Blue vs. Red
Submitted by pat on Sun, 02/08/2009 - 13:16
What comes to mind when you think of blue and red? Republicans and Democrats? Yes. Red power tie to show you're in charge? Yes. Blue shirt to show you are a team player? Yes, again. What about creativity vs. detail? Probably not. But a recent article in the San Jose Mercury News (February 5, 2009) discusses research that looks into psychological effect of color.
By changing the background color on a computer monitor, researchers could change how people performed tasks. Red led to increased detail analysis, while blue increased creativity. Researchers hypothesized that as children we learn that red means danger, so we slow down and pay more attention. Blue is associated with the sky and freedom, so we let our minds soar and become creative.
So maybe we want to change our monitors to red when we are paying the bills and balancing the checkbook, but change it to blue when we are writing ad copy.
Thoughts on Red and Blue by Two Oaks Studio
I use red frequently as a color in my art either to accent a detail, and add pop or to make someone notice. Blue being a cool color relaxes a person, so I will sometimes paint with blues to set a more calming mood. Many times I use Blue and Red together they are complimentary colors, so visually they stimulate the eye and produce a feeling of joy and happiness.
Blue vs. Red
Red vs. Blue, often abbreviated as RvB, is a set of related comic science fiction video series created by Rooster Teeth Productions and distributed through the Internet and DVD. The story centers on two opposing teams of soldiers fighting a civil war in the middle of a desolate box canyon (Blood Gulch), in a parody of first-person shooter (FPS) games, military life, and science fiction films credit report. Initially intended to be a short series of six to eight episodes, the project quickly and unexpectedly achieved significant popularity following its Internet premiere on April 1, 2003. Rooster Teeth therefore decided to continue the story. The fifth and final season of the original Red: vs. Blue: The Blood Gulch Chronicles series ended with episode 100, released on June 28, 2007. Three mini-series—Out of Mind, Recovery One, and Relocated—and the full-length Reconstruction and Recreation series have extended the plot insurance.
Red vs. Blue emerged from Burnie Burns' voice-over-enhanced gameplay videos of Bungie Studios' FPS video game Halo: Combat Evolved. The series is primarily produced using the machinima technique of synchronizing video footage from a game to pre-recorded dialogue and other audio banks. Footage is mostly from the multiplayer modes of Halo: Combat Evolved and its sequels, Halo 2 and Halo 3, on the Microsoft Xbox and Xbox 360 video game consoles. Minute sections of the series were also achieved using the Microsoft PC version of the same game.