send your list to McSweeney’s post-haste.
You inspired me:
1. Metrosexual pink
2. 70′s Shag Carpet Green/Brown (yes, a heterogeneous mix)
3. Blood of The Innocent Red
4. Smug
5. Farts
1. Asbestos
2. Flannel Plaid
3. Placenta Pink
4. Rattlesnake Chili
5. Interracial Date
5. Interracial Date
Greatness.
5. Chicken Shit Yellow
Both nauseating and inspiring. I’d like to see it. =)
Oooh, this is fun.
1. Black Hearted Soul
2. Nobody Calls Me Yellow
3. Glasgow Sky *
4. One Beer Too Many
5. Neon
* This would be a dull grey.
[...] A good post from Joshua, got me thinking about which colours I’d like Crayola to produce: [...]
>Love
>Wet Noodle
>Rock N Roll
>Cow Tipping
>Vegas
>1985
While not nearly as creative, here are mine:
1. Embarrassment Red
2. Amish Folk Gray
3. Old Fluorescent Tube Pink
4. Toxic Snow Orange
5. Pea Soup, or “The Exorcist,” Green
1. Nicotene Fingernail yellow
2. I-just-dug-up-a-possibly-human-bone-in-my-back-yard Brown
3. Fistfight Red
4. Hypothermia white
5. Brutal Honesty
@ Charlie: “Rattlesnake Chili”. . . Well played.
I love the mental picture of many of these colors. “Cow Tipping” produces this blend of black and white/holstein blur in a falling motion. Priceless.
Favorites have got to be – “Nobody Calls Me Yellow”, “Cow Tipping”, and Nicotene Fingernail Yellow”.
Let’s throw in:
Coffee Stain
Allergy Rash
Parachute didn’t open
Skid Mark
I can’t believe it’s not Orange
ok, I’m in….
1. Broccoli Monster
2. Hammered Thumb
3. Clown Smack
4. Liver
5. Who Put The Ex-Lax In The Brownies!?!
Props to Parachute Didn’t Open, Brutal Honesty, Farts, & 1985.
Collagen
John Larrouquette
Impetigo
Wrestler’s Knee
Your Mom
Crusty Carolina Clay
I meant to say that Crusty Carolina Clay was the color of my clothes at the end of every summer day between the ages of 3 and 13.
1. Nuclear Holocaust
2. Ming Dynasty
3. Unprotected Sex
4. Jay Leno’s Mullet
5. Whore House
6. Bloodbath & Bleach
7. DNA Evidence
8. Spinal Tap Drummer
9. Horseface Butcher
10. David Caruso’s Career
11. Lunch Dump
12. Racist Southern Baptist
13. Pontiac Grand-Am
What is lunch dump? It sounds fantastic.
Special Limited Multi-Colors (“!!!”)
5 E.R.
4 Boys ‘n’ Girlz
3 Spy Vs. Spy (Rejected: Jungle Fever, Life/Death)
2 Peas & Carrots
*drum roll*
1 Irony (“Is it Red, White, & Blue, or Blue, White, and Red?!”)
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I'm a graphic designer and sometimes writer living in Anderson, South Carolina. I serve as the Design Director for NewSpring Church. I love Jesus, my wife, Levi's Jeans, good Tex-Mex, and 8oz glass bottle Coca-Cola Classic. On good days I love them roughly in that order. Email me.
Five Hypothetical Colors I Would Pitch to Crayola, If Given the Chance
Fri 02/09/07
1. Crusty Carolina Clay
2. Open Sea Nausea
3. The Truth
4. 5 O’Clock Shadow
5. Chicken Shit Yellow