Groovy Disco Lights and Mirrored Balls

by 2 people | Log in to rate

Ranked #6,779 in Entertainment, #195,405 overall

70's Style Disco Lights and Mirrored Balls

Disco lights and mirrored balls have been around since the 1920's. But they are still heavily used today in clubs and wedding reception halls to name a few.

Find a groovy disco light or funky mirrored ball that suits your fancy and do what we all do with it - stare and veg out. No? Ha, ha!

Well, you decide what you want to do with it but know that everyone will think you're groovy cool with your new purchase. Thanks for stopping!

Mirrored Glass Balls
A Solar Powered Disco Ball
Party Light Balls

more...

History of Mirrored Balls

A disco ball, mirror ball, glitter ball, or ball mirror is a roughly spherical object that reflects light directed at it in many directions, producing a complex display. Its surface consists of hundreds or thousands of facets, nearly all of approximately the same shape and size, and each having a mirrored surface. Usually it is mounted well above the heads of the people present, suspended from a device that causes it to rotate steadily on a vertical axis, and illuminated by spotlights, so that stationary viewers experience beams of light flashing over them, and see myriad spots of light spinning around the walls of the room.

What are now called "disco balls" were first used in nightclubs in the 1920s. They were already in existence and use before then, appearing in a description of a ballroom dance in 1897 in Boston.http://www.ibew103.com/IBEWLocal103Story/NewIndustryNewUnion/Local_35_and_the_Electrical_Worker. An early example can be seen in the nightclub sequence of Category: Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt - , a German silent film from 1927. In the 1970s, these devices were a standard accompaniment to disco music, and by the end of the 20th century, the name "disco ball" had largely eclipsed the earlier names that had been applied to the object.

Category: File - :LouisianaFiveBandstand.jpg|thumb|right|A mirrored ball can be seen above the bandstand in this 1919 photo of the Louisiana Five jazz band.

Miniature disco balls are sold as novelties and used for a number of decorative purposes, including dangling from the rear-view mirror of an automobile or Christmas tree ornaments. Disco balls may have inspired a homemade version in the sparkleball, the American outsider craft of building decorative light balls out of Christmas lights and plastic cups.

With the appearance of infrared networks, disco balls have found a new application, as a method of dispersing the infrared signals.

Pink Floyd used a disco ball on their 1987 and 1994 world tours. The disco ball used on the 1987 tour was somewhat larger than normal but nowhere near as large as the disco ball used on the 1994 tour. This particular disco ball is one of the largest in the world. 4.9 metres in diameter, it rises to a height of 21.3 metres before opening to a width of 7.3 metres, revealing a 12 kilowatt Phobeus HMI lamp.Lighting Dimensions, Sept. 1994, retrieved here 6 July 2006 Both can be seen on the video of each tour: "Delicate Sound of Thunder and "P*U*L*S*E" during the song "Comfortably Numb".

Madonna used a 2-ton disco ball that was embellished by 2 million dollars' worth of Swarovski crystals for her Confessions Tour in 2006. Madonna

read the rest of the Wikipedia article