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Late Night Article: The Leonid Meteor Shower is Tonight!

I just read that the Leonids will be visible tonight! For those of you who are not major nerds like me, the Leonid meteor shower is a remnant from the comet Tempel-Tuttle – apparently way back in the...

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Vectorial Elevation, JimOnLight.com Readers Edition

Like I promised, this post is a tribute to some of the Vectorial Elevation designs that were produced live in Vancouver, Canada over the last few months.  The Vectorial Elevation interface is still...

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What is The "UV Index," and Why Should I Care?

I was driving earlier this morning through Ontario on my way to Buffalo for a flight, and the sky was clear and cloudless.  It's a little on the chilly side up there in the Buffalo area (at least it...

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Crepuscular Rays. Know Them, Love Them.

My friend Millisa sent me this pic the other day, and it kinda blew my mind: Those rays!  Holy crap!  SO BEAUTIFUL!  That's the stuff that paintings are made of, right?  Funny enough, they actually...

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RGB Color Mixing with Atmospheric Nuclear Explosions

A cool dude named Kjetil from Twitter (@kjeik) sent me this pretty awesome and scary video from NPR – back in 1962 the United States did some atmospheric nuclear weapons testing.  It was broadcast in...

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Friday Awesome – Northern Lights Time-Lapse Video

Whoa. This has been one crazy busy week!  I'm in technical rehearsals tomorrow for a greek show called The House of Atreus – I am lighting the show, and I wrote a bunch of music for it, so my brain...

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The Lightning Fantastic, Oklahoma City, August 8, 2011

I drove back from Arlington, Texas last night.  Long story short, I left around 8pm last night, and I spent the entire three hour drive just completely enamored with the sky lighting up with huge...

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Au-WHOA-ras!

Arctic Photo, Tromsø, Norway Seeing an aurora has been on my bucket list since as soon as I could brag to my childhood friends the name of the Disney princess was actually a  freaking awesome...

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Misnomer Majestica: Fire Rainbows

So-called Fire Rainbows actually have nothing to do with fire or rainbows, however they are absolutely awesome! The correct nomenclature for this optical phenomenon is circumhorizontal arc...

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Late Night Excellent: Rain Room at The Barbican, 2012

This is absolutely great.  Before I say sh*t, watch this: Rain Room at the Barbican, 2012 from rAndom International on Vimeo. OK, no, wait, watch another video, it's late anyway: GAH!  This is too...

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