RECOMMENDED LINKS

People

John McKernon lighting designer and Lightwright author

Scott Holdredge, scenic and production designer

Beth Turomsha, lighting designer

Minor Apocalypse, home of Greg Emetaz

spinachdip nyc, for all your East Village news

 

Jobs

The Lighting Design Group

Johnson Schwinghammer Lighting

Steppenwolf Theatre Company

CNN.com

 

Lighting and theatre

Nemetschek, makers of VectorWorks

Auto Plot, by Sam Jones, to make Lightwright and Vectorworks talk

New York City's Big Apple Lighting shop

Scharff Weisberg, sound, projection and lighting shop

Hello World Communications, sound and video gear, if you're making a small film on weekends

Adorama, for all your photo needs

B and H for the need to watch the best Rube Goldberg

ETC Lighting

Lighting Dimentions magazine

Entertainment Design magazine

Backstage Jobs, a great free site by Patrick Hudson, lighting designer

Tisch School of Design, NYU's graduate school for stage and film design

Graduate Tisch as a lighting designer? Stop by sometime and hang out.

 

Hobbies

Craigslist New York

BigSoccer, I'm there probably too often, but it's a great place to go for soccer discussion

MLS, America's top soccer league

Chicago Fire, Chicago's MLS team

Photo.net, a great resource for anyone who has camera or film questions

Orson Scott Card, author of Ender's Game, Seventh Son

Neal Stephenson, author of Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon

Kim Stanley Robinson, author of the Red Mars trilogy, Antarctica

Doug Chiang, artist or Robota and Star Wars illustrator

 

Good Ways To Waste Your Time, a potpourri of internet joys

The Sneeze, pure comedy, especially "Steve, Don't Eat It"

Cockeyed, ever wonder how much toothpaste was in that tube?

Savage Chickens, chicken cartoons on Post-It Notes

overheard in new york, the reality of the banality

Post Secret, fascinating, people write in secrets on hand made post cards, artistic and voyeuristic