Too Cool for School Photo Stories
Orange You Glad I Didn’t Say Banana?
Or, I will take ‘THINGS THAT ARE ORANGE’ for 1,000, Alex
It’s not often that you meet someone who declares their favorite color to be orange. Many of us live in red, blue, green biased environments.
My own favorite color is red. Orange shouldn’t be a big deal but adding yellow to red just seems to make a world of difference.
What is it about orange that can turn a lot of us off? This question led me to conduct some completely useless but fun research: Why do people not like orange?
Orange can be seen as flamboyant or attention seeking. Think construction cones. They do catch our attention as they are just so darned conspicuous. Orange may feel restless, crass or crude.
Bright colors like orange and yellow can be employed to make a dramatic artistic statement, like in this “Decolonised Structures” display by artist Yinka Shonibare. That’s Winston Churchill in the middle and George Washington on the far left. These sculptures represent the tangled relationship that still exists between colonialists…
