lighting observation #2

Posted on February 16, 2025 by previousstudent

February 13, 2024 at 7:20pm – Blink Fitness

The lights on the treadmill I am running on are counting the time and flashing red. All the other lights on the machine are white.

I used to be a runner, and I used to run almost everyday but with school it gets hard to manage. After my workouts, I try to get some cardio in to stay in shape, but I’ve been finding it hard to get back into it. The time is red, and I can feel it even when I close my eyes. Those lights are dicting my mood for the rest of the day. Can I run longer than I did the day before? Everytime I look at the screen I can feel the illumination almost telling me to give up and stop. Something about red that feels so ominous. The rest of the lights are yellow or white and it feels like encouragement compared to the bold red time in the middle.

 

 

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Light Observation #2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent

February 14th, 2025 at 11:30 pm – My bedroom

The starry night projector in my room is on and I am watching it while laying in bed to help me sleep.

Tiny constellations drift lazily across my bedroom, mimicking the quiet dance of distant stars. This projector washes my walls in a deep blue imitating the galaxies. On top are green dots acting as stars. The glow is neither harsh nor overwhelming—it is delicate and calm. Beneath this artificial night sky, the atmosphere shifts. The once-familiar four walls dissolve into an endless expanse, and suddenly, my room feels limitless. The gentle motion of the projected stars creates a hypnotic trance, and reality bends just enough to help me rest.

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Light Observation 2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent

February 14, 2024, 8:45 pm – Roosevelt Field Mall Parking Garage

Subjective Description: The LEDs of the lighting garage cast a yellow light on the grey walls and floor of the parking garage. It creates shadows and dark corners throughout the garage.

Objective Description: There is an ominous feeling as I walk towards my car. The on-going, concrete walls of the parking garage bear down around me. An occasional flickering yellow LED illuminates my pathway, casting long shadows and figures out of nothing. The lighting is dingy and ominous, the same ongoing color of the light cascading off the gray walls. The space is expansive and never ending, an unending expanse of concrete and shadows. I quicken my pace as I continue through the garage, feeling especially exposed and isolated.

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Lighting Observation #2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. Emily Lowe Room 108, 02/07/2025, 16:45pm
  2. One light is on in the studio as golden hour approaches bathing one half of the studio in an orange, golden light.
  3. A orange pool is cast through the window panes of the studio. Watching as one dancer plies gracefully as another runs. The running dancer jumps and is caught in the last second. Much like the position of the sun the partnered moment is fleeting. Light covers the lifter’s face illuminating their skin. Everything always feels calming, like a memory in these moments of light. Golden Hour feels like going outside to play as a child and hoping your mother wouldn’t call you in for dinner. These times of play that we loose as an adult are briefly relived in a partnered dance. It’s hard to believe that in just a few minutes the world will be dark, all nostalgia forgotten.
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Lighting Observation 2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent

2/9/25- 4:33 pm- My Bedroom

Objective Description: Sunlight comes through my window blinds and hits a potted plant and my dresser. 

Subjective Description: As I distract myself and procrastinate doing any semblance of work, I stare off into the distance. As my eyes relax, I come across a pleasing image. As the evening sun bashes through my bedroom blinds, the warm harsh sunlight cuts across a potted plant of mine like a razor blade. The sun leaves these stripped lines all across my plant that seemingly reminds me of noir films of the past. The sun drenches this object of mine in such harsh bright light and dark moody shadows that the plant takes on a mysterious feeling; like it is holding back a secret from me. The light added an interesting texture to my bedroom that was missed as the sun dipped below the horizon. 

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Lighting Observation

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent

1) 02/14/2025 1:22pm, LHCOMM Dance Studio

2) OBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: I am describing the sunlight coming into the windows that sit just below the ceiling in the dance studio. The sun illuminates the dancefloor.

3) SUBJECTIVE DESCRIPTION: It is Valentine’s Day, love fills the air. I’m sitting on the floor of the dance studio I have grown so fond of over the last 4 years. The big windows that complement the high ceilings let in the mid day winter sun. I can even see the light sneaking out from underneath the thick blue curtains bunched up on each side of the window. The light coming in is faint, but it coming from the windows several feet above me, I always find it quite beautiful.

 

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Light Observation #2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent

1) My dorm room, Thursday, February 13, 9:18PM

2) The lamp light shining, over the edge of the shelf over my desk, and through my vase of aquatic plants.

3) The light shines over the bookshelf from below, with the straight edge of the bookshelf making the angle of the light stark in the top of the vase, compared to the shadowed bottom. The light from the lamp is soft, muted by the lampshade and by the fact that I only use soft white 60-watt light bulbs. Although the shift from light to shadow through the vase is jarring, it is comforting in a way. It feels almost like a sunset, like a warm, soft light shining across the water at a lake or beach when the sun is going down, giving you those last few moments of warm light.

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Lighting Observation #2

Posted on February 14, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. February 13, 2025 – 11:03 P.M. – outside of my house as I am walking home.
  2. The sun is set but the sky is still slightly lit with the spill over of light pollution from the city nearby. There is some warm light spilling out of the windows of those who haven’t drawn their curtains and the streetlamps wash the street with cold white light.
  3. The sun having set hours ago most of the landscape I faced on my walk home was set in darkness, some areas dimply lit by light spilling in from nearby buildings and the rare spot is illuminated by the street lights above. There is a sense of calm in darkness after a long day. On this night the far away light of the burning stars is breaking through the light polluted skies. While it is dark the city, not truly very far, prevents the sky from being absent of any light, painting the sky in a deep blue. As I round the corner onto my street a large bright flood light assaults my vision with a cold brightness. I find myself wanting to retreat back to the dimly lit pathway, comforted by the night sky and the prospect of a new day approaching. The light feels so unnatural in this setting and I find myself avoiding the side of the street housing  a street lamp, wishing only for the peaceful comfort and clarity of a milky night sky.
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Lighting Observation #2

Posted on February 13, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. Living room of my college house – Thursday, February 13th at 6:07PM. 
  2. The curtains are drawn open so any visible light from the outside has the potential to seep in, except that the sun has already set, leaving the windows looking black with no natural light source to illuminate the room. Instead, the overhead lights are on; equally-distanced light fixtures that emit a harsh, white glare throughout the room.
  3. Considering the warm, outside glow of the sun had now abandoned me, it left one viable option for seeing: the big light. No one likes the big light. Unforgiving, crass, and exposing everything within its field of vision, the big light was nothing more than a soulless last resort for seeing in the dark. I should have been grateful for its one purpose– allowing me to function in the room without injuring myself–however there was nothing in me that felt compassionate towards the big light whose sickly, bleach-white existence itself was uncompassionate. Why grant this creation amnesty when its ulterior motives included sucking the life out of everything it touched?



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Lighting Observation #2

Posted on February 13, 2025 by previousstudent
  1. February 9, 2025 – 12:34 am – 75 3rd Ave, NYC (A dorm room on the 8th floor.)
  2. The sunset light in my friend’s dorm room, the Christmas lights on his walls, and the light pollution outside the city window during the snowstorm.
  3. Outside the night sky is a dusty gray, the same color as the slush piling up along the city streets. Icy pellets of snow are flying through the air at fast speeds, illuminated against the concrete buildings by the synthetic city lights. This drab, urban snowstorm creates a harsh and undesirable environment. However, it is contrasted by the warm sunset lamp within the dorm room in which I am residing. There is a red glow in the center of the ceiling, which slowly fades into orange and then finally a soft glow of yellow on the outskirts of the room. Lining the corners of the room are sparkling amber Christmas lights, their glow is whiter than the rest of the light in the room, but still warmer than the icy color outside. The twinkling of the Christmas lights against the warm, inviting color consuming the rest of the room felt like a soft, comforting hug, enveloping me and shielding me from the outside weather. Despite the blankness of the walls, the radiating light made the space feel intimate and safe, eliminating any worries that may be had about the storm brewing outside.
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