Drama 16 Stage Lighting

5/7/2024 – Go forth and SEE THE LIGHT! Have a great summer! – Rych

5/2/2024 – “Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.” Sven Nykvist, Cinematographer

4/25/2024 – “Ye stars! Which are the poetry of heaven!” – Lord Byron

4/23/2024 – “LIGHT belongs to the heart and spirit. LGHT attracts people, it shows the way, and we see it in the distance, we follow it.” – Ricardo Legorreta, Architect

4/18/2024- “Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.” – Marshall McLuhan, Novelist

4/16/2024 – “If there is one spot of sun spilling onto the floor, a cat will find it and soak it up.” – Jean Asper McIntosh, Author

4/11/2024– The air and the earth interpenetrated in the warm gusts of spring; the soil was full of sunlight, and the sunlight full of red dust. The air one breathed was saturated with earthy smells, and the grass under foot had a reflection of the blue sky in it. -Willa Cather, Author

4/9/2024 – “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” – Maori Proverb

4/4/2024 – “Color possesses me. There is no need to seize it. It possesses me. I know. Here is the meaning of the happy moment: color and I are one.” – Paul Klee, painter

4/2/2024– “You can’t have a LIGHT without a DARK to stick it in.” – Arlo Guthrie, Singer, Songwriter

3/26/2024– “They may as well have called the sun a ball of flaming joy.” – Terri Guillemets, Author

3/14/2024- “St. Patricks Day is an enchanted time – a day to begin transforming winter’s dreams into summer’s magic.” – Unknown

3/12/2024- “A LIGHT exists in Spring not present in the year at any other period.” – Emily Dickinson

3/7/2024- “There are two kinds of LIGHT – the glow that illuminates and the glare that obscures.” – James Thurber, Author

3/5/2024- “LIGHT is good from whatever lamp it shines.” – Unknown

2/29/2024- “In my house there’s this light switch that doesn’t do anything. Every so often I would flick it on and off just to check. Yesterday, I got a call from a woman in Madagascar. She said, ‘Cut it out.'” -Steven Wright, Comedian

2/27/2024- “Blue Flower, Red Thorns!
Blue Flower, Red Thorns!
Oh, this would be so much easier if I wasn’t color-blind!” – Donkey from Shrek

2/22/2024- “Electricity is really just organized LIGHTNING.” – George Carlin, Comedian

2/15/2024 “LIGHT is a powerful substance. We have a primal connection to it. But, for something so powerful, situations for it’s presence are fragile…I like to work with it so that you feel it physically, so you feel the presence of LIGHT inhabiting a space.” – James Turrel, Artist

2/8/2024- “There is no more worthy, more glorious or more potent work, than to work with LIGHT.” -Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov, Bulgarian Philosopher

2/6/2024- “In the right LIGHT, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.” -Aaron Rose, Photographer

2/1/2024- “LIGHTING is everything. It creates atmosphere, drama and intrigue.” -Martin Lawrence Bullard – Interior Designer

1/30/2024– “Without LIGHT it would just be radio.” -Rychard Curtiss