COLORS EVERYWHERE

[bloodyrosemccoy]

You guys.

THIS. THIS IS MY LIFE.

For one thing, ugly voices are why I can't listen to Led Zeppelin (although fortunately for my longstanding crush on her, Madeline Kahn's voice is a nice light peach to me). For another, yes, I HAVE had that problem with folders. At Dad's office the patients charts were color-coded by the letter of their last name, and it goes without saying EVERY. SINGLE. LETTER. was the wrong color. I actually did screw it up from time to time.*

For a third thing, their #1 on the list made me laugh WAY too hard. You people and your grey,** lifeless world. I'm so sorry.

So, yeah, synesthesia is pretty crazy. And these guys don't even get into the ordinal linguistic personification. That stuff is WHACK, man. I sometimes wonder if linguistic gender stemmed from the fact that some damn synesthete somewhere just fuckin' KNEW their table was a girl and their oven was a dude. Yet another mystery for the scientists to mess with.


*Though for some reason "S" and "W" gave me the most trouble. They were the ones I got wrong most often. And I mixed up "G" and "H" a lot for some reason, because one folder was pink and the other was lilac when IN ACTUALITY both of them are different shades of impossible orange. I guess their similarity in my head made it hard to convert the RIGHT shade of impossible orange.

**Fun Fact I spell it "grey" not because I am pompous (well, that, too) but because the letter A is bright candy pink and E is a sort of sage-green-grey, and therefore E is more suited for the word.

Comments

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had no idea Cracked had legitimate information on it! Will wonders never cease.

I'm glad to know that impossible colors really exist. There are colors in my head that no amount of pigment mixing will match and I figured I was just doing it wrong. A pigment of the imagination, as it were.

[padparadscha.livejournal.com]

Cracked has TONS of legitimate information on it--they're silly, but they actually do some impressive journalism. Especially now that they've started the "personal experience" thing where they help other people with interesting lives write about it.

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE. And god, yes, those frustrating impossible colors. They gave me no end of trouble as a kid.

[dark-phoenix54.livejournal.com]

The closest I've come to some of those colors are the duo-toned silk dupioni. Sometimes the light will hit the two crossing colors just right and there it is- for about a half a second.

Good to know that now when I'm screwing off looking at Cracked I can say "IT'S RESEARCH"

[broken-moons.livejournal.com]

OMG, you're right - du0-toned silk dupioni really is the closest thing to some of my impossible colours. But yes, only for like a second depending on how the light falls^.