G.I. Joe Classified Series

NORM said:
Color interpretation in general is a mystery to me. Like even for the non-colorblind, how do I know that the way I interpret BLUE is the same way another person interprets it? As an art teacher, I have had colorblind students and they have explained to me some of their limitations, their inability to see the differences between blue and violet being that they are similar in value, being unable to see the difference between red and green, also being similar value (darkness or lightness of a color). Like if you took a black and white photo of something red next to something green, they’d appear a very similar shade of gray. There are some colors that the colorblind have less trouble seeing like yellow, or seeing the difference between yellow and blue.
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Bang on. It's so hard to ever explain to other people 'what I see' because.. how do you do that without a frame of reference? If we have no shared perception, I CAN'T tell you how I see X or Y. But I once heard a really good, and presumably accurate, explanation; colourblind people see the world with the brightness turned down. Crank the brightness on your TV down a few notches and see if colours start to be a little more similar, some colours may look like other colours, and you'll lose the highest brightest elements in the world -- that beautiful vibrant flower may still be blue, but it isn't as vibrant as it was. Instead of it being BLUE, maybe now it's just blue like ten other things in the same scene.



NORM said:
@Damien, have you ever tried on those color spectrum correcting glasses? The ones that show you how true colors appear to the non-colorblind? I’ve seen videos of people putting them on and their minds are blown or they get really emotional at seeing the full spectrum of colors all of a sudden.
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Nope. I'm aware of them, but I've never tried them. For one, they're fairly expensive. But the bigger reason is maybe silly to people that don't understand but; I don't know if I want to know what I'm missing.
You can't wear those corrective glasses 24 hours a day. Which means at some point you've gotta take them off and go back to your disability. And if what you see is amazing, and you see all these beautiful colors and all this vibrancy that you're missing out on, you have to look at it knowing you have to go right back. You can get this perfect little moment, but you can't live in that moment. Intellectually, I understand that the world is more beautiful and vibrant than I have ever been able to see it. But do I want the actual living memory of that in my head all day, every day, while I'm trying to live my life? Maybe I'm coming off as dramatic, but that sounds horrible.

Also, those glasses don't work for all types of colourblindness, so there's always the chance you're just wasting your money/time as well.
 
I wonder about those lenses for my artist friend who will sometimes send me stuff to color-verify. He was commissioned to do some work on a Philadelphia Phillies fan art project and he was consistently like "is this the right red or is it brown, I literally can't tell and I'm trying to get the exact hue."

Unrelated, holy CRAP it took a lot of boiling water and no fewer than three household tools to get the pegs out of the cop/greenshirt heads so I could re-use them but I did it. I impulsively stuck the white cop head on an extra Law body and it works really well and I'm not gonna fight with it to get it back off, so that's a new character. I guess. I need to come up with a name for him and the dog. I want to name the dog Chaos but if you're going to do Chaos you should name the human Order and that doesn't work. Although at this point it was so much work I should call them Boil and Pop. Or maybe if they are partners with Law and Order, they should be Dick and Wolf? (Ba dum ching. Or is it just bum-bum?) Search and Rescue popped to mind too but that feels more like an EMT figure than an MP.

Speaking of emergency personnel, I messed up, went back to Target to grab that lone Firefighter I saw earlier this week and he's goooooone. I do see way more of the cop figures than I ever expected to linger on shelves though. I wasn't going to to go war with getting the heads/necks separated on the extra Black greenshirt/cop figures because getting the White ones off was such a hassle and I don't have a body to put them on at the moment, but I wouldn't hate re-using both skin tone heads on two more cops... might be kinda cool to have a whole squad to go after Punisher at some point. (I swore I'd only get two but if that sale is still happening...)
 
docsilence said:
Unrelated, holy CRAP it took a lot of boiling water and no fewer than three household tools
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And countless expletives.
docsilence said:
I want to name the dog Chaos but if you're going to do Chaos you should name the human Order and that doesn't work.
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Ugh, that's great though.
docsilence said:
Although at this point it was so much work I should call them Boil and Pop.
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Boyle and Pup.
docsilence said:
Or maybe if they are partners with Law and Order, they should be Dick and Wolf? (Ba dum ching. Or is it just bum-bum?) Search and Rescue popped to mind too but that feels more like an EMT figure than an MP.
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Maybe the brass is trying to give them an image facelift and focusing more on the rescuing than the skull thumping.
 
docsilence said:
I need to come up with a name for him and the dog. I want to name the dog Chaos but if you're going to do Chaos you should name the human Order and that doesn't work. Although at this point it was so much work I should call them Boil and Pop. Or maybe if they are partners with Law and Order,
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Dick & Wolf... lol....

Might I submit that the relationship between 'Law & Order' suggests that the name Chaos for a dog would not equate to 'Order' for the handler, but something more like Liberty, Havoc, Anarchy, Bedlam, or Mayhem.
 
Crockett and Tubbs?
Riggs and Murtaugh?
Starsky and Hutch?
Bowser and Blitz?

I don't think OTHER characters' names are what you're looking for..
Cease and Desist?
Search and Seizure?
Liberty and Justice?
 
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