blinds down. good for sleeping at night.
not sure if you guys do this too, but ever since i was little,
i always did this thing with blinds, to minimize the amount of light coming in to my room.
during the day, i would shift the blinds up rather than down, because in daytime, light comes from above.
but during the night, i would shift the blinds down, because at night lights come from under (i.e. streetlights).
does that make sense?
maybe its just me being ocd, or maybe you guys do this too and i never knew.
or maybe its just maybeline….
in lieu of my physics midterm tomorrow, i’ve decided to write about something physic-y
*i read this the other day about light entering your room from the outside:
the daylight illuminating the wall of your room actually forms a jumble of overlapping images from that which is outside the window…
so the light on your wall is basically an upside down projection of the scene outside your window (just very fuzzy)
it’s kind of like a pinhole camera.
so if you squeezed your window into a very small hole, the light in your wall will focus into an image. how cool is that?
people actually take amazing photographs like that… (go to google images and type “pinhole photography” and be blown away)
So after i read about this light from the outside coming into your room and creating an image in your wall, i couldn’t help but be a little amazed…
the thought of images and scenes entering into my space without my consent?
the thought of how rooms and houses are created to keep the outside, outside, and the inside, inside and how it doesn’t really work that way?
the outside coming in through the smallest of holes, to impose itself on us in our most protected areas?
sounds a lot like God’s love doesn’t it?
there’s absolutely nothing like discovering this relentless love…
we search in all the wrong places, just to come back to where we started to realize that what we were looking for was always there
gonna end with a quote just to confuse you guys
“what you’re looking for is what is looking”
10 Comments
October 8, 2009 at 9:08 am
Yes! In high school, we once turned our darkroom into a pinhole camera. It was pretty awesome, standing there watching an upside down movie of cars driving past.
October 8, 2009 at 9:13 am
:0)
October 8, 2009 at 10:47 am
I DO THE THINGS WITH THE BLINDS TOO!!!
TWINSIES!
October 8, 2009 at 1:43 pm
I also do the blinds thing. But not anymore. Because I have just learned that Eunice also does this. Also, contrary to popular belief, it is not Maybeline (though it may have been, in the past).
October 8, 2009 at 8:24 pm
no no no u got it all wrong, the blinds should always be tilted up, because during the daytime the major source of light is the sun (up), and even during the nighttime, the sources of light (from windows of other apartments, street lamps etc) will always be at your window’s level or higher, assuming you live in the first floor. of course if you live in the 17th or something at nights the blinds should be tilted down. mk?
October 9, 2009 at 1:52 am
i do the blind things too… i thought everyone did. it seemed kinda common sense! maybe i’m a bad case of ocd…
sounds like you’re starting to think like an architect
October 9, 2009 at 2:57 am
you are so qt
October 11, 2009 at 1:38 am
that blinds thing is ridiculous…
but then again, i really like light. sunlight, moonlight… joelight, etc.
October 11, 2009 at 1:42 am
this blog made me smile
November 28, 2009 at 2:17 am
I do the thing with the blinds but for a different reason at night…since windows are higher than eye level, I always think that if they are tilted up, people will be able to peek in but if they are tilted down, they can’t see anything. muhahaha. neurotic, I know.