Darks
Listening to a show about color, with Mr. Stephen Fry, yesterday. How in Italian there is a word for light blue and dark blue and they are seen as different colors. My only issue being that in English, there is a different word for dark red and pastel red. Which is to say Red and Pink. This is not mentioned in the show. Seemed pretty obvious to me.
I like Red, not so fond of Pink. I like dark, Azul, Blues, not found of blu or pastel blues. All in all, I much prefer intense colors, and dislike pastels.
With the exception of paint on walls, since dark colors suck in light, where light colors reflect light. This place gets very dark at night, but painting has to take it's turn. Not even thinking about painting until next year, despite all the dark colors all over the walls. Damn, it does make it murky in here after the sun goes down. Not so much an issue in the summer, but we are starting to dread the winter darks.
I like Red, not so fond of Pink. I like dark, Azul, Blues, not found of blu or pastel blues. All in all, I much prefer intense colors, and dislike pastels.
With the exception of paint on walls, since dark colors suck in light, where light colors reflect light. This place gets very dark at night, but painting has to take it's turn. Not even thinking about painting until next year, despite all the dark colors all over the walls. Damn, it does make it murky in here after the sun goes down. Not so much an issue in the summer, but we are starting to dread the winter darks.
Posted by Zhoen on Monday, August 20, 2012
9 comments:
you would probably be interested in the piece on radiolab about acquisition of color language.
and i remember reading (jeff gurney?) and article about the word pink in the english language and how it once was a yellow.
Oh, flask, that was amazing, thank you.
http://www.radiolab.org/2012/may/21/sky-isnt-blue/
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Z, thanks for the link to Radiolab. That was fascinating, as was reading the comments posted for that episode. Then, I followed my nose (or, is it eye? ear?) to other articles. Cool place!
We have used mostly muted colours with dark or rich colours on one choice wall to give the room life. This combination has worked quite well, mostly.
Phil,
That is the plan, to leave one wall the dark, rich color, and use lighter colors on the other walls.
Ha! Oceans apart, but both listening to Mr Fry. I wonder if we were listening at the same time?
It's going to be a great radio series. Did you hear him talk about the english language, in his series Fry's English Delight?
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Oh, yes. Eagerly anticipating more. D is a marvel at finding these things. We are listening to the recordings of the book Agent Zigzag, one of the doublecross spies.
Apparently in Breton the word for blue and green are one and the same.
Looking about, turns out this occurs in many languages;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distinguishing_blue_from_green_in_language
Boys used to be dressed in pink, apparently. I think I got that from another Stephen Fry programme. And huntsmen's red coats are always called pink.
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