Power To the People

Lighting is an essential and integral component of photography and cinematography. Its fundamentals and concepts can similarly be applied to painting, drawing and other art and media.

In my own video work, I frequently employed photofloods which are basically high-temperature photography bulbs, to offset the reddish effect of practical lighting sources. Video images require ample light to control shadows and my low-definition camera needed the extra enhancement. Rarely did I shoot anything with practical lighting as those sources are essentially everyday lower wattage light sources like household incandescent bulbs that photograph red or ‘warm.’

Light and warmth, often codependent, are incidentally two necessities that recently became scarce to residents of Texas and other areas devastated by the current winter storm and power grid shutdown. Texas has been particularly affected as a direct result of its power grid which is largely independent of other networks in North America and serves the majority of the state.

Let’s hope those regions get more light and warmth in addition to the clean water they’ll be needing, as they recover and get on track to properly employ all forms of energy for their utilization in emergencies as well as everyday life.

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Christopher Robinson

Jung at Heart

During a dream, a deep meditation or even an unexpected moment’s thought, your mind centers on someone you haven’t spoke to or seen or even thought about for a long duration, then— within a short period of time, that person suddenly calls or texts you! The laws of chance permit this to happen from time to time, but it’s merely a fantastic and poignant coincidence, right? Some would disagree.

Carl Jung called such occurrences synchronicity. The revered Swiss psychologist considered coincidences to be “meaningful”, counterintuitive to their generally accepted interpretations.

Perhaps there is more to learn from studying the mind’s role in perceiving familiar occurrences for positivity than from refuting or proving the chances of their possibilities.

The ability to recognize positive similarities in life, Jung theorized, could motivate one to heal or succeed with heightened sensitivity. An “ever-present reality for those who have eyes to see.”

How will you know when you’ve stumbled upon synchronicity? That’s hard to say, as it’s all seemingly dependent on your individual awareness. Is it a “meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved?”

It certainly gives one something to ‘sync’ about.

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Christopher Robinson