Afghan Girl , 1984 (left) and 2002 (right) By Steve McCurry

Afghan Girl , 1984 (left) and 2002 (right)  By Steve McCurry

How we gave colors names

The crayola-fication of the world: How we gave colors names, and it messed with our brains

This is not basically relate to art but its about colors ... and wow

In Japan, people often refer to traffic lights as being blue in color. And this is a bit odd, because the traffic signal indicating ‘go’ in Japan is just as green as it is anywhere else in the world. So why is the color getting lost in translation? This visual conundrum has its roots in the history of language.

Blue and green are similar in hue. They sit next to each other in a rainbow, which means that, to our eyes, light can blend smoothly from blue to green or vice-versa, without going past any other color in between. Before the modern period, Japanese had just one word, Ao, for both blue and green. The wall that divides these colors hadn’t been erected as yet. As the language evolved, in the Heian period around the year 1000, something interesting happened. A new word popped into being – midori – and it described a sort of greenish end of blue. Midori was a shade of ao, it wasn’t really a new color in its own right..........

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Splendid Examples Of Matte Painting

Splendid Examples Of Matte Painting

A matte painting is a painted representation of a landscape, set, or distant location that allows filmmakers to create the illusion of an environment that would otherwise be too expensive or impossible to build or visit. Historically, matte painters and film technicians have used various techniques to combine a matte-painted image with live-action footage. We will now be hopping into a theoretical Delorean and traveling to the past, as well as the future of this prominent genre ofdesign.Today we have collected “30+ Splendid Examples Of Matte Painting” .www.ozoneeleven.com