If you have an iPhone, you can have a lot of fun with the ColorSplash app.   The app idea is a simple one:  Take any image, wash all of the color out of it and then selectively add back the color.

You add the color back with your fingertip.  You are not adding new color.  You are only adding back the original color you want put back into your image.

The effect, as you can see below, is wildly effective and even a bit spooky — and beware of your enemies!  Good looking young men can be made into fussy boys with just the right fingertip touches on the lips and hair!

ColorSplash reminds us how fun it is to play around with something to make it into a new, greater, thing.

It is pretty amazing how powerful colors are in our lives.  Black and grey are strong — but when color is selectively added back to the palette, you really begin to learn how color controls us and justifies actions and sets its own contexts.

Be wary of innocuous looking apps like ColorSplash — because they have a real and virile strength that is not easily defined, but is hardily felt right in the eye and down into the gut as it watches you and redefines your every aesthetic move.

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    1. David Boles – New York City – David Boles was born in Nebraska and holds an MFA from the Oscar Hammerstein II Center for Theatre Studies at Columbia University in the City of New York. He is an author, dramatist, editor, publisher, and teacher who writes across the live stage, print, radio, television, film, and the web. With more than 50 books in print, David continues to write 2MM words a year and has authored over 25K articles. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild, the Authors Guild, and PEN America, and founded The United Stage advocacy platform on the principle that playwrights have a duty to direct their own work. Read the Prairie Voice Archive at Boles.com | Buy his books at David Boles Books Writing & Publishing at BolesBooks.com | Study with Script Professor at ScriptProfessor.com | Touch American Sign Language mastery at Hardcore ASL at HardcoreASL.com | Explore the Human Meme podcast at HumanMeme.com | Train with Boles Bells at BolesBells.com.
      David W. Boles says:

      That’s an interesting comparison, Gordon. That app confirms our visceral reaction to color.

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