Drama 16 Stage Lighting

2. Shanghai – Bund Sightseeing Tunnel, Markus Bahlmann, 2003

3. Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4. Long exposure photography creates images that by all rights shouldn’t exist. They are far too beautiful. This particular image is from a Shanghai Subway, but it looks like it is from another world. It is cotton candy, fireworks, phosphenes, and midnight motorcycle rides all at once, while being none of those things. It feels like dreams and first kisses. It is a tunnel ending in possibility rather than a train. it flows effortlessly from turqouoise and sea foam, through electric lizard, christmas green, and violet, terminating on the right in wildfire and sunflower. It draws the eye, and dazzles the mind. It feels like an entire moving lights show in a still image. such color and stripey composition create movement where none is, create excitement, and make ones heart sing.

1) Tuesday March 6^th 9:00am Playhouse stage

2) There were many different light sources on as both house and work lights were on, along with Megan doing a lights check across the entire plot all of which hit the down stage arches and cast a show to the floor

3) What I liked about this shadow was that it twisted so much that the size and shape were almost unrecognizable. The distribution puts darker shadows on the bottom enhancing the intimidation factor.  There was a cool color washing over the area giving it a mystical quality. A sense that it had never been discovered like deep underwater. Having worked on and stared at this show for a while now it caught me off guard to see a shape I recognized but then distorted enough to twist your head and wonder at it.

8 February, 2012
South Campus, outside Lowe
Around  7:30 pm

I’m walking north just before the ramp to Lowe. Gold light of the mid-setting sun covers the south side of one of the trees outside the building.

I’ve come to realize that I spend a lot of time looking at, speaking and thinking about trees – and I think I’m okay with that. The settings changed drastically for me when I moved coasts for school, and one of the most noticeable differences (besides the flatness of Long Island) was the trees. There aren’t nearly as many evergreens here as there are at home, just as there aren’t many non-evergreens at home like there are here. So naturally, I notice trees quite a bit. This particular instance really struck me because it was in the middle of the sunset, which is something I typically associate with the beach, if only because of how many I witnessed on the Puget Sound. What hit me most was the pure gold of the sunlight, and how that was visible even in the murky brown of the bark. It was also pretty contrasting, as the natural grooves and pockets in the bark were cast in shadows, giving them even more dimension with dark on one side and gold on the other. The tree was tall and scraggly and devoid of leaves, which in my mind collided with the gold of the sunset in a way that spring and winter really don’t. There’s usually more of a natural fade from one to the other – maybe with some freak snow storms every so often – but seeing these two examples of seasons so drastically converge startled me to an extent. You never really think of the seasons as being separate, rather cyclical, but at their heights they can be severely different.

2.http://media.photobucket.com/image/colorful+pictures+/J55JT55/colorful.jpg

3. Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4. When I saw this picture, I literally spoke out loud “Wow.” The combined colors coming from one place and being reflected by the water was really a great image to me. Also when the colors are reflected in the water, you don’t see the clouds so it’s just all of the colors from the source of light that you see. Also you see colors in other areas in the sky, not just from the direct source, and I thought that was really interesting and contributed an even better effect. Now I know what it would look like if you combined all the colors of the rainbow and jumbled them all together.

2. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alex-stoddard/4845416528/in/photostream

3. Vibrant, colorful, saturated

4. What I love about this picture is the use of color. The light was achieved by using a small lamp, similar to an astroglobe, with different colored panels all around it. The result is this tie-dye effect – all of the bright colors are meshing together and masking the room in a vibrant glow. While Alex is saturated in pink and orange, you can see the full range of colors on the mattress. Although the light is bright and the colors vibrant, there is also a softness to it as well. I think this is partially due to the fact that the shadows are not very harsh. It creates a very unique effect.

1. 3/8/12 at 5:00 p.m. during my Italian Comic Books class

2. Sun lighting trees outside of the room

3. My Italian Comic Books class is pretty interesting, and I’m usually not looking out of the window. Today however I looked outside for a minute and noticed a pretty marvelous sight happening right outside the window. The sun was almost set, but there was still a lot of light coming over the trees. It looked like a dream, and with the weather being the way its been over the past few weeks, it was quite a welcome change. It cheered me up a little bit to see such a nice sun over the trees, and I got dreamy for a few minutes as I imagined spring coming right around the corner. Fortunately my professor didn’t notice my daydreaming.

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1. 12.00AM, Thursday, March 8, Speigal Theatre during cabaret.

2. The row of lights backlighting Philip Schaffer as he read his new poems made him glow in red, yellow, and blue.

3. I love poetry at cabaret. I love the energy, the passion, and the care taken when spitting out images. If a poet is passionate, it comes through his words, his actions, and the aura he casts. Philip Schaffer, is often one of those poets. Up on the Cabaret stage, he shines, and flails, and forms his words with such love and hate and allofthefeelings, that it is impossible to not get swept up in the sound of his voice, even if you don’t catch every metaphor. The cabaret stage lets him shine in other ways too. The frontlight picks up the reds in his skin and the plaid of his shirt, but its the backlight that is really impressive. above Pip’s head is a row of alternating red, blue and yellow lights that catch his movement with flares in your cornea. The lights melt on him, stretching across his skin as he moves, hanging onto his words as tightly as the audience. Something about his performance makes the lights dance as his teeth do. In pure colorful poetry, a subtext under his.

found at http://www.ingenuestyle.com/2012/02/neon-in-menswear.html

3) Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4) The thing I love about this picture is not only that Brad Goreski is the focal point of it, but also that his bright orange Prada suit is such a focal point which I love.

The actual lighting of this photograph may be a generic midday wash, but his suit has enough brightness in it that it appears to be the actual light source. Your attention is immediately gravitated towards him, which is heighten by the “daily life” lighting around the group of people. There is no fancy shadows or angle of the sun, it’s just light. In the way that we see it and take for granted every day.

However, the suit reflects that daily light. If there was no lighting or even dull lighting, the suit would not look as bright. It takes good lighting to make fabrics really pop. So the light may appear simple, but it’s in fact doing it’s job. Also, most people are actually walking in the same direction as him but the fact that he stands out far more than them makes him look like he’s a fish going upstream or walking against the grain which I think looks really cool. They’re all dressed in generic dark pants and white shirt and here he is- BAM- a punch in the face.

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2) http://bamkapowxo.tumblr.com/post/13596712059/beautiful-places-greece

3) Vibrant, Colorful, Saturated

4) This is a beautiful photo of the Greek Islands at sunset. The sky is so saturated with yellows, oranges, and pinks that it’s almost unbelievable. The warm saturated sky compliments the blue saturated roofs of the buildings. It’s just so breathtaking. I have no more words.

1) 3/3/12 – 5:44PM – Quadship Enterprise

2) As I sat on my bed by the window, the fluorescent lights were on in my room. The blinds were shut halfway down and a beam of sunlight was hitting my leg.

3) As I sat on my bed writing a paper I didn’t want to write, the fluorescent lights perfectly described my emotion: cold, drab, dreary. Then seemingly out of nowhere came this beautiful orange-pink light hitting my leg and practically glowing. I looked to the window to see the source of this beautiful light, and there was nothing. I could only see the harsh straight lines of the blinds blocking the source of my happiness. I felt like Tim Allen’s character on Home Improvement, who never sees his neighbor’s face. Wilson always gives Tim worldly advice and makes him laugh, but Tim only ever sees his eyes over the top of the fence. At the end of the day its OK that Tim never sees Wilson’s face because he provides him with the worldly advice and laughs that he needs. The same goes for this magical orange-pink light. At the end of the day it brought happiness to my drab and dreary life, so it doesn’t matter whether or not I could see the source of it.