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Luis Barragan Pink is real

Since we're on the topic today...

It occurred to me that

Luis Barragan takes

the controversy out

of Pink

forever

No! his architecture says

real men do live here

these muscular volumes

crash into each other

not as giddy playmates

in the schoolyard

or gossiping neighbors

garishly clad

in Latin fifties

fashions 

Discipline, austerity, and

rigor

he tells us is not 

bloodless

Modernism he tells us is not

a hell of grey

His modernism plays as hard as it works

it has wit but makes

no jokes

It is fecund with

sensuality

it means its

place in the 

world

Magenta ain't a colour-hmmm

Magenta Ain't A Colour

By Liz Elliott

A beam of white light is made up of all the colours in the spectrum. The range extends from red through to violet, with orange, yellow, green and blue in between. But there is one colour that is notable by its absence.

 

Pink (or magenta, to use its official name) simply isn’t there. But if pink isn’t in the light spectrum, how come we can see it?

Here’s an experiment you can try: stare at the pink circle below for about one minute, then look over at the blank white space next to the image. What do you see? You should see an afterimage. What colour is it?

Read whole post : http://www.biotele.com/magenta.html

Steve de Frank

http://thatcherprojects.com/artists_02.cfm?pgid=2&fid=439

Raw color

00%SAP is a project about the power of natural color. Vegetables are transformed to a natural ink to feed a new printing process. This process enables the viewer to watch the posters print slightly grow. A 3-D ingredient returns as 2-D icon.

http://www.rawcolor.nl/project/?id=174&type=ownProduction

Get out there! It's Spring-Here is a Handbook

Wild flower Hotline

Here is a link to Southern Cals

showiest places!

http://www.theodorepayne.org/hotline/2011/20110325.pdf

Pantone will dye your fabric to a Pantone chip

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Bend it like Lambie!

Jim Lambie

floor instalations

http://www.antonkerngallery.com/artist.php?aid=18

Red Couch

Michael Eastman (1947, American)

There was a book I have

come across in the past

 called

The red couch

which showed the same red couch

in a hundred different

and sometimes 

improbable 

settings. Sometimes even

dangling from a crane

The red couch was the subject of

an entire artistic

exercise.  The artist was trying to

communicate something I

can only

approximate

Here is another artist

a different red couch

His message is less

urgent

but evocative nevertheless. 

PERU

color theory at 12,000 feet

Don't forget to take your daily dose of color!

see article on the nutrition of color

http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/category/art?page=12

Yves Oppenheim

VIOLET

Liz invented celebrity.
She was the hope of the post war 40's
full bloom of the booming 50's
the muddled confusion of the swinging 60's
disaster of the excessive 70's
angel of the tragic 80's

 1932-2011

Pophamdesign encaustic tiles

not a bad pattern in

the lot

http://pophamdesign.com/

Mirror made out of an industrial wood mold and stained Orange

at Downtown LA- OUTSIDE

Nick Knight

is on my mind.

Raf Simons after my own heart

A column of yellow silk 

the swing of pink atop white

a block of emerald suspended

between jewel tones

a knit sweater of robins egg blue that could

only belong

over tangerine

Magenta tailored

tightly for the little

man

this is serious stuff

Black as Akbar

Somewhere the muezzin was calling the

faithful to prayer

And devotees of a different sort

Pounded on the dance floor here at Akbar

At first it was an effort

A tinge of shame

Threw me off the beat

Shame for having lost

My youth

I wanted to scream

For New York in the 80's

For the Peppermint Lounge, the Pyramid Club

And Stephen Sprouse

The Edges where sharp

The music was cheesy

Epiphany was near

Then the miraculous happened

The unmistakeable croon of George Michael's 'Freedom'

Snuck into the dance mix

Here, tonight, and the crowd went wild

Freedom! Fists pumped, Freedom!

Yes! that was it

To dance and chant in this black box

To this anthem with strangers

Freedom!

All of us a ferment of blood

Ignorance and time 

that birthed the obvious

Freedom!

This moment

So denied to many

Freedom!

Who would not die for that?

My life my vibe

While many things Wearstler might be a head scratcher. She never apologizes for color! Check out http://myvibemylife.com/ for a heaping helping of you can have it all. Or it least Kelly can!  

Yellow Zingers

Yellow Zingers by Sculptor Tim Prentice in a Pasadena, CA garden designed by Schwentker Watts Design

Yellow in Silverlake

When the skies are gloomy and

grey

paint your house

yellow

from out of the tube

Lollipop lights - solar powered!

Aha life just featured these beautiful

solar globe lights

go to Link for more info

Mrs Parker and the vicious circle-SEPIA

“Now I know the things I know, and I do the things I do; and if you do not like me so, to hell, my love, with you!”

Dorothy Parker

1st Dibs pic of the day!

and here it happens to be, used outdoors in my entry way!

Zeider Zee Blue

I never tire of the stripes in my kitchen

which are in need of a touch up. Hollandlac Paints are a rare find in America. 

Jill's Paints in Atwater Village in LA is a superb paint emporium. 

Incredible outdoor awning stripes from Sunbrella

from Diamond Foam and Fabric - made in france

My 1st dibs pick of the day

 1950s Italian Wall Light by Arteluce

Italy
1950s
1950s Italian wall light by Arteluce, with a counter-weight and telescopic arm in gilt metal, minimum length 90 cm; maximum length given below. Shade in orange metal and off-white altuglass. Turns 180 degrees.

Ben Van Os

Ahhh Red!

Production designer Ben van Os is the ultimate craftsman/artist. His work for Peter Greenaway movies ( Prospero's Books, The Thief, the Cook, his Wife and her Lover) are drenched in color, irony, history and above all craftsmanship. 

Sybilla

she took the late eighties

fashion world

by storm

rejecting shoulder pads

returning our eyes

to poetry

then she

disappeared

Photographer - Francois-Marie Banier

...and a new billionaire (made rich by Lillian Bettencourt)

what a story

Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Aside from Catherine Deneuve who is ripe as a peach, color is the other protagonist of this film. It is almost shocking how deliberate the use of color is. It serves not just to amuse in that swinging 60's sort of way but to confront and subvert ideas or conventions we have about sexuality, honor, brutality and beauty. 

colourlovers

colourlovers is a great site to play with brilliant color tools. They create designer palettes, patterns,

forecast trends, watch the markets and much more

www.colourlovers.com