Showing posts with label Gray. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gray. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Greyer Than Gray


Ever wonder why there are two ways to spell gray/grey? It's simple really, grey is the original English spelling, and gray is the Americanized version. Many words got jumbled letters as they traveled/travelled across the bumpy and wavy Atlantic.

So, I guess you could say that

Gray is a color

while

Grey is a colour

Although I am aware that neither of these is really a color/colour, as they lack any chromatic component.

I have always liked the English version better, grey seems to me much more greyish than gray does. More dusty and ancient. Grey Poupon, Gandalf the Grey, Earl Grey, Grey's Anatomy...all the classic greys are grey and not gray.

Friday, June 12, 2009

Monday, February 16, 2009

Clean & Neutral


The office is getting closer and closer to a state of photo-licious perfection. I have this thing about working in a very clean area. My mind is full of clutter enough, I need to have a really sparse, gray-monotone workspace or I think too much about the surroundings and not enough about the work. You really want to keep the color down when you are working with color, to avoid any kind of influence from the surroundings. For that reason the walls are a pretty neutral gray, the blinds are silver, and the art is black & white, or very nearly. Dull, maybe, but practical.