Today in Preservation class we talked about light and colors. We talked about how everyone has a different perception of color and light. We talked about how colors don't really exist. That is, colors are all based on the perception of the eye, the chemicals in the air, the way light travels, what your eye delivers to your brain. Red for me is not Red for someone else. How interesting.
Colors look different thru each persons eye and lights affect how those colors look to the human eye as well. Lights are a part of an electro-magnetic spectrum, wavelengths traveling all over the air, all throughout the universe.
What if we could see radio wavelengths? Walking down the street, would you see Bob Marley's song in the air, as well as in your ear? Would they have colors? Could you see through them? Alas, of course, that doesn't happen with radio wavelengths - but for a day, that'd be cool to see.
Some people have a condition called Synesthesia. It's when you associate colors w/ music, letters, and numbers. Some musicians with Synesthesia claim to see the notes in colors as they write them and hear them played out. Fascinating how certain music can evoke colors. It's not too far fetched a concept to believe that some people actually see it happen, while others only envision colors while listening to a piece of music.
For some reason, one of the only lyrics i remember when we sang Mozart's Requiem in undergrad was: " et lux perpetua luceat eis " - in english it translates as: "and let perpetual light shine on them."
There are many forms of light - radio, microwaves, infrared, optical, UV, X-ray, and gamma. We see Optical light.
I realized, "this is why light is so beautiful in different places in the world." When I lived in Italy, I'd notice the sun and light in the air looked so different all around me. The way it shone and reflected on the buildings was warm and dripping with honey. In Texas, the sun hits bright, stark, hollow yet full? Greece had vivid blue hues in everything, and this was lined by white bursts of light.
And Sunsets! What a beautiful gift from nature those are! Every night a new look, a new painting on the biggest canvas possible. So many color combinations and hues.
Every year, people make great journeys north to see the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis. People who have been to India say the light there is magnificent. African sunsets are supposed to be some of the world's finest. One more reason to go ...
Quotes about Colors, if you're inspired ...
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt
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Colors look different thru each persons eye and lights affect how those colors look to the human eye as well. Lights are a part of an electro-magnetic spectrum, wavelengths traveling all over the air, all throughout the universe.
What if we could see radio wavelengths? Walking down the street, would you see Bob Marley's song in the air, as well as in your ear? Would they have colors? Could you see through them? Alas, of course, that doesn't happen with radio wavelengths - but for a day, that'd be cool to see.
Some people have a condition called Synesthesia. It's when you associate colors w/ music, letters, and numbers. Some musicians with Synesthesia claim to see the notes in colors as they write them and hear them played out. Fascinating how certain music can evoke colors. It's not too far fetched a concept to believe that some people actually see it happen, while others only envision colors while listening to a piece of music.
For some reason, one of the only lyrics i remember when we sang Mozart's Requiem in undergrad was: " et lux perpetua luceat eis " - in english it translates as: "and let perpetual light shine on them."
There are many forms of light - radio, microwaves, infrared, optical, UV, X-ray, and gamma. We see Optical light.
I realized, "this is why light is so beautiful in different places in the world." When I lived in Italy, I'd notice the sun and light in the air looked so different all around me. The way it shone and reflected on the buildings was warm and dripping with honey. In Texas, the sun hits bright, stark, hollow yet full? Greece had vivid blue hues in everything, and this was lined by white bursts of light.
And Sunsets! What a beautiful gift from nature those are! Every night a new look, a new painting on the biggest canvas possible. So many color combinations and hues.
Every year, people make great journeys north to see the Northern Lights, Aurora Borealis. People who have been to India say the light there is magnificent. African sunsets are supposed to be some of the world's finest. One more reason to go ...
Quotes about Colors, if you're inspired ...
Any ground subtracts its own hue from the colors which it carries and therefore influences.
Josef Albers
Beauty seen is never lost, God's colors all are fast.
John Greenleaf Whittier
Colors are the smiles of nature.
Leigh Hunt
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You are my favorite. That is all.
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