26 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

  1. I’m old enough to remember when the GREAT David Lynch deliberately used constant hues of orange and green in virtually EVERY scene of his series Twin Peaks to reflect the colors of sawn timber and evergreen needles of the Pacific Northwest.

    https://youtu.be/2rmC9M1yla0?si=XzclbU-M5-xeR_Vl

    Once you realize what he is INTENTIONALLY doing … you can’t stop seeing it. The single most “colorized” film I’ve ever seen.

      1. I was very excited to see the film 300 … so much so that I saw it at the historic Orinda Theatre

        https://bayareatelegraph.com/2025/02/04/after-devastating-closure-the-orinda-theatre-just-made-an-incredibly-exciting-announcement/

        I left the theatre feeling like my senses had just been dulled, as if I saw a film artificially “antiqued” to appear as a sort of historic newsreel of a film. It was a disturbing experience. I actually ended up disliking the film despite its historic heroic story. I found it hard to watch … like I was watching it with bad cataracts in my eyes

  2. Not just cars, but clothes, house colors (both inside and out), furniture, you name it. I drive a cherry red car, and I’m probably considered idiosyncratic by my friends for it.

    My guess is that people don’t want to stand out. They’re afraid to be judged by others, and the best way to avoid that is to blend in. It’s a mass insecurity complex.

  3. “There’s a related shift in music, where complexity is being stripped out to appeal to worldwide streaming audiences.”

    Rick Beato has often commented on how idiotically simple and formulaic the top hits are today. It’s as if composers only know four chords. Music in the 1960s and 1970s was far more varied, complex, and experimental.

    I suspect that the more complex music will stand the test of time. The music of the early 21st century will be considered a bit of a dead zone.

    1. Agree about the music. Saw an interview with Weird Al Yankovic a few years ago where he said he was having difficulty spoofing contemporary music because most of it is so bad its un-parody-able.

    2. See. You and I can agree on something. And here’s where I share another cut from my current obsession with Wishbone Ash’s Argus and a 40th anniversary live version of Sometime World …

      https://youtu.be/PbG-OY0Q4nU?si=D5xzX-_dz8u4oDPL

      Don’t get lulled to sleep by the slow, lilting melody … cause the tune completely changes tempo about the 2:30 mark with a driving bass melody and meandering lead guitar riffs. And let me add that no multi-guitar band has ever written such complimentary, beautifully layered guitar parts as wishbone ash. Those boys really knew how to make two guitars sound sumptuous.

      1972 … what an utterly AMAZING period of music pouring out from 1968-1972. Complex. Innovative. Unique and different with every new band and tune

      1. And another great tune from the same 40th anniversary performance … Throw Down the Sword.. Of course Wishbone Ash wrote that tune for the Vietnam war … but it seems MY President has picked up the timeless message … since mankind has not yet learned the lesson.

        https://youtu.be/pPAgu5Ee5iQ?si=7Vj0uE6RTh4GHBv5

        Feel free to read along with the Lyrics. Trump’s message is simple … Throw Down the Sword. What a beautiful interplay between two lead guitars … switching leads back and forth … layering and changing keys … fabulous!!

  4. A client in Calgary with whom I did business for 15 years once commented that they always knew when I showed up to call (based on comments from the receptionist), because I was the only who ever wore outrageously bright dress shirts. I never bothered to explain to him that was the whole point.

    Canadian salespeople in that industry uniformly dressed in grey pants, white dress shirts, and black overcoats. It was like hanging out with funeral directors. I have no idea how anyone told them apart.

    1. in my early years at esso we all had the esso uniform for less formal days , grey pants , blue blazer white shirt red tie. was sort of the look of the gas jockey in the commercial. sans the cap .

      like japanese we did not want to be the nail hammered down.

    1. people like the b and w which makes it like a statue

      B and W is a real phenomenon caused by the rods being more sensitive than the cones and processing into a clearer image. eye charts are not coloured

  6. Color in public places has been at the core of culture for millennia: remember that the Parthenon was painted in brilliant colors, as was its statuary; quite a lot of ancient marbles still show traces of paint that covered the grey-white stone. Sumptuary laws dictated that color was reserved to the wealthy and powerful: cardinals wore red, emperors purple. Some of this had to do with the cost of dyes or pigments; brilliant color was not widely available for the middle classes until Perkin developed aniline dyes and the Victorians weltered in dramatic tones.

    In my life I have noticed that in good times clothing and commodities come in bright, attractive colors; bad times seem to lean toward shades that look like potted meat in various stages of decomp. Which is where we’ve been for some time now in this fashion and economic cycle.

  7. Article’s philosophy is a bit messed up. Aristotle’s “form” is not the same as “shape”, and he had a high regard for physical reality (Aristotle’s hylomorphism vs. Plato’s Idealism). …

  10. It could be because colour, as in the colours of the spectrum, have been stolen for use by a marginal fringe group solely focused on base sexual preferences in modern society.

  11. I’m an Hawaiian shirt wearing guy. More Hawaiian shirts in my closet than any thing else.
    When I was working in an office setting, Friday was Hawaiian shirt day. It actually caught on and more people got into colours on Fridays. Brightened up the place.
    Most of my vehicles were coloured too., current Jeep is a darker red.
    House is painted in natural colours, greens, blues, even purple. Only black furniture is functional or technical, all other is natural woods, leathers and patterned.
    As a photographer colour is life.

  13. I noticed in my 1st trip to Australia in 2008 that cars were more varied in colour than in Canada. Probably because a significant number of used cars were brought in from Japan and Korea, which weren’t affected by the dulling down. But my most recent trip there, in January, I noticed that colours were trending to black, white and shades of grey. I wonder if that has been happening now in Japan too?

  14. Pffshaw. It’s simply a matter of society finally coming around to recognize that myself and my colour blind brethren are just more advanced and you wish to emulate us.

    Some day soon you technicolour peasants will embrace us, your monochrome overlords.

    Now. Could someone please tell me when that traffic light changes colour ?

    1. Something to help with the traffic lights that I have observed (in Quebec) is have the lights shaped; Red in a square, Yellow in a triangle, and Green in a circle. I think its the only useful thing I’ve witness to come from Quebec

    2. SR Con, Question: When at an intersection where the traffic lights are horizontal, how do you know which light is which?

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