March 5th, 2025 – Bits and Bites (Hofstra University)
The lights in Bits create a comforting and nostalgic feeling.
The rain is pouring outside, this is one of the worst storms I’ve seen all year, and unfortunately I had to walk 10 minutes in it. I walk into bits and start eating I get greeted by this warm and almost orange like light. I get this feeling you would get if you walked into a diner late at night. The whole dining area is illuminated by this and the only thing I can think of that reminds of this light is the sun. Orange, yellow, and red.
1)March 5th, 2025, the bottom level of my house in my kitchen
2)The sun set reflecting the blinds leaving a cool shadow/ pattern behind on the floor
3) I came home on Wednesday after classes from the train station and the sun was setting, I was able to get home a little earlier than usual. I set my stuff on the floor and had pulled out my laptop to check on something. Thats when I noticed the pattern on the floor from the blinds. It reminded me of the same effect a gobo is supposed to give, but this was with natural sunlight. Before taking this class I would have never noticed something like that and I thought it was cool that something like that could happen naturally. I looked outside to see the sunset and the sky was full of pretty pinks and purples. It was almost like looking at a painting.
The light shines into my kitchen, casting a bright box on the floor. The light creates rainbows around the floor.
It is the perfect time in the afternoon when the light refracting into your house is the most calming shade of light imaginable. The light shines through a window to my right, casting a rainbow spattering across my floor. There is a tranquility throughout the house, a sense of quiet that is so rarely found. It is a moment of pause, a second to breath. I pause a second, breathing in the scene. I try to take a picture. Although the picture is the same of my kitchen before me, that sense of calm, that sense of peace will never translate through a camera’s lens. There is simply the moment, the refraction of the light across my floor, the light cascading through the window, the peace.
1) 03/07/2025 — 10:32 pm
2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: A single house light shines down from the ceiling. The light is a yellow/white light. Shadows are cast against the wall from the group of people in the room.
3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: Hours have gone by in the bedroom as the group deliberates a big decision. The single light creates a blanket of atmospheric anticipation. Shadows cast against the wall moving around sticky notes. The light starts to get dimmer the longer we are in the room closing in on the deliberative decision.
1) 03/06/2025 8:19 pm
2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: My tall lamp in my bedroom brightens the room
3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: The week has been long, just like the winter. There has finally been in the break in the cold, snowy days and I’ve been greeted by the sun’s warmth. As the day is coming to an end, I sit in my small bedroom. It’s small enough to be lit by just one light bulb. The warm light almost makes me feel warm, and it brings me comfort at the end of my long days.
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