> From: PDML [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of steve harley > Sent: 23 January 2013 21:14 > To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List > Subject: Re: People like bright (saturated) colors > > on 2013-01-23 10:31 Igor Roshchin wrote > > I just looked over the first few pages of the most popular photos on > > 500px.com: > > http://500px.com/popular > > Almost all of them (if not all) have saturated colors (or > > high-contrast > > B&W) > > that's a good observation > > > > I am sure psychologists wrote papers and books on this topic, I > didn't > > even try to google it, but I suspect the reason is simple: bright > > colors are easier for "consumption", the same way as sweet > > foods/drinks attract attention of adults and especially kids. In a > > similar way, many people start drinking wines by liking the sweet > ones. > > one explanation is we are so overstimulated that everything competes > for our attention >
None of these things are really new. > * in beer, over-hopped "imperial IPA" with 9-10% alcohol is the current > rage > absinthe in fin-de-siecle France? > * on TV, "reality" shows are packed with outrageous behavior, > humiliation and extreme emotional states > So is all of literature > * porn sets the sexual standard for today's youth > The critic John Ruskin was unable to consumate his marriage when he discovered that his wife had pubic hair - his only experience of bare nekkid ladies had been from 'art' > * giant lips, breasts, and even buttocks are sought after > The Willendorf Venus is about 24,000 years old > * Facebook drives the words "friend" and "like" into increasing > meaninglessness > Awesome! Other words will mutate or be coined to fill the gaps B -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
