Friday, August 14, 2015

Ethan gets new glasses for his birthday.

Hey, Ladies, feel like having a bit of a cry?

Okay.

For his birthday, a colorblind man receives a pair of glasses that corrects for color blindness. He walks around the office surprised at the old things he sees a new way. He discerns the difference between pink and green for the first time, he sees purple distinct from other colors. Bless. He goes outside and becomes overwhelmed with all he has missed the whole time finally accessing what everyone else already knew. It's too much.



At two of the most cynical sites, b3ta and YouTube, among the many comments nobody says, "fake!" 

Instead, and surprisingly the comments are all tender-hearted and compassionate and this is out of character for both places. Surely somebody doubts. But nobody there does. One person asks amusingly what happens when you put them on your dog.

Are there really glasses that correct for colorblindness? This is the twenty-first century, after all, and we take these advances for granted. Turns out, there are. And they're only $400.00

Encroma.

Advertisement More of the same except different people seeing color spectrum for the first time and giving their impressions. One man looking through his own child's crayon drawings is sweet. He'd see his son constantly going for crayons and not appreciating the purposefulness behind his boy's choices. Touching seeing him realize it.



The project is a collaboration with a paint company, valspar color for all is another site providing a place for  people to describe their experiences and provide their testimonials in comment and video form.

10 comments:

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

certainly take my ability to see color for granted. Very cool, Chip.

ricpic said...

Does this mean NY hipsters will abandon the all black clothing all the time look?

rhhardin said...

Their science boilerplate has a lot of crap in it about design - which, reading between the lines, is far from optimal; but the small parts that are good seem right.

They should have put only those in. The crap and bullshit is a big mistake.

Basically they cure color blindness by reducing the light that the defective eye confuses the color of, leaving only what the eye can distinguish. Presto, distinguishing.

rhhardin said...

There's also the problem of grue, which is not addressed.

In 1960, grue was blue before year 2000 and green afterwards.

It was an example of something you couldn't distinguish from blue empirically, for philosophy 101.

How do you know it's not grue?

rhhardin said...

Grue is also French slang for hooker. This was unknown to Anglo-American philosophers.

chickelit said...

ricpic said...
Does this mean NY hipsters will abandon the all black clothing all the time look?

That's a Euro-thing, ricpic. I remember getting onto a Zurich tram (streeetcar) in the 90's and noticing all the black-clothed people with extremely dour looks on their faces. It's a yearning for a more spartan, Amish look--without all the religious garb of course.

Buncha Dieters

Methadras said...

Get back to me when you can make blind people see again. thank you.

Dust Bunny Queen said...

My mother was colorblind. So,naturally, was my brother. She could not tell the difference between green/red brown/blues pastels of any kind...forget it. I think the various shades of color was unavailable to her. She didn't even know she was colorblind until a teenager.

We were in a bad auto accident because of this when moving from Texas due to the red/green lights at traffic signals being reversed. She could see that the color was on or off but not what color it was. In Texas back then the red was on the bottom and the green on top. So...in California seeing the bottom light on....we went through an intersection and got t-boned.

My brother is also quite unable to discern various colors but not as bad as my mother was. Fortunately, he has a wife to help him dress. When my mother went shopping, I usually went to assist. When I was gone away to college, she needed to tell the sales people that she was color blind and ask if items went together.

Because we couldn't describe things by color to my mother or brother, we ended up using other types of descriptors. Not the blue bowl.....but the bowl that is 12 inches and has the raised geometric designs on it. Or the bowl that you use for serving spaghetti. Everything had to be very precisely described to avoid confusion. Clothing, household objects etc.

Needless to say, when traveling, while my father and I were admiring the sunsets, the forests, the painted desert, scenery.....mother and brother were basically bored because they didn't see what we would see. When all greens sort of look the same muddy color as the browns in the forest, there is really no charm in looking at it.

Dad and me: Wow....isn't that view over the ocean beautiful
Mom and brother: Can we go now?

I can't imagine how wonderful it must be to be able to see again.

OH wait. I can. When I got my first pair of glasses as a young child, I was amazed at the leaves on the trees as individual things instead of giant blurs. At the fact that there were wires between the telephone poles, I had no idea! The stars at night.

Good for this man in the video and I wish that everyone who is colorblind and who wants to can have this same experience.

Methadras said...

I think I've told many of you before, but if I haven't I guess I will now, but I have a genetic condition called Synesthasia. It's where the sensory inputs from all five of my senses are cross-wired in my brain. So for example, I can see normally with colors, but that sense is enhanced or interrupted by my four other senses. So for example, as I am typing this description in the text windows, a combination of my other senses are interfering with my ability to discern the visuals appropriately. So I see the letters I type are in individual and undulating colors. There are other sensory things going on like different tastes, different sounds that aren't there, I can feel things that aren't there, I can taste flavors as I type this and I can smell things that the other four senses are contributing to it in some way.

So while I may be slightly dismissive of a color-blind person seeing color, I'm actually happy for him, but it pales in comparison to someone who is blind and seeing again, or as we are now, getting to have the deaf hear again. My condition can never be solved. Ever. I'm stuck with it. I didn't even know I had this problem until I was 10. I thought everyone was like this and slowly it was driving me insane until after going through nearly 30 doctors, one of them was able to figure it out. So there you go.

William said...

These glasses must enhance their appreciation of Internet porn. I've seen retro porn in black& white. Not very good. How our ancestors must have sufferd,and what a blessing this must be for the color blind.