Comments on: Diana Eng's journey into an abandoned sulfur mine in a dormant volcano to view this season's most popular yellow color

By: blueelm

blueelm — Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:39:00 +0000

xlr7 I’m a hetero woman. I’m not attracted to her. Not sure what’s racist about finding child like models non-sexy though. Maybe you should drop psychotherapy as a hobby.

By: David

David — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 06:57:00 +0000

Those popular green & yellow colors remind me of the ‘safety’ colors worn by road workers & joggers. This is fashion?

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 00:44:00 +0000

Not to mention that size L for some clothing brands is very similar to XL in other brands!

So yeah, if men are used to Teal meaning one thing, and women get Teal clothing as a different shade, it’s going to make it even Harder to agree!

By: howaboutthisdangit

howaboutthisdangit — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:38:00 +0000

If you have a problem, then I do also. The ladies’ tops appear to be a luminous green (green with yellowish tints, perhaps?) to me. The hardhats do appear to be truly yellow. The background yellows are golden or moderately dark, with occasional greenish tints, except for a spot to the right of the redhead, which almost matches her shirt, and the areas above that, behind her shoulder, which are pale green.

By: HammerheadFistpunch

HammerheadFistpunch — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 21:44:00 +0000

Oh, good. This guy can cheer up, then.
Now he’s fashionable instead of just plain dorky looking. http://www.motorcyclenews.com/upload/281011/images/dayglo.jpg

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:09:00 +0000

Also “teal” in men’s clothing really is a very different color than “teal” for women.

By: copperwatt

copperwatt — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 18:29:00 +0000

Unnatural! Just like volcanic hot springs! And gay giraffes! Someone need to start calling nature out on its unnatural habits.

By: chgoliz

chgoliz — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 15:44:00 +0000

Trust me, I am considering multi-ethnic mixtures. In our family, we all have different skin tones (and appear to be different ethnicities) but none of us can wear this color.

It should be used instead of orange for prison jumpsuits, for the really hardcore violent offenders.

By: Bodhipaksa

Bodhipaksa — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 14:03:00 +0000

The girl on the left looks horribly photoshopped. The shape of her body and her body’s size relative to her head size seem very, very wrong.

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 12:46:00 +0000

But how do you walk down the street if you’re constantly looking at each other?? It must get complicated!

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 09:42:00 +0000

Wait, wasn’t the Style Council just the Jam after they quit punk and went all blue-eyed soul?

By: xlr7

xlr7 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 05:41:00 +0000

Lot of strange racism going on on boing boing about this girl. Finding all these things wrong, etc. People are disturbed? The disturbance is within you, there’s nothing wrong with the girl. Unless we’re doing the dentist-fires-assistant-because-he’s-disturbed thing.

By: BunnyShank

BunnyShank — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 04:54:00 +0000

The one thing is to consider is multi ethnic mixtures. I have what looks like olive skin, I look “Greek”, and this color looks fantastic on me, so does orange. Wouldn’t think it would work, but that’s what’s unexpected when you have lots of people mixing together.

By: aperturehead

aperturehead — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:41:00 +0000

My wife only has eyes for me

(and vice versa)

By: aperturehead

aperturehead — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:40:00 +0000

Oops. That reminds me, I have a letter I’ve been meaning to send

By: Dave Jenkins

Dave Jenkins — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 03:09:00 +0000

It’s not such a hard “prediction” to make. There actualyl _is_ something called the Style Council, and they meet once a season (spring/fall of each year) to decide on “fashion colors” about 18 months into the future. There’s a very practical reason for this: the lead time in clothing production. Raw cottons, wools, and synthetics must be manufactured in India, China, or Bangladesh. Cloth is then sent to Italy, Europe, London, Tokyo, New York, where designers do their thing. Designs are decided, patterns set, and then sent electronically to factories in China, where (meanwhile) thousands of bolts of cloth have been sent ahead in preparation. Clothes made, shipped to some premier markets, tested, patterns refined, and then released to the masses.

All in all, this takes about 18-24 months. Depending on where you shop and the magazines you read, you can get a heads up on what’s coming in a few months, what’s here now, or what’s being cleaned out with excess inventory.

Knowing all this (from a job in fashion retail) kinda kills the fun of shopping, but it’s made me very practical and functional in my clothing choices.

By: plyx

plyx — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:46:00 +0000

Did I accidentally step into Jezebel?……

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:16:00 +0000

The color of the shorts of the model on the left is actually not a bad one to have for your cycling gear.

By: Mr. Son

Mr. Son — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:20:00 +0000

Hm. The ones I have look WAY fluorescent. Maybe there’s three kinds?

By: elusis

elusis — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:12:00 +0000

Target is showing it next to clothes in a pinkish maroon and dark teal, which makes it look even worse. Imagine my surprise to see it all over the post-Christmas 30% off clearance racks… It was horrible in the 80s and it’s horrible now. I’d like to smack whoever decided this was “in.”

By: Gerald Stevens

Gerald Stevens — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 01:09:00 +0000

My favorite “point of geological interest” is the Dakota hogback between Morrison and Boulder…

By: ocker3

ocker3 — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:08:00 +0000

Men and women actually have slightly different eyes, and we do actually see colours slightly differently. I think if more people knew this, there would be fewer fights about redecorating

By: Boundegar

Boundegar — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:03:00 +0000

You mean a… fashion tragedy?

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000

She disturbs me a bit. The pose and her back look pretty va-va-voom to my lecherous eye if I cover her face and front with my hand, but otherwise yeah, she looks so frighteningly underage that I want someone to send her to the vice principal’s office.

Actually, it’s me that should be sent to the v.p.’s office, come to think of it.

By: Donald Petersen

Donald Petersen — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:54:00 +0000

I’ve definitely noticed two different flavors of yellow highlighters. More recently the ones I’ve used (like the Sharpie Accent Highlighter I have on my desk today) look bright greenish-yellow, much like the shorts. But I used to see more yellow highlighters (probably different brands) that had more of a school-bus orangish-yellow vibe to them. I don’t see them as often, but they occasionally turn up in my office.

Those older ones don’t seem nearly as fluorescent, or “neon yellow.”

By: Corina Claire Chen Paul

Corina Claire Chen Paul — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:38:00 +0000

The smell must be awesome..so glad I cannot smell via computer LOL

By: cfuse

cfuse — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:24:00 +0000

The 80′s/early 90′s colour palette can go jump into an active volcano as far as I’m concerned. It’s vulgar – there’s no better word for it.

By: Sekino

Sekino — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:22:00 +0000

I also thought ‘bright chartreuse’ when I saw it, not yellow. I don’t think it’s the monitor either as the sulfur picture looks a lot less green.

By: monopole

monopole — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:15:00 +0000

Charge it
What is that?
A blue one?
I don’t have a blue one!
A red one?
I don’t have a red one!
Oh, just that gold one
I don’t know, do they come in platinum?

TIM CURRY – CHARGE IT!

By: iCowboy

iCowboy — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 23:12:00 +0000

White Island isn’t a dormant volcano, it’s a very active volcano which is known to erupt with very little warning. Right now it appears to be pushing a spine of highly viscous lava out of the vent, which is never a good sign.

Visiting White Island is very risky indeed and there could be a tragedy there any day.