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Culture Buzz Can you name the superhero based solely on their predominant color? Artist Gidi Vigo created a series of hyper minimalist posters with nothing but a superhero's Pantone color match, now converted into a nerdy graphic design quiz. Answers at the bottom!
It's sobering when you realize how young these men actually were when they went to war. This is definitely a tear jerker! (via liveleak.com)
Culture Buzz Disturbing yet strangely beautiful photos of riot police using hoses to spray magenta colored water on a crowd of opposition members, gathered outside of Kampala to mourn protesters who were killed earlier this year. Repression has never been so photogenically surreal.
N SKY C displays the average color of the New York City sky, updated every 5 minutes. While we lost a bit of our humanity the day this site was created, I spent too many years working in a windowless cubicle farm to not appreciate its usefulness.
Culture Buzz The Rio Caño Cristales, known also as “the river that ran away to paradise,” is a photographer’s dream. Located near the town of La Macarena in Colombia, South America, it is the most beautiful river in the world and famous for its colorful display. You might even see a double rainbow.
Such vivid colors, such colorful language. A “Crikey” was spotted in the wild. This beautiful creature usually dwells in warm and sometimes wet places, it eats large quantities of food for the upkeep of body fat. One thing to note about Crickey's, is that they are very sensitive and hate being woken up before Spring.
Some clever folks came up with an application to let you simulate web browsing experience through various degrees of color blindness. You'd be surprised how much we rely on visual information. For instance, 1% of men see the BuzzFeed homepage like this:
When you are making decisions for your bicycle teams new uniforms, it's best to stick with the classic black bicycle shorts, for obvious reasons.
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“When I was a kid, I used to wonder if everyone saw the world in the same way. We can all look at the same grass, but maybe the color I called green showed up in my brain as the color my friend called blue. Maybe all of our colors were shifted around to the point where all the colors were accounted for, but how we perceived them was shuffled up. I thought it would be remarkably exciting, and hoped that I could see the world through someone else’s brain to see if, in fact, this was true.”
These are always fun: stare at the black dot in the middle of the image and see what happens!
Pantone's Color of the Year for 2009 is Mimosa, a yellow that is supposed to cheer us up while the whole world goes to pot. Funnily enough, real mimosas also do that.
Science Buzz A quick test that determines your ability to perceive hues. After you’ve taken the quiz you can see how your score matches up against other people your age or gender.
At a town hall style meeting in Portland, Maine today a woman…
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