Comments on: Those Crayola colors and the 50s childhood http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/ Thu, 24 May 2012 10:02:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: neo-neocon http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99944 neo-neocon Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:37:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99944 March Hare: No, not just your neighborhood. It was an honored and time-tested technique. March Hare: No, not just your neighborhood. It was an honored and time-tested technique.

]]> By: March Hare http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99923 March Hare Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:31:34 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99923 Wow--what a blast from the past! Thanks, Neo. :) Funny thing about coloring books being a social activity, isn't it? And not just girls--I remember when my kids were pre-schoolers/primary graders that both the boys and girls would color side-by-side with running commentaries. BTW, a popular technique from my childhood was to outline the picture with a dark color line, then use a lighter "wash" to fill in the empty space. Was this just an oddity from my neighborhood? Wow–what a blast from the past! Thanks, Neo. :)

Funny thing about coloring books being a social activity, isn’t it? And not just girls–I remember when my kids were pre-schoolers/primary graders that both the boys and girls would color side-by-side with running commentaries.

BTW, a popular technique from my childhood was to outline the picture with a dark color line, then use a lighter “wash” to fill in the empty space. Was this just an oddity from my neighborhood?

]]> By: Bugs http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99896 Bugs Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:32:21 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99896 Culture = color. Interesting. Culture = color. Interesting.

]]> By: SteveH http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99813 SteveH Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:27:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99813 ""Culture isn’t race and I’m tired of the two getting confused. Portia"" And isn't this what "racial" issues in this world really are....Cultural issues? Yet somehow we're supposed to not be critical of cultures based on the ethnicity of its majority of participants. Its clear who are the people who can't get past ethnicity and race. Its also clear who finds inferiority in differing races to the point of offering them a pass on destructive cultural practices. “”Culture isn’t race and I’m tired of the two getting confused.
Portia”"

And isn’t this what “racial” issues in this world really are….Cultural issues? Yet somehow we’re supposed to not be critical of cultures based on the ethnicity of its majority of participants.

Its clear who are the people who can’t get past ethnicity and race. Its also clear who finds inferiority in differing races to the point of offering them a pass on destructive cultural practices.

]]> By: Don http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99807 Don Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:28:29 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99807 The "multicultural" label bothers me too. Race and culture are not interchangeable. Just call them various flesh tones. I remember the "flesh" color crayon but I was only four in 1962. Maybe when I was six or seven I was using an old box. Even then I thought the label misleading and imprecise. Flesh stopped being one general hue to me by then for certain. Also, I wonder if they renamed "prussian blue" because that's the name of a little-known white nationalist musical act. The “multicultural” label bothers me too. Race and culture are not interchangeable. Just call them various flesh tones.

I remember the “flesh” color crayon but I was only four in 1962. Maybe when I was six or seven I was using an old box. Even then I thought the label misleading and imprecise. Flesh stopped being one general hue to me by then for certain.

Also, I wonder if they renamed “prussian blue” because that’s the name of a little-known white nationalist musical act.

]]> By: 50 S http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99806 50 S Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:13:14 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99806 [...] S neoneocon Blog Archive Those Crayola colors and the 50s childhood I found some cool stuff here: neoneocon Blog Archive Those Crayola colors and the 50s [...] [...] S neoneocon Blog Archive Those Crayola colors and the 50s childhood I found some cool stuff here: neoneocon Blog Archive Those Crayola colors and the 50s [...]

]]> By: nolanimrod http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99797 nolanimrod Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:56:53 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99797 Take a box of colors and call it multicultural. That's the sort of stuff you get when you have to label everything and the label has to be more correct than descriptive and the result is just silly. Take American Indian. OK, Columbus didn't have GPS and thought he smelled samosas. But what's the alternative now? Native American? A native American is anybody who was born in the Americas. Like me, Mr. Heinz 57. Take a box of colors and call it multicultural. That’s the sort of stuff you get when you have to label everything and the label has to be more correct than descriptive and the result is just silly.

Take American Indian. OK, Columbus didn’t have GPS and thought he smelled samosas. But what’s the alternative now? Native American? A native American is anybody who was born in the Americas. Like me, Mr. Heinz 57.

]]> By: SteveH http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99793 SteveH Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:28:54 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99793 ""OK. If you want multicultural, step right up, Por, and name the Crayolas. Which one goes first? TechDweeb gray? BitterClingerOrange? How’s bout pretentious BS hippie purple?"" How about a box in 64 shades of socialist grey? “”OK. If you want multicultural, step right up, Por, and name the Crayolas. Which one goes first? TechDweeb gray? BitterClingerOrange? How’s bout pretentious BS hippie purple?”"

How about a box in 64 shades of socialist grey?

]]> By: SteveH http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99791 SteveH Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:22:46 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99791 I vaguely recall being frustrated with crayons because my older sisters colorings were so damn perfect. She'd kick my ass if i colored in one of her books. Now i can draw and she can't. Go figure. I vaguely recall being frustrated with crayons because my older sisters colorings were so damn perfect. She’d kick my ass if i colored in one of her books. Now i can draw and she can’t. Go figure.

]]> By: Cappy http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99788 Cappy Sun, 25 Jan 2009 02:51:39 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2009/01/24/those-crayola-colors-and-the-50s-childhood/#comment-99788 Thank you Portia, for providing an easy target. Heh, heh, heh. OK. If you want multicultural, step right up, Por, and name the Crayolas. Which one goes first? TechDweeb gray? BitterClingerOrange? How's bout pretentious BS hippie purple? Thank you Portia, for providing an easy target. Heh, heh, heh.

OK. If you want multicultural, step right up, Por, and name the Crayolas. Which one goes first? TechDweeb gray? BitterClingerOrange? How’s bout pretentious BS hippie purple?

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