But how do you separate what you know from what you paint (not that it matters)? Gold's the colour of jazz instruments; the blues their genre. I think I'd be more impressed if jazz were pink.
Do an image search for Melissa McCracken. Great stuff, but I'd like to listen to the music while looking at 'em. I'd definitely visit a gallery for that.
I think the difficulty with that approach is that, without her synesthesia, we won’t get the connect between the music and the picture. If you were to ask me, I’d’ve thought Superstition was maroon and Van Gogh’s sunflower yellows, with some deep, dark purple veins. But that’s through my own preconceptions.
I’m with g.man, they’re great to just look at them as the splashes of colour they are. You can then make your own associations, if you want. (I saw gas nebulas and a white bird taking flight, a little like that Faith No More album cover.)
I've a cold and was woken early by a phonecall, so I'm running on fumes here and just typing things to stay awake. Pay no mind. The colour of my brain right now is bogey, like a worn-out snail funnelling through my nose.
It's not the overall results that impress me but her lack of errors. Those mouths are knife-edge stuff, and I reckon I'd bungle them and end up with Su Pollard.
One of my favourite YouTube channels, PlayStation Access, does a Let’s Play series of videos each Christmas. In the past they’ve done things like Dave, who’s scared by all horror games, playing Outlast, or one of them who’d never played Skyrim playing through following quests given to them by the other hosts.
This year it’s Metal Gear Solid. Rob loves the series, and references it on pretty much a weekly basis. There’s a running joke of them keeping a tally every time he mentions it. Nathan and Dave, meanwhile, have never played it. So, they’re doing a playthrough where they are not allowed to make calls on the codec. They can accept calls, but not make them. Meanwhile, Rob is sitting in another room, watching their playthrough. If they need help, they can call him or, in moments of frustration, he calls them.
It’s a portrait of two people completely failing to learn anything whatsoever, and a man gradually losing the will to live. Rob’s impotent rage as he shouts instructions Dave and Nath can’t hear is funnier than it sounds.
It’s been rather entertaining watching the daily videos. In case anyone is remotely interested, it starts here:
Heh, read Andy's pay and thought Davie would enjoy that. Do you still have those videos I found from the metal gear twenty year retrospective thing (bloody ages ago) just wondered if they were on YouTube or not
"I spent years thinking Yorke was legit Downs-ish disabled and could only achieve lucidity through song" - Mr B