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Identify This Rainbow Print

saxamo — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:16:22 -0800

Can anyone Identify this print? I've had this print since I was a kid. I rediscovered it in storage and adjusted the framing. I really wanted some context on it. As you can see in the picture, there is some text cut off. Le Parc? Le Dadc?? its hard to decipher!

Here's the link once more for good measure: Rainbow Print

Thanks!

Half-mast rainbow flag?

fogster — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 20:24:42 -0800

A NYT article on Prop 8 begins, "A giant rainbow-colored flag in the gay-friendly Castro neighborhood of San Francisco was flying at half-staff on Wednesday..." Where can I find that image? Strangely, there is no photo of that attached to the article, nor does Google News want to turn anything relevant up. But I think it's a powerful image and would really like to grab a copy for posterity. Surely, the photo is out (ha) there somewhere?

Help me find an educational reward/prize for our reading contest

AaronRaphael — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:10:07 -0800

In the spirit of our local library's summer reading program, we've done a similar program of our own (since our children flew through the initial 1000 minutes of the library program). Help me find an appropriate educational-yet-awesome reward to give them for completing our contest! Ideally finishing rewards would be: a) educational and b) exciting for a 9 year old boy, an 8 year old girl and a 5 year old girl.

The halfway prize we gave them (which was well-received) was $15 of book-buying power at the local used bookstore. This ended up getting them a bunch of used books (fodder for them to finish the next 500 minutes). I'm looking for something unexpected and awesome we could give them as a prize for completing the 1000 minutes of reading time; the price limit we were thinking of was probably somewhere in the $50 range (each).

I will be sure to have them send a nice email to whoever suggests the thing we get them as a prize! :)

Go go hive-mind!

I hear rainbow pee is in this season

davidstandaford — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 21:44:05 -0800

Best way to die my urine all of the ROY G. BIV rainbow colors? [Not all at once, one color at a time.] The brighter and more vibrant, the better. As part of an art project, I need to produce some colored urine (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet). Most of my googling has turned up results of people trying to avoid such a thing, or academic/medical articles that are hard to parse. I'm hoping that someone has some life experience or anecdotal evidence (or non-anecdotal evidence) that will help me produce a rainbow of pee.

These are my concerns, in order of importance:
Safety: Anything toxic, poisonous, carcinogenic, etc. is out. Even if 100 grams of aspartame gives me blue urine, I'm not interested.
Speed: I'm hoping to find stuff with near instantaneous results. A mouthful of food coloring and green pee that night would be awesome, eating carrots for a month for orange pee, not so much.
Body Side-Effects: I would prefer to do without discolored tongue and lips for days on end, or different skin tone or colored sweat or anything like that, but I'll do it if necessary.

Anyone know any foolproof, safe and easy ways to produce a clear, dramatic change in my urine from normal yellow to any of the colors of the rainbow?

P.S. I hear large quantities of blue curacao or creme de menthe work for blue and green... anyone know anything about that?

rainbows can be elegant, can't they

amtho — Sat, 20 Oct 2007 22:39:24 -0800

Please suggest elegant graphic/web/web-viewable designs featuring rainbows or rainbow-like/themed elements to inspire me. I'm working on a site for an organization with "Rainbow" in the name, and am having a hard time avoiding both hokeyness (on one end) and austerity (as I overcompensate). It's for an event that is about kids -- a fund-raiser in support of a kids' health issue -- but it's also kind of uplifting, smiles-through-tears, beautiful. I'm just trying to avoid a Rainbow-Brite or scrawly refrigerator-art feel.

In avoiding the obvious extreme, I'm coming up with blue everywhere and just the rainbow logo for color.

It's hard to explain, but I'm looking for ideas and inspiration on how this problem may have been solved -- admittedly not in a way I could or would use identically -- in any medium.

The mood is cheerful, sensitive, organized, respectful, and "it's all about the kids" (1-2 years old through teenagers) although it's run by adults. And I'm an adult and expect to make something that looks professional.

Thanks in advance.

Where to find clip art of ballerinas and rainbows?

eileen — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:54:58 -0800

Anyone know where to find nice images (clip art or otherwise) of rainbows and ballerinas? I am helping a friend paint her daughters' rooms in her new house tomorrow. The girls want a rainbow on the wall of one room and a ballerina on the other. We have an opaque projector to use, so I'm looking for images that could be easily copied, almost cartoonish I guess. No shading or anything like that. But I'd like to find cool ones! Since it's just for the house we can grab the images from anywhere, but I don't even know where to start...thanks!!!

Why is a color spectrum nicely represented as a circular wheel?

cmiller — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 13:04:50 -0800

In the continuum of visible-light colors that makes a rainbow, we have red, orange, ... blue, indigo, and violet. But aestheticists tend to join the two ends together to make a "color wheel". They use this to predict pairs, trios, or quads of colors that are symmetrically placed in the wheel and therefore look nice or bad together. But, why does the continuum map to a circle at all? Red down to violet describe the visible colors we humans can see. But, suppose we could see slightly "lower" than red, infrared. Would that fit into our color wheel well? How would that affect the colors we think of as "complimentary" -- which were previously directly across from each other in the wheel, like at 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock, but now with infrared wedged in are now at 9 and 4?

Stated another way, suppose we couldn't see red at all. Would we think that violet and orange merge together naturally? Why or why not?

(My first Ask MeFi question! Be gentle!)

What's a Good Middle Name for a Girl That Meshes With "Moonbeam" and "Rainbow"?

meehawl — Sun, 18 Jun 2006 06:54:37 -0800

First girl has middle name Moonbeam. Second girl has middle name Rainbow. What's a good middle name for a third girl in a similar vein? This is for a friend. She'd really like to name the third girl accordingly, but has already rejected "Star", "Starlight", "Moonlight" and "Twilight". I am stumped. What's a good name for this new kid?

a weird rainbow

dhruva — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 18:16:53 -0800

On a recent flight, I saw a weird circular 'rainbow' around the shadow of the plane (on a cloud). What's the physics behind this? Sometimes I could see the 'rainbow' even before I could see the shadow, it was like a halo. The clouds were mostly irregular and white, ie non-water bearing.