Week 9 - Julian Xiong - Passion

 This is a picture of my plant. I have a big hobby of taking care of plants so I came to love cool lights that has over 1000 lumens. It's a very bright light that's beneficial for the plants to photosynthesize but also glows up the plants' beautiful green leaves. Since its a bright natural white light with 5000K, it immediately brightens up my room and especially on my plants that are used for decoration. The attention focuses on the plants.

Ari- Week 9- Passion

 While my friend and I were together looking for a match, we found this match connected at the top, it felt so special in the moment and represented our passion for each other that we wanted to share our drinks with the connected matches.  The lighting was mid day with a lot of natural lighting giving the cool tones with the cool tone floor,  The bottles both have warm tones reflecting the natural light into the scenery.  My eye is able to get drawn to the warm tones due to this.

Week 9- danny- passion

For this week's blog I asked myself: how to represent passion? The obvious answer would've been DANCE!

 I tried taking some pictures at the studio or in the Claire Trevor but It

 didn't feel like any of those pictures represented passion. To me dance is everywhere. I actually found myself dancing on my way to my car after a friendsgiving dinner at Emily's house. I stopped for a second becuase I though I was getting lost and I saw this emergency post. The light was very bright, it felt like it was shining a spot light on me. It felt like it was creating a stage for me to perform. To me dancing is my biggest passion and after taking this class I feel like I gained a bigger connection to that passion. 

I have a better understanding of the power of lighting. For example I always found it very hard to stretch at nights but now I just turn on my LEDs on blue and turn off the fluorescent light and I become very motivated, the world becomes cold and lonely around me and I can hear my breath and feel my body temperature. Whenever I want to focus on my homework I set the lights to the color green and that drains my energy so I become glued to my computer instead of be shifting back and forward. 

I had a lot of fun in this class and learned a so much, hopefully I can keep learning about lights.

 

Week 9 - Yellow Tree - Passion - Maggie

 

    This is a tree that I saw in the Palo Verde Housing, and the picture doesn't nearly capture the rich, saturated yellowness of the leaves! It was so bright under the street light against the dark night, and it stood out to me immediately. The vibancy was like the color of passion, and the tree felt to me that it was still growing and growing, its energy expanding with the shape of the branches and the bright color. 

    It was also a color that I really want to put in my New Slate piece, because there's something childish and happy about it. This color also reminds me of Wes Anderson's movies which have an innocent and even flirtatiously childish tone. 

Week 9- Emily- Christmas Tree Glow

 

This is a picture of the Christmas tree I have in my living room. At the time I took the picture, it was the only source of light in the apartment and it created this soft and colorful pattern of light on the wall. The reflection of light off the ornaments sends the light through the shadows of pine needles, creating a gobo effect. The shapes on the wall remind me of stars twinkling- evoking a sense of movement. The light also creates a mirror image of the shape of the tree. I enjoy the contrast between the darkness of the tree and the lightness of its projection on the wall. 

Week 9 - Yinqi - Sunset - Passion

Week 9 - Yinqi - Sunset - Passion

My choreographic inspiration always draws from nature. The sky can give me immense imagination and provokes my body to move. This picture captures the sunset. I especially enjoy the smooth transition from the dark pink at the bottom to the deep lavender blue at the top. Usually we think of the warm and cool colors as contradictions. But in this picture, the two colors are perfectly blended together. Emotionally it is neither a sense of melancholy nor an exuberant joy. This blended color balances the feeling. It makes me feel harmonious and profound. This deep sensation connects to my passion for dance. I like to create dance works that capture both tranquility and vitality. It is the distance between these two polaric feelings that makes me feel the depth of moving bodies. 

Ari Pulido- W7- Site Specific

Downtown Disney

 Although La Brea Bakery sounds like a cute shop, the outside of the shop seemed dark and isolated.  The dark chairs on the night sky covers up much of the lighting that could be seen.  The lighting is very warm and except for the red title, there is not much else to be desired. In a different location this Bakery could be successful with the lighting, but compared to the rest of Downtown Disney, I don't envision La Brea Bakery staying in business too much longer.

I can definitely say the pictures do not do Naples justice and the bar looked like a hip and fun place to be.  The tile Naples is lit in a bright white lighting next to a dark background so the name can be seen from afar.  The bar is open to the outside where all the drinks are lit of in an assortment of fun saturated colors. The bottom of the table was a bright light that contrasted the drink colors up above.   When I passed by Naples, I wanted to sit down and have a drink myself.