True Colours

The cathedral had a very interesting multimedia setup for an awards thingy, so I took some photos for reference.  (I will photoshop these when I get round to paying for another software licence.)
Then, after failing to see Senna I decided to cheer up with a visit to the 'Eye for Colour' exhibition at the museum.
Gratuitous colour all over the place - great!  One of the first things that caught my eye was badly coloured food.  What is the right colour for food after all?  Generally, not blue.  Especially for sausages.

But then I thought that if I saw a blue sausage, it would probably be made of something other than mechanically recovered pig flesh wrapped in sheep intestine.  So blue sausages are fine by me.

There were plenty of fun, colour-related activities for children.  I particularly enjoyed the paint guns that fired onto a spinning circular target.  Impressively virtual.

Just about the only thing in the exhibition that was aimed above primary school level was a section that asks you to choose your favourite colour.  I've always been a purple person.  But I like bright colours too, anything florescent or yellow.  The exhibit then tries to attach personality traits to your favourite colours, in a way that works well if you believe in horoscopes, like these for example:

Violet
Positive and sensitive.  Violets do not want to be the boss in their relationships.  They want to be viewed as fascinating and charming by others.  So they try to control people.  Violets sometimes think their wishes, dreams and desires are real.

Yellow
Like change and hope for greater happiness, but always in the future.  They sometimes like change for change's sake.  Yellows want to be liked by others and be important.  They never stop trying to make this happen.

Hmmm... that does sum me up pretty well, except for the control in violet and the important in yellow.  All generally positive though.  I didn't read them all, but I suspect that blue doesn't say 'you are deeply melancholic and fear change, relationships, and imagination.'

Similarly, I can't see how today's verse is particularly uplifting.  Unless you only sell purple cloth.  Which is very niche indeed.  Maybe it's showing us that women were important in the early church or something.

Acts 16:14 "One of those listening was a woman named Lydia, a dealer in purple cloth from the city of Thyatira, who was a worshiper of God. The Lord opened her heart to respond to Paul's message."