Wednesday, December 22, 2021
Traffic Sorted by Color
At first, this looks like a car ad, like those that show a group of cars "driven by professionals on a closed course." That's not it at all! This started out as a four-minute shot of traffic on state route 63 in San Diego. Then filmmaker Cy Kuckenbaker actually edited each car into sorted sequences by color! No, he didn't change any car colors or use computer-generated imagery -just editing. And what great editing! The colors are ranked by how common they are, which is why the black-and-white police vehicle is all by itself. (via Daily Picks and Flicks)
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Good illustration of how boring cars are today, white, gray/silver, black.
xoxoxoBruce, this is not a new phenomenon. The story goes that Henry Ford once said that a person could get a new model T in any color, so long as it was black. This was done for efficiency and uniformity – at least so far as the factory was concerned – and that's part of the reason so many people could afford one.
You wanted something different, something radical, something eye-catching? That's what guys like Earl Scheib ("I'll paint any car, any color for $XX.99!!") were for, or you did it yourself.
-"BB"-
At one time, we all want a flashy, colorful car. Then we drive a few years, and realize that we really don't want everyone to recognize us picking our noses at the intersection or parking at the no-tell motel.
I once arranged to meet a guy at the DMV for business. He said, "I'll be driving a red Mustang." I replied, "I'll be driving a gray Camry. You won't see me at all."
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