Garbage

Almost everyone is attracted to one color. The color that I have always been attracted to is pink. I don't know why or how I decided that this was my favorite color but even when I was a little girl this was the one color I loved. Everyone has one color that they are more attracted to than any other, just take a look into someones closet. There is one color that is repeated more often than others. But who is to say that not everyones favorite color is the same color?
We have all been taught that an apple is red, a banana is yellow, and a tree is green but what if what I see as green is your red? No one can really know because I cant see out of your eyes just as you can't see out of mine. What my point is is that what if all of our favorite color was really the same but we where all taught that it was different? We, as people, are very much a like and things that people find visually appealing is a lot alike. That is just something to think about. We really are a lot alike, more than you and I could ever understand. That s just a theory of mine and i think is something interesting to think about sometimes. Push the walls of your existence and maybe we will all learn something new.

How does this make you feel?

Humans nature is to make judgment about something or someone with what they see. Color has a very large impact on what we think about things and people. But who put those ideas of what colors means in our heads today? That is just human nature, some of it we where taught by society.
A good example of how we react to color because of what we have been taught is "pink is for girls and blue is for boys". This wasn't always they case. This idea was only recognized in the 20th century. Pink was, and still is in certain countries, as a very masculine color because of its boldness. Blue is delicate and soft which is, for the most part, better suited for girls and what women are most commonly viewed as. Pink is the color for baby boys and blue is the color for baby girls in Belgium today.
White is an interesting color because of its different meanings all over the world. In the western culture white is warn for brides. It is seen as pure and innocent. In Asia white is not the color for brides but red. White , in India and Asia, is the color worn when someone dies. It is for new beginnings. It is meant to symbolize becoming pure with death and having a clean slate to enter the new step for the soul.
So next time maybe one should step back and look at color a little differently because many of these point such as pink is for boys and blue is for girls makes a lot of sense. It is interesting how everyone sees things in a different light. We could all learn something from each other.

Animals

Not everything that has eyes and can see different colors see colors the same. It even depends on th human, thats how sensitive our eyes are. Dogs, cats, mice, rats and rabbits see mostly greys and some blues and yellows. So everything looks a little more washed out. This is why some animals fur is the color it is because it helps them blend into their surroundings. Zebras are striped black and white because it helps them blend into their surroundings. Lions can not see them as well. Also bulls are color blind. They can't actually see the red in the cape that they attack in the bull ring. They just charge toward it because it is moving.
There are animals that can see just as well as humans can. Monkeys, ground squirrels, birds, insects, and many fish have very good vision. There are also animals that can see much better that us. Insects like bees and butterflies can see ultraviolet colors. They are on some plants in designs to lure the bug down into the pollen to transfer it into other plants.
Its amazing how many things we can and cannot see. People owe it all to light because in he dark or dim light we are color blind. It creeps me out that there are still colors that i can't see. I am jealous of the bugs that can see ultraviolet colors. But really, who knows maybe i can see colors that other people can't see. It is completely possible.

Jesus Loves the Little Children of the World

People naturally categorize and organize things with color. One thing that people crudely categorize using color is people. Racism deals with color and site completely. Since the beginning of time beings stick around other beings that look like themselves. People subject themselves to racism everyday and was just recently recognized as something that is wrong.
Not all raises are connected with color but the following are. The color red is connected to the Native American race. White is the common name to call a Caucasian person. Black is the slang for the African American race. Another common color is yellow which is related to the Asian race. A song that the Christian religion can relate to that shows they example of using color to describe different raises. The song is called "Jesus Loves the Little Children of the World". In the song a line of the lyrics quotes "Red, yellow, black, and white. They are precious in his site" these colors are talking about the different children and their skin colors. Humans are taught to relate people and other things to color. It is just very interesting how much color can effect our lives in positive and negative ways.

Pimpstar rims

In our society today everyone is told that they need to be different and stand out. Most people choose clothes, music or phones but no matter what America still wants more. Something more that a person can do to stand out from the crowd is to pay about 12,000 dollars for some murdered out Pimpstar picture rims. These rims now have color and pictures.

Pimpstar rims have three skinny tubs of lights connected to the front and when they are turned on and spinning show a picture. The picture can be changed and customized with programing. The picture can even be changed to yourself or friends. This is so everyone can know how cool you are.

Color play a big part in these rims. Color from the days of people living in tribes was a sign of wealth and importance. Here it has the same effect. A person can have silver wheels or flashy colorful ones that are much more interesting to look at. Ironically causing other drivers to look away from the road. Color has always been desired and sot after. These rims are maybe not the greatest idea from peoples safety but they certainly are cool.
(picture found at http://www.slipperybrick.com/2006/10/dub-pimpstar-rims/)

CRAYONS

Mustard yellow, Forest green and midnight blue; all prodcuts of crayons. I think it is really interesting how people make up the names for each one of these different shades of color. Most of the time the crayon is linked back to an object that people can look at and relate to. Not to many colors are added to crayons every year. Most of the new names are rediculous. For example "inch worm" was added in 2003. When i think of inch worms i personally don't think of the color, green, when I hear the word inch worm. I tend to think of the action of an inch worm. So I think that was a bad choice. All in all it is still fun to see if new colors come out and what interesting names they are given.

Color

Color is in and around our lives all the time. Color is in the clothes we ware to our toothbrushs we brush our teeth with every morning. Colors are meant to send and speak a subliminal message to the eye viewing it. Such as pink is for girls and blue is for boys or red is for stop and green is for go. It is subconchesly driven into our heads that different colors send off different messages.
My group, for this project, explored a supermarket to find colors and how they can send not just one message but many.
For the first example I choose Johnson's Baby Wash. The bottle is a soft pastel pink. It looks very soothing and gentle. If I had a child I would want them to have a nice soft warm bath before I put them down to bed and this color says to me that Johnson's Baby Wash would make that happen.
In comparison to the pink wash these donuts are also very similar shade of pink. They look very exciting and tasty. They grab my attention because donuts are not usually pink. I could see them from across the room and they caught my eye but that didn't happen as fast when i saw the pink baby wash.
Even thow both of these items are the same color they send different messages to people. One says soft and soothing while the other says fun and exciting. Color is very interesting in the way that it can change our opinions and have our brain prejudge object before washing with them or eating them. I really liked this project and I think it was a very interesting subject to think about.