This past Tuesday, I celebrated my friend's 21st birthday at California Adventure! A group of us sat overlooking the lake on the patio of the Ariel's Grotto Restaurant, and in front of us was Mickey's Fun Wheel all aglow with magnificent neon colors. My eye is always drawn to this ferris wheel because the lights exude so much positive energy. The intensity and brightness of the colors stir immediate joy and the energy they contain is contagious. The rainbow of colors the wheel goes through is so childlike and fun, it's hard to restrain those hyper jitters and almost impossible to not be reminiscent of the days of innocence when magic was real.
Now, I know this is show and we're technically supposed to stay away from staged lighting, but I also want to briefly touch on the wonder of the "World Of Color." Light alone already affects our emotions in powerful ways, so I find it extraordinary how much more deeply it can affect us by being just slightly manipulated by something as simple as water. The lights in the show dance, sway, float, and shoot in ways that would never be possible by just straight lights with the simple addition of power jets. Watching it, you sort of forget that the water is there after a while, and when that happens the resulting image is emotionally overwhelming. The rays of lights seem to be bending and dancing on their own, which is physically impossible and as such produces a sense of magic in the air. It makes me as awestruck as a 5-year-old meeting Mickey Mouse.
Great images - yes, that show truly shows the power of light!
ReplyDeleteGreat ties to your emotions.