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...
View ArticleVectorial 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...
View ArticleWhat 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...
View ArticleCrepuscular 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...
View ArticleRGB 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...
View ArticleFriday 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleAu-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...
View ArticleMisnomer 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...
View ArticleLate 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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