Light Observation #1
1) Feb. 2nd, 2012 – 5 a.m. – Dorm room, Alliance Hall.
2)Outside my window is a never-ending sea of speckled lights, every night they are on, and stay on. These lights range from soft oranges, greens, and blues, to strong and bright yellows, whites, and reds. The nearest building to me is the student center, and it also stays lit; its giant windows usually show us a gallery of empty rooms with fluorescent lights. But on this morning a smooth blanket of fog covered the city, and those surrounding it. The top of the fog cloud started right under my window, since I am on the ninth floor. Since it was night time, the fog was not itself visible, but the effects it had created when it covered thousands of lights was magnificent.
3) The light show, created by the city’s lights and the fog was beautiful. The fog sort of diffused each specked light and instead of looking like sprinkles, it looked more like glowing balloons floating in the air. These “balloons” were so randomly spread around the landscape, that it almost seemed like a pattern; as if it was important to have no two lights colliding with each other, and instead the evenly spread out as if they were placed one by one.The best part, in my opinion, was Hofstra’s stadium. The stadium has the biggest lights on display, and they give the richest orange color. These bigger “balloon” lights caught my attention the most, since they are gathered closely, and brightly. The lights surround the stadium in an oval shape, and these almost gold/orange lights create a crown. This moment was very serene. It’s almost as if the city, for just one night, had disappeared, and in its place it left a motionless body of diffused lights.