Comments on: On Blue

By: Evolution of San Francisco — Matt Mullenweg

Evolution of San Francisco — Matt Mullenweg — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 15:52:19 +0000

[…] final comes from Rebecca Solnit, who I’ve quoted before, writes a diary for the London Review of […]

By: ana teresa

ana teresa — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 06:15:03 +0000

Dear Mike and Adrian, the excerpt comes from a novel titled Field Guide to Getting Lost… hint hint…. the author is pointing the poetics of blue… it’s ability to permeate the invisible and seem expansive beyond measure. Brunelleschi invented 3 point perspective, the mathematical process of creating a sense of depth on a flat plane. Yet, Leonardo Da Vinci was the first painter to apply a blue haze of paint on horizon lines to create a sense of vastness without the mathematics. As when we say our heart is breaking, I don’t think my inferior vena cava is disjoining from my left ventricle….. It’s poetic writing… I highly suggest you read it and get lost… in your imagination.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:43:14 +0000

I believe water is very slightly absorbent in certain frequencies visible light and certainly in IR; giving it a very slight colour. This is possibly for similar reasons as its absorption of certain frequencies of IR – thus making water vapour the main (over 99%) of total greenhouse gases.

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 20:00:14 +0000

That’s a neat piece of writing, but the scientist in me has to point out that water is not colorless. Water is very slightly blue, but we only notice the blue color in large quantities.

By: ana teresa

ana teresa — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:53:09 +0000

Jazz lives in blue
Jazz is born in blue
And the world holds it so openly…. for us to spend time in it

By: Danielle Grigsby

Danielle Grigsby — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 17:36:21 +0000

Why is the sky blue?