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 saturday, march 17Hit me with that Old Lady Hair! "I was thinking about buttercup yellow..." Buttercup yellow? Phooey on that! How about Plaque, baby? Describing colour is a crap shoot. When you come right down to it, what is buttercup yellow? What if you've never seen a buttercup? And even if you have, how do I know that you're not thinking banana? Or lemon? Or dingy teeth? The winner of the SXSW conference floor schwag was, hands down, Aquent, with their web safe colours palette. Each of the holy 216 are named, for better or for worse, as Aquent calls them as they sees them. "Toxic waste," "Slimer," and "Key Lime Pie." How does this pan out among friends? What is "Masala" anyway? I have no clue, but it's Jeffrey's fav. Calamondin skies are "Overcast" on the "Yellow Brick Road." Lance is rather "Ashen" which is ridiculous considering his current flame head tendencies. Both Steve and Mike favour "Butternut Squash." Laura Holders's other job is a "Chimney Sweep," Peapod's feeling "Sickly" and Disturbing Search Requests moonlights as "Swamp" thing. Oh, and during my little root around your source code, I discovered that a remarkable number of you have ditched the web safe palette. Shame on you! You will be spanked. Personal favourites?
You can always entertain your own colour naming fantasies over at Colorspeak.
Have I mentioned that I get stray emails bound for Jezebel magazine? This weeks pick: "I saw your underwear when you got in the limo. Athough, I dnt think you were wearing any... Better for me..." Yesterday? Where have all the Dot Coms gone? (with apologies to Pete Seeger) |
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