Colors and Ideas

luka

Well-known member
Was someone on here saying that there's only 7 colours in the rainbow because the Theosophists were pulling strings behind the scenes and it takes the piss there's two purples in there. Total fudge just to get the magic number.
 

Mr. Tea

Let's Talk About Ceps
Was someone on here saying that there's only 7 colours in the rainbow because the Theosophists were pulling strings behind the scenes and it takes the piss there's two purples in there. Total fudge just to get the magic number.
I think it's because Newton was a mystic as much as he was a scientist (or more so), but yeah, the number of god or something like that.
 

version

Well-known member
That's interesting, I hadn't considered how colors could be correlated to letters, or numbers. Like what you and shiels said about letters being combinatorial, their significance largely, if not entirely, dependent on context.
correlating a certain smile an accent a way of holding a cigarette - The Color Alphabet is useful training - Take a name like IAN - Now assign colors to the letters [...] Associate to the poetry of RIMBAUD without words seeing the images in his work - Live ember raining in gust of frost - I embraced the Summer dawn - Corridors of black gauze - banner of raw meat - silk of seas - pensive drowned - a young man has grown up anywhere - perfumes of wine gas - etc. - Images free of word that shift and permutate improbably desertion on the suburban air - candor of vapors and tents - associate other image poets sad as the death of monkeys -
 

constant escape

winter withered, warm
I just learned about it when I googled the Rose of Temperaments after Luka mentioned it. I haven't looked into it though, nor am I familiar at all with Goethe, really.

But that is an interesting point of departure. If you'll permit a naive swing into computational theory...

I think there are these two variations of binary code, one called "return to zero" and one called "non-return to zero"

Return to zero

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Non Return to Zero

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Not quite sure about the technical side, but Return to Zero seems to have a strange liminal state between a binary, while Non Return to Zero is a stricter binary. But somehow, they are both binary.

1 - With light/dark as presence/absence, one extremity is the absence (Non Return to Zero).

2 - With light/dark as positive/negative, the absence is between the extremities, which are both presences (Return to Zero).

These two seem to be a hugely impactful meta-dialectic of sorts, one that I think is worth understanding.

But I really should look into the Goethe theory more. You have any other leads?
 

martin

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I once talked to a woman who did the interior designs for ferries, she said that when you’re designing the kiosk or food area you want to totally avoid blue as it’s an appetite suppressant. Also, there are ways you can use black paint on walls to accentuate natural light…actually, I found it fascinating. Someone also told me, yonks ago, to send official letters on slightly blue-tinted paper, as it signifies authority, but who sends letters these days...

I really hate that pale green paint you sometimes get in ‘70s houses (especially in the bathrooms), makes me think of institutions and hospices. I used to wonder if orange had some link to frugality (old Jobcentres, Kwiksave, Easyjet, etc)
 

WashYourHands

Cat Malogen
Roy Andersson films have that latter range too, not sepia but indeterminate palest greens, faded pearls into light yellow, zero reflection on surfaces ramps up the lights absorption
 

woops

is not like other people
it's good yes and very bleak despair inducing scandinavian style, he did another one called songs from the second storey
 

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
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this picture explains what colours cars used to have over time and how now almost all cars are grey, black and white. some people say it's because cars last longer nowadays and so people want to play "safe", other people say it's easier to sell a used car with a neutral colour. to me these arguments, even though they might be true, sound boring. i also wonder what effect it has on your mood, if you live in an urban environment you lack a broad scale of colours that nature would normally provide, greens of course, but also yellows and blues. cars are shit but at least if they are coloured, they can shine some positive vibe in your eyes, there is less colour around nowadays is there? things are becoming increasingly more gray. how does that affect us?
 

woops

is not like other people
i'm surprised to see that in 1980 as many as 10% of all cars were an odd mustardy gold colour.
 

martin

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There've been studies showing that red cars are more likely to get into accidents than any other colour, no clue why. It's true, you never see yellow cars anymore, though they were quite common in the early '80s. Maybe people are worried about being too garish and drawing attention to themselves?
 

woops

is not like other people
There've been studies showing that red cars are more likely to get into accidents than any other colour, no clue why. It's true, you never see yellow cars anymore, though they were quite common in the early '80s. Maybe people are worried about being too garish and drawing attention to themselves?
yellow cars have been brandified by NY taxis and then this firm in london called yellowcabs who only have yellow taxis.
 
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