Almost Blue

is the blue sky? Well? And I think that is the power of the blue sky in our lives, right, It's depicted everywhere, It's we we were talking about this. In children's books. You don't often see gray skies depicted. You see blue skies. Will you do? In the Lorax, which is my son's favorite book for seemingly forever, now,

very blue skies as well? Well? You have to because of the small took skies of course, yes, Um, But you know, I think blue is one of those really important colors to us because on some physical level but also subconscious level, it in end caps our visual field that we think of when we think about our existence. It's the color of the sky and the color of the ocean. Um. And yet this is the thing about blue is the ultimate magician, appearing mostly as an illusion,

which will discuss in a bit. Yeah, it's a it's a powerful color. Uh. You know, we're gonna get into some of the color theory in a bit that. Yeah. I mean, it's the it's the color ultimately of the of the sky and ocean. It's kind of the color of emotion itself. I mean, people seeing the blues. Uh.

Picasso went through his blue period. Like I can't like when I think of blue in terms of its just emotional power, So I always end up picturing the uh the picture of the Picasso did the old guitarist, you know, where the very also kind of gray looking guitarist is sending there his head bowed and looks old and tired

and sad, and he's just you know, caked in blue shades. Um. I Also, I feel like with blue, I think back a lot two times when I was a kid looking up at like a really clear blue sky and there being something comforting but also kind of oppressive about it,

you know. And uh, And I think about that a lot too, especially if I'm if I'm far from home and I look up and see that blue sky, there's something there's something comforting and universal about it, but also universal and in the same way that death is universal. You know, it's that relentless blue and it's the relentless light of the sun. Right, there's nothing to filter it. I mean, is it any wonder that modern Mongolians still pray to uh munk punk Kingary the eternal blue sky?

Is it any wonder? Ultraman Ultramarine is the pigment often reserved to paint the mantle of a virgin Mary. By the way, so she is typically seen with a very blue color scheme. Indeed, so there are all sorts of associations. For me, it's Miles Davis kind of blue, so in

that synesthesia sense. Okay, so you listen to Miles Davis seeing the blues and you actually kind of well, he has an album called kind of Blue and um, so I always think of it's a sort of rainy night music and it's a it's a very concentric patterned um type of album, and that each song builds on this familiar pattern, which kind of messes with it a bit. But so for me, it's that that's space of jazz

and blues and melancholy. And again, I feel like I've been talking about this a lot lately, the space the absence um. But you know, again, the blue can be anything. It can be that baby blue, um, it can be Prussian blue, Turk boys blue, very hippyish to me, hey, And indeed than you have that whole literally gray area where blue touches gray and then you lose yourself and like the German grays and German blues melding together bahlsi and blues yah. On the color spectrum, it's wedged between

violet and green. It has a wavelength between four hundred and fifty and four hundred nanometers, and blues with a higher frequency and a shorter wavelength gradually look more violet, while those with a lower frequency and a longer wavelength gradually appear more green. Now pure blue that kind of you said, have that sort of existential angst too. In the middle has a wavelength of four hundred and seventy nanometers.

And we'll discuss this later, but this just happens to be the range of um of color that we perceive the most with the human eye. And of course I should also mention that blue is my son's face, a color which I find curious because we've my wife and I have done no like coaxing along those lines, like his his room is green, and we're not we're not shoving a lot of like blue for boys, pink for

girls kind of thing down his throat. But he's he's he's just, without question, latched onto blue is his favorite color. And you ask him he likes blue. If he get picks out his own shirt animal designs aside, he's going to go for blue every time. Yeah, my daughter who's six years old, also loves blue. I love blue. And what this is pointing to is that there's sort of

a universal um gravitational force of blue over us. In two thousand and eleven, Deluxe Paints conducted a survey involving response from thirty different countries and found that across cultures, blue was the preferred color among men and among women. Now you're probably wondering, what else, what about the other colors out there? The second favorite colors are red and green, followed by orange, brown, brown, and purple. Brown is good.

Brown is an earth tone. My yoga man is brown, so is poop all right, and then yellow is the least favorite color, preferred only by five percent of people. Wow, I'm so glad that yellow is half the color on our our logo. But there, yeah, but we didn't choose that. We just it's for you five percent out there. We're looking after you. Another interesting finding is that both men

and women increasingly dislike orange as they age. Interesting. I've heard before about orange being an unsettling color, like um, if I remember correctly, the torture chamber in David Cronenberg's video Drone is orange and color because they designed it with some color theory in mind that said that orange is a very unsettling color and is ideal if you have an interrogation. I'm setting inmates right sometimes wear orange?

Or is that just? Is that just the show was they would show up if they escape, because again, who would wear orange? Who's gonna wear a full orange jumpsuit? And unless they've escaped from prison? If I'm like orange a lot, yeah, I mean I'm not opposed to it. I did go to a university whose color was orange, and that kind of turned me against it a little bit, I guess, but you know, but by and large, I

don't have anything against orange. Alright, Okay, well let's think about six hundred million years ago, when things were just business as usual. The sun was shining in the Earth was absorbing and reflecting that light, and uh, really, nobody knew any better about what sort of colors were being produced because there was no organism that could perceive that

light and color yet. Yeah. I mean, as far as the organisms actual pigmentation goes, you could have bright red, you could have a gray organism over here, sort of translucent over here. But it doesn't really matter because what limited kind of perception is going on is really just more about light and dark. It's not it's about about it. So the sun is up, the sun is down, the moon is out. It's that kind of navigational, uh, sensory input. But in terms of what color anything is, it does

not matter at all. Yeah. And now think about the Earth and all of the vegetation and the creatures that we're leaving living on it. Six hundred million years ago, a lot of the colors and plants and animals um came from and continued to come from, pigments, colored chemicals that absorb certain wavelengths of light. And these pigments while we think of them is more like ornamental today because um, you know, we've largely hacked them that way our evolution

has um. They have been helpful in other ways. Granules of melanin, for example, help keep bird feathers strong and help protect human skin from the sun. And chlorophyll is a chemical that helps plants trap light for photosynthesis. It also makes them look green. Yeah, because we often we like a colorful bird and we instantly think, oh, what's colored this way for attention? It's all about a visual

presentation or it's about camouflage. But their actual structural properties that are essential here, Yeah, and we tend to think of them more as like color currency. Now again, peacock's this this amazing display that is meant to attract a mate. But those are things again that got hacked in evolution. Um, it wasn't until a predator with eyesight showed up on

the scene that this became important. Color became important, and indeed, according to the NPR story how Animals Hack the Rainbow and got stumped on blue, this animal is probably like a super fast shrimp creature. It's suddenly it has eyes, it can see, it can pick up on colors. And so if you happen to belong to a species of say, bright red, little floaty, slimy invertebrate creatures up and all.

Now it hadn't mattered that you're bright red, but suddenly here's this superpowered super predator shrimp and you're just sticking out like a sore delicious thumb. Right. And as eyesight evolves in creatures and as other creatures respond to it, then you begin to see animals organism starting to actually go after camouflage, go after other tactics that would help them to survive with the colors that they have. Yeah, I mean, and it's it really gets just increasingly complex.

Uh as as organisms evolved, so you end up with just this this perplexing maze of interactions that we continue to try and understand where you have bright colors on one creature or saying stay away from me, and the other hand is saying come closer, have a taste, and then other times they're saying, please confuse me with the other creature that this color just like me that happens to be poisonous. It gets very complicated, very Yeah, you have the whole pantone spectrum in there, and a bunch

of reasons for them. As you have just pointed out a few Now, the majority of color earths are produced by pigments, now particles of the color chemicals that we talked about, and these are found within specialized cells. And these include melanins, which are found in nearly all organisms and produce more of the earth tones that you see that that are pretty common even to us, right as humans.

And then you have carotenoids, which or carotenoids which produce colors primarily in the red to yellow end of the spectrum. So think about say, flamingos, they're pink because they're eating carotenoid rich shrimp. Yeah, you look at like a baby flamingo. They're not pink. They're not born pink, they're born kind of gray. It's only through that diet that they end up uh stealing the pigments and incorporating them into their diet, right, And it's a really easy way to eat pink b pink. Right.

Then you would think the same thing would apply to colors like blue and green, but it would be wrong because it's really hard to replicate these colors into the skin or feathers through diet. By the way, if if humans eat enough carotenoids, generally through carrots, you can actually adjust the color in your eyes just a little bit, but nothing on the scale of changing your actual skin color. Um. Of course, if you eat beats, which also have carotenoids,

you will see other color alternations take place. We talked about this in the Biospheriens, Right, they had a diet of sweet potatoes so much so that their skins, right, they actually eat enough sweet potatoes to change their skin color. Yeah, if your diet is extreme, Um, you can actually get in on the flamingo ritual here if you want to

do that, a diet a sweet potatoes, sweet potatoes only. Now, even I were talking about how the fact that green isn't created in skinner feathers easily seems counterintuitive because you look around and you look at the earth and it's just full of green vegetation, right, Yeah, I mean, it's one thing to think about blue as being this sort of difficult to obtain pigment because you know, mine instantly turns back to say the Radio Lab episode where they

talked about the possibility that the sky isn't really blue, that it's all just about us being told that it's blue. And I think about Oliver Sacks and as the book Hallucinations, you know, seeking after indigo and uh and and taking hallucinogens in order to to perceive like pure inhuman indigo. And then you you've taken all that information, you can say, all right, I can see where blue would not really be a thing per se in in in the course

of evolution. But green, yeah, green is everywhere. Green would it would be vital to your ability to camouflage yourself. And in fact, we see so many different green creatures, but when you get right down to it, we don't really have that much green, uh in the natural world. No. And in fact, there's a bit of color mixing for some animals. So if you see a green frog out in nature, it's not necessarily that they're eating a bunch

of chlorophyll and they're they're turning green. It's that they're actually color mixing within the skin and using those pigments pigments to produce that that green coloration. Yeah, it's a yellow pigment and a blue structural color and the two

end up combining into this green effect. Yeah. Now, um, so far in terms of blue, only two vertebrates have been found that have blue coloring as a result of cellular pigment called cyanaphores, and both the mantarin fish and the closely related psychedelic mandarin called the picturesque dragonette, are vividly colored fish native to coral reefs in the Pacific Ocean. Indeed, but then it turns out that some of the sort of more iconic blue creatures are are not really blue

at all. For instance, the blue morphoe butterfly, which is

beautiful creature, very picturesque example of blue. This is the one, for instance, you've find it in Costa Rica, places like that, and uh, and there was the famous situation where someone forget which publication cinephotographer down to get a picture of one, and they're actually very difficult to picture, to photograph their wings open while they're they're they've landed, and so the photographer just got a dead one and pinned it up and then took the picture and it was there's like

a mild controversy over it, but it's a it's a very blue looking wing surface. But it turns out that you have tiny transparent structures on the surface of their wings that bounce light in just the right way to give them the appearance of this vibrant, rich blue. It's really brilliant because on one side they're brown, and the effact that's what you end up getting when you try

to photograph them. Most of the time, you just set these brown wings and the effect of it being brown on that side is to absorb all the other color from the other wavelengths, so orange and yellow. And in the meantime, on the other side, as you say, it's got there was any transparent structures, and that is what

bounces the light. And of course, as we sort of alluded to at the beginning of this, blue is the wavelength that comes through the best, and so that's what's bounced off the most through the atmosphere and off of their wings, or at least one side. Now, if you doubt this as an optical illusion, as the ultimate optical illusion, you could grind up their wings and you would see that there was not a speck of blue pigment in them, only brown. If you wanted to grind up that seems terrible,

but yeah, well, ground up butterfly wings. Imagine that's an ingredient and in some sort of which is brew I mean sure, sure, yeah, but yeah, the crazy thing about this is it all comes around essentially to meta materials.

You know, we're constantly running across new new studies have been published new findings where they have some sort of crazy new meta material where we're manipulating uh, surface structures at a at a very minute level, and in doing so, we're changing the ability of the substance to you know, absorb or to shed a substance you know, shed water, absorb water, or in the way that admit it manipulates light. I instantly think back to the Tavanta black that we discussed.

You know, we have this menty materials that make this this uh, this substance appear the surface appear blacker than any natural black in our world. And essentially you have you know, nature has been doing this since time out of mind. It's been been working at that that minute scale to manipulate the way the way that we perceive color. Yeah.

You and I were talking about solar sales earlier, and we were saying, we're like, we're so proud of ourselves as humans for creating this this material that can reflect light and can do a bunch of things in the meantime, you have these butterfly wings that are doing the same sort of things on this smaller scale, albeit uh for different reasons. Now, there's a two thousand and twelve study

that found that some birds use bubble laced keratin. This is the same sort of stuff that you find in human fingernails in the barbs of their feathers, and it scatters the light from the feather in a way that

happens to look blue to humans. And Northern Woodlands Magazine said a simple way to test this out is to take a blue feather, hold it up to the sky so that's back lit, and with the sunlight streaming through the feather rather than bouncing off its surface, the blue color vanishes and you just get this sort of drab grayish brown. But if you bring the feather down so that the light bounces off of it and scatters the blue wavelengths of light, the feather then appears blue once again,

and this is called structural coloration. You know, then the more we study this, the more it seems clear that, you know, we have this this naive version of reality in which they're just these pure colors, sort of Crayola understanding of the world. You have all these pure colors floating around, and some pages are are our color with certains and others with other crayons. But it's really it's almost like there are no real colors at all. When you start breaking it down, it just gets it gets,

this gets so murky. Well, so when you consider other organisms out there, like bees there they are perceiving ultra violet lights that that we don't um. But yeah, I agree, it's kind of funny to think of all the things that are going on that we do not perceive. Because I was thinking about again that feather, because you've got that keratin structure, and there's a layer of melanin and that is also working with the So the caratin is bouncing off stuff and the melanin is absorbing red and

yellow wavelengths. So all that is going on, but we don't see it. Now, if you want to talk about a really fantastic blue that occurs in nature, or again appears to occur in nature, uh, and we're talking like supernormal stimuli level of blue, then you have the berry of the Polia condensed sata plant, which has an exceedingly blue, like reflectively intense blue that is just more potent than any other living creatures. Blue. Yeah, yeah, that's that's what

uh old Rick Steiner, a physicist says about it. It It says that it's reflectivity is really more intense than any living thing. And he said most services reflect just a small percentage of the light that hits them. However, this berry reflects thirty of the light. The berry skin itself has no pigment, no colored cells, or I should astric

that um. But all the cells are coiled in the sort of twist, and the cells form sheets just like the skin of an onion, and that allows light to filter down through the layers in a way that creates again that structural coloration that I was talking about with the feather. And there's just a few cells in the berry skin that do reflect other colors, and that is

what gives the fruit what Center calls a pick selated glow. Wow, so you have you have a few pigments in there, but then most of it is just completely structural color. You look at this thing again, you think of it in Crayola terms, and you think, wow, that that berry is really painted with a nice blue. But there's there's it's it's mostly just a matter of structurally altering the way that the lights playing with it. Yeah, and there's

a good reason for this too. I mean, this is a very tiny berry, so in a sense, it needs to do this. It needs to be able to reflect more white so that it can have the sort of brilliant blue that as a beacon two birds to come and eat it and spread it, spread the seeds. It's it's basically like the it's the smaller business that has blown its entire advertising budget on a really catchy Super Bowl at Yeah, I was gonna say it's a snapple

of sodas. Maybe I'm not sure if that fits. All Right, we're gonna take a quick break and when we come back, we will discuss more about the color blue, uh, particularly how plays into your eyes. All right, we're back, And before we talk about the color blue of eyes and and whether it actually even exists, we should talk about the blue sky and whether it actually exists. Right, Yeah, you get into this discussion. He's the sky actually really blue? And where do we even get that idea? Is it

just something that we we hear about. We hear people talk about the blue sky, Like didn't I don't remember telling my son that the guy is blue. Did he indeed just pick that up from a book where he sees a more vivid depiction of blue and it looks like his shirt that he's told as blue. Did somebody at school say, hey, this guy is blue? Or is

there an innate blueness to the sky? Well, you've probably heard the explanation before that, because the earth is covered, you know, with water, that it's the This sky is just reflecting that back. But that's not actually what's happening. Think about the absence of light actually, and think about what happens when we don't have light up in the sky when it's dark. You know, you get the stars coming out, and the sky appears to be a black velvet color because of course we don't have any light

from the sun. But once the sun is up and the rays of light play with particles in the air, right that the gas molecules, then you have this interaction of light and particles, and it looks kind of split that white light. For a second, let's put it through a prism. If we do that, we know we get

Roy G. BIV. And we know that each of those color components of this rainbow of colors has different wavelengths, And it turns out that the shorter the wavelength, the more these colors will scatter in the atmosphere when the sun is up, you know, during the day, and the more our eyes will perceive them. I mean, that's sort of the short and dirty answer here. Yeah, So essentially about the scattering of that blue light, and that's why

we perceive this guy is blue. Yeah, because think about You've got oxygen and nitrogen molecules dominating the atmosphere and they're relatively small, and so these are interacting really well with the wavelengths of indigo. Yes, and you're probably thinking right now, indigo. Well, then why why doesn't this guy appear much darker like indigo to us? Well, the second part of the answer to why this guy is blue is that the mechanics of our eyes are pretty flawed.

We can't actually perceive that color as it is, and so are I. Our machinery does a little bit of pigmentation itself. It takes some of that white light, mixes it with indigo, and you get more of a blue color. Now, the more white there is, the more that color will change. Right, The less like there is, the more that color will change.

On a different spectrum, so you get the brighter blues, darker blue, if you get great now, if you if you want to go over this material again, we do have a video about the sky and wine is blue and wine appears to be blue. I will be sure to include a link to that video on the landing page for this episode. It's stuff to Blow your Mind dot com. So this naturally flows into the idea of

eye color. Old blue eyes, old blue eyes. Frank Sinatra, who you know, has you could say the skies and his eyes in a sense, because the same thing is kind of happening in the eyeball. Yeah, what we're saying here, Sorry, so not your fans. Frank's eyes were not really blue, and in fact, nobody's eyes are really blue or green. Really Hazel's home, because mine are supposedly green. Sorry dude, Yeah,

I mean mine are kind of gray green. Um. The the the only true chosen ones out there are people with the with brown eyes, the only people who are not trying to pull one over us with an optical illusion of different colored eyes. And this is because irises are made up of three layers, a thin top and back layer with a spongy layer in between called the stroma, and any layer can have pigmentation in it, and there are a few different colors of pigmentation that come into

play here. So most people have either dark brown or yellow pigment in at least one of these layers, and the combination of yellow and brown go into making brown and amber colored eyes. So brown people have these pigments um and each layer of the iris giving the eye a strong brown color. But when you don't, when you have sort of different genetic uh deposits of this pigment in the eye and in the different layers, you have

variation of eye color. Because what I'm talking about here is is that that brown, let's say that's in the back layer, could be absorbing all the different spectrum of light. Right. But let's say that you didn't have any pigmentation in this trauma, all right, but you have molecules hanging out in this trauma. Well, what's happening there is that again that blue light is bouncing around in there because all the other ones are all the other wavelengths of the

other colors are absorbed by the brown. And then you have the particles in this trauma that are basically reflecting back, you know, sort of like the blue sky effect. Wow. And and this is of course called the the tin doll effect. Yes, yeah, and and again it is fascinating because it is pretty much the same scenario that's happening with the blue sky. It's happening in your eyes, as weird and kind of magical as that sounds, and it's kind of beautiful too in a way, even though it's

an illusion. And like right now, if you're a green stare, you're trying to pull an optical illusion on me. And in fact, green, by the way, is the blue that's refracted and a small amount of yellow pigment in that layer that are in ing. Wow. So, whether you're looking up into the eternal blue sky uh and uh and and trying to find some sort of logic there, or you're just looking into the the eyes of a friend or loved one, you're you're essentially seeing an illusion. Yes, yeah, yeah.

And babies can often have blue eyes for a few days or months after birth because the melanin the darkening pigment of the eyes hasn't fully developed in this stroma so um. And I've also read that the blue even in a person's seemingly blue eyes that will actually can con fade over time as they age. Well, yeah, and that's because of them. I believe the size of the molecules in their eyes in the amount of refraction or

reflecting that goes on. Now, if you want to learn more about this, this is a there's a great article by Esther Ingle Arcis writing for I O nine and the article is called physics prove that nobody has blue eyes. So, as you said in an email to me earlier, take

that Snatra. Yeah, you know. It reminds me that Brent Spiner had played Data on Star Trek did an album of I think just like kind of you know, crooner songs, and they called it Old Yellow Eyes because as Data on Star Trek the next Generation, he has like yellow android eyes. There you go, that's beautiful. Yeah, yeah, he has. The Data was a beautiful, beautiful character. I like Lord two. He was all right, Now, what's the effect of someone

with blue eyes staring at you? I guess it would be different for each person in their personal experience with blue But of course there exists a study to look into the psychological effects of blue, especially when it versus red. Yes. Indeed, get into these these color theories studies. You know, how does how does the color of a room affect someone's demeanor? There even if you were not going to discuss them really, but you know, they look at the how Olympic athletes perform,

how well they perform they're wearing blue versus red? Um, but in particular, uh, yeah, how does blue effects, say, uh,

performance on a on a test? Right? Well, there's a two nine study publishing the journal Science, which are where researchers at the University of British Columbia conducted tests with six hundred people to answer the question does does does cognitive performance vary depending on whether you're looking at red or you're looking at blue and uh surprisingly or unsurprisingly, and depending on how how much of value place on colors.

The red groups did better on tests of recall and attention to detail, you know, such as remembering specific words, checking spelling and punctuation, you know that kind of you know, fine tuning of material. But the blue groups they did better on tests that required imaginative inventive freethinking, you know, coming up with with remarkable new ways to utilize this proper, that proper that element. Yeah, and if you're wondering about

the mechanist, I'm here of how it was done. The participants performed tasks with words or images displayed against red, blue, or neutral backgrounds on computer screens. UM. And I believe there have been studies too in which people were housed in blue or red rooms, certainly pink ones. We've talked

about that before. UM, But I'm not surprised that blue would be perceived as a creativity booster because I think there's a calming effect here at play, and we know that when your brain can settle in calm, then it feels like it had a little bit more room to play and to use its imagination. Yeah, and plus you could say, all right, if you're if you're staring up at a clear blue sky, then you probably you know there's there's not as much mystery there, like all is

pretty much exposed. If you're staring at the blue water scene, you're presumably not in the water, and then you don't have to worry about what's underneath it. Maybe it allows a little just just clearing of the of the work desk of the mind. Well, it's interesting too in my headspace app, just the meditation app that we um use the andy put a comb. The person who leads the guided Meditations always talks about getting in that blue sky space. He says to look at any thoughts as he sort

of gray clouds passing by. So already there's this idea that, yeah, you're you're in some sort of other I don't want to say altered state, but other space in which there's a sort of clarity. Likewise, red would be easy association. There is, of course blood. In fact, if you had a list associations for red, I would say, like the first fifty or sixty would all just be blood, one listed after another. Yeah. My daughter has said she doesn't

like the color red because she thinks about blood. Yeah, but of course she has been exposed to a lot of Star Wars and Ninjago and I don't know, well, just with life Savers, right, the Sith Lords all used red light stavers, if I'm not mistaken. All the the Jedi they do they use all used blue, and then Luke had a green one, or is it the other way around? I cannot remember, but I do recall that Darth Maul has the right living red lightsaber, but not only that he has the red and black markings on

his face which are very ferocious looking. Yes, yeah, so he's Yeah, he's definitely a good spokes creature for the color red, like very much just taking on red. It's this red, demonic aggressive color as opposed to a more you know, a more peaceful Jedi would presumably have a blue lightsaber interest in nice soothing blue tones. Well, and if you decided to decorate your face with blue instead of red and black, will you'd just be part of

the blue man group. Right, There's not much threatening even if even if you really look at him and you start getting a little creaked out, you can only feel so threatened by the blue Man group, you know. Final final note on that, there was an article in The New York Times potion two thousand nine by Pam Belloic titled reinvent wheel blue Room diffusing a bomb red room Um. She pointed out that at the New York Times at the time there were no blue rooms. There were red rooms,

but no blue rooms. So you can imagine, especially you have tight deadlines in place, it's all about like getting the story right, getting the story out on time, that it would probably be a pretty red room environment. Yeah, then the saying the article that the walls were painted a tomato soup red. Yeah. Yeah, again, keep keeping you on your toes, keeping you aggressive, I can, I could see that in the place though. And lusty and lusty

that's the other association with red. Yeah, And there there have been some interesting studies along those lines that you know, that show that you know, man sees a woman that gets the red background or in a red outfit. Uh, there's going to be more. He's gonna interpreter is more beautiful or sexual? Uh, that sort of thing. Yeah, red

is a very fascinating color. And I think this all just points to this idea that these colors are working on us in sub conscious ways, um, in ways that we cannot even perceive given the machinery that we have in our eyeballs. And so we may cover a couple of other colors, UM be interested to know from you guys, if you have a favorite that you'd want to know about. Well, you know, it gets right into symbolism too, because we we end up loading in associations with certain colors, uh,

sports teams, cultural things such as Marty Grass. When we were getting test colors and test designs for our website a while back, one of the designs we were given was a brilliant like purple and gold design, and I think we both just said, now, that's just that looks like we're celebrating Marty Grass. It's not really what we're gonna go for. Um, there's a lot of that at play.

Like someone might say I like these colors because they look kind of Rastafarian, and others might say that it looks a little too rastera for what I'm trying to do here. Uh, please keep those colors to yourself. Yeah, for my money, it's pink, because recently you had sent me an article with the tie I don't this pink even exist? Or pink doesn't exist, And there's all the sort of implications that pink has had, and historically it's fascinating color. So maybe maybe we'll get around to do that.

One in the West used to be a man's color and then when we lost it. Yeah, yeah, it's hard to think of that now. All right, all right, so there you go. Blue. Uh, an exploration of the color blue, what it means to us and how we perceive it and and where it came from. Now, if you would like to explore more on this topic, or other topics, other color related topics. Be sure to check out stuff

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