Week #3 - Judged by Big Brother

I noticed these lights one night at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and the way they looked from my vantage point. Unlike my last post, which was also at the School of the Arts, which made me feel inspired and epic and ready to take on the world, the lighting I saw here seemed much more daunting and authoritative. The lines in front of the lights, created by the building's architecture, seemed jail-like to me. Then I was thinking about our conversation about different kinds of white light and how our eyes accept different kinds of "white." It was at this moment that I noticed the lights right on the path in front of me:

I took this picture to show the two different kinds of white light existing in the same frame. The warmer lights coming from the lamp posts seemed much friendlier and welcoming to me, while the brighter, harsher white lights above on the building made me feel rigid and like I was being looked down upon by some greater, judgmental being, like a Big Brother of sorts, the "administration" of the world, authority, greater powers. My main lighting focus for this blog is the harsher lights on the building, I just included this second picture to show the sharp contrast in different whites. Next to the lights on the building, the lights from the lamp post actually appear yellow, yet without seeing them next to the lights on the building, our eyes would accept them as white.