“When You Can Finally See What I’m Saying…”
The Union Jack and the French Tricolour flutter above the lines of troops marching through Kinghtsbridge during the World War One victory parade in 1919.
Seeing the world captured in color is something most of us take for granted.
But at the start of the 20th century, the art of photography was rather more limited – to black and white images, with various shades of grey in between.
It was not until 1907 that autochrome – the process through which colour photographs were first produced – was invented in Paris.
“If You Try It And You Don’t Like It, You Never Have To Do It Again.”
The diatom Campylodiscus noricus, seen here magnified 400 times, inhabits fresh water.
Microscopic Photography has always fascinated me. Any time that art and science collide it is an amazing expression of the human mind. This kind of photography is immediately identifiable by it’s alien lifeforms and color schemes rarely witnessed anywhere else. The Chartreuse species of diatom was named after the liquor of the same name because of the unique color. I have been seeing a lot more of these photo’s around recently and I always like to put them up here. Enjoy!
“Ms. Duennas, Welcome To The Show.”
Before pencils, Maestre was originally building with nails and a liquid rubber-type glue. She started to worry about inhaling all the toxic fumes, however, and began to experiment with different techniques until she settled on beading. Her method of choice? The peyote stitch.
The History Of The Color Wheel – Lets Give It A Shot
May 24, 2008
“After All This, When It’s All Done…We Still Got Each Other. We Have That Now.”
The first color wheel has been attributed to Sir Isaac Newton, who in 1706 arranged red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet into a natural progression on a rotating disk. As the disk spins, the colors blur together so rapidly that the human eye sees white. From there the organization of color has taken many forms, from tables and charts, to triangles and and wheels the history.
