Why is the Lounge Room in the Theatre called The Green Room?

Certain colors can play into an affect and have meaning to it. When thinking of the color green what comes to mind? The color green is actually my favorite color is green by the way. I feel that green to me mines happiness and it is some kind of healing color. Whenever I want to study or rest I simply plop myself what is called the Green Room, which is based, in theatre.

The Green Room is a lounge where the performers can lounge, hang out, or wait for their cue to go on stage. Its function is as a break or touch-up lounge so that performers do not have to go back to wardrobe or dressing rooms and is still easily accessible for their call. The walls of the Green Room are actually painted green as well to give more of its title in to effect.

The room was originally painted green to relieve the eyes from the glare of the stage. Many actors experience nervous anxiety before a performance and one of the symptoms of nervousness is nausea. As a person who feels nauseous is often said to look green, so the Green Room is the place where the nervous actors wait.

According to one theory, long before modern makeup was invented the actors had to apply makeup before a show and allow it to set up or cure before performing. Until the makeup was cured, it was green and people were advised to sit quietly in the Green Room until such time as the makeup was stable enough for performing. Uncured makeup is gone, but the green room lives on.

I find color very fascinating to where it plays different roles in society.

Disco Balls Are Cool!

It seems to me that the disco ball never go old. Created in the 10920s, though from what I know it seemed to me it was well known for being around in the 1960s-70s and especially looking oh so pretty in the film Saturday Night Fever staring John Travolta. The pretty mirror ball that spins around, lighting every corner of the night club brings joys into peoples eyes and make hem want to jump on the dance floor and dance.

Color and light in ways of how it affects each other, how it bounces off, or simply interacts with one another makes a major huge difference. Disco balls have found a new application, as a method of dispersing the infrared signals. It is amazing how color does not have to be seen by or painted in it can be reflected by a light.

What Is Color Theory?

Does color really have a theory? What is color theory? Color theory is a body of practical guidance to color mixing and the visual impacts of specific color combinations. Color constantly changes, where is always being seen in relation to the colors it surrounded by. However sometimes it is impossible to see a color by itself and have any interactions from its surroundings. Our eyes look for the big picture before it narrow things down. Also, it is amazing how our eyes can translate so many colors and shading t once in our brains. For an example with the first image the green that is placed in the diagram looks as if there are two different set of greens whereas they are the same, its just that the image is placed in different background colors.

Ironically it is said that color is understood through experience where we train our eyes to understand color and activate to view the difference between colors. Once we have the knowledge of knowing the difference between colors then we can compare and contrast what is different about the colors and understand how colors interact or how one color become another by mixing two or three colors to get the third or forth color.

With the second picture it was originally made by Josef Albers who is also the author of Interaction of Theory, uses this image of what we think of as transparency. This image is also an example of how colors can be deceiving and an excerise of what it is to train the eye. In this image it appears to looks like there are four different colors being shaded in each square, manipulating our eye to think that the colors are different. The transparency is actually different blocks of color that is vaguely different from its other surroundings. In the end one must refer to color as unconditional and that it will always have relation to its surroundings.

Lets Be More Sustainable With The World We Live In Today

Sustainable Innovation
Nathan Shedroff, author of Design is the Problem, and many other known books made a guest feature to our class to discuss about sustainable innovations. I found his topic interesting since it seems that sustainability keeps being brought up when discussing about design. The first insight hat was brought up in his lecture was that design has to function all in order to be successful I thought to myself, now what is the world does he mean by the term “all”? What is the term “all” referring to? As I engaged more into his lecture his “all” refers to design has to overlap in design, sustainability and business in order to find the mean and the experience for the customer.

Shedroff made this question come to our attention, “What dies a more sustainable world look like”? I answer that in my head and the first thing I think of was, clean. It is very true that the world was much a sustainable planet then, than it is now which is a shame and is something that the planet is working hard to get back again. This is by designing economical friendly products such as water bottles by simply using less plastic, having public transportation buses run on hydro fuel instead of petroleum gas. Designs like these are ways of the planet moving towards a sustainable planet. As I also learn that the country Cuba is the most sustainable on this plant from Shedroff made me feel like we Americans are not doing such a good job of keeping up with the Jones much. According to Shedroff, Cuba is the most sustainable because they have no access.

My favorite part in Shedroff’s lecture was hearing that in Brazil the government banned outdoor advertising billboards. When I heard this I thought, “ wow, what a boring city or place to live where there is just blanks on billboards. However the people in Brazil have observed that now that there is no advertisement the city have been much safer to drive. Also, they have found that it is not as noisy in the city as well. To an extent I believe this all the way. This traces back to design of course. Have you ever thought about walking into a room that is completely white vs. a room that is full of color? The energy level dies down. So then of course color has a way of effecting on how people feel.

Protecting the society has more of a better cause of practicing sustainability, which is something all societies should practice. Being sustainable and thinking of people safety and needs is a must that should always be put into consideration in design.

Are You Being Objectified?

What a way to look at the world in a completely different perspective. Wow makes you appreciate the value of everything hat is made. In life everything has a purpose. Everything that is made has a purpose. Those that are made are a design. Design is such a broad word can be described as anything. People some how assume that design associates with fashion or furniture. However, people don’t stop to think that a simple design as a Post-it, as mentioned in the 2009 documentary Objectified by Gary Hustwit, is a design. The Pos-it is a design that has so much if an effect in the office field and probably those who even dare to think design is just fashion. What is also interesting to be is that I feel that even the human body is a design. The human body has its function and purpose right? However, as much as I would like to go there on that topic I would but no at this moment. I am here to talk about the film Objectified and how it has influenced m, now lets not get solidified, we would want to stay as loosen as possible. Why? So we could broaden our minds to all objects and take them in to the design world.

“When you see an object, you make so many assumptions. How it connects to you, the goal of design…” The first line in the documentary is something I can already relate to, because when I see and object in the store I simply try to make relations to it and that’s by simply trying to connect to the object. I think about is the object my taste, is it worth buy, what can I do with the object, how is this object representing me and finally of course, can I afford the object. I am also sure those are some things that other people think about when they see an object. I find it ironic how we humans try to make connections with even material objects because those material objects have become a part of us, our daily lives. Whenever I see an object in my house and I wonder why is the word did I purchase it especially if it is no use. I think twice and try to think back to when I purchased it to what connections did I make when I purchased this object. Once when I get that I begin to put the object in use. “Put great designs into everyday things”.

A good design makes sure that it has intentions of satisfying the purchaser. There are many considerations that are brought into place. Now that the world has so many effects of global warming, certain electronics such as Apple, Inc have found ways in making their products become more sustainable. Jonathan Ive, the senior vice-president of Apple, Inc brought up as well “how do you connect?” Ive shared the process of their computers going from using plastic to aluminum. At Apple, Inc they have found that using aluminum is more sustainable that using plastic. I find this being true because it is easier to recycle and reuse aluminum than it is with plastic. Also, I took it that Erwan Bouroullec had relation to this by saying, “create an appropriate environment where everyone feels good…remove everything that is unnecessary”.

Dare to be Sour

What an amazing video design. Something I have never seen before. The masters of this design are master of technology because when I watch this video I simply wonder, “how in the World did they put this together? Every time I watch this is moves me and makes me want to experiment and try this with my friends. I wonder is this simply done by web cams? Though web cams have been a major necessity when purchasing a computer. This is because nowadays people are looking toward different types of communication, simply like YouTube, where I also stumbled across this video with the help of a friend.

Parts of the video by the music group Sour do freak me out. It’s about 32 different web cams across the world and they are supposedly fans of this group. This video seems to have a liking or understanding of loving one another no matter who you are and of course sending a message through communicating thru YouTube. This video design could also be seen as making connections around the world coming from different places by bringing people together, which is what this group, Sour intentions were. Very positive I say.

Another video design Sour makes is thru making images out of shadows of just the hand. Now I remember when I was younger I used to make birds or other animals like foxes or bunnies because I thought that’s all you can make with shadow puppetry. The group Sour explains that you can do so much more with your hands in creating everyday images of what is normal to us. I can tell that this group Sour seek to find inspiration out of themselves by always striving for something different and cool that can reach out to there fans in a positive way. Also, by opening the door to other design dreamers out there to notice that there are others ways of getting a message delivered in videos other than just making regular music videos that we see on the television of the artist and their dancers.



Simply in the word of professor Housefield, “dare to be different” and this is exactly what the music group Sour is doing.

UC Davis is the Bellagio of Las Vegas

Just the other day I had ran into an old friend that I have met in the dormitories in UC Davis and he had asked me how was my college life and the study of my major. I told him that it was going good and that I have picked up a new major, which was DESIGN! For a moment then on I thought he was going to “disss” my new and profound major, but instead he proclaimed it and I was surprised. This was only because he is a science major and we all know they can become a little, lets say, anal, when it comes to whose career is more important. Anyway, so I mentioned to him that I was very proud that he didn’t “diss” my new major that design should be taken more seriously from now on because everything this is DESIGN! Also, as I was saying we were standing in the middle of the main entrance to campus, which is by the Freeborn, the bookstore, Memorial Union etc, and I noticed the big, tall, cylinder looking this that reminds me of the water that shoots up at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. However, those big, tall, cylinder things are wind chimes, beautiful aren’t they?

As if it is a still image of the Bellagio fountain

Very nice, and this is one of the main attraction in Las Vegas

I wonder if this was the designer’s intention to make these wind chimes appear to look like a still image of the Bellagio fountain in Las vegan. What is this designer trying to say about UC Davis?

I believe that maybe these chimes that I believe mimic’s the Bellagio water fountain to be seen as some kind of feeling where you are glad to be here. Maybe more of a welcome into my kingdom sort of the thing that is suppose to make you joyful, because seeing the Bellagio water fountain show makes you joyful because it is one of the shows that people ultimately wait for to see. Just like how students ultimately can wait or dream of coming or becoming a student at the University of California Davis.

As the big seal of the University of California Davis lies in the center of the Memorial Union comes off as saying welcome, welcome to the University of California Davis.