Photo Observation
Theme: wild card
Photo taken by me, Dec. 9th 2021 at 10:21pm
Description: I know I use a lot of concert photos for these photo observations, but I love concerts, I love concert lighting, and I have so many cool concert photos that it would be unreasonable not to use them. Anyway, this lighting inspires me. I think it’s awesome. The band is The Aces – this was their New York show at Webster Hall, and this lighting in particular was, I believe, during a song called 801, which is about growing up gay in a small town. The Aces’ first album was pretty tight-lipped about queerness, and their second album, by contrast, was unapologetically queer. This lighting represents a culmination of that growth; there’s a shamelessness to it, and also an unavoidability. If you’re at this show, you’re going to see this rainbow lighting. Also, just from a technical perspective, I like how it’s done. The lights point out and up so they’re not in anyone’s eyes, they’re spaced at fairly regular intervals, which I appreciate, and each color is such a saturated, highly representative hue for the color it’s supposed to be. I especially love the red.
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