Cutting Edge

So, the contrast in this photo came out so amazing that I really did have to blog about it. Having just purchased the new Platinum Gold 64GB Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge (Product Placement) this week I've been wanting to test the camera's abilities. Wow! That is all I have to say. I chose this picture, not only because of its amazing quality but because of the quality in which the coffee was prepared. The siphon filter was too artful to pass off. I tasted the most randomly excellent coffee by spontaneously visiting Demitasse café in Little Tokyo hours before tech rehearsal of Orphée et Eurydice. The orange coming from the bottom really looks spectacular inside the cafe. The shiny stainless steel/chrome/silver all around the bar gave a feeling of elegance. The lighting inside the establishment depended on the daylight coming from all the windows. The little lighting that was on was more for ambiance than function. I was so taken aback by this café that as I had already made my exit a faint breeze of relaxation came to me in my mind urging me to stay, and so I ordered something else, something new, something I had never heard of before, something cutting edge.

The Sun.

The sun is remarkable. What I love most about the sun is how it always ceases to amaze me with its potential to create. It creates mood. It creates color. It creates atmosphere. The sun simply makes life. The sun here is a great example of back light. As it lights the trees from the back, the setting changes for me from what was once a trees lined up in a row at school, has now turned into a forest like setting. The sun creates new scenes in everyday life within minutes, all you have to do is be willing to notice. 

-Daniel M. Ferreira

Friday Time

This is friday outside. I can see a sunlight up there, but dark color gel makes me only less than ten percent of the sunlight.

Eric Lee

Week #6

I've been riding the train since I started high school. Everyday when I travel I've never stopped and payed attention to the architecture of the station. The other day I was getting off the train one early evening and realized that the top of the station would light up and that it looked like a bird nest. The day I took this picture, the tower on top of the station was lit up a shade of indigo. The following morning, I realized that the surrounding walls of the underground station was filled with  phrases along with bird figures. I wrote them down, thinking if it related to how the architecture of the station looked like. The words themselves don't make sense, but the way I interpret it is, I'm the bird walking into the sky inside of the station and staying in the nest waiting for the train to come and when I reach my destination area the only thing between me and the phrases are the people surrounding me. Also, I thought of relating the word Destination with the color Indigo. Here are the phrases, from top to bottom:

Waking Walking
Sky Inside
Eyes Fly High to Nest
Mind Awake Area
Words Birds Between Us

-Alexa

Week 6: Overcast Sky

I really enjoyed the weather on Thursday. It made me ask another weird question: why don't shadows appear as often when the sky is overcast than when it's a sunny day? My guess is the intensity (temperature?) of the light gets lower as the sunlight is diffused by the clouds. So, going by this theory, there is some sort of correspondence between the temperature of the air on a given day and the temperature of the light. That is, on a cool, cloudy day, one gets this frosty, gray sort of light, and on a hot, Summery day, one gets that warm, Summery light instead.

Week #6 The Greatest Par

I couldn't sleep most of the night most of the night, however, that restlessness woke me up just enough times for me to catch this picture. Introducing: The Solar Par; backlight on my neighbors house at around 6 a.m, creating the Mothers Day sunrise.

Wee

Tech Observation

Tech observation was cool, I honestly wouldn't have left if I didn't have homework to do! I got to see what I guess is the real-life version of our projects in class, which in this case was Stacy (the designer) dictating commands to Alicia (the programmer), which were mostly updates to cues. I really like the use of moving lights in this production. Also, I learned that actors are ultimately at the mercy of the lighting designer in terms of blocking, not the other way around. I also got to see some of Martin's projection work, and I thought that was well-done too.