Sun Rise!

Week 6: Blog #3

In my previous blog, I took a picture of a sun set and I have learned that its color are dim orange ish! However, for this week's blog, I have decided that I want to explore the color of the sun rising in the sky. It was on Thursday early in the morning as I was on my way to UCI from Walnut where I came from. Due to traffic and because my 1st class starts at 8:00 AM, I woke up at 5 AM: I showered, ate breakfast, and left the house at approximately about 5:40 AM. It took me about an hour to get to the 55 South freeway! As I was on the 55 South freeway, I noticed that the sun is rising bright in the sky! I took my phone camera as I did before and I took a snapshot! To my surprise, the color of a sun rise is also very intriguing to look at just as the color of a sun set! It is somewhat yellow red ish with a little orange at the very bottom and it is not too bright as I thought it would be. Looking at this picture, I was wrong when I thought that it would be difficult for me to imitate the color of a sun rise. Analyzing this picture and giving some thoughts about it, if I was to imitate this color in lighting, I would use the par can in the back as a source to recreate the imitation of a sun setting! I am so glad that I have been given the opportunity to witness the sun rising in the sky! Thank you Lonnie for encouraging me to continue to study sunlight!

Week 6: The Queen Mary's Dark Harbor

This past month I worked at The Queen Mary for the Halloween event called "Dark Harbor". Full of scary mazes on and off the haunted ship, I was a monster who had free roam of the street. As the month grew on while working on this project I became more and more aware of the lights that surrounded me and how important it was to have these lights create the exact ambience needed for a haunted harbor. Plenty of fog machines were used along with the warm colored lights to create the eery feel. Orange was a popular color used for the lights. The placement of the lights were extremely important too because in certain spots it created shadows that could confuse the maze goers and in other places it created good hiding spots for the monsters as well as good places to strengthen the monster's makeup and features. Without the lights the atmosphere would not be the same. All the design aspects contributed cohesively together to create the perfect eery Halloween I'm sure many will not forget.

Light, it's Good for your Health

Three quarters of U.S. teens and adults are deficient in Vitamin D. Possible reasons for this deficiency are traced to skin-cancer preventing care: long sleeves, sunscreen, staying inside. Our diets also do us a disservice with most of us consuming little amounts of vitamin D fortified products like: milk, salmon, mackerel, and tuna. Even those who have sun-exposure should still take a supplement of 5,000 IU/day. The basic idea here is, the further away you live from the equator and the darker your skin pigment the more vitamin D you should be taking. However, artificial light sources are now being incorporated for people that are deficient in the vitamin D intake. This way, you can control the amount of UVA/UVB exposure you have and still be exposed to the vitamin D benefits like: more serotonin production (better mood quality), healthy skin, and white blood cell production. Pictured is a tanning bed that only emits UVB light that provides the benefits of the sun without the tan. Perhaps the future of lighting design lies in this possible collaboration with your health. Not only can the show be entertaining, but also therapeutic harnessed with the benefits of artificial light!

santa barbara

Since we've started this class i've been really interested in how people create natural light on stage. I can easily get lost in a a show but I've realized that what snaps me out of it is usually something really artificial looking with the lights. We've learned about different angles and intensities that create a realistic feel and when I uploaded this picture to my computer I started thinking about how this natural, beautiful, contrast of green and blue could be re-created. I was driving back from Santa Barbara on Halloween weekend and was able to capture this and it definitely felt nice to be surrounded by genuine color as opposed to the foggy, pollution coated mountains of Los Angeles.

Week 6: Green Garage

Walking down the street in Carson, I attracted to this gross looking florescent light. At the time, it looked more yellowish and dirty. After taking the picture, I was surprised to see it came out green. I guess that's what made it dirty looking. Now it seems more eerie and standoffish, not that it was inviting to begin with. I saw this right around Halloween too, so I hope they used it to compliment their decorations. The light definitely illuminated the entire driveway when it was dark out and serves a very practical function. It's harsh and intimidating glare would be complete with a scary dog to ward off possible intruders.

week 6 sunlight on an greens

I went to the atrium on balboa in sandiego. I took tons of pictures of flowers but after all those beautiful shots I looked up. The best show of light I saw this week was pure sun light throught a structure. I guess it is the simplist thought of light structured through the grates of the caging that eluminated the whole place. It filtered through the grates and then filtered through these beautiful plants to give light and cast shadows on the atrium floor.The direct light brought a beautiful study of reflecting lights and shadows. In no place were these two factors the same and it brought joy and the push to explore the space given.

Week 4 - Night Lights

On an overnight bus trip home I was traveling along the wide open section of I-5 and the lights were so bright it seemed like there was a city out in the fields of agriculture. For every home and every work station along the highway a very bright light created this sphere of yellow light that I never would have noticed in the day light. The lights made a very clear mapping of the land at night, there was a yellow orange haze over the buildings that were frequently in use and giant black spaces marked the orchards and fields. Even in places where the actual lights couldn’t be seen the orange glow hung overhead and was visible from very far away. The darkness created a whole different world entirely composed of light. Unfortunately I didn't have a camera to capture the moment.