Awesome Colors

There’s still a scientific and philosophical debate about whether the colors you see are the same as those other people see, but what isn’t disputed is the words we use to describe colors. PBS Storied series Otherwords host Erica Brozovsky, Ph.D., offers an informative lesson on the origins of the world’s most colorful vocabulary.

Ali Spagnola thought making her car change colors like a gigantic mood ring would be fun. So she sprayed it with thermochromic liquid crystal paint. This stuff doesn’t show if she’s happy or sad but instead reacts to changes in temperature. If you’re wondering what those discs are on her car, they’re the 9,000 PopSockets she attached in a previous video.

Brighten up your day with this brilliantly green pocket gear collected by our friends at Everyday Carry. Their loudest loadout yet includes a Moleskine notebook, a Flowfold zipper pouch, a Kershaw pocket knife, and an Invicta diver’s watch, all in shades of acid and lime green that’ll wake up your rods and cones.

Love colors and design? Hues and Cues is a great party game that challenges you to pinpoint a specific color based on one- or two-word clues from other players. The closer you get to guessing the exact color from the 480-hue grid, the more points you earn. It’s a fun, family-friendly game for 3 to 10 players.

At first, we thought these color-coordinated LEGO habitats had been slathered with paint. But artist Dana Knudson built each entirely from same-color LEGO bricks. He had to remove some printing, otherwise, it’s 100% LEGO plastic. Beyond the Brick stopped by Dana’s display at Atlanta Brick Con for an up-close look at every scene.

Stop signs are red and blue jeans are blue. But how did those universal colors come to be? Weird History dives into the origin stories of various human-made items and how they ended up being the colors they are, from yellow-green tennis balls to pink bubble gum to white doctor’s coats.

Fashion house ANREALAGE designed this clothing that changes color when exposed to intense UV lighting. Their Fall/Winter 2023-24 collection includes avant-grade outfits that start out in white or solid colors and reveal colorful patterns under black light. The color-changing goodness starts around the 1:57 mark in the video.

After building three electric guitar bodies out of colored pencils, Burls Art has stepped up his game by making one with more than 2000 individual pencils, nearly doubling his last effort, and incorporating the neck into the same mold as the body. Watching that crystal clear epoxy poured over the pencils is just so satisfying.

Love rainbows? ManaTek’s colorful keycap set gives will make your keyboard look like a pack of square Skittles. The 104-key set comes in either a center-out or wave pattern and fits Cherry MX switches. They’re made from PBT for long life and wear resistance.

Earpods usually come in standard black or white, but the people who wear them come in a medley of flesh tones. Go Air Tones True Wireless Earbuds are the first to recognize the skin we’re in by developing earbuds in an affordable range of seven neutral colors to blend in harmony with the wearer.

If you look back over the work of Guillermo del Toro, you’ll notice that he often creates scenes in monochrome palettes. Luís Azevedo of Little White Lies put together this brilliant montage of scenes that illustrate the director’s use of color to set the mood in films like Pan’s Labyrinth, Hellboy, and The Shape of Water.

As color arrangements go, we’ve always loved the smooth transitions that occur as hues blend to form a gradient. In this wonderfully satisfying clip from Jukebox Print, watch nine ink globs gradually mix at their on the platen of a printing press in preparation for the paper to roll through.

Swiss Army Knife maker Victorinox now offers their Classic SD and Classic Alox pocket knives in a total of 30 colors. So no matter what your mood or style, there’s one for pocket or keychain. The 7-function Classic SD has ABS plastic scales while the 5-function Classic Alox has embossed aluminum scales.

The guys at DipYourCar are known for selling peel-off Plasti Dip coatings which give cars an eye-catching new look. Here, they show off a unique black pigment that turns clear when exposed to heat, so it exposes the car’s underlying lime green paint when in the sun or splashed with warm water.

DipYouCar is back with another amazing automotive paint job. This time, they covered an Audi with a specialty pigment that packs thermotropic liquid crystals. Like a mood ring, it changes colors with temperature differences. We love how they can play with such crazy ideas thanks to the peelable base coat they spray on first.

Filmmaker daihei shibata presents a satisfying compilation of images that start out with two polarized objects, then fill in the gradations between them to produce a smooth transition. The video expresses how blurring boundaries can expose complexity, diversity, and richness of information.