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Martin_Heigan

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Thank You Bag by Ina Weise

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When it comes to plastic bags things are pretty black and white.

"I’m not crazy about telling everyone not to use plastic bags. I know they can be very useful. But since I’ve been living in the US it is very hard to ignore the mass amounts of plastic bags everywhere. Everyone keeps them stuffed into one that hangs from the pantry door. They line trash bins. They carry food even if it is just a single pack of gum. They flutter from trees. They float in the breeze. They clog roadside drains. There are so many everywhere that no one really treats them as if they’re worth anything."

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Sarah Gee

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Nancy Herman

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Kathryn M  Ireland

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Africa Series by Amsterdam born and based photographer Viviane Sassen.

A colorful menu of cocktails from the "Adventures in Amateur Mixology" blog, Sloshed, and flickr.

Bada Bing
		2 basil leaves, chiffonaded 3 pitted Bing cherries 1 oz Plymouth gin ½ oz simple syrup ½ oz maraschino liqueur ½ lime juice 3-4 oz champagne See Instructions

Sleeping Giant
		1½ oz fresh orange juice 1½ oz unsweetened pineapple juice 1½ oz light rum ½ oz sweet & sour ¼ oz orgeat See Instructions

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Crayola is synonymous with crayons. Because of them crayons are one of the top 20 most recognizable scents for adults in America, and their brand is known to 99% of households.

Inspired by every color, from the original 8 color box to the 120 color trunk?, and the crayon connection shared by generations of people, Stephen Von Worley of Weather Sealed and his friend created the Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010, A visual history of Crayola's color expansion from 1903 to 2010.

Crayola Color Chart, 1903-2010

Making of the Chart

To create the chart, Velo gently scraped Wikipedia’s list of Crayola colors, corrected a few hues, and added the standard 16-count School Crayon box available in 1935.

"Scientists have found evidence of some of the original coloration of a dinosaur that lived about 125 million years ago, showing that it had rings of orange-brown bristly feathers around its tail."

Color has long been something that scientist thought would never be known about the dinosaurs. Since only hard tissues tend to be preserved in fossil records there was little hope in the scientific community that any of the colorful softer tissues would ever be studied. And without those how could we ever know what color palette any of these incredible creatures displayed. The answer came in a feather.

Recently discovered feathered dinosaurs held the key to our first look at color. Feathers, unlike soft tissue, are made of tough proteins and hold up much better. Unfortunately these fossilized feathers don't preserve the color they once had but rather look much like any other fossil.

Sinosauropteryx From wiki. See other artist renditions based on these findings here.

"When you look at the feathers, you don't know what the colors were. The feathers are a mixture of brownish colors," says Benton (paleontologist Mike Benton at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom). "They're just preserved either as sort of dirty, whitish, beige kind of color and a kind of darker, equally dirty kind of brownish color. "

Navy and kelly green is a timeless combo. I personally associate it with preppies, whom I happen to love. Though it seems timeless, I found while browsing objects that there really weren't that many to view consisting of these two colors. Do you own anything that is kelly green and navy?

lamp |tote | pillow | cookware | napkins | chair | notebook

Swedish artist Michael Johansson packs his color into neat sculptural objects. Sculptural Color Palettes Of Michael Johansson

Taking everyday objects and pulling them from their familiar meaning & use, Johansson repackages them with impressive Tetris-like skills into 3d sculptures that highlight the unrelating objects' coincidental meanings of shape and color.

Artist Statement

I am fascinated walking around flea markets finding doubles of seemingly unique, though often useless objects I have already purchased at another flea market. Despite the fact that I did not have any use for them even the first time, the desire to own two of these objects becomes too strong to resist. The unique and unknown origin of the object increases my desire to want the double – the unlikelihood of this sensation repeating itself produces an attraction that is too strong to resist.

Warning colors are found throughout nature: the bumblebee, the skunk, the cuddle fish, the coral snake,... These animal's bright colors stand out against their environment demanding attention and declaring to predators that they're poisonous and they better think twice about eating them. So, its no wonder that when we want to get people's attention and warn them about certain perils we use the same high contrast, highly visibile, conspicuous color palettes that are often found in nature.