Week 7: The Colorful World of Cats, Color Mixing Discovery, & Ice Clubbing

In one of my earlier blogs I took a picture of this lighting fixture in my house. I was confused that it wasn’t color mixing, and thought maybe it had to do with the angle of the glass that the light being refracted through. On my post, Lonnie said to take another look with all of the lights off. I did that and I realized that there is color mixing going on. The yellow light in between the green and red are mixing to make a very natural looking yellow light (natural as in it comes from a house lamp). My mind was blown. It didn’t accrue to me at all that this subtle color was mixing. It shows that color mixing doesn’t have to be dramatic. It’ll be cool to see what happens when I finally trade out the green gel for the blue one.

Inspired by the Olympics, my brother and I decided to go ice skating. Apparently there is a time when the lights go crazy and it becomes like a club. I thought the lighting was terrible. It was awkward, and splotchy and the color choices really didn’t work well together. Of course it was for spectacle, trying to make ice skating more hip like cosmic bowling, but it was just badly done. The light positions didn’t make sense at all, and it was just bad. 

During Christmas break I put some lavender gels on the little LED light bulbs in our chandelier. Someone who is close to me has some mental instability. They were drawn to the room because of it’s calming, icy lavender feel. 

For awhile we kept trying to find a lavender source of light for this person. Gels melted to lights, and we couldn’t find blue or purple bulbs. I finally decided to just wrap some gel around this LED desk lamp. It created the clam, soothing feeling that this person. It also attracted cats. 

Almost all of our cats had to come check out this blue/lavender light. The person I made this for even said that cats were sleeping under it at night. Cats can see some colors, so it was really interesting to see how they were also interested in this differently colored light.