I'm ready to be immensely basic in this post, but I don't mind so much because this has been a dream of mine since I first watched the movie Balto as a kid. Seeing Almost, Maine this past weekend reminded me of this aforementioned dream. Dan Gold, the lighting designer for the show, did such an incredible job with using moving cyc lights to imitate the movement of Northern Lights. To me, the Northern Lights are just the universe's version of magic and it just makes me feel like life has endless possibilities. It's just the sort of thing only in dreams, but it's even better because it's real. (I apologize for the incredible amounts of cheesiness for those lactose intolerant and who may be reading this, but I mean it!) The way the Northern Lights move in such an etherial fashion is so out of this world and reminds me that the universe is so vast and there is more to life than our daily difficulties. It's very humbling and I want to see them before I die.
Yes, it is wonderful to think of when we get bogged down by why lighting does what it does and the northern lights are a great reminder of the magic of light and what it can do to us
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