Seriously, with all due respect, it is *_NOT_* a "disco ball". Disco was a music movement in the 70s. This is a *"Mirror Ball".* The first mention of which is in a late 18th-century French novel in which the protagonist describes going to a party at a mansion in Paris, where the host had taken *_"Spheres, cubes, diamonds, cylinders and other odd-shaped wooden forms, including whole, and parts of, mannequins, and covered them in pieces of broken mirror; and then suspended them with string from the ceiling in rooms throughout the house." He goes on to say that " ... the lamplight dances off these objects which were slowly turning from the movement of the revelers, and the reflections became a million moving stars all over the walls and the revelers, making one feel like they were dancing in the heavens."_* Besides ... think about it for a second ... there is a mirror ball in the center of nearly *_every_* rollerskating rink on the planet ... and we have never called them "Rollerskating balls", now have we? I'm sorry if this comes off as crass, or rude. I swear that is not my intention. But it is a pet peeve of mine when someone calls them "disco balls". It's just wrong. I've been doing lighting since I was in high school. Mirror balls have become my trademark as an LD, and I use them in nearly all my shows and tours, somewhere. I rarely use motors and quite often hide the balls and half-balls that I have behind drum risers or guitar amps. I then use different gobos and sometimes the effects wheel to get really cool aerial effects for certain songs. When I was the LD at Highline Ballroom in NYC, I had three balls in my rig and the looks were mostly based on using tricks off the balls James, I like what you are doing in this viddy. You clearly see the potential. *Keep experimenting!* Try taking a flat blade gobo and program a moving head to move left or right, or up and down slowly across the ball, or even hold the head steady and just rotate the gobo. You will see what I'm on about. Then, experiment with different gobos as well as your moving head's effects wheel, as you have done here. I hope you groove. www.jeffgaines.world/gallery
