Friday, May 9, 2014

Blog #2- lighting that society had tied to an idea

I live in a dorm and the bathrooms have showers where they basically pushed the wall of the bathroom back a ways and then placed the shower in these separate coves, and each one has their own light. A couple days ago one of the lights for the shower was going out. So there is this section of my bathroom where the light keeps flickering on and off, and the shower gets pretty dark at night without the light on. When I see this I immediately think "Someone is going to die. This bathroom is the next murder scene." This made me think about how there are some types of lighting that are so built in as an idea that they automatically make of something in particular when we see it. So many movies have used a flickering light as something horrifying or foreshadowing that something bad is about to happen that when I see this in my bathroom that thought automatically goes through my head.

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