Dirty John Bonny

A lost boy who wants to join the pirates ...

Saturday, February 17, 2007

Blue

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Blue Man Group.


After this at Dirty John Bonny, I got me a-thinking: How many blue animals are really blue?

See, the blue in bird feathers and insect wings and in most fish is produced by a kind of selective iridescence, scattering light, like the blue sky does. Link.

That's sometimes called structural color as compared to pigment color.

I think that my featured frog and the nose of a mandrill are examples of blue pigment.

Blue animals in Wikipedia here.



Five part piano version of George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue performed by The Five Browns.
About four minutes





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