Posts Tagged ‘creative colors’

Oh…look at all the pretty colors!

No, I didn’t go crazy with a swirl art, I got a bit of creative motivation from Ari Herzog’s blog post about a new tool on Facebook, created by Thomas Fletcher. It is a facebook friend wheel, and all those colorful lines are a visual simulation of the mutual connections that my friends create. Ari explains the power of the wheel well, saying “before seeing this wheel, I was limited to viewing mutual friendships within the constraint of names and head shots. Now, I can see bands of color and plots of thickness to illustrate the bonds we share.” After looking at his, and checking out his thoughts on it, I had to check it out or myself (hence the pretty colors).

My connections with the most mutual friends were people I know from college (the reddish/yellow section) and the next was connections from twitter (green/blue section). It made sense, as I only graduated 4 years ago, and have maintained strong relationships with my college friends. Twitter contacts being a strong mutual connection also made sense as most of the people I follow, are followers of my followers (if that makes sense…) and I am also very involved with twitter.

I’m not quite as cool as Ari , but my 183 friends (the outside ring) create the 1000 spokes (the inner lines) that can still help me to better understand my connections. Oh, and if you haven’t yet, connect with me on facebook.

I am one of those people who worries when the slightest thing is wrong with my family – and yesterday my rock-of-a-husband was talking about the fact that he was feeling lightheaded. So, I cruised over to webmd to take a look at potential causes and stumbled upon this article about colors and creativity! I am hugely interested in what affects our brain function and loved hearing about the results to this study.

Their key findings were that Red makes people more detail oriented and Blue can boost creativity. According to the researchers, “If the task requires people’s vigilant attention (e.g., memorizing important information or understanding the side effects of a new drug), then red … might be particularly appropriate,” the researchers write. “However,” Mehta and Zui continue, “if the task calls for creativity and imagination (e.g., designing an art shop, or a new product idea brainstorming session), then blue … would be more beneficial.”

I am a huge fan of both turquoise and pink (which they say is still an acceptable version of red and blue) but have never really thought which color did what. Now I am spending a bit of time thinking about how I react around color.

Do you find yourself more creative around certain colors? What is your ‘creative color’ or your ‘detail color’?

To read the full story, check out how to color yourself cautious or creative…

img courtesy of from USD medical department

** oh, and just in case you were wondering, my hubby is fine, he has a pinched nerve in his neck from an out of line vertebrae, getting fixed by the chiropractor tomorrow! **