Lord Marchmain, in Brideshead Revisited, said something along the lines of, “Italian artists had to ruin so many great paintings by sticking Jesus in them someplace.”
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Yeah, honestly, I sort of have the opposite reaction to that revelation… doesn’t really bother me if they want to inject their views into their music, cause that’s what people do… a vague religiosity doesn’t bother me, as long as it’s not hateful and bigoted stuff, personally. But I can’t totally understand that being a deal breaker for many folks.
LOL! Jesus is like…
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To me it depends on the views too. Being Christian and loving Jesus and being happy about it is fine. But “the only freedom that you’ll ever know” – well, that’s my purse, you don’t know me.
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That would fit right in next to Poortvliet & Huygen’s oeuvre.
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Indeed…
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…recreate the colour by meticulously mixing two liqueurs: the slightly sweet melon-flavoured Midori and Blue Curacau, made from the dried peel of the bitter orange.
“It’s a bit foul, Roorda said of the concoction’s taste. “But the more I drink, the more it looks like olo.”
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It took me a while reading both articles to parse that:
- It’s not actually a “new color”, but is a more saturated shade of green than could be seen under normal conditions.
- It can only be seen by shooting lasers at very specific parts of the eye.
- The artist’s paint version, and all the portrayals in the articles, are just approximations trying to get as close as they can without using said lasers.
It’s kind of cool to have a real life Colour Out of Space situation, and though being able to describe it as “some kind of green” strips away the mystery and wrongness, I did always imagine the unimaginable shade from the story as green in my head, since my brain had to do something with it. Not a fluorescent neon green like olo, but a sickly unearthly green. Stephen King used that color for the alien tech in his coke-fueled novel The Tommyknockers, which he’s said was partially inspired by The Colour Out of Space, so I wonder if his imagination instinctively went to the same place as mine when reading the story for the first time.
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I actually feel the same way about Opera, before I understood Italian, they were singing, it was about love or some unknown things, now I know what they’re saying, it’s just people singing what they’d normally say 
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It is nice to know that scientists still have dangerous parties – after a few liqueur cocktails, the lasers come out.
John Barbur, a vision scientist at City St George’s, University of London… …The work, he said, had “limited value”.
Presumably after shooting lasers in your eye for 30 seconds you can stare at a grey wall and see the complementary colour also a “new colour” until your other cones recover.
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I don’t think the complementary color is nearly so new though. That would be all L and S cones – which is approximated pretty well by a mix of far red and violet. Eye sensitivity starts to fall off there, but it wouldn’t take any special targeting, just being bright.
I think you can actually see impossibly saturated green by doing that staring trick with the right purple, just not nearly as saturated as what they did.
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This was my favorite of the options. Yay!
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Dumb fucks.
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