Blog of Josh Hall

So i already have mentioned on how a color could look like another color to someone else, and we would never really know. but i have just been thinking about all the problems i have with colors recently. first off the difference between pigments and light. the primary colors in light are red, blue, and green, while in pigments, it’s red, blue, and yellow. what the crap is up with that? i thought yellow and blue made green. with light, if you put all the colors together, you get white. with pigments, if you put all the colors together, you get an ugly brown, sometimes black. why are these different? why aren’t colors consistant through medium?

the polar extremes in light is darkness (which is assumed to be the absense of light) and light itself. with pigments, black and white are the polar extremes, and white is assumed as the absense of any other color. that bugs me. white is a color, right? i could argue it both ways. if you want to turn a pair of red socks white, throw in some bleach, and it will take the color out, leaving the the absense of color; namely, white. So perhaps white is not a color at all. That would explain why you can’t buy white dye. you can buy dye of all colors at your local walmart to throw into your laundry machine and dye stuff any array of colors, except white. that would just be too useful to recover mistakes of the misplaced red sock or chapstick in the washer. this argument reminds me of polar bear fur actually being clear, not white. but that really isn’t a problem with colors themselves, just with people misrepresenting the truth over and over without questioning its factuality; another problem altogether.

Ofcourse white is a color though. We have white out, we have snow, we have cocaine. These things are white! not the absense of any other color. there are degrees of white too. Mother of pearl comes to mind.

Which leads me to my other rant on colors. Nomenclature. I don’t trust colors because you never know what color you are talking about. the world was not created with a 12 pack of crayolas. With all the standardization codes out there for everything, you think colors would be something that would be standardized. computer code is the only semblance of order to the multitude of colors. with the hexidecimal representation of colors, 16,777,216 (16x16x16x16x16x16 combination) colors are defined by code, but not by name. Even then, colors can be manipulated and ruined by browsers, monitors, and people’s own eyes. which leads me to believe that color is a matter of personal opinion and biological interpretation. Think about that next time you are at a red light.

woohoo!! no work thursday, friday or monday! took some time off to spend with the family. thursday i’ll go pick up keren from Bethany, then go back home for Deirdre’s play, then friday go apartment shopping with becky, maybe go to deirdre’s play again friday, or go over to adam’s to jam, or just stay home and read. saturday will be time to hang out with the sisters. Serah is bringing mike in, and she wants to bring him in to the city, so maybe i will be involved in that, since i live here and all. maybe kick out another recording this weekend. hopefully get some studying done to take my test for my only class this semester. i know this weekend is going to fly, especially since my sisters are going to be home, but i am going to try to get everything done that i need to get done. and the weather doesnt look like she wants to play fair.

i started paying back my school loans since i am only taking one class this semester. one payment was due march 1st, and i sent it out monday….if i get some kind of late fee or something, prepare for a rant on 2 things. 1, effing school system and loans. 2, february and it’s 28 days in a month crap.

looks like jordan owen is interested in moving in with me once emily moves out. em is going to paris for the summer, so i gotta get someone else in here. she also said she doesnt want to be here in the fall either. it sucks, i tried to make everything nice and easy for her. She’s a free person though, and if living some where else is what she wants, i have no role in that. i just hope i am not a sucky roomate.

back to vacation days, i got 2 weeks solid off in july/august to go to yankanuck and stuff, and i still got 2 more weeks to spend somewhere. probably use a few of those around the holidays, but i got enough time to take a good road trip somewhere. i am excited!

i was thinking about creating a video or something for oprah and sending it off. i guess i’ll just give you the story i would tell, and see if you think it is worthy of getting oprah to help out. I’ll just give the facts straight out and not fluff it like i would try to do.

growing up we had the perfect family, mom and dad, J’aime is the oldest, then Caleb, then Serah, then me. My parents started a Christian school in the basement of our church for J’aime to start school. in 1986, Caleb was diagnosed with cancer and Keren was born. Caleb was a Make-A-Wish kid, and we took a trip across the country in a winnebago that year too. Deirdre was born in 1989, and my parents started to break up. Caleb died in 1990. all of us are very close and we all have very strong faith. in december my dad died so suddenly of brain surgery. he found out he had a brain tumor on a monday, had the surgery that friday, and passed that monday. All it took was a week. So now my sisters and I are trying to keep the 13 acre property that has been in the family since the revolutionary war from creditors and the bank. my sisters have had to deal with a lot of crap in their lives, and we need help accomplishing the goal of keeping the house, and i would like something special for my sisters.

Ever compare snow flakes with popcorn? Rain drops are kind of like clear popcorn kernels. They kinda look like them, and they suck when you get hit in the eye by them. When ever popcorn kernels get really hot, they turn into popcorn. When ever it’s really cold, instead of rain, you get snow flakes. Coincidence? I think not.

– Pete Origanel