#david coles

[nusumigaki]

スペインがアステカ帝国を征服すると、コチニールはスペインの重要な輸出品となった。彼らは供給を独占するために、コチニールはエンドウ豆のような作物だと言いふらし、赤い染料の出所を偽装して謎に包んだ。

[nusumigaki]

緑は成長と豊穣の色であり、「緑」という言葉は若々しさや新鮮を表す──伐りたての木材や若い職人のように。

[allyourprettywords]

"Teaching," Adélia Prado

My mother thought study the grandest thing in the world. It is not. The grandest thing in the world is feeling. That night, father working overtime, she said to me: “Poor man, such an hour, and still hard at work.” She prepared bread and coffee, left a saucepanful of hot water on the stove. No mention was made of love. That luxury word.

[nusumigaki]

woad(ウォード)の発酵過程では大量のアンモニアが発生する。しかしもっと悪いことに、この植物は土壌を枯らしてしまい、一度育てると後には何も育たなくなってしまった。

[nusumigaki]

ラテン語で緑をviridisと言うが、ローマ人たちは45歳から60歳までを詩的な表現でviridus(緑の成熟)と呼んだ。

[nusumigaki]

古代において色を表す言葉はもっとずっと流動的で、「青」は必ずしも特定の色を指すとは限らなかった。古代ギリシャ人の間で青を指すmelasは、広く「暗い」という意味の言葉だった。

[curri9]

Have you read Damaged Good?

Have you read Damaged Good?

Occasionally I like to post a review of a book I have read recently. Damaged Goods by Jack Everett and David Coles is a great one.

The following is the review I wrote for Suspense Magazine:

Damaged Goodsopens as Robert Cleghorn is chopping a tree in his brother Alan’s front yard. While he muses on the degradation he feels doing manual labor for his sibling, he watches helplessly as the tree…

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[sciencebookaday]

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color

Chromatopia: An Illustrated History of Color, by David Coles

Synopsis: This origin story of history’s most vivid color pigments is perfect for artists, history buffs, science lovers, and design fanatics.

Did you know that the Egyptians created the first synthetic color and used it to create the famous blue crown of Queen Nefertiti? Or that the noblest purple comes from a predatory sea snail? In…

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