Authors note: much of this presentation has been taken from Anthony Casey’s ‘COLOUR’ presentation at Creative Process No.3, Dec 2014, Liverpool. Anthony has very kindly made available on Speakerdeck https://speakerdeck.com/anthony_casey/colour 

COLOUR by Sam Meech @videosmithery 

Wizard of Oz (1939) 

This presentation will look at: • The Science of Colour • The importance of Experience & Perception • How Language shapes your ability to see colour 

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"Harry," said Dwayne. "I have some news for you: modern science has given us a whole lot of wonderful new colors, with strange, exciting names like red!, orange!, green!, and pink!, Harry. We're not stuck any more with just black, gray and white! Isn’t that good news, Harry?” Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions - 1973 

Marrs Green - G.F. Smith (2017) 

Pantone 448 C - the ugliest colour in the world? 

Pantone / Prince / Purple 

Vanta Black - Anish Kapoor “we think is the blackest material in the universe, after a black hole” 

Guardian - 7th September 2017 

Primary Colours ? http://www.dsource.in/course/visual-design-colour-theory/colour-description-and-colour-theories 

Primary Colours differ for LIGHT (RGB) and PRINT (CMY) https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_color (AdditiveColorMixing.svg / SubtractiveColorMixing.png - CC BY-SA 3.0) 

Carnovsky - RGB + CMY = disco! 

Carnovsky - RGB + CMY = disco! 

Carnovsky - RGB + CMY = disco! 

“The colour, which resembled some of the bands in the meteor's strange spectrum, was almost impossible to describe; and it was only by analogy that they called it colour at all.” H.P. Lovecraft - The Colour Out of Space (1927) 

Visible Spectrum 

John Dalton (1766-1844) Disproved his own theory about the cause of colour blindness by donating his eyes to science above: John Dalton’s eyes at the Science and Media Museum, Bradford. 

Photoreceptor cells 

Colourblind / reverse colourblind tests 

Rat Vision 

Dog Vision 

Ladybird Vision 

Bird Vision 

Mazviita Chirimuuta - “The reality of color is perception… we perceive the distance of the hills in a blue way.” 

Name that Colour! World Color Survey - Berlin and Kay (1969) 

World Color Survey - Berlin and Kay (1969) 

Himba tribe - semi-nomadic, northern Namibia serandu = red, orange or pink zuzu = dark colours including reds vapa = light colours and some shades of yellow buru = is some shades of green dambu = other shades of green, red and brown 

Which is the odd one out? American Psychological Association - ‘Hues and Views’ 

Which is the odd one out? American Psychological Association - ‘Hues and Views’ 

1. Pattern of memory errors in both languages was very similar - mistakes were based on perceptual distances between colors rather than a given set of predetermined categories, arguing against an innate origin for the 11 basic color terms of English. 2. Children in both cultures didn't acquire color terms in any particular, predictable order-such as the universalist idea that the primary colors of red, blue, green and yellow are learned first. 3. As both Himba and English children started learning their cultures' color terms, the link between color memory and color language increased. Their rapid perceptual divergence once they acquired color terms strongly suggests that cognitive color categories are learned rather than innate, according to the authors. Comparing Huimba tribe and children in Britain American Psychological Association - ‘Hues and Views’ 

Japanese traffic lights Left: Blue Right: Blue 

Super Sentai - “the traffic light” 

Crayola - name those colours 

Crayola - nsfw 

Wes Anderson - Fantastic Mr Fox ‘Wes Anderson’s Colour Palettes’ - Another Mag (2014) 

Wes Anderson - Grand Budapest Hotel / Moonrise Kingdom ‘Wes Anderson’s Colour Palettes’ - Another Mag (2014) 

Adobe Color - https://color.adobe.com/ 

Adobe Capture - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNclcwqkn7A 

Farrow and Ball - good with colours 

Chris Kemm - Status 2.0 - Science Museum, Bradford 

Chris Kemm - Status 2.0 - Science Museum, Bradford glad r: 53 g: 153 b: 70 angry r: 236 g: 32 b: 36 happy r: 255 g: 205 b: 5 

Chris Kemm - Status 2.0 - Science Museum, Bradford meh r: 167 g: 169 b: 172 

Gemma Correll (2013) 

@colorschemez bot https://twitter.com/colorschemez interminable deep orange frictionless light salmon pluteal vomit yellow 

@colorschemez bot https://twitter.com/colorschemez hard-mouthed bubblegum pink unnamable light neon green transular emerald green 

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“In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is - as it physically is. This fact makes color the most relative medium in art.” Josef Albers - Interaction of Colour (1963) 

“There's this saying: in an all-blue world, colour doesn't exist... If something seems strange, you question it; but if the outside world is too distant to use as a comparison then nothing seems strange.” Alex Garland, The Beach 

See also: Anthony Casey - https://speakerdeck.com/anthony_casey/colour James Turell - http://jamesturrell.com/ Liz West - http://www.liz-west.com/ David Batchelor - http://www.davidbatchelor.co.uk/ Norman Mclaren - A Phantasy in Colors - https://vimeo.com/153788367 Malcolm Le Grice - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz3RStIfv9M Mazviita Chirimuuta - Outside Colour - https://outsidecolour.net/ Aatish Bhatia - The crayola-fication of the world - http://www.empiricalzeal.com/ 2012/06/05/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it- messed-with-our-brains-part-i/