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Sunday, May 11, 2008
Gabo Would Be Apprehensively Tolerant, if not Proud
Here is a little comic that I drew for my Latin American Literature class. It is based on an idea I got from One Hundred Years of Solitude and I am still trying to figure out how to print it.
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I hate to be a dick but, water is blue. To prove this, try painting the ceiling of a room with a pool in it some other colour, like red. Or notice how many pools are below white ceilings but still appear blue. Or notice how there are green seas. Or how water still appears blue on cloudy days.
Yeah...
I'm sorry, that was nit-picky. I liked your comic. The general message was nice.
Please don't hate me.
[It is often foggy in San Francisco, and the water in Ocean Beach has always looked grey to me.]
That was beautiful. The insect/moon reference is so okay.
Okay and JTo if not I can take it out. It's more a tribute to you than a necessary part of the comic.
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~etrnsfer/water.htm#blue
Yes, it is algae and whatnot, and possibly chlorine, but that still wouldn't explain why water was blue on grey, cloudy days.
Water is reflective, but not so much that we can turn water red by putting a red ceiling over it.
http://www.mcguirl.ca/images/1-Beach%20facing%20East.jpg
http://www.webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/5B.html
http://www.lsbu.ac.uk/water/vibrat.html#blue
http://www.discovery.com/area/skinnyon/skinnyon971003/skinnyon.html#blue
I'm sorry my points, like science, is "dumb".
I'm also sorry my grammar is crap:
I'm sorry my points—like science—are "dumb".
Daniel. We can have this conversation in person--your negativity is ruining the artistic mien I am trying to achieve through my written and visual work.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle made up virtually every piece of "science" that Sherlock Holmes uses to solve cases. 95% of the time, Doyle was making things up on a whim.
The purpose of artistic pieces is rarely empirical accuracy, but rather the expression of a more abstract idea or sentiment. Sometimes, the only purpose of an artistic piece is to be pretty. And sometimes there is no purpose at all. The objective of the piece is, for the most part, irrelevant for the purposes of my argument. The part that we must bear in mind is the fact that the goal of this was almost certainly not to make a statement about what makes water blue.
And with that said...
I liked it, Atilla.
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