Sep 17 2006
Color blind
A poster commented on one of my illustrations with the suggestion that I might be color blind. Later he explained that he meant this as a compliment. I thought it was a rather odd compliment, but it reminded me of the beginning of color movies and later that day I searched my digital archive for the Brewster two-color clip consisting of a cartoon, a Chevrolet ad, a view of Newark and the New York skyline in 1929.
In the midst of a Video revolution on the web it is nice to see what film pioneers managed to produce using only two-color celluloid film in the beginning of the 20th Century. Even today I find the colors almost convincing, given the restrictions of the technique, but then again I might really be color blind.