blogger and lighting designer. I write JimOnLight.com, and I own Alive Lighting, my design and consulting firm. I’ll be doing my best to keep up the fine work that iSquint produces, and hopefully bring you some interesting articles in your daily read! In a week [...]
Read More ...New iPhone App: ShowTool LD
We just read over at JimOnLight.com about a new iPhone app for Lighting Designers called ShowTool LD by Daniel Murfin. ShowTool LD packs 4 applications into one, dispswitch calculator, DMX calculator, gel calculator and a beam calculator. All of this for only $3.99 through the iTunes App Store. What is nice about ShowTool LD is [...]
Read More ...Lighting Industry Professionals: PassPorts and Touring on A Budget
We follow one our our fellow bloggers, JimOnLight as he has some great information about the lighting industry. Recently JimOnLight write about two things that we feel that every lighting professional should know. The first being having an up-to-date passport. Why is this important? Traveling outside of the United States even to Mexico or Canada, [...]
Read More ...Where is the Indusrty Heading: Interview with Jim Hutchison
In our continuing column called Where is the Industry Heading, we bring you another interview of a professional lighting design, Jim Hutchison with Alive Lighting. Mr. Hutchison is the Chief Design Consultant and founder of Alive Lighting. Jim has years of experience in the Entertainment Lighting industry, and has years of collegiate teaching experience, helping [...]
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