Lighting Observation (Devin)
1) 3/16/11- midnight- Student Center
2) A whitish blue top lighting on a large piece of conduit. Exposing the dust and grooves on the conduit. It is very slightly mixed with a yellow light.
3) This particular lighting moment made me feel curious. The bluish white color lighting on this large piece of conduit reminded me of tense moments in action movies where there is a break in the action and its dark and the only lighting source is mysterious and kind of spooky top lighting. The light exposes a lot of detail and I think that’s part of the reason it feels uncomfortable and creates a bit of tension. To help aid that uncomfortable feeling is the combination of white and blue light that shines down and really just overpowers the warm yellow light besides it. The light makes it feel cold and industrial. The conduit is painted so that you couldn’t tell if it was metal unless you know something about conduit. The white and blue light really makes it look like metal. This moment was really interesting because the lighting made the conduit look like metal and like conduit. When looking at a different section of the conduit it was painted red and therefore didn’t really reflect the true properties of conduit.