Drama 16 Stage Lighting

1. My room Monday March 11th, 8am

2. Walking into my room the sunlight is coming through the blinds and filling the room with light.

3. As I enter my room sleepily, the imitate bright light hits my eyes. The light was able to reach through the cracks in the blinds and illuminate my entire room. The light gave enough brightness and warmth that there was no need to turn on a light, it made everything visible. The bright light made everything feel warm and opening the blinds it appeared to be that way.

2. http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/african%20sunset?before=17

3.  Theme: Hot

4.  When I think of hot I immediately think of sun, and summer. But even hotter to me would probably be the sun or summer in Africa. In thins picture the sun is setting over the vast terrain, and illuminating the sky with a glowing orange light which to me makes the picture feel even hotter versus a blue sky. I also like how the zebras are in the picture it makes me think that they’re probably out getting the last of the sun before it disappears for the evening and the cold begins to come.

1) Studio, 3/15/13, 2:16am

2) Only half the studio lights are on, the side with the windows is dark and the side without has florescent lighting.

3) With the amount of light split directly down the middle, there is a discombobulating sense of inequality in the room. The side with the light is a stark white walk, creating a strange, bright, artificial glow from the left side of the room. The side that is not lit is dark, but not foreboding. The warm orange streetlight glows from outside, and creates long shadows on the desks. Although brightness is normally preferred and seems happier, there is something about the darker side of the room that is comforting, relaxed and warm.

2) http://grist.org/cities/l-a-braces-for-hellish-heat-waves-while-world-leaders-diddle/

3) Theme: Hot

4) When I think of the word “hot”, I think about parking lots in the summer. Anyone who has tried to run barefoot across the pavement in late July sunshine in Connecticut knows that it is not a pleasant experience. This picture expresses the hot, muggy feeling of those summer afternoons. The orange light makes it so that although the sun is bright, the sky is not, the looming haze of humidity overshadowing everything on earth. Even the sun looks distorted in this haze. The seeming ripples at the bottom of it’s orb make it look as though its melting in this hot and sweaty world.

1) 3/13/13 9:30 P.M. Outside the playhouse

2) The slim crescent of the moon in a black sky without stars. The real light of the moon in contrast to the artificial light of the lamps and buildings

3) Surrounded by light, sometimes we are blind to the reality. What we now view as commonplace is only a production of our needs. The pure heart of the moment is that there may not be light. We take for granted the gifts light has given us. At the same time we have learned to be unaffected by where the orignal light came from. Seeing the pure white light of the moon, however small. meek, or hidden, is a reminder of our roots. It shows how far we’ve come.

2) http://photography.zinonline.com/archives/41

3) Hot

4) The sheer power of the sun is truly frightening  and wonderous. It has taken a cool blue sea and sky and completely washed over them with its influence. Even the dark sand is brightened because of it. It looms over the world, baking it in a warm glow, radiant and omnipresent.

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2) http://www.buzzle.com/articles/desert-facts.html

3) Hot

4) Well this photograph is of a desert, which is obviously something that is very hot. What sticks out to me in this picture, however, is the rising/setting sun. It means the desert is in its first or last moments of heat in the day. Some sand is absorbing heat, which contrasts with the sand cooled by shadow. It’s hot as long as the sun is out and the sun is still present in this picture.

1) 6:18PM, 3/14/2013, Adams Playhouse Quad on the way to Antony & Cleopatra

2) The sun was setting. It was just barely visible over Memorial Hall. Similarly to how the stage light in Adams Playhouse left me with an afterimage before, so did this small section of visible sun.

3) The power of the sun cannot be equaled. Even such a small sliver of yellow sun creates a force to reckoned with. Slowly slipping behind the building, it leaves those gazing on it with one last image of itself to last with them for a few more seconds. It gives us this to remember it in its absence, giving us a reminder that it is not gone forever but will be back again soon.

Volcano Lightning

Image Credit & Copyright: Martin Rietze

From this article: Earth’s Blog: Sakurajima Volcano (this link will give you an explanation of the phenomenon)

Both Powerful and Hot

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2. Photo from http://scrapetv.com/News/News%20Pages/usa/images-8/blazing-sun.jpg

3. Theme: Hot

4. Looking at this photo, my mouth begins to dry and I become parched. When I thought of the theme “hot”, I immediately thought desert sun. There is something about the sun shines through the clouds  and spreads it’s beams wide. The variety of reds, oranges, and yellows, fill the sky creating an image of fire in the sky. Sunlight always warms you and is correlated with “hot”. Even on the coldest day, everything seems that much better when you are in the sun instead of shadows. It’s heat is a strong memory in the brain and therefore, the light itself triggers that feeling of hot power beating up against your skin. This picture is a perfect visual for that feeling. When you look at it, you get a little tingle against your skin because your mind wants to experience the sensation of heat it gets when it see’s the same image in the sky.