Assignment Six Completed

Here are some pictures of assignment six printed and assembled on the day of the final presentations. The two parts met so briefly. Oh, farewell Art 2500! 

Behind the Scenes (aka procrastination)

Here's some behind the scenes. Lovely assistant Float, the very small chicken, came over to see what was up while I was taking pictures.

 She noted that a violet is blooming on the hand.

So it is!

Assignment 6

I've been trying to think of a title for assignment six, and my dad just suggested a great one. I'll title this project: 

"Work in Progress"

Here's my assignment six.

Wow, I can’t believe this class is nearly over! I did my assignment five presentation on Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison, the husband and wife photographers. Their work is very surreal and often has hidden meanings, and because we are taking inspiration from our artists for our final assignment, I tried to follow that theme for this project. As I mentioned in my presentations, I also borrowed visual elements like the hands and soil cross-section from some of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrisons’ Counterpoint series. I really like the emotions of the pieces in which the ParkeHarrisons used these elements. I also liked how they used hands to represent the whole person in a way, which I think is a very cleaver visual tool.

A detail shot to break up this crazy wall of text

I tried to make this assignment using a set, similarly to the ParkeHarrisons. They are known for creating elaborate sets before taking their pictures and I tried to do an approximation of the same. As can be seen in some of the work in progress shots further down in the blog, I made a fake cross section of the ground in my back yard. It began as a rectangle of soil with grass at the top, and then I added roots, small plants, and small objects with personal meaning from my life. For example, you can see an old soup bone in the upper left corner of the finished picture. The Siberian Husky dog from my childhood used to eat those bones and they can still be found pressed into the dirt and grass around the yard. I used to play in the dirt a lot when I was a kid, and I would sometimes sit under a tree and play with a set of small plastic horses and other treasures that could be found on the ground. Shepherd’s Purse plants, chewed walnut hulls dropped by squirrels, and those flat sided marble things were all toys in those games, so I gave them cameo appearances in this project. After the set was complete I took a series of pictures, and then photographed my left hand in a series of poses on the dirt to add in Photoshop.

Another detail shot. More breaking up of the text

I decided to make this project as part-two of my first assignment. In assignment one I tried to capture how I felt looking forward into my first semester of college. In this project, I tried to capture looking back. Soil was my research topic in my English class, which became a little all-consuming at times. I used soil as a big element in this project because of that. My hands are reaching up through the soil, or maybe through the challenges of a first semester. I really liked the pressure in the ParkeHarrisons’ Bloodroot piece, which featured Robert ParkeHarrison’s face deep underground, and I was hoping to recreate that in this project. This semester felt like a lot of pressure from the soil! I don’t feel that I really managed to recreate that pressure, but I like the symbolism none the less.

I printed this assignment at twenty-three inches on the short side, if I remember correctly. I needed it to be large enough that the hands were not smaller than my hand sculpture. There was some concern that the resolution from my camera would not be able to hold up, but fortunately it did! I chose the canvas to print on because of its durability, but also because of how nice my print looked on it in the test. The canvas made the colors look wonderful in comparison to the other paper.

The hand sculpture as it is today

 There is a second element in this assignment that I made last weekend. It’s a hand sculpture of sorts, I guess. I wish there was more to say about it, but it’s really just something that I made for the fun of making it. It also had some great procrastination value. It began as a chicken wire hand that I made to add another dimension to my print, and then it ended up getting stuffed with dirt and plants. I’m surprised that it worked, but so far everything has lived! I like that it turns the elements in the print inside out. I plan to display this sculpture on a table in front of my print, as a sort of companion for the project. Robert and Shana Parkeharrison have been known to include a sculpture or two amongst their galleries of prints.

I did not appropriate any imagery for this project. 

Baby radishes have sprouted on the hand

Is it a Banksy?

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/15/world/europe/uk-banksy-graffiti-spies/index.html?hpt=wo_t2


I thought this was cool. It's certainly a great piece of art and social commentary! How do we find out which art is by Banksy anyway?

Two Woodpeckers

I saw these two in the trees next to Riedl Hall while I was walking to my car a few days ago. A male Downy Woodpecker was attacking a male Red-bellied Woodpecker while it searched for bugs in a dead tree. I love those bright colors! I wish I'd had a tripod or something with me.

Frankenstein

Here is what the chicken wire hand has become. I made it with weeds from my garden! I don't know whether it will be able to stay alive.

Still Starting Assignment 6

Look! A caption.

I don't know if you can tell yet, but here's a hand made out of chicken wire. I got the idea after I found some vintage wooden mannequin arms on Ebay. Only $12 dollars, but with $15 shipping?! No way! Wood wouldn't cut my hands up like chicken wire anyway. I might use something made with this as a companion for my print.  

Starting Assignment 6

I started work on assignment six today. You might say I broke ground. I'm trying to make a set like Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison do when they make their amazing photographs. Lol can you tell what this is?

 It's supposed to look like a cross section of the ground when I'm done. I'm not really sure if this strategy will end up working yet, but it was great to spend some time outside in the sun!

The ducks volunteered their empty wading pool to shade the 'set.' :P

Gettin' there

Assignment Six Proposal

For assignment five, I will present tomorrow on Winter Arm, Spring Arm, and Summer Arm by Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. As our final projects are to be inspired by our assigned artists, for assignment six I will be making something influenced by the work of Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison. I have learned a lot about them as I researched for my presentation, and one of the things I admire most about their work is the surreal social commentary of their photographs. I think I will take inspiration from this aspect of their work. I am also fascinated by the imagery in some of the pictures from their Counterpoint series, and I really like their use of hands to represent people as a whole, and how they buried the model's (actually Robert ParkeHarris playing Everyman's) head in the ground in their piece Bloodroot. I can almost feel the pressure in that picture, and it reminds me a little bit of the pressure of keeping up with classes this semester.

 I think I could use all of these things in my final project. I have an idea to have hands buried beneath the soil, with their fingers twining and reaching to push up through the earth like spring daffodil bulbs. I could include bulbs and roots and worms and things, and it could be viewed perhaps in a similar cross section of the ground as the ParkeHarrisons used in Bloodroot. I think this project would probably be made by assembling photographs in a collage to look like one of the elaborate sets that the ParkeHarrisons create for their amazing photographs, so it would be made similarly to my assignment one. The project might be best suited to printing normally, but I could also print it on canvas and glue some dried roots or something onto it for texture. I’d like to go for the same pastel, cool toned look that the ParkeHarrisons used in their Counterpoint series.

In my English class, the topic I have used for my research papers all semester has been the soil’s relationship with climate change. With that in mind, I think that featuring soil prominently in the picture would actually illustrate my whole semester in a way. I’ve been thinking that this project could also kind of wrap up my ideas from assignment one. In assignment one I tried to show how I was feeling in the very beginning as I looked forward at my first semester of college, and similarly this project could be looking back on it. Certainly when I look back on this semester there is a lot of soil involved.

See Robert and Shana ParkeHarrison's Counterpoint series here: http://parkeharrison.com/counterpoint

Assignment 4

Here's my Assignment 4. Yay for radial gradients!

In Assignment 4, we explored technology’s relationship to the landscape. I realized as I was brainstorming for this project that almost everything around me is technology. Buildings, cars, power lines, even the genetically modified corn stubble in the field across the road, are all technologies that dominate the view from my window. In many ways in my day-to-day life, technology is the landscape. I am so reliant on technology that very few aspects of my life would even be possible without it. I kind of live in a bubble of technology, like a tomato in a hoop tunnel.

            For this project I took pictures of three computer labs that I frequent around campus  -admittedly technology dense areas- and cut everything but objects giving off light from the images. I had to be selective in what I chose to keep in the pictures, because, as they were taken indoors, virtually everything they contained was technology. I chose light-emitting things like computer screens to keep in the images because I thought they would make a good representation of technology as a whole. Overhead lights, computer monitors, small LED power lights, and the screen of my cell phone are the only things I left in the images.

My intention for this assignment was to demonstrate just how much of our surroundings can be composed of technology and thereby show that technology can be the landscape. By removing everything but the computer monitors and lights in the photographs, my intention was to leave a landscape that was still recognizable.  I hope that the result of this selective cutting allows the viewer to recognize the content of the original pictures, and demonstrates how much of a landscape can be made up of technology. Once I had cut out the features of these three pictures, I realized that they provided another kind of perspective as well. It is interesting to see the orderly structure of the monitors and lights lined up in rows from the walls to the ceiling, and the depth of the space in the images that they reveal through the perspectives of their standard rectangular shape.

I think that part of someone else’s work on this assignment is visible on one of the monitors in the second panel. Is that one Chelsea’s computer? Actually, in the second panel, which was made with a picture of the art lab, you can see our whole class in progress. I think it’s really cool that a room full of people working on this project became the subject in my own work for this assignment. I don't think that was on my mind when I took the picture but I really like it.

Bleeding Narcissus

Here's my daffodil scan from the student art show. It's a composite of two of the scans of pressed flowers I made to gather images for Assignment 1. I did end up using the magnolia and forsythia in that assignment, but not these ones. There was a lesson learned there: it's a time commitment to cut out something as detailed as a flower! I really love how much detail the scanner captured. The original flowers were not very big, but you can see veins in the petals and tiny specks of mold in the big scan file.

The color in most of my pressed flowers fades very quickly. Blue, purple, and red often become undetectable or grey-brown in short order. Green will sometimes remain green or become an odd brown. In the case of magnolia flowers, delicate white turns dark brown in a matter of hours after pressing. This frailty of color seems to be less pronounced with yellow so I really like pressing the yellow flowers. Dandelions, forsythia, and daffodils do really well over the long term and usually end up bleeding the tenacious yellow all over the page.

 Bleeding Narcissus. Click to view a larger version.

Much Animation

How did I forget to post this one? We animated this example image for practice in class the other day. More funny cats! I love it. So doge.

Frankie the Magnificent Racehorse

Following Professor Shannon's hilarious suggestion, here's a hastily made animation of my pony Frankie as a Thoroughbred racehorse! Hahaha

(This is funny because he's a diminutive 34" tall.)

We practiced tracing movie stills to make animations in class today using Eadweard Muybridge's famous racehorse photographs. (Note that the Frankie animation is only a tracing of Muybridge's photographs.)

Underwater Exhibition

"Titled "Phantasy Fairytale," the exhibit can be seen from Huvafen Fushi resort and NIYAMA resort's underwater club, Subsix."

Wow, that's a very interesting idea for a gallery! I like the pictures that go along with this article: http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/13/travel/maldives-exhibition/index.html?iref=allsearch

Assignment 4 Proposal

With its prompt to “explore technology’s relationship to the landscape,” Assignment 4 offers quite a number of possibilities. For this assignment I think I will explore that technology is the defining element of the landscape in many places now. I could take pictures of technology-filled areas, such as computer labs or maybe parking lots, and cut out all organic elements so that only the technology is left on a white background. This might necessitate some selectivity in defining what ‘technology’ is for the purposes of the project, because if I counted clothing and tables and walls as technology as readily as computers, there may be very little to remove in some pictures. I might take this slightly further and remove all but the surfaces of screens in the computer labs. I hope that the result of this selective cutting would still allow a viewer to recognize the content of the original picture, to some extent, and would therefore demonstrate just how much of a landscape can be made up of technology. I think I will stick to JPEGs for this assignment because I have already used GIFs as the format for Assignment 3.

I probably will not need to appropriate any imagery for this project as I can take the photographs I’ll need myself. I think it would be interesting to use settings from around campus, like the library computer lab and maybe the computer lab for this art class. I have definitely drawn inspiration from the artist Matt Siber, who separates the text out of photographs of urban scenes. When finished, my idea might also be very similar visually to Penelope Umbrico’s work. Her piece composed of cut-out catalog mirrors comes to mind. Umbrico’s artwork has been very inspiring to me for the projects in this class.

Here's a link to some of Matt Siber's work: Siberart.com
And Panelope Umbrico: Penelopeumbrico.net/Mirrors

Animation

Animations in class today!

The example projects are so funny.

Keyboard Cat and the Practice GIF

We made this in class today. It's so funny!

Then I made this silly thing for the practice assignment. 

Oh dear, it doesn't seem to be looping forever. I must have forgotten to check a box.

Lots of cats today!

Assignment 3

Here's My Assignment 3

(Note: click on the GIFs to see larger versions of them)

I loved that Assignment 3 was so full of possibilities. There were so many things I could have mapped, but I knew right from the beginning that I wanted try using my trail camera for this project. A trail or game camera is a waterproofed camera equipped with motion sensors and, often, infrared light capabilities for taking pictures at night. They are designed to be set up outside and left for long periods of time to monitor game by taking a picture every time they sense movement. I thought that it would be very interesting to use for mapping because every picture it takes is from the exact same vantage point, with the same stationary features like bushes and trees, and only the subject changes.

                I thought to set up the trail camera on a telephone pole by the road after my dad suggested to me, half-jokingly, that I could try to map the garbage truck that was expected that night. The trail camera did indeed capture the whole garbage collecting process, allowing me to see clearly for the first time something that had happened in the dead of night once a week for my whole life. Perhaps more interestingly, it also took pictures of the every-day occurrences on the road that I hadn't thought about or expected. It did take many pictures of the empty road as cars tripped the sensor and then quickly sped out of frame, but it also captured the things that were moving slowly enough to stay in one place for a moment. I found sequences of the mail lady delivering mail, the UPS man delivering packages, and that the camera had taken two photos a day of a school bus driving past it. I learned that the neighbor's dog walks up and down the road at night (which you can see in panel two).

              I used these images to create GIF animations that map the commonplace things that happen regularly on the road. I seem to be completely unaware of these things happening despite their regular occurrence from day to day. I think that this provides a rather interesting perspective, as they illustrate how predictable and reliable the things that I take for granted can be. I set the GIFs to loop forever and I hope that this shows how repetitive many of the day-to-day functions of society can appear from the limited perspective of my driveway. After working on this assignment I wonder what else I don’t even realize I’m not noticing or acknowledging.

In addition, I now know for sure that the garbage men are not aliens with tentacle arms and antennae. How could I have been certain before that they weren’t? 

Assignment 3 Proposal

This is one of the less impressive pictures I've taken with my trail camera in the past, but it's one that I was able to find readily. I liked it because on that night an orb weaver spider made a web right in front of the lens. 

After much deliberation, I have come up with an idea for Assignment 3 that I hope will have potential to evolve into a finished piece.  I intend to use my motion-activated trail camera to capture several series of pictures and then combine them into single images. I have always wanted to use my trail camera to make art and I am very excited to use it for this assignment. I like the concept of mapping information that is less traditionally mapped. The novelty is exciting.

One way that I might apply this idea would be to set my camera by the road for a while. I might capture, for three separate but related images, the garbage men collecting trash at night, the mail lady depositing letters in my mail box in the mornings, and the car and implement traffic throughout the day. The more interesting traffic on the road could be selected and cut into one picture, while a series of photographs of one event like garbage collection could be overlapped. These compilations might show interesting progressions or congruencies in their subject matter.

I do not plan to appropriate imagery for my project, but unless I end up using my trail camera for another subject, I will be using my own pictures of other people or people’s property. I would likely remove text and license plates present and blur or exclude pictures that included identifiable features of people to make sure my use would not be intrusive.

I was already playing with the concept of combining pictures from my trail camera for this assignment before seeing work from the example artists. However, some of the artists that we were shown, particularly Jason Salavon and Pelle Cass, have really helped me to develop the idea. They both work with combining the subjects of similar pictures, though they accomplish that in different ways. I couldn’t exclude the idea bouncing that I have had with my family, which has also been immensely helpful.

Jacob Tonski: Striking Balance

This Monday’s class was very exciting. We were very lucky to not only have the artist Jacob Tonski’s Striking Balance exhibition in our own Pearl Conard Art Gallery, but also to attend his lecture. Although Jacob Tonski’s work is fascinating and inspiring on its own, I could never have appreciated the depth of his pieces had I not heard his explanation of them first.

In his lecture, Jacob Tonski shared thought provoking insights about the world. It is the context of his world perception, I think, that makes his work so interesting. When he indirectly described his work in the balance exhibition through stories about the Burning Man event, he said that he found it very interesting to see how quickly people can adapt to the very different environment of Burning Man. People come from busy jobs and careers to the Navada desert and are somehow able to take on the very contrasting lifestyle of Burning Man for the short time that they attend the festival. We can adapt quickly and fundamentally, he said, “if our environment expects it of us.” To see the physical balance of his artwork in the gallery and understand that it was partly implying emotional adaptation in human beings created an entirely different experience than what I could have expected had I not heard him speak. I am very glad that I had the opportunity to do so.

A mind blowing piece of artwork in Jacob Tonski’s exhibition was the balancing couch which stood above everything else in the gallery. The Victorian couch stands upright unsupported in the middle of the room, extending its length toward the ceiling while touching the ground with only a single leg. It functions so well that one might be tempted to assume that its balance has been faked by suspension from the rafters or being bolted to the floor. As we saw in the incredible videos in Tonski's lecture, however, the couch is in fact balanced by a brilliant contrivance hidden beneath the cushions. He spent a year designing the machine which balances itself on a point in real time by rotating perpendicular disks. When one stands before the couch in person, the humming of the machine and the small, constant adjustment to its balance taking place in real time can be observed and are something to behold.  To see the piece as an example of human adaptation and the precarious balance of our lives was profound.

Jacob Tonski's work can be seen on his website: www.jacobtonski.com

Art Smashed in Questionable Protest

I'm always worried that I might accidentally break something in a gallery! This is an interesting headline: CNN World: Miami artist destroys $1 million Ai Weiwei vase in protest

Buy Something: Assignment 2

Here are parts one, two, and three of my Social Commentary/Critique assignment.

The artist Penelope Umbrico uses clippings of very specific parts of the images in magazines and catalogs, such as what can be seen through the cracks of slightly open doors and reflections in mirrors, to make her artwork. Although the clippings that she takes from other sources to use for her work are copyrighted material and do not belong to her, the new insight and ideas that she adds to them allows her to use the copyrighted images through the allowance of Fair Use.

Taking inspiration from Penelope Umbrico’s work, I used pieces of image backgrounds from catalogs to show the advertising themes used to sell different kinds of products. In the first panel, I used the backgrounds of photographs selling clothing and lifestyles in natural settings. The second panel is composed entirely of the rooms in which bed clothing and furniture were presented in their sale pictures. The food in the third panel was used to sell kitchen ware in cooking catalogs. The reoccurring themes of color, texture, and content used to sell the different products become apparent when the clippings are placed together. For example, one might note that bright white is used to sell objects for a bedroom, while red was the dominating trend used to sell items for a kitchen and green for clothing and fashion. Each theme appears to be targeted toward selling its product type with incredible consistency. Through my assignment, I intended to illuminate this phenomenon for the viewer.

The photographs used in commercial catalogs are no doubt professionally photographed and thoroughly copyrighted. To reproduce them unmodified would be a violation of copyright law. However, just as the work of Penelope Umbrico is fair use of copyrighted material because of the perspective that she contributes to the clippings, my social commentary assignment was intended to add new insight and meaning to the catalog pictures and therefore can also be justified as fair use.

The legal term "transformative" is often applied to adaptations that are ruled to be fair use and not in violation of copyright laws. This word implies that copyrighted material must be changed in a fundamental way in order for the appropriation to qualify as fair use. By altering the meaning and purpose of the catalogs’ images from advertisements to commentary, my artwork should be transformative of the original copyrighted material. In addition, it is also important to note that one of the biggest issues in copyright infringement disputes is when money is made or prevented from being made through the unpermitted use of copyrighted material. I am neither making a profit with the clippings nor preventing the companies which made the catalogs from making money by selling their products.

Assignment 2 Proposal

The three piece format of our next assignment is intriguing to me. It seems like it would invite the artwork to tell a story.

My idea for the assignment is to use pictures of both beautiful nature scenes and dark, indoor activities to create a sort of social commentary. I might use images, if I could find them, of people inside of dimly lit examples a factory, an elementary school, and a computer room. Using one for each panel, I might add colorful nature scenes through large windows or other means to show the contrast of people hiding away indoors and the world that they are missing. The progression from a factory and an elementary school, which both require people to remain sheltered inside of them, would compare with a dark computer room, which people often stay locked away in voluntarily. This might comment on people’s odd tendency to miss beauty in the world through preoccupation with their own diversions.

Although I am loath to tempt the wrath of copyright laws, I think I might be able to justify this project as fair use because it could have potential to be transformative in nature. If my use of copyrighted images created new meaning and combined several different pieces, it might be just enough to rationalize transformation. In addition, because I would be using it for noncommercial means, it would be slightly more innocent than a commercial use.

I was influenced by several of the artists whose work was displayed in one of our lectures. Although regrettably I do not remember the artists’ name, some of the pieces that particularly inspired me were those that combined news pictures from different situations. Combining war and popular culture made a profoundly powerful statement.

Stolen Hope?

            When the street artist Shepard Fairy made his iconic ‘hope’ poster featuring the face of President Barak Obama for the 2008 election, he likely felt that his use of someone else’s photograph as a reference for his own piece was valid. However, I feel that the manner in which he referenced the photograph was not sufficiently inventive to qualify as fair use and was a violation of copyright law.

            According to Teachingcopyright.org, “A particular use is more likely to be considered fair when the copied work is factual rather than creative.” (http://www.teachingcopyright.org/handout/fair-use-faq)

            Photographs of public figures, as well as other well-known elements of popular culture, do have a tendency to be used as factual work. The public generally needs pictures of elements of culture for reference and the sharing and building of ideas and information. I think that Photographs should be regarded as creative in nature, however, as they are a form of art. To avoid copyright infringement, images intended to be redistributed should be restricted to those licensed as public domain or with Creative Commons because those licences imply permission for this use in limited contexts. To redistribute a copyrighted image without permission should not fall under the protection of fair use because of its exploitative nature.

            Shepard Fairy did not redistribute the copyrighted photograph he used as a reference, but he did use it rather directly to make his poster which was distributed thoroughly. Although the work on his poster is his own art, it so closely resembles the reference photograph that, side by side, the two images appear to be different versions of the same piece. Given that Shepard Fairy has relied on the copyrighted reference photograph so closely, I feel that he did, whether intentionally or not, copy the photographer’s work and violate copyright law.

            A more practical option that Shepard Fairy might have considered before creating his iconic piece would have been to use several different photographs of President Obama as references. By using different elements of many references to influence the anatomy of the portrait, Fairy might have created an equally recognizable piece that was uniquely his own.

 

 

               

Proposed (Assignment 1: Psychological Self-Portrait)

 Here's my psychological self-portrait, titled Proposed (like all of those classes on the chart that I haven't taken yet).

(I nearly brought Photoshop to its knees with all of the layer masks I used for this.)

The deadline for this psychological self-portrait assignment marks the end of my first month at college. In acknowledgement of this occasion, I have made my portrait to illustrate a snap-shot of my perspective of the world at this particular point in time.  I feel that as a Freshman in college I am suspended far too precariously above a sea of disappointing outcomes while simultaneously facing a looming but unpredictable future. I molded this portrait around that theme, using a rusty bridge leading into the multifaceted abyss of my degree audit chart to portray the concept.

I went to the woods to gather photographs for this portrait because I love the wild things there. I also chose feathers and pressed flowers to scan. These fine, concrete things seemed appropriate because I tend to focus on the detailed aspects of life before looking at the bigger picture. By placing some of these smaller things in the foreground of my portrait, I hoped to show different levels of perception. I also wanted to illustrate how concentrating on the small things can be at once complementing of and distracting from the whole. The yellow flower is a stalk of forsythia scanned on the phone book page from which it could not be removed. This is the origin of the phone numbers written beneath the petals.

In the background, I used a photograph of a hen to draw the eye to the linear nature of the bridged path to my audit chart. She stands, perhaps not totally confident in the situation, on an old rusty trolley bridge; looking at the dark water beneath and the future ahead. I used both abysmal inky-blackness and scans of blooming magnolia flowers to form the black hole of the unpredictable. These are elements of my future as I see it now; promises of new beginnings mingled with contaminating uncertainty. Thank goodness for the small things!

Just for fun, here's the before picture:

Reflections

Cool reflections on the water the other day! I keep getting sidetracked when I take pictures for our psychological self-portrait assignment.

Royal Purple was made with snail mucus?

I read a cool article about old pigments this morning. That snail mucus did make a lovely purple!


From Hyperallergic.com:  The colorful stories of 5 obsolete art pigments



Unfortunately, Wikipedia says I can't replicate that purple on the computer:

"Tyrian purple

Azalea Society of America hue rendering

The true colour Tyrian purple, like most high chroma pigments, cannot be accurately displayed on a computer display, nor are ancient reports entirely consistent, but these swatches give an indication of the likely range in which it appeared:

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This is the sRGB colour #990024, intended for viewing on an output device with a gamma of 2.2. It is a representation of RHS colour code 66A,^[27] which has been equated to "Tyrian red",^[28] a term which is often used as a synonym for Tyrian purple."

 Quoted from the Tyrian Purple page on Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple

Optimism/Pessimism

Here's our Optimism/Pessimism project!