WEEK #4: Modern Day Limelight

Last Thursday I was outside UCI's Little Theater, waiting to go see The Wiz. I was alone, so of course, I was people watching. Gazing around the groups of people standing in the dark, one particular girl in one particular group caught my eye. Why? The girl's face was blue. Amidst all the people socializing, laughing, making small talk- this girl was fixated on her cell phone. Holding the phone close to her face, in the dark, the light being emitted from her phone hit her face, illuminating it to a pale blue.

And it hit me.

We are living in a time now where everyone is a star. Your friends flock to your facebook page to see your status update about what you ate today, strangers rate your youtube video. You can blog, you can email, you can chat. Technology has created stars within all of us. We are popular, we attempt to be witty, we strive to be loved and appreciated by all.

A long, long time ago (okay, maybe not THAT long ago), the stars of the theater demanded to be in the limelight. Though a ghastly green, they yearned- and often demanded- to be the brightest thing on stage. Now, everyday we sit in front of computers, use our cell phones way more than we should, in order to make sure we are being seen in the virtual world. Technology may have advanced to where the lime mineral does not need to be used to light the star- but some things never change, it seems. Instead of striving for the limelight... we seem to be living in the bluelight...

(The picture comes from same moment I captured of my boyfriend during a failed snowboarding trip this past weekend. While the moment I noticed initially is what sparked this blog topic.. I was not about to try to take a picture of a stranger. SO.. I was thankful I noticed the same effect in the dark car and was able to give a photographic example!)