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Have you ever been given a cup of lavender piss?
Or urine that is deep burgundy?
Can you sing with all the voices of the toilets?
Can you paint with all the colors of the pee?
For once being German pays off: we have an idiom called "Blau machen" which is just "making blue", and it means that you're skipping work.
The history is: the guy producing the colour (Indigo) used woad and piss to do so. To get the people to pee a lot, he'd have them drink beer, which would in turn make them unable to go to work the next day, thus "making blue"
(skipping work after getting beer drunk for free so your pee can be used for indigo production.)
Sorry this isn't written well, I'm tired after my nightshift, chief.
It’s weird but even after nearly 20 years in Germany I never thought to ask where “Blau machen” came from. I learned something new today 🎉 danke dir ☺️
Has all the energy of an InfoWars ad now that the Onion is running it. They have a "turn your piss into gold" ad, followed immediately by another for "turn your gold into piss"
Once upon a time... people did paint with piss - cow piss to be exact (the original indian yellow).
Thats a color you can only see in museum that do color catalog.
The hue nowadays i think is just being recreated by mixing other pigments.
There's a famous photograph called "Piss Christ" of a tiny Jesus in urine. It caused grave offense to a lot of people, but the photographer earned accolades.
As a painter interested in using natural pigments I've discovered one limit on that. Piss can be used in dyes, but I'm not interested in using it to paint. Eeewww
Andy Warhol actually had some of his studio assistants piss on canvases for his Oxidation Paintings. There’s one on display at the MFA in Boston, and I’m not sure how to feel about it.
All that went through my mind was that damn Pocahontas song about painting with all the colors of the wind and now all I see is a bunch of guys with different colored pee, standing on the edge of a cliff pissing into the wind onto a giant canvas on the bottom.
Your take away that they should paint with piss instead of just painting with colors that resemble the colors of piss is part of why we are on the Idiocracy was ax documentary timeline.
There is a phrase: When you hear the sound of hoof beats, think: "Horses" not "Zebras". You jumped ahead to "Zebra Piss".
(Hope you know I'm teasing / kidding here, not being serious.)
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u/rivertpostie 6h ago
Post rainbow pics!
Also do you have black and white?