blown bulb, vi

I didn’t expect to take these pictures. I just knew that the bulb that blew in the lamp that I keep on my office desk made a lovely white blast pattern on the glass and that I wanted to shoot it, but I didn’t expect this play of color and light when I did.

 

The results surprised me the way filmmaker Stan Brakhage’s The Text of Light (shot through a crystal ashtray) surprised me when I first saw it as a student, lucky enough to be at one of his screenings.

 

I know it’s not even close to what he pulled off, but a girl’s gotta start somewhere.

 

Here’s a link to the whole slideshow »

 

Done