Postmodernism

One of my favorite lines in the Postmodernism Intro, is "all the world's cultures, rituals, races, databanks, myths and musical motifs are intermixing like a smorgasbord in an earthquake." This line really helps you picture all of these things coming together and creating this weird and crazy world. A question I had from this article is: Is art, in all its different forms, the reason for this phenomenon? Or did art just conform with this idea of Postmodernism?

In the next article about American and Disneyland, I found it really interesting how Baudrillard compared America to Disneyland. Then at the end, said that LA was basically Disneyland. That LA is made up of all of these fake realities, its basically just filled with movie scripts and movie clips and none of it is actually reality, just like Disneyland.

Color Podcast

"What is color?"

Something that I have thought about a lot. I remember in Chemistry class in High School my teacher tried to explain to us how we basically see colors, and how colors on shirts are actually missing the color of the shirt but we see that color. Color is something that is so confusing and I still do not understand what our teacher was trying to tell us. The point it, most people just see colors and don't actually think about where the colors come from or how we actually see color. It's weird to think that hundreds of years ago no one understood this concept of color and where it came from.

The story about the monkeys was very interesting and just shows how complex and compelling colors actually are. They were able to wrap the red color gene into a virus and put in into the monkeys. It's weird to me that we actually have certain genes in that allow us to see color. To think that there are a lot of people that actually cannot see certain colors is very weird to think about. Also, the fact that people are not allowed to get this to fix their color blindness confuses me. If it could help people and they did not find a lot of problems with it then I don't know why humans are not allowed to get it.

This podcast of color reminds me of the argument over whether or not that dress is white and gold or blue and black. 

I see this dress as gold and white and I don't get how people can see it differently. It's crazy that we all see different shades of colors on things. When this started I would always try and see it as the colors of blue and black and never could but I knew people that could see those colors and didn't see gold and white. Colors have always amazed me and how many different colors we can see or the different colors that we can see.

Lastly, thinking about the fact that some women have that fourth cone that could make you see even more colors. However, some women can't use their fourth cone. It makes you wonder if you possibly know one of these women? Or what do these colors look like to them?

Color

In the first picture that I took, the white in the back looks a little yellow. The white object in the front looks much brighter but also has a little bit of a blue tint to it. When looking at these two things separately they look white. However, when you put them together you can see that even white has different variations. When these two objects are put together they no longer both look white. They have a tint of white along with tints of other colors.

In this picture I moved the objects to be in a different type of lighting. The object in the back now has a little bit of a pink/red tint to it. It looks darker than in the first picture. The object in the front has shadows on it now which cause it to look darker but it also has a little bit of a grey tint to it. Now that these objects are in different lights they show even different colors. While they are still considered white when they are alone and show white in these pictures, you can see that other colors appear in each object.

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