Things are gonna be changing around here.
Except not really. I'm just going to start posting here again after a decade long hiatus. I originally created this blog way back in 2011 for my "Lighting Concepts and Design" class at Full Sail and I've decided to breathe new life into it. That said, I'm going to keep all the original posts and designs from 2011. Because It's still the same blog, right?
I think I'm mainly going to be using it to post some art as I try to hone my skills a bit. I'm sure I'll be dumping some other stuff. Lots of nostalgia and memories probably. We'll see what happens.
I know I have a huge audience on here of about 1 person, myself included, so I'm pretty comfortable sharing my crappy old art and boring memories. But to the lost souls that happen to wander into this desolate, barren hellscape of a web page, I'm sorry for what you may see.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Blue lights are awesome.
Despite my previous, hate filled rant about blue lights, I have to give credit where credit is due. When I need to chill out after a long, LONG day of "Lighting Concepts and Design" the first thing I do is go into my bedroom, turn off all the annoying incandescent lights, and turn on my pretty blue lava lamp. I'll lie down and just mellow out. It works wonders. Just the cool blue pool of light filling my room is so relaxing. Especially since I'm not looking directly at the damn light source. So yea. Blue lights have their benefits beyond marking great sales at K-Mart.
Blue lights are the devil.
Driving down some road in Orlando I cant pronounce I drive by a little strip mall. In this strip mall, between a Gamestop and a Smoothie King, is a Vision Care place. Cant remember the exact name, but is was something boring. Like "Eye Care" or "Vision Care" or "Eyes See You" or something stupid like that. Anyway, it was a good a75 yards from the road. I looked and the sign and I thought, "Clever girl." The lit up sign over their door was made of large block lettering in a bright shade of blue. I could not for the life of me focus on that damn sign. My eyes just refused to make it happen. After getting a wee bit pissed off I thought to myself, "You jerks did that on purpose." I remember never being able to focus on blue light. Just blue. Like it was some demon color sent to the human realm to annoy me. "The eye care places must know this." I thought. What better way to get customers to come to a vision care place than to make them think their eyes are going to crap. Clever girl indeed.
Lighting. Lighting. Lightning! Lighting via lightning! I like that Idea. The noise may be a problem though. I remember looking outside on a sunny day and seeing a lightning storm. Sunny lightning storms. How odd. Only in Florida. But the lightning was still bright enough to illuminate the already sunlit world. Bright, bright stuff. If only there was a way to capture lightning and use it for a free light source. I need a mason jar, a key, and a kite. And a sexy powdered wig.
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
So I have to start a lighting blog.
For my 13th month at Full Sail University I'm taking a wonderful class know as "Lighting Concepts and Design" Looks like it should be quite interesting. One of our ongoing assignments is to keep a daily "lighting journal", which is essentially just a daily blog post about lighting in the real world that catches our eye. So here we go. Day 1.
Monday, June 27, 2011
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