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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
Nothing
matters.

Nothing at all.

The chasm yawning wide
swallows
the brief interstices of humanity.

Be Still! the voice commands.
Let not the sound be heard
nor yet the silence
be filled.

Be empty
and know not the bottom of the abyss.

It has no ending.

But comfort in the absence of comfort.

Recall the lesson - the absence of color is white. The sum of all is black.

And black is light.
 

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Posted by Narnia (Member # 1071) on :
 
(((Shan)))
 

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Posted by Alexa (Member # 6285) on :
 
The purple lake of desolation...
 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
Shan,

Got a box for yer empties.



fallow
 

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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 

 

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Posted by Alexa (Member # 6285) on :
 
How very Taoist. Been reading the Tao Te Ching lately?
 

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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
Nope.

Diana Gabaldon.


 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
who?
 

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Posted by kaioshin00 (Member # 3740) on :
 

quote:

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Recall the lesson - the absence of color is white. The sum of all is black.

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I thought that white light was made up of all the colors??

Isn't that what a prism does? Splits up white light into its colors?
 

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Posted by Alexa (Member # 6285) on :
 
I think that "the sum of all colors is black" means that black does not reflect any color---so the surface has all colors. White is where every color is reflected, so what you see is the sum of all colors, but the surface has an absence of non-relected color. I guess it is how you choose to look at it.

I confess, I was confused too.

[ June 03, 2004, 01:14 AM: Message edited by: Alexa ]
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
When combining light, white is the sum of all colors, black the absence.

When combining pigments, black is the sum of all colors, white the absence.
 

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Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
 
Rivka,
You took the words right out of my mouth.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Ewwwwwww!
 

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Posted by Epictetus (Member # 6235) on :
 

 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
*bespeckled pigmy runs cross the thread, bare, at a full-tilt lightning speed*
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Much better place for shenanigans, fallow.
 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
eh?

*blasts pygmies with paintball gun*

fallow
 

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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
rivka - you are my hero! I was starting to wonder if ANYONE else had ever mixed pigment . . . tsk, tsk, tsk.

fallow - go to the library (I SHAN'T lend these out - no way) and look up Outlander by Diana Gabaldon. And then plunk yourself down in a chair with a plate of nummies and a drink and prepare to read.
 

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Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :
 
Shan, in kindergarten I was really good at mixing fingerpaints!

And the additive/subtractive combination of colors is one of my favorite topics to teach physics students.
 

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Posted by fallow (Member # 6268) on :
 
*Peruses the collective body of work attributed to that historically mysterious figure "FP" - often conjectured to have painted soley with digits. sans tools.*

*fallow scribbled in his notebook*

*cackle*

"the secrets of the sisterhood shall soon be revealed!"

edit: (eats paste)

[ June 04, 2004, 12:00 AM: Message edited by: fallow ]
 

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Posted by Shan (Member # 4550) on :
 
do they still even make paste?
 

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