Ice skaters are reflected in a glass ceiling near Robson Square in downtown Vancouver prior to the start of the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics.

As I prepare to enter my 29th year of life on the planet Earth, I’ve become keenly aware of what has become a shocking, yet accepted, ideal of my daily existence: The older I get, the quicker time goes by. 2010 has been a textbook example of this theorem, with the year zipping past me more rapidly than my mental reflexes had time to react to. While lamenting on this accelerated time warp of life to a colleague at a holiday party last weekend (I could have sworn I saw the Grim Reaper smoking a cigarette against a car while looking at his watch outside that place), I was reassured that a year that seemed fleeting was only that way because I’d been busy and completed a lot of work. It wasn’t until I sat down and begin sifting through my photo shoots from 2010 that I realized that I have indeed done quite a bit this year!

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The Las Vegas Strip as seen from Frenchman Mountain in Las Vegas, Nevada, Friday, October 22, 2010. The LDI trade show and convention was recently held in Las Vegas.

Last weekend, while strolling amongst the beautiful girls, the flashing lights, and thick smoke in Las Vegas, I got the overwhelming urge to gamble. I didn’t want to gamble on a card game or sporting event, however. I wanted to gamble on which new light fixture on display at LDI 2010 would change the game in the lighting industry over the coming months. Those lights and that smoke I experienced, they were coming from the hundreds of booths on the LDI trade show floor, not from a seedy casino. As for the beautiful girls, well, they were pushing some sort of rigging accessories, I think. Read More…

Guy’s Standing O Award profile on the Apollo Design web site. Click the image above to visit Apollo’s site and read more about Guy and the award.

I’m excited to be returning to Las Vegas this weekend for the annual LDI convention, and I’m even more excited to be representing Apollo’s Standing O Campaign this year at their booth (#1412). I’ll be available to chit-chat about lighting design, visual storytelling, or for those that remember my last trip to LDI, how to enclose a Little Giant ladder in cardboard and tape on the floor of a FedEx shipping center. See you in Vegas!

Beach goers wade in The Gulf of Mexico at Indian Rocks Beach, Florida, Friday, June 18, 2010. Indian Rocks Beach, along with much of the West coast of Florida, is currently unaffected by the Deep Horizon oil spill which has devastated much of the Northern gulf coast.

Like many residents of The United States who haven’t been living under a rock for the past 60 days or so, I’ve been keeping up with the tragic oil spill that has plagued The Gulf of Mexico and many of its shoreline communities. And, like many residents who don’t live near the affected areas, the news stories have simply been unfortunate blips on my daily radar. While disappointing and unfortunate, the oil spill doesn’t affect me directly way up here in the Chicago area. I can go about my normal routine unaffected, and the oil spill is relegated to casual mentions over dinner, if that.

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