Blog #5 - Put lights in a jar...it'll be cute

This past weekend I was in Barebones' 2019 Showcase in a piece choreographed by Crista McClain with lights by Natori Cummings. The piece I was in was called "Searchlights" and because of the title the choreographer gave us all little jars with little lights in them as a present, it was very cute. For my blog I decided to talk about how using something like a string of lights and a jar you can create a quite bright light as you are condensing the light sources. The pictures attached are not serving their purpose very well but the intent was to illustrate how, outside of the jar the little lights are not very bright or powerful all spread out but putting them in a glass jar not only condenses the source, bumping the intensity, but since it is in an imperfect glass jar, the jar makes the light coming off of the string lights light glowy sort of shimmery in a way that the lights themselves on their own don't accomplish. As soon as I started thinking about how the lights when in a jar all together are significantly more intense I felt kind of silly because practically it was the kind of thing that I've always known about. Even in my own bedroom, where I also have string lights hung on the walls, I don't just use one string but I use two strings on top of one another to make the lights brighter. I knew that this would be the case but getting a jar of lights actually made me thing about it because the jar was magnifying the topic so well.