WEEK 4 Entry

One of my favorite places in Orange County is the Cuban restaurant/bar called Habana located in Costa Mesa. When I went for the first time, I fell in love with their interior design and their creative effort of lighting. This picture is of a tree of candles used to actually light the front part of the restaurant. It created an intimate feeling using many lowly dimmed light to form one giant source of light. There are actually two of these trees located throughout the main dining area of the restaurant. Another great use of lighting that I unfortunately did not capture, is their ceiling wall. The wall on top of the main wall had an LED projection lighting images and sceneries that gave this sort of futuristic, yet real setting. I thought that was a great use of an LED screen and I genuinely appreciated how they used so many different types of lighting to put this interior design together. Again, I am really intrigued by technology and use of futuristic lighting and ideas, and I thought that this restaurant captured that essence very well.

-Ricky Wang

p.s. everyone should try this place out. It's delicious!