We need a new floor in  our kitchen, and I am leaning towards a Saturday Night Fever-inspired rainbow-hued light up floor. I could go with this lightspace company but it probably costs, like, a gazillion dollars, since they don't list prices anywhere. It's shown here on the wall but they can do floors too, natch. It's suuuuuuuuuper mesmerizing. And I love that there's a whole company out there who just does this.



I think I'll try to figure out how to make one with LEDs. I mean, how hard could it be? I gotta say, I am utterly shocked and dismayed to find there is not one single DIY instruction project about how to make one yourself on this ENTIRE series of tubes called "the Internet."

All of this got me thinking about the original floor, which if you think about it, design-wise, was an amazing innovation. Up until a couple of years ago, you could go out to Bay Ridge, Brooklyn, and dance on the actual floor in the actual club they used in the movie. By the late '90s, when I started going there, it was a gay club called Spectrum, it was only $5 to get in on a Saturday night (unheard of in NY!), it had karaoke in the other room, and being in Bay Ridge had really good late night pizza places nearby, for afterwards. It was usually uncrowded so you could dance out there on the lighted floor largely unfettered. The club closed and they auctioned off the floor at Sotheby's to a collector. Judging from this janky picture of the outside of the club you can see why people stopped going there and they closed down. I only went there at night so it wasn't quite as clear how bad it looked, I mean really, this does not look like somewhere you go for fun, it looks like somewhere you run away from. The cyclone fence around the rooftop is not helping.



And yet at one time, that building was home to ALL THIS AWESOME:



A final note on this topic. If you are desperate to get this floor at your next party, AND your parents are rich, you're Jewish, and you're turning 13, you can rent a poor excuse for a disco floor from BarMitzvahs.com. But I have to warn you, it doesn't look that great, and you probably don't match all of those criteria I just listed, so it's a long shot.