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Lightshows do NOTHING for me
Yes, I went to a Hulla party, and yes, I saw my fair share of lights flying around me, but I got NOTHING out of them.
People had crazy light globes, these tricked out moves, and so on, but I didn't get my jollies from light shows.
For those of you that enjoy lightshows, what makes them so good?
The only thing I find of value when it comes to lightshows, is the fact that if I pull my camera out and photograph them in long shutter mode, the picture'll prolly look cool.
Karim
I hope you enjoyed the show I sent you via PM 
Don't know if you were on E at the time, Karim, but that is what makes the light seem really crazy; it feels like you're SEEING long shutter mode! 
light shows for me - worked only during my E infancy.......
now it does nothing you are right
not to mention when someone is going really hard and they smack you right in the face - FAACK!!!
that shit is not good (kills the buzz)
you can hit me anywhere - but lay off the FACE!!!!!
LOL!!
I cant stand light shows. Especially when people come up to you when you're SOBER and start giving you one. Half the peeps dont know how to use them anyways.
Ill take a glowstick crowd any day over a whistle crowd.
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| Originally posted by TrueToTheCrew Half the peeps dont know how to use them anyways. |
The wierdest thing I notice about some places, is that some dudes will take like 20 minutes to set up by placing glowsticks between their fingers. They'll take FOREVER to adjust the glowsticks in their hands so they're just perfect before they start going nuts. And everytime I've seen it, they suck.
Karim
What can you really say? Some people are into them and some people simply arent.
I find some people who are into light shows are people who DO light shows as well. They wanna check out someones moved as opposed to their own and perhaps learn something.
As someone who does plenty myself, I can tell you its not as easy as it looks. So whe you see someone who can do a good show, you can appreciate it more.
Then theres just the people who are so far GONE love the pretty colours...
^^^ lol they both look so faked 
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| Originally posted by Stingray What can you really say? Some people are into them and some people simply arent. I find some people who are into light shows are people who DO light shows as well. They wanna check out someones moved as opposed to their own and perhaps learn something. As someone who does plenty myself, I can tell you its not as easy as it looks. So whe you see someone who can do a good show, you can appreciate it more. Then theres just the people who are so far GONE love the pretty colours... |
i dont mind them at all
being good takes a lot of practice.
Interesting/inventive patterns, variation of speed, control, the ability to surprise the people around you with misdirection of your body movement as well as those extra little tricks people have in their arsenal makes for a good show.
Back in the day, different 'rave toys' were an asset too, leading to many different styles and experiences.
These lightshows, in addition to the music of course, was one of the early draws to partying for me. Back in the day, if you sucked, you watched people and learned, and since there was still room at venues, you never had to worry about hitting other people around you. Today, it's just not the same, too many people who are either inconsiderate by flailing their arms wildly, or those who just copy the basic 'figure 8' and repeat it over and over, or the fact that very few are coming up with and new styles or toys to make it interesting again. Because of this, glowsticking has gotten a bad rep, but there are still some of us who aren't out there to cater to the cracked out people, or are gonna hit you in the face. There's just not enough of us left to influence the behaviour of all the other people with the sticks out there.
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| Originally posted by naesean3 those pics are HILARIOUS! GOOGLE EYED!!!!! LOL!!! |
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| Originally posted by Stingray What can you really say? Some people are into them and some people simply arent. I find some people who are into light shows are people who DO light shows as well. They wanna check out someones moved as opposed to their own and perhaps learn something. As someone who does plenty myself, I can tell you its not as easy as it looks. So whe you see someone who can do a good show, you can appreciate it more. Then theres just the people who are so far GONE love the pretty colours... |
If I'm on e, it's amusing for a couple of minutes, if the person is good. The lights leave streakers of motion, and it just looks cool. It just feels good because it's with the beat of the music.
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| Originally posted by naesean3 That IS true - if you can anticipate the beat and know when to change it up - it can be quite effective.....(I have been known to give a pretty good light show or two) but that comes expressly through knowing your timing....just like when you are dancing....and I am pretty damn good at that too.....4,8,16,32,64,128..... KNOW YOUR BEATS-MOVE YO FEETS! having good arm co-ordination/strength is also key - after awhile the biceps ache |
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| Originally posted by zokissima If I'm on e, it's amusing for a couple of minutes, if the person is good. The lights leave streakers of motion, and it just looks cool. It just feels good because it's with the beat of the music. |
getting the beat is easy. If you've heard enough of the music the change of bars and phrases [4 and 32 beats respectively] become subconscious. The hardest part about glowsticking LEDing, is being able to match the transfers of one pattern to another so it looks smoothe.
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| Originally posted by karim The wierdest thing I notice about some places, is that some dudes will take like 20 minutes to set up by placing glowsticks between their fingers. They'll take FOREVER to adjust the glowsticks in their hands so they're just perfect before they start going nuts. And everytime I've seen it, they suck. Karim |
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| Originally posted by Sly_Guy getting the beat is easy. If you've heard enough of the music the change of bars and phrases [4 and 32 beats respectively] become subconscious. The hardest part about glowsticking LEDing, is being able to match the transfers of one pattern to another so it looks smoothe. |
But not being able to anticipate is just a symptom of being inexperienced. Being able to predict the changes in the music is like the DJing skill of beatmatching. Tricky to learn, but once you do, it become one of the most basic skills of glowsticking.
I used to do the colour combo this as well, but once I picked up LEDs, I gave up on trying to match them. My LEDs were the 'strobing' type with left a ribbon of green-->red-->blue, so matching was pointless.
It also doesn't help that most of the glowsticks at clubs these days are all sub-standard and fade too quickly for colour combos to work.
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| Originally posted by Sly_Guy being good takes a lot of practice. Interesting/inventive patterns, variation of speed, control, the ability to surprise the people around you with misdirection of your body movement as well as those extra little tricks people have in their arsenal makes for a good show. Back in the day, different 'rave toys' were an asset too, leading to many different styles and experiences. These lightshows, in addition to the music of course, was one of the early draws to partying for me. Back in the day, if you sucked, you watched people and learned, and since there was still room at venues, you never had to worry about hitting other people around you. Today, it's just not the same, too many people who are either inconsiderate by flailing their arms wildly, or those who just copy the basic 'figure 8' and repeat it over and over, or the fact that very few are coming up with and new styles or toys to make it interesting again. Because of this, glowsticking has gotten a bad rep, but there are still some of us who aren't out there to cater to the cracked out people, or are gonna hit you in the face. There's just not enough of us left to influence the behaviour of all the other people with the sticks out there. |
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| Originally posted by Sly_Guy It also doesn't help that most of the glowsticks at clubs these days are all sub-standard and fade too quickly for colour combos to work. |
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| Originally posted by Sly_Guy It also doesn't help that most of the glowsticks at clubs these days are all sub-standard and fade too quickly for colour combos to work. |
always liked the green, they were pretty intense.
but the rarer ones I used to like were orange and purple. Or the really bright, almost white blue. When those things were lasting for a long time, I couldn't care less about mixing up the colours.
But after learning most of the basics, I found glowsticks limiting, and switched up to either the 'LED fingertips' or jsut the plain LEDs. There were so many tricks you could pull with all the lights on the ends of your fingers, or all the crazy transfers with the single lights.
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