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Location: Las Cruces, NM | It was, shawn
They printed the color on each item in very small print. If you needed glasses, you were known as "color blind".
If you looked up, you saw "BLUE" as a cloud formation, and, in summer, the trees had big, leafy formations that said "GREEN". In fall, the leaves would rearrange themselves and form words like "ORANGE", "RED", "OCHER", "BROWN" and in small print whispers of "violet", "sunset red", "mauve", and "wrinkly faded tan". Looking accross the fields of corn, you could see the words "Green" in spring and early summer, slowly morphing into "TAN' and "BROWN" with occasional tassels saying "GOLDEN", and a flash of "Yellow" where a husk had split showing the ripe corn.
Cows had patterns of text such as "black". "white", "tan", "golden brown" etc.. Horses were tattooed with "bay", "strawberry roan", "dapple gray", Beautiful Palomino" etc..
Our tractor and combine had decals that said "FARMALL RED", our manure spreader had one that said "Allis Chalmers shit spattered orange", as the markings were very descriptive.
I had a Kay arch top guitar that even had a decal that said "lousy looking scratched up cheap brown sunburst". My '37 Ford sedan had licence plates saying "faded gray body, shiny black front fenders" as my uncle had replaced the fenders shortly before he sold it to me.
If you couldn't read, you lived a colorless life so school was much more important and was attended by all but the dolts who went on to form a monochromatic form of art and photography called "Black and White" which you have referred to.
Bailey (shirt, olive; pants, blue denim; sandals, brown leather; face, flesh tone to reddish; hair, blondish brown (dishwater); eyes, blue; hands, flesh and black from working on old Toyota; beard, same as hair; belt, brown leather with touches of red highlights)
You can see how tough it was to communicate back then!! |
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Location: closely held secret | Calvin: How come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?
Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just that the world was black and white then. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.
Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If the world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?
Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.
Calvin: But... But how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?
Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.
Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?
Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember? |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Back in the days of greasy kid stuff:
"Brylcream, a little dab will do ya,
They love to run their fingers through your hair"
Double meaning:
"Show us your Lark"
Thirsty:
"Schaffer is the....one beer to have when your having more than one"
My 2 cents |
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