Lighting Observation 7
1) 2012-03-16 1:00 AM
2) A flickering fluorescent light in liberty hall coming through a small window and reflecting off of multiple sources
3)I really hate fluorescent lights. I hate how artificial they feel. I hate the sickish tone they lend to a room when they’re too cheap. Most of all, I hate what they do when they’re getting near the end of their lives. This one is close to the end. The bulb next to it is already out, and this one cycles on and off every few seconds, stuttering back on, the off again. But what it’s doing is rather interesting. I’m working in the study room with the lights off, just my laptop and the laptop of the girl next to me. The flickering fluorescent is just outside the door. The door has one of those standard 8″ * 24″ windows with safety glass that you see on every classroom. Through this narrow window, the flickering light comes in at just the right angle to hit the ultra glossy iMac in the study lounge, and can again be seen (barely) on the white board directly across from me. I’m reminded of images of lasers and mirrors in a sort of lab… certainly not as focused and refined, but the same physics, just distributed more. I’ve always liked the tricks you can play with lighting and mirrors. Mirrors are seemingly almost impossible to use in traditional theatre given the position of lighting instruments and danger of blinding the audience, but there is a large potential for use in environmental and more experimental theatre that I think should certainly be explored.