Author: Rob Johnston

Chimelong Ocean Kingdom has built an amazing nighttime spectacular parade called Journey of Lights.  This project involves eight huge parade floats and sixty illuminated performers.  I am proud to have been part of it! Continue reading “The Journey of Lights Parade”

It was April 1994 and I was loving two things: (1) working at Apple, and (2) building lighting controls.  My cohorts and I at Apple enjoyed building our own “nightclubs” in our homes so we could invite 300 of our closest friends and geek-out with a fully automated lighting system synchronized to the latest dance tunes. Continue reading “My First Lighting Controls”

Dawn and I *loved* going to Disney’s Pleasure Island on the weekends. Part of the reason is that we loved dancing and music, and the other part was definitely because the Mannequin’s nightclub had one of the most elaborate lighting rigs on the planet. Continue reading “Mannequin’s Dance Palace”

While designing software and system architectures at Apple, it was important to protect our work.  Each year Apple and Microsoft would “trade” patents with each other.  Both companies were hard at work trying to top the other.  It was of critical importance that we (Apple) had a portfolio of patents each year to use as bargaining chips against anyone else who might have patented things that we wanted to use. Continue reading “My Apple Patents”