Taylor Swift's tweetâwhich described how while she saw it as blue and black, the whole thing left her "confused and scared"âwas retweeted 111,134 times and liked 154,188 times.[10] Jaden Smith, Frankie Muniz, Demi Lovato, Mindy Kaling, and Justin Bieber agreed that the dress was blue and black, while Anna Kendrick, B. J. Novak, Katy Perry, Julianne Moore, and Sarah Hyland saw it as white and gold.[17] Kim Kardashian tweeted that she saw it as white and gold, while her husband Kanye West saw it as blue and black. Lucy Hale, Phoebe Tonkin, and Katie Nolan saw different colour schemes at different times. Lady Gaga described the dress as "periwinkle and sand," while David Duchovny called it teal.Â
DISCUSSION TOPIC for today - respond with a comment /repost with a comment
This viral âdressâ may seem like esoteric information, but this is a familiar example of just how confusing the apprehension of colour can be. What colours do you see the dress to be? Have you ever wondered if you how perceived the world was the same as others? I remember ruminating on this as a small child. How much is the way we see our individual physiology, or our cultural context, or, the context of the thing we are seeing? The light passing over it, reflection, what colour the thing is next to etc. What about the imaging technology this dress passed through... (I think it was photographed with a flash)...?
A little practical experiment you could do could be to photograph a couple of different white surfaces in your home with the lights on, or daylight, flash on, zooming in and out. The white surface is inherently unchanged - it is the same surface - but our perception of it transformed by the technology we used to capture it and the context or environment it is in.
