Drama 16 Stage Lighting

2) http://framework.latimes.com/2010/08/18/the-iraq-war/#/0

3) Bete Noire

4) Bete Noire, meaning, “someone or something which is particularly disliked or avoided; an object of aversion, the bane of one’s existence,” for me can be identified in warfare. This image, from 2003 in Baghdad during the Iraqi war. As someone who believes that issues can be settled/solved peacefully, this image embodies the possible destruction that comes of war. Man’s destruction of himself is visibly present in this picture; the only light source derives from the fire and its reflection. On a much smaller scale, I avoid wars on a day to day basis, making sure to keep the peace between everyone; when confrontation blows out of control or out of proportion (which happens easily with Drama majors) I feel like this image on the inside and I feel like having to sweep up the smoke and debris.

1) Outside Spiegle Theater, Thursday 4/10 at 2:00 PM.

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I was leaving my Styles class from the Spiegle and intended to read over a scene with Matt Engle on our way to Modern, but I really couldn’t see anything due to the sudden change in light and my left eye watered the whole walk.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Because of the sudden brightness and flood of light, my eyes went into shock. An immediate layer of water filled them, particularly the left eye, causing me to have incredible difficulty reading the script that I held in front of me. Due to this experience, I felt as though I was floundering, with nothing tangible to grasp and ground me besides the light. The immersion in bright light felt very much like a flood, and my eyes reacted similarly in this imagery when they watered. I felt like I was drowning and floating, a positive and simultaneously negative experience, that was not settled until I had walked inside another building. Every person I walked by could have been a fish in this sea of tears, or a particle floating along. Everything was distant, blurry, and uncertain; I was immediately immersed in the uncanny without a choice. It made me hyper aware of how much we all listen with our eyes.

http://www.scenicreflections.com/media/381232/Snowy_Night_Forest_Wallpaper/

Bete Noire

This picture represents something that I often have mixed feelings about. Though I enjoy a walk in the snow, there are very few situations in which I am more uncomfortable, especially at night. Being alone or lost in a cold, dark forest is a fear of mine, and I can’t imagine anything worse.