posts tagged ‘blue’
My blue and your blue
25 July 2010 • out of context
tags: blue, books, colours, perception, quotes
“As Wittgenstein famously theorized, I can never be certain that my ‘blue’ is your ‘blue’; I can only persuade you to share a consensual language-game whose referents are sufficiently stable to function.”
Sensorium, edited by Caroline A. Jones
Electric blue
6 December 2009 • out of context
tags: blue, colours, electricity, lightnings
“In August 1973 lighting struck a paint factory at Middelsborough, bringing down a vat of sulphuric acid. The acid fell into a yard, spattering gloss paint test samples that had been weathering there for fifteen years. The one sample to scape damage was a colour identified on the paint manufacturer’s colour-chart as .”
Act of God by Peter Greenaway
“Electric blue is a color close to cyan that is a representation of the color of lightning, an electric spark, and argon signs.”
Wikipedia