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Color Choice

I'm choosing gray for my color. I'd enjoy studying a color that is neither black nor white; an "in-between". Gray is reminiscent of smoke, mist, fuzziness and, at least for me; uncertainty. Creating a site representing smoke and the color gray gives me the opportunity to make a site that confuses and simultaneously intrigues the visitor. Creating a site that requires the user to think and use their head can create a favorable fan base.

I think there is a lot of potential in using fog, smoke and steam; maybe making a page that represents the properties of each.

There is also a duality within the color. While gray can represent aging and death, I think it is also a pretty futuristic color; the concrete and smoke of industrial progress.

Morally or ethically, gray represents an in-between. Neither black or white.

Gray is also referenced heavily in J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. Borrowing heavily from European folklore, Tolkien references the color "gray" several times as a thematic element. The most substantial of which would be Gandalf the Gray, who later returns as Gandalf the White. Yeah, Lord of the Rings is rad.

The grim hypothetical scenario known as ecophagy, also known in some circles as the "gray goo" scenario", is a futuristic idea that self-replicating nano-robots consume all living matter on earth, while replicating themselves.

Gray has also been a term of slang used to describe alcohol inebriation in both American and French cultures.

Revised Haiku Poem

Haiku Assignment 1

 

 I liked the word choice in this haiku and thought that the words gave me a lot of room for creative manipulation of the html text. I wanted to keep the stylization very subtle yet aesthetically pleasing.

For the first line, I wanted to give it a classic storybook kind of feel, so I enlarged the first letter and changed the color; keeping it simple while still looking good.

I wanted to fool around with different font styles for the second line, boldening the word, "throbbing" and changing its font to have some contrast. I felt the best color to embody the word would be maroon.

The final line I decided to focus more on manipulating the color scheme, showing a transition from warm colors to a cooler green to represent the word blooming. I also increased the font size gradually, building it to an epic finale.