Homework #2 Painting

Because the internet hates me, I'm posting the image for homework number two because I really dont trust dropbox.

Fiarwerkz

Extremely bright. And loud, though that has nothing to do with the light. That's the gunpowder. I'm really digging the blackness surrounding the light. It just ends all of a sudden only a few feet away from the source. A light that intense(burning magnesium) really makes your iris slam shut.

Also, in New York, nothing about this is legal. :(

Ahhhhh.

See? This is the kind of sun I can get into. I can look in its general direction without dying. It's not harshing my vibe with its killer rays man. It's so warm, it's chill...

Seriously though, the angle of the rays entering the atmosphere at this time of day make the sun look red because of the way red diffracts in the atmosphere. At this time, we get all the red wavelengths, while California is still enjoying some orange and yellow. It's Science!

You may have noticed this already, but...

... if you spend more than a few minutes reading my blog in a dark room and then go to google or facebook or anything like that, you will be blinded. Maybe I did that on purpose. Who knows?

Florida.

It's always sunny. I hate it. Not like the weird goth sunlight hating way. In the way that it gives me a headache from squinting all the time. And it's so damn bright(duh) that it reflects off of everything. I'll often get unlucky enough to catch a glare off a car window or shiny silver paint job and I'll feel like my retina just imploded. I prefer warm overcast days when the sun just comes out to to poke me every once in a while. It can stay hidden 'till sunset. That's the only time I really approve of sun.

Lights everywhere.

I woke up in the middle of the night. You know, when you're eyes are dilated and you can see everything a whole lot better? It's pitch black in my apartment, but I feel my way ouf of the bedroom and into the living room. EVERYTHING HAS LEDS! I never noticed before how many LEDs exist around here. It reminded me of being in the woods at night and seeing those evil red and blue and green eyes looking at me. Ok that never happened but that's what I thought of. And for lights that I never actually notice, they're pretty bright when you're eyes get used to the dark.

SUPER EXTREME NARROW SPOT LIGHT

Ok you got me. It's just a laser pointer. But you have to admit they're pretty cool. With enough power you can get a beam of light to travel for miles without fading out into oblivion. And up close, it's bright enough and fine enough to write on desks apparently*.

*Credit for this fine penmanship goes to Andrew Hall.

I got a new flashlight!

Brand new! It's got one LED in it. Just one. I "tested" the little guy and couldn't see a damn thing for an hour. It's incredible how something that small can produce so much light. I stood in my living room at night with all the lights off and aimed it at the white ceiling. The light bounced off that ceiling and ran into everything. It looked like it was daylight in my room. Pretty cool stuff.

Speaking of color...

I used to have a green room. Not like a Hollywood green room. Just a room that was painted green. Light green. Relaxing green. Don't know why it's so relaxing. Probably because it's one of those cool colors Susan was talking about. Either way, every time I walked into that room I just felt better. Like, actually physically better. I don't get it. All I know is that I miss it. Everything in florida comes as a harsh, oppressive white. Combine that with the popcorn ceilings and its just an all day anger.

I love lamp

I bought the best lamp ever. It's actually more like 5 lamps in one convenient little package. One base, and then 5 lights branch off at the top of it. What's cool about this lamp though is that it came with different color shades for each light. Orange, Red, two different blues, and a white. The lamp has three settings too. First one turns two lights on. Second one turns on the other three lights, and the third turns em all on. So I get to choose what kind of lighting I want depending on the mood im in. I break the red lights out for angry times when I feel like punching things. Or I'll turn on the blues when I need to chillax. I'll also turn on red when I'm cold or Blue when I'm hot. I swear it makes me warmer or cooler. It's weird how color affects moods and feelings. Our brains are odd. I wonder if this happens with dogs...

Staring at blinds for hours. I'm not crazy.

Every morning when I wake up the sus is at just the right angle to project a perfect shadow of the leafy trees onto my blinds. I'm lying in bed and just watching the shadow move down the window, dreading actually getting out of bed. The shadow is so perfectly crisp it looks like it's painted on there. Makes me want to paint over it just to keep it there. I hate palm trees. Florida needs more leafy trees. They cast better shadows.

Blackest black you'll never see.

I did some research on that blacker black than black material. In my searching I came across lots of mascara, a bunch of pictures of Samuel L Jackson, and finally, a whole wealth of information about this cool new "carbon nano tube " stuff. From what I gathered, these materials are made up of about a million trillion gagillion little carbon "hairs" that are able to trap about 99.5 percent of light that hits them. This means that they are .5 percent away from making something completely invisible. Now, I'd mainly want this so I could make a suit out of it and creep around town at night. But according to NASA, this stuff actually has some pretty heavy scientific value to it. I'm not exactly sure what. They used some really big words when describing it, but from what I can tell it's pretty friggin' nifty.

Todays lighting blog vacation post...

I LOVE LIGHT!!!