How To make Rainbow-Pasta
Regenbogen-Pasta, yay! Das Rezept ist extrem einfach, Pasta kochen, eine Minute in Lebensmittelfarbe einlegen und servieren.
Add about 20 drops of each food coloring and 2 tablespoons water to Ziplock bags. When the pasta is done, drain it in a strainer and immediately run cold water over it to halt the cooking. Transfer the pasta, portioning it as you go, into the bags of food coloring. Seal the bags, and mix the pasta and food coloring until well-combined. Let each bag sit for at least a minute.
Unicorn Poop Soap
Endlich, waschen mit Einhorn-Poodoo! Macht garantiert bunt und riecht nach Cola und Geburtstagskuchen, yay!
Unicorn poop is HEWN FROM SOLID RAINBOWS and AN ASTONISHING ARRAY OF DELIGHTFUL SCENTS to bring glee to even the most soap-averse humans!
Upon sniffing the Unicorn Poop soap, 100% of testers respond with a variation of “Can I eat this? Are you sure I can’t eat this?” and then “Can I lick it, at least?” It is a Willy Wonka-style layered assortment of scents BY COLOR, including birthday cake, blueberry muffin, cola, butterscotch, and vanilla. Not only that, it is BURSTING with SO MUCH GLITTER YOU’LL BE FORCED TO TYPE IN ALL CAPS JUST TO DESCRIBE IT!!!
Holi: Festival of Colors 2013
Vergangene Woche ging in Indien wieder das Holi Festival der Farben über die Bühne. Das Thema wird zwar mittlerweile auch von irgendwelchen Event-Agenturen in Deutschland durch die Medien gepeitscht, aber da können ja die Pigmente nix für und die Bilder aus Indien sind ohnehin schöner. Am spannendsten ist vielleicht das Posting von Reuters-Fotograf Vivek Prakash, der gleich noch erklärt, wie man seine Kamera sauber hält:
Holi is celebrated widely across India, but it is more popular in the north of the country. The epicenter of all the action is in a triangle of villages around the city of Mathura – the fun begins at Barsana, then moves to Nandgaon, Vrindavan, and Dauji before finally finishing a week of rolling celebrations in the region where the Hindu god Krishna and his consort Radha are thought to have been born and lived. It’s a festival that celebrates the arrival of spring, but in this region it also has special significance as it celebrates the story of Radha and Krishna and their love for each other.
The enthusiasm of the people is unmatched – the energy combined with sheer numbers make for fantastic scenes drenched in water and color. It makes for delicious pictures. But I have to admit, after having covered it for the first time, it’s harder than it looks to get a great picture. Keeping your equipment dry and operational is a big challenge.
The Big Picture: Holi celebrations 2013
The Atlantics In Focus: Holi 2013: The Festival of Colors
Reuters: Riot of color
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Bilder von Indiens Holi Festival der Farben
Indiens Holi Festival der Farben 2010
Holi: The Festival of Colors 2011
Festival of Colors in Utah, 2011
Holi: The Festival of Colors 2012
Festival of Colors in Utah, 2012
Activists troll Westboro Baptist Church with a Gay Pride-Rainbow-House
Schwule Aktivisten haben ein Haus gegenüber der Westboro Baptist Church gekauft, in Regenbogenfarben angemalt und machen daraus ein Gay Rights Center. Großartige Trollerei! Letzte Woche deutete die ehemalige WBC-Anhängerin Lauren Drain erst an, dass Fred Phelbs, Oberhaupt von „Americas Most Hated Family“, selbst homosexuell sein dürfte oder erst durch ein schwules Erlebnis seine extremistisch-homophobes Weltbild entwickelte. Halte ich für einen Mann, der sein ganzes Leben mit „God hates Fags“-Postern durch die Gegend rennt natürlich für äußerst unwahrscheinlich.
“I’ve been accused in the past of being all over the place, and they’re probably right on some level,” Jackson told me last night by phone. “Right now we are standing up to bigotry and promoting equality.”
So while considering the Westboro Baptist Church, he began dinking around on Google Maps late one night. He pulled up the church, at 3701 SW 12th St. in Topeka, and took a virtual walk around the block. In the front yard of a house across the street, he noticed a For Sale sign.
“It hit me right away,” Jackson told me last night by phone. “Huh. That would be interesting to own a house across from the Westboro Baptist Church and turn it into something.’ And then, within five seconds: ‘And I’ll paint it the color of the pride flag.’ Perfect.”
Gawker: The House Across From Westboro Baptist Is Getting a Rainbow Pride Paint Job Right Now (via Metronaut)
NYMag: The House Across From the Westboro Baptist Church Is Now a Rainbow-Colored Gay-Pride Center
HuffPo: Westboro Equality House: Aaron Jackson Paints Rainbow Home Across From Anti-Gay Church
Foodcolored Shit
Gabriel Morais hat seine Kacke gefärbt. Dafür hat er 4,5 Kilo Rüben, 3,5 Kilo Fuit Loops und 4 Kilo Mais gegessen. Yep.
The idea behind this project, is to show how much the food we ingest affects our body,
therefore the colour of each poop was not manipulated on photoshop.To achieve the result, the quantity I ate for each picture was:
4.5kg of beet root in 36 hours.
3.5kg of Froot Loops in 30 hours.
4kg of sweet corn in 36 hours.
Colourful Shit (via Gizmo)
First Pic from Mars on TV
Wusste ich auch noch nicht: Das erste Bild vom Mars im Fernsehen entstand, indem sie die Daten der Helligkeitswerte der Pixel ausdruckten, die Zahlenkolonnen aneinanderklebten und wie bei Malen-Nach-Zahlen colorierten. Vintage analoge Datenvisualisierung from Space, quasi.
This image represents the first view of another planet from a vantage point in space. It was taken on July 15th, 1965, when the space probe Mariner 4 flew by only 6,118 miles from the surface of Mars. Before this image the most sophisticated, high res image of Mars was this image by Percival Lowell from the late 1800′s. […]
After a few variations, it seemed most efficient to print out the digits and color over them based upon how bright each pixel was. So Mr. Grumm went to a local art store and asked for a set of chalk with different shades of gray. The art store replied that they “did not sell chalk” […], but they did have colored pastels. Richard did not want to spend a lot of time arguing with them, so he bought the pastels (actual pastels seen [besides]), had the 1’s and 0’s printed out on ticker tape about 3in wide, and his team colored them by their brightness level.
Die ganze Story gibt’s hier: First TV Image of Mars, das Bild in HighRes hier. (via Reddit)
HTML thinks, Chuck Norris is a Color and Crap is brown
<body bgcolor=”chucknorris”> test </body>
Funktioniert anscheinend nur in Chrome und laut Stack Overflow nur im Non Standard-Mode. Weitere Celebs mit HTML-Colorcodes: „OprahWinfrey is blue, MrT is Black, while BarackObama is a faded green color“. Die Erklärung ist relativ leicht: Falsche und fehlende Hex-Werte werden vom Browser als 0 interpretiert, die Raute ergänzt, aus ChuckNorris wird also #C00C00, ein dunkles rot. Aus „Crap“ wird übrigens „#C0A000“, ein ziemlich diarrhöiges Kackbraun, nachdem man Curry gegessen hat.
Superhot Pink for Australia
In Australien erwarten sie Klimawandel sei dank nächste Woche so dermaßen heißes Wetter, dass die dort eine neue Farbe für WE BURN IN HELL anlegen mussten. It’s Pink.
Extreme heat in Australia forced the government’s weather bureau to upgrade its temperature scale, with new colours on the climate map to reflect new highs forecast next week. Central Australia was shown with a purple area on the latest Bureau of Meteorology forecast map issued for next Monday, a new colour code suggesting temperatures will soar above 50 degrees Celsius (122 Fahrenheit).
The bureau’s head of climate monitoring and prediction David Jones said the new scale, which also features a pink code for temperatures from 52 to 54 degrees, reflected the potential for old heat records to be smashed. “The scale has just been increased today and I would anticipate it is because the forecast coming from the bureau’s model is showing temperatures in excess of 50 degrees,” Jones told Fairfax newspapers.
Rainbow Waffles!
Nachdem mir Wikileaks und Anonymous fast (aber nur fast!) die Laune verdorben hätten: Wow! Rainbow Waffles! Weil: Rainbow-Gebäck geht immer. (via Obvious Winner)
Colored Pigeons
Julius von Bismarck und Julian Charriere haben während der Biennale in Venedig Tauben gefärbt. Schicke Arbeit!
To coincide with this year’s Venice Biennale, Berlin-based artists Julius von Bismarck and Julian Charriere decided to dye 35 of the local pigeons to give them a new life as beautiful tropical birds. To do this, a special (animal friendly) “Pigeon Apparatus” was assembled which featured a conveyor belt mechanism to take the bird inside where they were automatically sprayed with non-harmful dyes. Once dyed a randomly selected assortment of bright colours, the bird was released once again to mingle with the other (now rather dull looking) pigeons in the wild.
SOME PIGEONS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS
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Videoportrait: Julius von Bismarks Image Fulgurator
Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus – Online-Texte als Bildergeschichten aus Patent-Datenbanken
Image Fulgurator: Obama als Priester, Wowereit O2-gebrandet
RGB Color Space Atlas
Tauba Auerbach hat einen Atlas für den RGB-Farbraum in ein ziemlich dickes Buch gedruckt. Ich gehe schwer davon aus, dass sie trotzdem keine Lichtfarben drucken konnte und das hier quasi eine Simulation in CMYK ist, aber als Konzept natürlich dennoch sehr hübsch.
american artist tauba auerbach presents the 8 x 8 x 8-inch hard-back cubes illustrating the RGB color scheme in a page-by-page medium. a digital offset print on paper with airbrushed cloth cover and book edges create a colorful reference volume of all the colors in existence. the special binding was co-designed by the artist herself in collaboration with daniel e. kelm, and were printed at wide awake garage, an independent bookbinder, with help from leah hughes.
My little Cephalopod
Twilight Sparkle und seine little Ponys als Kopffüßer von Deviant-Artist Mimblex. Macht mich sponton drölfmal mehr an, als bunte Pferde, but that’s just me. (via Neatorama)
Bomb Squad Streetart-Viral in Israel
Youtube Direktpaintbomb, via Urban Artcore
Einerseits: Schöne Idee, einen Rucksack mit Sprühdosen zu füllen und dann von einem Bombenräumkommando sprengen zu lassen. Andererseits: So ‘ne Aktion als Viral in Israel wirkt auf ‘ne eher dämliche Art provokativ (siehe auch die etwas dümmliche Lache des Kameratyps), sehr deplatziert und alles andere als witzig. Aber Aufmerksamkeit dürfte ihnen hiermit ziemlich sicher sein.
Pics from Festival of Colors in Utah, 2012
Schönes und sehr buntes Flickr-Set voller Bilder vom Festival of Colors in Utah, 2012 von Thomas Hawk. (via Colossal)
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Bilder von Indiens Holi Festival der Farben 2009
Indiens Holi Festival der Farben 2010
Holi: The Festival of Colors 2011
Festival of Colors in Utah, 2011
Holi: The Festival of Colors 2012
