brown is a social construct https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wh4aWZRtTwU #brown #colour
it seems people usually understand “nothing” as dark, black. in the techno subculture, where “we don’t show off” — people choose no colour — black colour. in other words - blank, empty.
wait, but blank means white in a number of languages. first i know it from esperanto, where blanko is white. ‘blanc’ in french means white. ‘blanco’ in spanish. ‘bianco’ in italian.
so emptyness, depending on perception, can be black or white. or other colour?
indeed, if we think in rgb colourspace way, then nothing — 0, 0, 0 is black. however, in cmyk way, nothing is when you print nothing on a white paper. so nothing is actually white. so is the paper. in number of languages empty list of paper is blank.
#perception #colour #language #techno #esperanto #french #spanish #italian #zero #nothing #empty #culture
#existence #film #room #colour
colour and contrast, in russian
http://ezhe.ru/data/vgik/zhv-cvet_kontrast.html #book #russian #colour
http://www.japancamerahunter.com/2014/10/film-news-new-cinestill-50-iso-daylight-xpro-c-41-film/
#cinestill #film #colour
This is not suprising, since the entire tonal palette for Kodachrome was based on rendering the skin tones as pleasingly as possible of those who would be its principal consumers: caucasians (hence Stalin looks less “caucasian” because he actually came from the Caucasus). “Color” is literally the colour of American consumerism. Japanese Fuji colour film followed the same imperative, but for Asians. Pinks and reds are the colours which “color” recognises and amplifies most dramatically, though sometimes the effect is akin to a mortician’s make-up: people occasionally appear as if they have been painted after death to give the illusion of life, which of course is, historically speaking, exactly what has happened.
http://www.marksimpson.com/blog/2007/09/07/the-color-of-whiteness/
#kodachrome #colour #photography
http://mymodernmet.com/cinema-palettes/ via @{անկապ ; ach94er@spyurk.am} #design #palette #colour
and I like this photo the most, shot by Nare, colour dye material for ancient Armenian books
#colour #paint #books #armenia #matenadaran #dye #yerevan #history #technology #art
