okay brain - where is it

At some point during the day - between emails, questions, busted stuff and staring at some of the slowly accumulating clutter on my desk (but i DON'T WANT TO CLOSE MY MCMASTER CATALOG NUMER 121 - open to page 2048-2049) I opened this tab because I had an idea, something in my brain that I wanted to write down.

I forgot and just as I was typing 121 I got interupted and have been busy since (hours ago now). Yes - tabs live a long time here on GeWilli's desktop. Much like how McMaster's new Catalog doesn't really get closed.


Maybe it was started while I mused on IKB (Yves Klein's color he 'invented'). IKB hasn't always been a specific trigger. But the color has always been something I've been drawn in by. Probably why I had Davidson repaint my Paramount in a near IKB (International Klein Blue) before I knew anything about Yves's art work.

Couple with that my orange 'look' but the fact that I love the color orange (heck I convinced them to repaint my whole basement lab in michigan - yeah I had the whole floor to myself, just me and my microscopes - an Orange color with a bold orange trim - darkroom lights were reflected better with those colored walls or some BS convinced them) and there is the jumpsuit that "that guy" wears at the NECX races.

This morning's shot of the Lighthouse on my ride in wasn't quite as deep or as strong as IKB but looking up further than the phone captured, the sky was approaching that blue:

And the bay was deep blue in parts.

A calm gorgeous morning.

That got me thinking about colors.

Then down a Yves Klein worm hole, watching old footage of his Anthropometries. Found a long documentary on Youtube (haven't watched, maybe later).

But I played around with Photoshop and the colors. Luminous color vs Reflected color and the additive palate vs the subractive palate meant I was just playing in a world that Yves wasn't.

There is some limit to how close it is possible to get, and IKB is a unique color. Even the hottest shit monitors and displays are still limited to a certain range. It is actually a concious reason why I love digital black and white, why my images are black and white - or why I've stayed with the images in the black and white on the SEM, eschewing color images. Colors are limited in the digital medium, sure you can tweak your algorithm and different companies (cannon, nikon, olympus, leica) all have their own color algorithm to get "true" colors out of a CMOS chip. But still, black and white, just count the photons...  show me THAT dynamic. That's what I want to see. And why i will always and forever pine for a Leica Monochrome M (until someone else makes one - if ever).

But color does something that black and white doesn't.

Back to photoshop...  color playing... start with the IKB equivalent that the internet decided was closest (RGB:0,47,167) then sort out what I want the contrasting color to be.

what triggered the right emotional response personally...  just for me...  not on everyone, just me.

I don't think I got it quite to the THAT IS ABSOLUTELY IT but i got close.

so yeah - maybe that's what I started out to write but then forgot and remembered and came back to...

eventually.

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