snippy memento

62. Draw what you see, not what you think is there.

nikography:

from rulesformyunbornson via whileyouwereout

when i took color theory, my professor gave us the simple assignment of painting a white cube on a white piece of paper. she stressed that we not paint the generic scale of grays that we think should be on each side (one light, one medium, one dark etc) but the exact shades of gray that the cube was.

we weren’t allowed to leave class that day until we could hold up our paper next to the cube and distinguish no difference. once i finally got it right, i realized the entire thing was in 5-15% tints of gray. it was a great assignment.

(she also made us do this with our skin tone. not allowed to leave until the paper matched the inside of our wrist. that day, i learned that white people are a pretty sickly, ugly color)

The color is difficult to understand… especially making it by ourselves is hard :( But this episode is full of connotation.

Moments

nicotobares:

I sometimes think about my childhood. I even remember the book I’ve read and the drawings that ornamented every page. I think about the television programmes I liked, how much I loved to visit my grandma, the games we played with the other kids I now don’t know anything about anymore, and how simpler everything was back then.

Then, I think of childhood nowadays, and feel sorry about most children. What will they remember about their childhood? What kind of cellphone they owned? How many “friends” they had at Myspace? Which was their Fotolog account name?

It doesn’t feel right.
:(

I strongly agree with you!

I watched the movie “Guardian”. It was really impressed! To save people’s life is great work, but suppose you have to choose your life or the other’s one, what would you do…? Thus they are called Guardian. hmm…