MetaFilter posts tagged with color

Candy for the Eyes

isopraxis — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:58:56 -0800

Something vivid and sweet for Friday:
Liz Wolfe takes beautiful photographs.
Cool Hunting interviews Liz.

Exploring Color

netbros — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 19:38:33 -0800

Rachell Sumpter takes color and detail to the extreme in her art exhibits, reminiscent of Fantasia in a sense. Sumpter is developing quite the portfolio as demonstrated at the Richard Heller Gallery. Her painting Finery reminds me of the Great Pacific Garbage Vortex, unfortunately.

Fashion Survivors

kathrineg — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 11:03:45 -0800

Ah, Fashion. The shows. The designers.
The styling.
The photography.
The models.
The news (including the colors).
The street.

A Scary Thing Happened: The Coloring Book

filthy light thief — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 09:25:03 -0800

After receiving complains from upset parents, FEMA took the PDF coloring book "A Scary Thing Happened" offline, and now the story is spinning around the internet. Created by the Freeborn County Crisis Response Team in 2003 as a tool for children to use with a responsible parent or adult to help cope with the disaster, the book has been used with children who have experienced disasters related to Hurricane Katrina, California wildfires, floods and even the Interstate 35 bridge collapse, to name a few instances. There have even been international requests from the Australian Red Cross to use the coloring book as a model to aid Australian children. Looking for more than the offending page? The Smoking Gun has made the original PDF available, and FEMA still has three other coloring books online. (More coloring book fun inside) Other coloring books of that were discussed previously: * Colin Quashie, whose now-offline civil rights coloring book was discussed previously, also made the O.J. Simpson Coloring and Activity book with forum discussions per page * Chinese military weapons coloring and activity book * Farsi alphabet book. * Coloring Book for Lawyers (discussed a second time, though the coloring book link changed) * Law & Order coloring book (discussed again) * Understanding the Legal System coloring book * Black Panther Coloring Book And for good measure: * the Gangster Rap Coloring Book

The Big Picture: Holi

not_on_display — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 16:58:50 -0800

Holi - The Festival of Colors on the Big Picture. More about Holi. What else can you do on Holi? [pre vious ly]

The Big Ol' Picture

Happy Dave — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:36:16 -0800

14 large color photos from the Farm Security Administration. "The 1600 color photographs of the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection include scenes of rural and small-town life, migrant labor, and the effects of the Great Depression. A significant number of the color photographs concern the mobilization effort for World War II and portray aircraft manufacturing, military training, and the nation's railroads. Browse by subject, photographer or geographic location. (Previously)

Postcards from Israel (or stamps, anyway).

sarabeth — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:19:58 -0800

Postcards from Israel (or stamps, anyway). COLOURlovers (previously) has posted a set of color palettes drawn from designer and blogger Karen Horton's flickr collection of vintage Israeli postage stamps. This isn't the first time COLOURlovers has featured color inspiration drawn from vintage sources--previously, the site posted palettes taken from Depression-era color photographs in the archives of The Library of Congress.

Limits

carbide — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:06:43 -0800

The value of limits, expressed through the process of a four-year-old making a painting. UNIFORM Studio journal is written by Martha, who makes clothes as well as architecture, and records the process behind her clothing designs along with reflections on the things, textures, light and ideas around her. Also, the painting's pretty sweet.

Three Belgian Autochromists

madamjujujive — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:43:13 -0800

The beautiful vintage photos of three Belgian friends - a doctor, a painter, and accountant - who shared their experiments in color photography from 1907 to 1920. (via The Wonderland of Mia Mäkilä) More links to sites on autochromes Prior related mefi posts: chuckdarwin post on Albert Kahn and Edwardians in Colour cardamine post on Surreal Life - Bradford Museum Autochrome exhibition ShawnString post on WW1 in color

"...we see on the ground a number of spots of light, scattered irregularly, some large, some small..."

jquinby — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:26:37 -0800

The Nature of Light and Color in the Open Air "Moreover, this book is written for all those who love Nature; for the young people going out into the wide world and gathering together round the camp-fire; for the painter who admires but does not understand the light and colour of the landscape; for those living in the country; for all who delight in travelling; and also for town-dwellers, for whom, even in the noise and clamour of our dark streets, the manifestations of Nature remain." - Marcel Minnaert Marcel Minnaert (1893 - 1970) was a Belgian astronomer whose other interests included (among other things) bubbles and their pulsations, the solar spectrum, and poetry. During World War II, he taught astronomy to his fellow prisoners. In 1951, he was awarded the Bruce Medal. A asteroid and crater on the moon have been named for him, as has a building at Utrecht University. One of his most accessible and abiding legacies is a little book - The Nature of Light & Colour in the Open Air, which is no less than a complete guide to the visual phenomena that surround us. Minnaert explains, in layman's terms, why stars twinkle, illusions of motion, how to build a nigrometer to explore the effects of distance on light and color, what causes the fata morgana, and why, exactly, the sun makes circles when viewed through hair or the twigs of a tree. These and a hundred other visual curiosities are explored and explained at length with helpful diagrams and occasional geometry. The latest edition (linked in the title) has been re-typeset and includes color photography. Edward Tufte calls it a change-your-life classic.

Neat BBC video color recovery research

raygirvan — Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:02:01 -0800

Unscrambling an army of colours, reports The Guardian on the BBC's forthcoming screening of a colour-restored episode of the WWII sitcom Dad's Army. Not seen for 40 years and lost in its original PAL video colour format, it existed only as an archive on 16mm b&w film. However, the Colour Recovery Working Group found a way to recover the colour information from "chroma dots": pattern artefacts on the b&w representing unfiltered colour signal. Techie details here and here.

Dominoes Made of Dominoes

axltea — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:53:43 -0800

Dominoes Made of Dominoes Awesome and very chromatically beautiful. Watch for the hold-outs that refuse to collapse.

Hue test.

zardoz — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 19:11:26 -0800

How's your hues? Test your color hue ability with this online test. Horizontally drag 'n' drop the squares in the correct hue order.

twilight zone, the edge of light

nickyskye — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 13:28:55 -0800

The "terminator" is the dividing line between day and night as seen from on high. This shadow line is diffuse and shows the gradual transition to darkness we experience as twilight. Color is a microconsciousness. The "twilight zone" The current terminator The terminator on the Earth and on the Moon

color is relative

nickyskye — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:58:24 -0800

Color Is Relative, pretty and interesting eye candy created by Gabriel Mott, is a website dedicated to showing luminosity achieved through simple color combinations. On the site, the image is interactive. By moving the mouse over a single swatch the background color of the page will change to the same color. Seeing Things: Color is Relative on Facebook. Gabe's blog, FunkyEnough."In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art."-Josef Albers Video that explains halation and how color is relative.

Ancient Oases

homunculus — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 13:12:29 -0800

10 Incredible Ancient Oases.

Da gebt der Natur die Ehre/ Froh, an Aug' und Herz gesund/ Und erkennt der Farbenlehre/ Allgemeinen ewigen Grund!

No-sword — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 06:27:27 -0800

Goethe's Theory of Colors: example of a "research style" that has "played a crucial role in the history of physics", or "tedious heap of mythical, uninformed or impressionistic color anecdotes"? Learn more about "Goethian science", then miss the point entirely by viewing a PDF recreating his experiments photographically, or playing with his triangle online. Recently inspired by Goethe's Zur Farbenlehre: a drawing machine, an experimental film, and an acupuncture lecture.

The Colors of Decay

Hollow — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:46:28 -0800

Keith Thorne has stunningly colored pictures of decaying urban spaces on his Flickr stream, including some taken at an abandoned German military hospital that once treated Adolf Hitler. A few pictures feature himself. Via.

Why Adolf, what bloodshot eyes you have ...

WCityMike — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 15:18:08 -0800

Meet Adolf Hitler. Godwin! Look right into Stalin's eyes. 350 people from the dictator's country, Photoshopped together to create eerily alive photographs. (via kottke, via conscientious) I think the thing that creeps me out the most is that evidently none of them are wearing shirts.

Different, that's how.

allkindsoftime — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 05:11:18 -0800

How do things look to colorblind people? Colour Lovers (Prev: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - all more useful to those who aren't colorblind) offers some popular websites and iconic art, As Seen By The Color Blind. Luckily humans are smart and have created technology like the Color Blind Web Page Filter. Prev. Wiki.

Colorful Allusions

carsonb — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:58:40 -0800

Colorful Allusions
Though printed in black and white, great literature is bursting with vibrant colour. In these rebus-style puzzles, color words and parts of words have been replaced with colored boxes.

Peel off the colors.

hydrophonic — Mon, 19 May 2008 11:31:25 -0800

If you've ever wanted to peel back the corners of your browser window again and again to reveal different colors, then colorflip is for you.

Nice photos. Neat shapes and colors. Not sure what I'm looking at.

dobbs — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:33:11 -0800

Interesting photos and film (mpg | avi) on a site that doesn't give context.

Books of art

tepidmonkey — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 16:13:34 -0800

ABC3D is an elegant pop-up book featuring the letters of the alphabet. Plus: a flip book that generates a rainbow.

Turn Your Bookshelves into Art

thebellafonte — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:31:41 -0800

Brilliant bookshelves by color. What's that? You can't find The Scarlet Letter? Did you look under lipstick red? Colourlovers is a design blog where color-crazies go to peruse palettes, make their own swatches, and find color combination inspiration. The site also features posting capabilities (not unlike MetaFilter) where members can bring the brightest and latest to the attention of their colorful constituents (like this chess set.) If you're as into color and organization as me, you probably let out a hefty sigh after seeing the shots of these shelves. It's beautiful but it's also... comforting. Like the way a Germaphobe must feel after opening a pantry full of perfectly-lined spray bottles, rolls of paper towels, and rubber gloves. Or maybe your first thought was "is this practical?" Or "my books aren't that colorful." As some of the pictures show, this organizational structure allows one to station a book by any present color, whether it's the predominant color of the cover, the text of the title on the spine, or even the little red house emblem of the publisher. Hues allow for much flexibility and even whites are varied, some having a hint of green to them, some a whisper of yellow. There doesn't have to be a white section; these frosty shades can slide seamlessly in and out of the regular rainbow. And if you do judge a book by its cover, this could be an even more efficient method of cataloging than alphabetical.