Sparkles

New Year's Eve, disco balls and the mica under New York

“Disco balls do not merely reflect light; by now they have become the source of a peculiarly collective special effect. Indeed, disco balls have catalyzed an entirely new notion of the social sphere, creating a flux of heterogeneous people, shaping them into tightly knit and mobile masses that dissipate and reemerge with quixotic regularity. Disco balls…