Background Wall Lights for the Lookner Channel

A new live stream video (warning: parts of it contain flashing lights!), entitled “LIVE: New Colored Lights Unboxing & Tryout!", is now on Steve Lookner’s Lookner channel on YouTube:

This video starts with Steve showing the audience the shipping box that a pair of color-changing MELPO LED lights that he had ordered came in. He proceeds to unbox them, and begins setting them up in the living room area he’s filming the live stream in. He tries placing them in a few different places, to try to find a good way of getting them to illuminate the wall behind him.

Once finding positions for the two lights that appear to work well enough, Steve then starts to figure out how the lights work. He tries a variety of different color combinations and settings, asking the viewing audience for feedback about what they’re seeing and what they like in the live chat. One color combination he attempts is green and red, inspired by Christmas. Steve also adjusts his webcam’s settings, and he eventually seems to prefer a shade of purple on one side of the background behind him, and a shade of blue on the other side.

He also interacts with the viewers on a variety of topics, including trying to provide Amazon.com referral links to other products he owns that he has mentioned in other videos.

I think that these new color-changing lights should help make Steve’s videos more interesting. The plain wall behind him was boring, and these lights do seem like an easy and non-destructive way of improving the otherwise blank wall during live video streams from his desk area. I wonder what kind of color combinations he’ll use. Near the end of the video he shows that the lights have a mode where they can slowly and steadily change colors, so maybe instead of using specific colors he’ll use that mode and have a background that changes throughout the videos.

• Karl