Shiny Disco Ball

For most people a shiny disco ball is the mirror sphere that has become an enormous symbol of the 70s disco era. Today there are other gadgets that simply is called disco balls but that is just wrong since these did not even exist during the disco era. These are just cheap light equipment with a fancy name so that people wanting to put some funk in their life can get it cheap. But hear this, there is nothing cheaper than a good old shiny disco ball since it is extremely simple to make on your own. So why wait, make your own shiny disco ball today, invite your friends and party all night long in a disco-inspired theme, because it is never a bad time for disco.

Shiny disco ball – Cheap junk

Do not believe that the stores claiming to sell USB-powered disco balls because they will not have what you are looking for. A true shiny disco ball is a mirrored ball lit by a spotlight, and nothing else. All that plastic junk, spinning spheres with lights on it and stuff like that has nothing to do with disco and does not deserve the name of being a shiny disco ball. Instead look for the real deal in a quaint little store that just is filled with that disco vibe. Although shiny disco balls still are manufactured it is much more probable to find one that has been in use, either in nightclubs or in the home of some groovy dudes. Once found and bought the shiny disco ball just needs to be hanged from the ceiling and viola, instant party. And the honest truth is that a shiny disco ball represents party. Disco was not music, it was a lifestyle, and you can share it.

Shiny disco ball – Build your own

If you do not want to go out and search the town day and night after a shiny disco ball you can easily construct your own. All you need is scissors, some string, glue, a handful of freeware CDs and a sphere. The sphere could preferably be made out of foam, otherwise one can buy a plastic kids ball, you know one of those bright pink ones that always are in the way on the beach. Do make your own shiny disco ball, first use the scissors to cut the CDs into small pieces, watch out so you do not cut yourself since CDs can become quite sharp when cut. Then fasten the string in the ball by just tying a knot, of course glue and tape can be used but where is the hardcore in that? Then simply glue the pieces of CDs to the ball, labelled side in, to create your own shiny disco ball. All you need now is a spotlight and some friends, the party can begin.

Shiny disco ball – Visual effect

I hope that everyone that reads this knows what the effect of a shiny disco ball looks like, but if you do not here is a brief description. Since the shiny disco ball typically consists of hundreds of small mirrors on a spherical object it will not reflect light like an ordinary mirror, or even as a spherical mirror would. Instead every individual mirror on the shiny disco ball will reflect light in a specific direction. This will create a sea of small dots of light throughout the room. Set the ball in a spinning motion and change the color of the spotlight and you will have red, green, blue, yellow dots moving around in the room. With the aid of a smoke machine each individual beam of light will become visual, a simply magical experience. Grab hold of your darling and dance tightly together under the shiny disco ball, feel the magic, feel the love, feel the disco experience.