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Contributing Researcher & Editor Matthew Tabor, Koala Fight Media
VFX by Eric Langlay
Select Music by Jake Chudnow
Special Thanks Paula Lieber
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BOOKS
The Brilliant History of Color in Art by Victoria Finlay
Blue: The History Of A Color by Michel Pastoureau
Secret Language Of Color by Joann Eckstut and Arielle Eckstut
SPECIAL THANKS
Virginia Postrel
Victoria Finlay
Joshua J. Mark
Kidmograph
Outro Song “I Came Back For You” by Trevor Something
ARTICLES
Pigments Through The Ages
Color In Art
Harvard Color Vault
Little Snow White
A Story Of Blue
The Material History of the Color Blue
True Blue Stands Out in an Earthy Crowd by Natalie Angier
Why Is The Sky Blue?
Blue Through The Centuries
History Of Blue
William Gladstone And The Odyssey
No One Could See The Color Blue Until Modern Times by Kevin Loria
Why Is Blue The World’s Favorite Color?
It’s Not Easy Being Blue (For Plants) by Eric Dillalogue
Color Wavelengths
The Science Of Blue Flowers
First Blue-Eyed Human
Humanity’s Favorite Color
Color In Market Research
What’s Your Favorite Color?
Islamic Poetry
Starry Night, Edvard Munch
Newton And The Color Spectrum
Blue And Green Language Distinctions
Rainbows In Art
True Origin Of Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs
STUDIES
Russian Blues Reveal Effects Of Language On Color Discrimination
Ancient Color Categories
Philip Cohen
Scott Design Inc. Color Poll
ASSETS
Namakura Gatana 1917 restoration by sumerias1
Egyptian Blue Eye at The J. Paul Getty Museum
Indigo by Shisha-Tom
Archaemenid Bowl from David Aaron
Lapis Lazuli Eyes photo by Marie-Lan Nguyen
Lapis Lazuli Buddha
CSIC
Indus Valley Diorama by Biswarup Ganguly
Rainbows
Denim by Nikodem Nijaki
Blue Cat The British Museum
Woad by H. Zell
Lazurite by Didier Descouens
Cochineal by Dick Culbert
Cochineal by H. Zell
Portrait of Edvard Munch from National Library of Norway
Tekhelet by Mnavon
Pixabay
The deeper the blue becomes, the more strongly it calls man towards the infinite, awakening in him a desire for the pure and, finally, for the supernatural… The brighter it becomes, the more it loses its sound, until it turns into silent stillness and becomes white.
-Wassily Kandinsky
