I thought I’d make everyone aware of that Apollo has a gobo contest going on right now where you can vote for some new designs, submitted by other designers, that will be added to the stock gobo catalog. I did not enter this year, but I have a handful of friends who submitted work and hope they win. I will be fair and will not mention which ones more

I would have to say that my Spring semester was pretty packed and I am relieved that it is over for the time being. It is nice to have two years of grad school under my belt. I haven’t blogged much, because I really haven’t been around. As a quick recap here are some of the exciting things I got to do this semester:

In January school started more

The good news is that the campaign to mobilize the lighting industry to fight the proposed Texas House Bill 2649 appears to be working: reports coming out of ESTA and IALD indicate that the legislators offices are being flooded with calls.

The bad news: some of those calls have been a little rude.

The legislator’s offices are reporting some nasty comments mixed in with the reasoned pleas, and both ESTA and IALD more

I’ll say one thing about this industry: it’s certainly plugged in. Ever since word broke on Tuesday about this nasty bit of Texas legislation (Texas House Bill 2649, or THB2649) that would prohibit lighting designers who work in Texas to work on projects without being licensed as either an electrician, architect, engineer, landscape architect or interior designer, blogs, social networks, and other online media lit up like Super more

In light of all of the ridiculous news coming out of Texas today surrounding House Bill 2649, I thought I’d share some information brought to my attention by Jim Hutchison of the blog JimOnLight. Jim’s done a fantastic job all day of keeping a whole bunch of twitterers in the lighting industry apprised of the latest news. More importantly, Jim has done all of the leg work more